What are you listening to now?

[aligreto]

Hello Aligreto - I do like to read reviews, but must say that if I ranked the ones enjoyed the most (i.e. those that seem to agree w/ me the most - ), Gramophone is close to the bottom - here's another of much better review from AllMusic - since I just own only the Wentz disc of the Quadri, believe that I'll add the Freiberger CD of these performances to my cart - thanks for the help.  Dave

Cheers Dave. I hope that you do not think that I was being too pushy. I simply believe that the Freiburger CD is definitely worth exploring if one is interested in that music 

[aligreto]

Great 

[cilgwyn]

Talking of Beecham.....I'm listening to this now!

[SurprisedByBeauty]

Not quite. Alphabetically it should be filed under letter "R". The last name is (confusingly) Richard-Hamelin. A bit like Vaughan-Williams or Lloyd-Jones.

Absolutely right, of course, but that'll never stick. :-)

TD:


#morninglistening to #Mendelssohn on @deccaclassics:http://a-fwd.to/1g1vG65  w/@Vienna_Phil... http://ift.tt/2ncVCPg

[Ken B]

Not quite. Alphabetically it should be filed under letter "R". The last name is (confusingly) Richard-Hamelin. A bit like Vaughan-Williams or Lloyd-Jones.

Son? nephew?

[SurprisedByBeauty]

Son? nephew?

Not related in any way. He assures me.  His mother, too.

He was my favorite at the 2016 Chopin Competition... but I only heard the finals and he was the only one not to play the F-minor so that made him very popular right there.

[SymphonicAddict]

That Atterberg cycle was only a relatively recent purchase for me and I had not heard anything of his work before. So, I have not "lived" with this music for long yet. At these initial stages I have tended to gravitate more towards the earlier symphonies, 1 to 3. I felt that his musical language started to change with Symphony No. 5, not that that is a bad thing, just that it will take some re-listening to wrap my ear around it. So preferences will most likely change in the future 

Maybe those are the best ones, especially the 3rd: really spectacular!!

[Karl Henning]

Tippett
Piano Concerto
John Ogdon
Philharmonia Orchestra
Colin Davis
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Thid should make Karl happy !

Shostakovich quartets 2,3,...

Borodin string quartet

Both these posts, really 

[André]

Son? nephew?

It's a composed name, meaning the first part is after his mother, the second after his dad (that's the usual order but it could be vice-versa). In Quebec, if Mrs is named Richard and Mr is named Hamelin, they can name their children in 4 different ways: Richard, Hamelin, Richard-Hamelin or Hamelin-Richard. Furthermore, Mrs Richard can never be called Mrs Hamelin (since 1981 it's mandatory for married women to go by their maiden name).

That composed name business can become quite confusing when they have children... 

[Autumn Leaves]

This morning's listening:



Chopin: Piano Sonata #2 (Funeral March)
Chopin: Andante Spianato & Grande Polonaise



Faure: Pelleas Et Melisande
Faure: Penelope - Prelude
Faure: Masques Et Bergamasques



Aus Italien
Macbeth

[SimonNZ]

Esa-Pekka Salonen's String Quartet "Homunculus"

Live: 16 September 2016, Music Center, Helsinki

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmXQ6N5fu5A

[kishnevi]

Okay, this supplied all the minimalism I need for the rest of 2017.
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[Mirror Image]

Now:



Listening to Symphony No. 3, "The Camp Meeting". This may be the best performance of this symphony I've heard. I mean MTT, Sinclair, and Litton are excellent of course, but there's a bit more bite in Lenny's approach, which I find most pleasing. But, of course, it's quite possible that I've gone right out of my mind.

[Dancing Divertimentian]

Messiaen's Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant-Jésus. As usual with Messiaen, getting to the sublime bits by way of the meandering minimalistic railroad is both fascinating and excruciating. Obviously the dichotomy is meant to provide perspective, contrast, and a bit of schizophrenia, to the overall experience. In the end, though, can't complain. The work is a Messia(e)nic success.



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[Mahlerian]

Berio: Sinfonia, Eindrucke; Xenakis: Jalons
New Swingle Singers, Orchestre National de France, cond. Boulez; Ensemble Intercontemporain, cond. Boulez
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Now:



Listening to On an Overgrown Path. This may be my favorite work from Janáček or at least it's in VERY close running to the SQs and the Violin Sonata.

[Que]

Morning listening:



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[Christo]

A bit like Vaughan-Williams or Lloyd-Jones.

Except that the hyphen would infuriate the Grand Old Man and is better left out. 

[NikF]

Brahms: Four Hand Piano Music, Symphonies Nos. 3 and 4 - Matthies/Kohn.

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[SimonNZ]

Messiaen's Cantéyodjayâ - Steffen Schleiermacher, piano



John Cage's Sonatas And Interludes - Giancarlo Cardini, prepared piano