What are you listening to now?

[Kontrapunctus]

As predicted, disc 2 is just as stunning as disc 1.

[SurprisedByBeauty]

#morninglistening to #Rameau w/@LesArtsFlo & #WilliamChristie in The Grand Motets. Gorgeou... http://ift.tt/2dq3bz2

[Reckoner]

Rautavaara: Symphony No. 7 Angel of Light [Segerstam]....





A powerful performance of a wonderful work.

Ahh, making me jealous. Sublime work, and that's a great recording.

Segrestam takes the come un sogno just that little bit more slowly ... and it's worth it.

[aligreto]

Sor: Fantasia No. 4 + Serenade in E Major....

[aligreto]

I came to Strauss from Wagner, you see.... 

Ah, I went in the opposite direction 

[aligreto]

Ahh, making me jealous. Sublime work, and that's a great recording.

Segrestam takes the come un sogno just that little bit more slowly ... and it's worth it.

I cannot admit to knowing the work that well but I agree that the work and this performance are both a wonderful listen 

[Madiel]

Vine, Symphony no.3.

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I quite like this one. A long slow evolution from dark to light.

[Ken B]

George Antheil's Ballet Mechanique again

Its been on my mind a lot lately, this piece is so "me"! 

I guess Les Noces is your older brother then.

[Madiel]

Now streaming first listen: Vine, Sonata for flute and piano.

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Really nice, on the tuneful side of modern.

[Bogey]

Khatia Buniatishvili. Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition.

Due to your post and the follow ups, enjoying this solo piano performance by Entremont.

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

One of the masterworks of recent years. I can't recommend this quirky piano/midi keyboard concerto highly enough.



From the Kairos website:

In our age, being light and funny is both stylish and dubious. The constant bombardment on TV and elsewhere easily induces to abandoning all hope that anything substantial can be expected from there, also in music, although the works of Mozart and Haydn still had much to offer in that regard. How should art, which according to Adorno’s ambiguous findings may even partake of darkness, react to this trend in comedy? COMIC SENSE by Clemens Gadenstätter provides a convincing and original answer to these and similar queries. Written in 2002-03, this work offers a rare example of contemporary music that is happy, playful and fresh, and downright friendly at times, without stooping to banality, trivial clichés or stereotypical gags. It arouses the listener’s curiosity, surprises, occasionally even astounds. It draws us in not by relying solely upon familiar emotions but through an extremely vital form of continuous searching.

https://www.kairos-music.com/cds/0012452kai

[Mahlerian]

Actually Les Noces doesn't appeal to me much. I would love to hear that original version for orchestra he was sketching originally though! 

There have been completions of it, I believe.

I love the original, though.  It's in my top 5 or so Stravinsky works (with Threni, naturally!).

[Kontrapunctus]

The Piano Quintet--very nice.

[kishnevi]

There have been completions of it, I believe.

I love the original, though.  It's in my top 5 or so Stravinsky works (with Threni, naturally!).

I listened to the Herreweghe recording of Threni/Requiem Canticles this afternoon.

If you don't have it, Get It.It is really good.

Dr. Henning, that goes for you too.

[Mahlerian]

I listened to the Herreweghe recording of Threni/Requiem Canticles this afternoon.

If you don't have it, Get It.It is really good.

Dr. Henning, that goes for you too.

Already done, and I've tried to encourage others to do the same myself:
https://www.amazon.com/review/R9VAZ0EEP1WD6/

[kishnevi]

Ahh, making me jealous. Sublime work, and that's a great recording.

Segrestam takes the come un sogno just that little bit more slowly ... and it's worth it.

Do you have any of the Naxos recordings of Rautavaara?  I wasn't impressed by them, and wonder how they compare to the Ondine recordings.

TD
First Listen Friday
Never heard anything before by this composer.
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CD 1 of 4
Lichtbogen
Grammaire des reves
Du Cristal a la fumee

Grammaire was a bit wierd: the two female vocalists seemed to be imitating meowing cats.  But I like the other two works, which are purely instrumental.

[Bogey]

The Piano Quintet--very nice.

Just added to wish list.

[Ken B]

Actually Les Noces doesn't appeal to me much. I would love to hear that original version for orchestra he was sketching originally though! 

That's odd, one being a plagiarism of the other.

Anyway i recommend the Lenny version of Les Noces.

[kishnevi]

That's odd, one being a plagiarism of the other.

Anyway i recommend the Lenny version of Les Noces.

This DVD is worth viewing at least once
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Nijinska's choreography for Noces is as equally interesting as the music itself.

[kishnevi]

TD
Scriabin Sonatas 5-10, Sonata Fantasie in g sharp minor Op. Post.
Marc Andre Hamelin piano

Good but somehow I still prefer Ponti.