What are you listening to now?

[Karl Henning]

Pretty good. Must say I skipped the solo sonata.

Now, now, it's not an earth-shaker like the Bartók, but it's entirely charming. (I could see not wanting to do it an injustice by listening right after the exquisite f minor Sonata.)

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[Spineur]

Beautiful music, wonderful interpretation

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[cilgwyn]

Havergal Brian Symphony No.3 C sharp minor, Pope conducting the New Philharmonia




Sarge

You've got good taste there,Sarge!

[cilgwyn]

On now. Cd1 of this set. I love the lighter side of Elgar.

[Dee Sharp]

Richard Strauss: Violin Sonata in E flat. Midori/McDonald. This is an outstanding performance and worth the whole CD. The rest of the disc (Beethoven Op.30/3, Tzigane, others) are good too, but it's the Strauss I return to most often. Recommended.

[Mahlerian]

https://www.youtube.com/v/bd2cBUJmDr8

Not a bad performance; just ignore the comments below the video, or you may feel your IQ draining a few points.

[Todd]

Better late than never.  I've managed to avoid hearing this recording of Mahler's Second until now.  Mehta's just zippy enough pacing renders the symphony very much in the same soundworld of the First as opposed to a heavier, more portentous approach.  Aided by great soloists and superb playing from the Vienna Philharmonic, this is easily one of the greatest recordings of this symphony I've heard.

[Mahlerian]

Essentially free speech is one thing, but once hundreds of people start using that resource to gang up on people (which happens on youtube, blogs, etc), then you get what is evidenced in the Schoenberg video and so many others. Because in some places on the internet there are these classical memes that are spread around these image boards; one person thinks it's stupid, he gets another bunch of people who think it's stupid, they spread the word around that they think it's a joke and you get a turd comment section 

As a composer, it's very disheartening to think that you can write something you love and find beautiful, work for years on improving your craft so that you can express what you really want to express, and then see your efforts torn down by someone who thinks that their knee-jerk negative reaction entitles them to criticize without even trying to understand what's there.

Unfortunately, negative feedback tends to outweigh positive feedback psychologically.

It's funny to me that Pierrot is considered so inaccessible today among some, because it was actually a minor popular success right after its premiere and toured Europe successfully for a while afterwards (it's still performed quite often).  I think it's the fact that audiences then would have understood the recitation to be a stylized form of melodrama or cabaret performance, while today it's heard as either proto-rap or deformed singing, neither of which is at all what Schoenberg had in mind.

[Karl Henning]

As a composer, it's very disheartening to think that you can write something you love and find beautiful, work for years on improving your craft so that you can express what you really want to express, and then see your efforts torn down by someone who thinks that their knee-jerk negative reaction entitles them to criticize without even trying to understand what's there.

My two cents: It cannot much be helped: there are jerks out there. (I mean, there are always people whose viewpoint differs from ours; but also, the race consists in part of just jerks.) Just have to understand that they're out there, and shake it off.

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[André]

Beautiful music, wonderful interpretation

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Will definitely try to locate a copy, thanks! Meanwhile, as per your tireless advocacy, this finally arrived and was played tonight:



Suave, passionate music. The companion issue is even better, I think.

Disc one of Ernst Boehe's Ulysses Travels tetralogy of tone poems:

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First impression: a formidable find (music of course, but also execution, sound and conducting). The other disc will be played some other time, the coming days' schedule being tied already.

[André]

Mon cher, I don't think I consciously read the Tenth Symphony there, yet somehow that was the one I chanced upon at YouTube. And I agree with SymphonicAddict: this Kremerata Baltica recording is les genoux de l'abeille.

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Advice heeded: à moi, les genoux de l'abeille !

[Autumn Leaves]

Now playing:



Don't worry (I know this set hasn't been released yet) - I am listening to some the previous editions of the recordings which have been uploaded to youtube:

French Suite #5
Goldberg Variations
Italian Concerto

Just trying to get a feel for the Sound Quality of the recordings as I remember reading some people thought the old-style Harpsichord that was used sounded a bit harsh.
I was pleasantly suprised and thought the samples I heard were quite nice - I think I am going to pick up this set as I have long wanted a box of Bach's major solo keyboard works played on the Harpsichord .

[Autumn Leaves]

Recent listening:



Book #1, P & F's #1-12



Listening to various P & F's (currenty Disc 05).

[Harry]

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2017/07/haydn-joseph-1732-1809-almost-complete_15.html?spref=tw

Symphonies NO. 26 & 42.

[Wanderer]

Thanks.  That moves up on my wishlist.  BTW, have you heard Nott's other recording (on Tudor, with the Bambergers and the standard duo of singers)?

I'm afraid not. Something to add to the listening list!

Cool Munch cover. I had the pleasure of seeing this particular painting recently in Paris (normally to be seen in Prague).

[Wanderer]

First some Mendelssohn*, now this:

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(*not the concerti)

[Harry]

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2017/07/bruckner-anton-1824-1896-symphony-no-6.html?spref=tw

Symphony No. 6.

[Que]

Morning listening is music by Jacobus Gallus aka Jacob(us) Handl/Händl from the Habsburgian Empire (Slovenian).

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Hadn't listened to this for ages......
Back at the time I was exploring this set, I was more drawn to the Franco-Flemish repertoire but I'm impressed! 
I realize that I also have a disc with music by him by Singer Pur - should dig that up....

Q

[Que]

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2017/07/bruckner-anton-1824-1896-symphony-no-6.html?spref=tw

Symphony No. 6.

Following your experiences with those performances with interest, Harry! 

Q

[Maestro267]

Berlioz: L'Enfance du Christ
Soloists, Corydon Singers
Corydon Orchestra/Best

Picked this up yesterday, so this is my first listen to this work.