What are you listening to now?

[Harry]

I had a little trouble tracking this down because you (Harry) misspelled the composer's name on your website:


Tomasášek


But the music sounds very nice, so thanks for the head's up.

Well I wrote it down from the booklet, so I assumed it is right. And to my knowledge it is.

[Zeus]

It's spelled differently on the cover, for example.


See also: http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/c/Tom%25C3%25A1sek/all/1


My wiki search came up in Dutch, for some reason: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Václav_Jan_Křtitel_Tomášek

[Brian]

Spending a morning with Zoltan Kocsis and Debussy.

[North Star]

Boulez
Rituel in memoriam Bruno Maderna
BBC Symphony
Boulez
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[ritter]

Boulez
Rituel in memoriam Bruno Maderna
BBC Symphony
Boulez
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Good afternoon, Karlo!

Are you enjoying your traversal of Boulez's complete works?

[kishnevi]

I hope you enjoy Penderecki more than I did, Jeffrey.

Still on the Rachmaninov portion of the morning...but judging by what I have already heard from this set, I will have an easier time with the Fifth.  Enjoy is perhaps not the best word..but my ears are having a much easier time with the later works.

[North Star]

Good afternoon, Karlo!

Are you enjoying your traversal of Boulez's complete works?

Good afternoon to you too, Rafael!

I certainly am. I've heard many of the works before, but hearing them again, and in a shorter span of time, is definitely increasing my appreciation of the music.

[Harry]

It's spelled differently on the cover, for example.


See also: http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/c/Tom%25C3%25A1sek/all/1


My wiki search came up in Dutch, for some reason: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Václav_Jan_Křtitel_Tomášek

In the booklet it was spelled wrong so I took my info from that, on the front page it was as you said. I corrected it! Thank you for seeing that.

[mc ukrneal]

Spending a morning with Zoltan Kocsis and Debussy.

Ah, a good day!

[aligreto]

Glass: Symphony No. 2 [Alsop]....





I like the Glass Symphony No. 2, particularly the monumental opening movement.

[aligreto]

Vivaldi, motets. Stunning music, gorgeously performed. Vivaldi's sacred music has an appealing freshness to it, with plenty of color and inventiveness. It's my favorite of all his music. The devoutness is everywhere, with a wide variety of display.

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Well said; another disciple of Vivaldi's Sacred Music here 

[Harry]

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2017/04/su-wu-zhonghu-concerto-and-five-pieces.html?spref=tw

For Kimi....

[aligreto]

O   for Two Pianos [Kevin Volans and Gerald Barry]....





There is a wide scope and sonic dynamic in this work coupled with quite some silence. An interesting work and structure/form.

[Drasko]

Acts II & III

[aligreto]

Cello Concerto RV 403
Cello Concerto RV 424


Bright and lively performances in the outer movements with the inner movements just a little staid and solemn.

[North Star]

Henze
Drei Tentos
Royal Winter Music: Second Sonata on Shakespearean Characters (1979)
Andrea Dieci
[asin]B01CTMJOC6[/asin]

[aligreto]

Wiren: Symphony No. 3 [Dausgaard]....





A first listen to this work for me. I found it to be a wonderful, exciting and engaging work.

[king ubu]

Revisiting Donizetti's "L'elisir d'amore" as I'll see it on stage Friday night, with Nello Santi conducting (alas not with Pavol Breslik, hope the other guy, Juan Francisco Gatell, will be good, too; Olga Kulchynska is singing Adina, don't know her either, I'm going for Santi really). Listening to discs five and six of the big Pavarotti "First Decade" box, which is the only complete recording of the opera I have, and this is a first listen to it (I've seen it on TV, I think twice) ... the Molinari-Pradelli with Güden and di Stefano has just been ordered to have a real one in addition to this slightly artificial Sutherland version.

[Florestan]

Well said; another disciple of Vivaldi's Sacred Music here 

Count me in as well.

[aligreto]

Cello Concerto RV 403
Cello Concerto RV 424


Bright and lively performances in the outer movements with the inner movements just a little staid and solemn.

I decided that I would do a direct comparison of these two works and soloists....





Cello Concerto RV 403
Cello Concerto RV 424


These performances and interpretations by Galligioni are completely different from those of Harnoy. These are rhythmically alive and energetically pulsate in the outer movements and have a refined, stately demeanour in the inner movements.