What are you listening to now?

[Madiel]

My evening concert (still in progress):

1. Barber, Music for a Scene from Shelley, op.7 (Alsop, Royal Scottish National Orchestra)
2. Nielsen, Snefrid: Suite for Orchestra (Dausgaard, Danish National Symphony Orchestra)
3. Brahms, Serenade No.1, op.11 (Chailly, Gewandhausorchester)

----INTERVAL----

4. Villa-Lobos, Bachianas Brasileiras No.8 (Minczuk, Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra)
5. Rachmaninov, Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, op.43 (Ashkenazy, Previn, London Symphony Orchestra)

[eljr]

Purcell: The Fairy Queen, Z. 629
Composer
Henry Purcell
Conductor
Sébastien d'Hérin
Ensemble
Les Nouveaux Caractères
Soloists
Guillaume Andrieux,  Christophe Baska,  Samuel Boden,  Frédéric Caton,  Anders J. Dahlin,  Kevin Greenlaw,  Caitlin Hulcup,  Caroline Mutel,  Ronan Nedelec,  Julien Picard,  Virginie Pochon,  Hjördis Thébault

Release date
09/01/2017
Playtime
2:03:26

[Wanderer]

Streaming:

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[North Star]

How are you enjoying Norgard's music, Karlo? He's still a composer I have yet to connect with.

It's a long time since I last listened to any of it, John. There are interesting and exciting textures and sonorities but on the whole I don't find it that gripping, either.

[Harry]

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2017/09/haydn-joseph-1732-1809-almost-complete.html?spref=tw

CD 25 from this box with two magnificent symphonies.

[Harry]

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2017/09/krebs-johann-ludwig-1713-1780-complete.html?spref=tw

I enjoyed CD 7 of this box in part.

[TheGSMoeller]

English-born electronic musician Emika's first release of orchestral music. Melanfonia is performed by the Prague Metropolitan Orchestra, conducted by Paul Batson with soprano Michaela Srumova.


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[Mirror Image]

Now:

[Harry]

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2017/09/locatelli-pietro-antonio-1695-1764.html?spref=tw

A reference set.

CD 10.

[Karl Henning]

"Papa"
Symphony № 92 in G, «Oxford» (H.I/92)
AAM
Hogwood

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[Karl Henning]

Flos Campi from this glorious box:

(* pounds the jolly table *)

[Ken B]

Andriessen, Symphonie voor losse snaren

[Karl Henning]

Let a chap know!

[nodogen]

Norgard
String Quartets 7,8,9,10

Kroger Quartet

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[Karl Henning]

Can't listen to just one!

"Papa"
Symphony № 72 in D (H.I/72)
AAM
Hogwood

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[North Star]

Ligeti: String Quartet No. 2
JACK Quartet
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[nodogen]

Ligeti: String Quartet No. 2
JACK Quartet
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That looks jolly interesting!

Thoughts?

[Ken B]

Andriessen, Symphonie voor losse snaren

Let a chap know!

I quite liked it. It won't snag that last spot on my top 10 but it's the best thing by Andriessen I've heard. I think anyone sympathetic to minimilism, broadly construed, would like it. You listening Monkey Greg? Or the Ghost. Well, it's worth anyone's time but I know a couple who won't like it ...

In one place a familiar tune, slightly dismembered, gets tossed about, but I cannot place it.

Thanks for the pointer

[North Star]

That looks jolly interesting!

Thoughts?

It's a splendid disc - great program and playing. I can't imagine anyone interested in modern string quartets disliking it.

[ritter]

Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5, "Emperor" from this CD:


Really beuatiful sounds from Curzon's piano, with a taut but naturally flowing orchestral support from Boulez and his BBC band. A remarkable perfromance.