What are you listening to now?

[Karl Henning]

The pronouns aren't singular?

[Madiel]

The pronouns aren't singular?

I mean that "Thou" and "Thy" have become a formal affectation in English (despite not being that originally), and that Danish has a formal form of address, and the Danish version doesn't use it.

[Madiel]

Sibelius, 5 Songs, op.38

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UThe first 2 songs are utterly startling, dark, brooding things. The 3rd has just some flashes of relief. The last 2 are perhaps slightly more "ordinary" but still good.

[Karl Henning]

I mean that "Thou" and "Thy" have become a formal affectation in English (despite not being that originally), and that Danish has a formal form of address, and the Danish version doesn't use it.

Check.

[André]

Florent Schmitt could be devastatingly impish, colourful and tuneful (Symphonie concertante, Le Petit elfe), alluringly cinematic in his dramatic orchestral imagery (Salaambô and Salomé), but also searingly grand and intense (Psalm XLVII).
In the almost hour long string quintet in 3 movements (2 of which clock over 20 minutes), we find his more thorny, complex side. Textures are not opaque, but the phrases are dense and the mood, unremittingly serious. There are some wonderful moments of tenderness in the finale, where Schmitt's resolution of his many ideas take us to sunnier shores. The cover art is entirely appropriate to the work's bulkiness and rather dark colours.

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On to some beautiful, evocative piano music to end the evening:

[Autumn Leaves]

Recent listening:



Ligeti: Sonata For Solo Cello - Matt Haimovitz
Ligeti: 6 Bagetelles For Wind Quintet - Claudio Abbado/Jacques Zoon, Douglas Boyd, Richard Hosford, James Sommerville & Matthew Wilkie
Ligeti: String Quartet #1, "Métamorphoses Nocturnes" - Hagen Quartet
Ligeti: 10 Pieces For Wind Quintet - Wiener Bläsersolisten
Ligeti: String Quartet #2 - LaSalle Quartet



Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4 (For String Orchestra) - Karajan/BPO
Schoenberg: Pelleas Und Melisande, Op. 5 - Karajan/BPO



Messiaen: Quatuor Pour La Fin Du Temps -  Christoph Poppen, Manuel Fischer-Dieskau, Wolfgang Meyer & Yvonne Loriod
Messiaen: Thème Et Variations Pour Violon Et Piano - Christoph Poppen & Yvonne Loriod

[Autumn Leaves]

Ligeti, Schoenberg and Messiaen. Sounds like a good day to me 

Thanks Alien - It was an enjoyable playlist, with all those dissonant/spooky works.

Now playing:



Mahler: Symphony #6 In A Minor, "Tragic"

Really like this box of Mahler's Symphonies - I noticed a couple of times that the playing of the London Philharmonic was a bit rough and I wonder what Tennstedt might have been able to do with a better (or perhaps more thoroughly rehearsed) Orchestra.
Think the pacing of this 6th is ideal here - it's probably my favorite version of the work.

[chord]

http://classicalcompass.blogspot.hu/2017/08/machaut-messe-de-nostre-dame.html

[Que]

Firt listen:

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This comes highly recommended in several quarters.

Q

[Que]

Witched off the Machaut by PAN - it's obviously not for me......

Returning to the volume I of the keyboard works in Brilliant's Bach Edition:

Miscellaneous Bach juvenelia on a set of 3 discs by Christiane Wuyts, playing a harpsichord by Henri Hemsch, 1754, and one by Jacques Goermans, 1774.

 

I had low expectations, but sofar this doesn't sound bad at all... 

Q

[Karl Henning]

If it's morning, it's Haydn String Quartet time!

"Papa"
String Quartet Op.54 № 2 in C (Hob. III/57)
Festetics Quartet

[eljr]

Herbert von Karajan
The Sacred and Choral Recordings
Int. Release: 24 February 2017

CD 23-24
BRAHMS: Ein deutsches Requiem op. 45 (1983)
Hendricks · van Dam

[Karl Henning]

"Papa"
String Quartet Op.64 № 2 in b minor (Hob. III/68)
Festetics Quartet

[eljr]

Mari Kodama / Momo Kodama
Tchaikovsky: Ballet Suites for Piano Duo

Release Date November 18, 2016
Duration01:03:15
Genre
Classical
Styles
Keyboard
Recording DateApril, 2016
Recording Location
MCO Studio 5, Hilversum, The Netherlands

[eljr]

Stile Antico
Divine Theatre: Sacred Motets by Giaches de Wert

Release Date January 27, 2017
Duration01:07:12
Genre
Classical
Styles
Vocal Music
Recording DateMarch, 2016 - April, 2016
Recording Location
All Hallows' Church, Gospel Oak, London

[James]

Tapiola, Op. 112
Inspired by Tapio, the ancient Finnish god of the forest, this symphonic poem is a broadly pictorial and atmospheric composition.
It's as tautly conceived as any of his symphonies and as evocative in its tonepainting as anything in his entire oeuvre.

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[North Star]

Haydn
Symphony No. 16 in B flat major (1761-6)
The Academy of Ancient Music
Hogwood
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[Madiel]

Streaming Nielsen Violin Sonata No.1, op.9

It certainly starts with a bang.

[Sergeant Rock]

Haydn Trumpet Concerto played by Tine Thing Helseth and the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra




Sarge

[Crudblud]

Sofia Gubaidulina - Offertorium (Dutoit/Boston SO/Kremer)