What are you listening to now?

[Harry]

Happy anniversary, Harry! 

Conclusion with disc 8:

[asin]B0085U0GJW[/asin]
Overture in F, TWV55:F16 'Pour S.A.S. Monseigneur Le Landgrave de Darmstadt' for two horns, bassoon, strings and basso continuo
Overture in G Minor, TWV55:g2 'La Changeante' for strings and basso continuo
Overture in G, TWV55:G7 for two oboes, violin, strings and basso continuo
Overture in D, TWV55:D13 'La Gaillarde' for strings and basso continuo

All in all a wonderful set that shows a entire different side of Telemann.
Warmly recommended. 

Review by David Vernier: http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/album.jsp?album_id=755876

Q

Thank you Rego

[kyjo]

Fresh from the mail
Ginastera
Quatro danzas del ballet Estancia
Harp Concerto*
Creole Faust Overture
Variaciones concertantes
Magdalena Barrera (harp)*
Orquesta Ciudad de Granada
Josep Pons
[asin]B00V3PEYW6[/asin]

Looks like a great disc, Karlo! Love Ginastera's music.

[Spineur]

Zoltan Kocsis, suite bergamasque, pour le piano, estampes, l'ile joyeuse

from

[North Star]

Looks like a great disc, Karlo! Love Ginastera's music.

I liked it tremendously. Indeed, a wonderful composer.

[Ken B]

Today I am married for 35 years, and of course there is a big celebration in the house and outside.
Today is also the celebration of 45 years of listening to classical music. The consequence of that is that I have so many CD'S that I lost count, and yes much more as MI might imagine
My wife gave me permission during the festive preparations to listen to music, be it on my small stereo.

So I have on the repeat the Violin concerto No 16 in E minor by Viotti, which I like enormously.
Especially the long introduction played to perfection by Franco Mezzena.
Sound quality is okay as is the performance, but it is a pity that the production values were so low.

Congratulations!

TD
Michael Nyman
Songs for Tony
Sonic Arts Saxophone Quartet

[André]

I'm still puzzled by the fact that the Berlin Phil did not pick him to replace Rattle!

It seems that Thielemann (as a person and a conductor) is quite controversial. Enough to elicit a lot of ABT reactions from the orchestra.

[Ken B]

It seems that Thielemann (as a person and a conductor) is quite controversial. Enough to elicit a lot of ABT reactions from the orchestra.

ABT?

[André]

Anyone but Thielemann. It seems he is often very polarizing, something that doesn't go down well everywhere.


https://www.spectator.co.uk/2017/08/could-the-new-head-of-the-berlin-phil-be-a-game-changer/

[André]

Disc 4. The main work here is the 10 part, 50 minute "Monologe", op 63. Quite the most argumentative and strange-sounding work of Reger's I have heard so far.

[North Star]

First listen

Eugène Ysaÿe
Sonata for cello solo Op. 28
Dor Abrahamson
https://www.youtube.com/v/u6MPLDW7dA8

[aligreto]

Holmboe: Symphony No. 9....





This one is a more restrained work when compared with most of what has preceded it musically. The musical language and orchestral colour and tone is quite restrained and subdued, yet has an eerie beauty to it in the first two movements. In contrast, the third movement is somewhat more buoyant and assertive in its tone while still retaining a sparse musical language. The fourth movement is for strings only and has an almost chamber music quartet/quintet like feel to it in its scope. The sun appears to rise in the opening of the final movement. I like those brass harmonies and the woodwind writing. Dark, threatening clouds obscure the bright sunlight and the menacing tone prevails and we never recover the optimism of the movement's opening.

[Karl Henning]

Fresh from the mail
Ginastera
Quatro danzas del ballet Estancia
Harp Concerto*
Creole Faust Overture
Variaciones concertantes
Magdalena Barrera (harp)*
Orquesta Ciudad de Granada
Josep Pons
[asin]B00V3PEYW6[/asin]

If that is truly the repackaging which I imagine it may be, I also own that recording, and I consider it a corker.

[mc ukrneal]

Anyone but Thielemann. It seems he is often very polarizing, something that doesn't go down well everywhere.


https://www.spectator.co.uk/2017/08/could-the-new-head-of-the-berlin-phil-be-a-game-changer/

Why does he call Nelsons naïve?

[Harry]

Congratulations!

TD
Michael Nyman
Songs for Tony
Sonic Arts Saxophone Quartet

Thank you

[North Star]

If that is truly the repackaging which I imagine it may be, I also own that recording, and I consider it a corker.

Yes, it's a reissue. And corker is correct.

Today I am married for 35 years, and of course there is a big celebration in the house and outside.
Today is also the celebration of 45 years of listening to classical music. The consequence of that is that I have so many CD'S that I lost count, and yes much more as MI might imagine
My wife gave me permission during the festive preparations to listen to music, be it on my small stereo.

Congratulations, Harry!

[André]

Why does he call Nelsons naïve?

I have no clue. This is Norman Lebrecht, after all  . I think Nelsons is a very good conductor, one of the most interesting actually. More than Thielemann, whose musical spectrum is said to be severely limited.

[Karl Henning]

Why does Lebrecht say any of the rubbish he says?  One of Life's imponderables.

[Pat B]

The middle movement is obviously what would later become his Adagio for Strings --- his most well-known work.

I'm glad you picked up on my understatement.

It seems that Thielemann (as a person and a conductor) is quite controversial. Enough to elicit a lot of ABT reactions from the orchestra.

Petrenko had a lower public profile, but I like what I've seen of him. He seems genuine.

TD: Glass: String Quartet No. 1. Another first listen. An early piece, repetitive but without the arpeggios and chord progressions that mark most of his work.

[Karl Henning]

Mere arpeggiation gets one only so far 

[Pat B]

Why does Lebrecht say any of the rubbish he says?  One of Life's imponderables.

It generates clicks, which generate ad revenue.