What are you listening to now?

[Que]

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First impressions are good, great period organ! 

Q

[Harry]

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First impressions are good, great period organ! 

Q

That is good to hear.

[Que]

That is good to hear.

A review that I found interesting: http://earlymusicreview.com/j-m-bach-j-ch-bach-complete-organ-music/

Q

[Florestan]

I relation to our conversation regarding the Vieuxtemps Violin Concertos I was browsing when I came across this disc





and I was wondering if you have it or know of it?
I will try to seek it out on YouTube.

I don't have it, nor have I listened to it but it looks very interesting. I'll seek it out, too, thanks for posting it.

[Harry]

A review that I found interesting: http://earlymusicreview.com/j-m-bach-j-ch-bach-complete-organ-music/

Q

That's an illuminating review. Thanks Que.

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Thompson
Symphony No. 2 in E minor
Bernstein
New York Philharmonic



A superb symphony. I wish Bernstein had conducted Thompson's other two symphonies as well.

That's a great CD. I like every work and the performances are unrivalled. Prob my favourite release in that Sony Bernstin series.

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Melartin Symphony No 3

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I feel this work has reached another level in Melartin's output. Harmonic and orchestral sophistication which is beyond the first two symphonies and is really at the highest level. I hesitate to give my overall impression of the work without spending more time getting familiar with it.

A happy recent new discovery for me too.

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I enjoy every work on this CD:
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Now on to this:
A wonderful CD and my current favourite performance and recording of On Wenlock Edge - the opening deeply felt and taken slower and with more gravitas than on some other recordings:
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The last piece 'Clun' also taken more slowly and even more movingly eloquent.

The Piano Quintet from 1903-5 is an early work, subsequently withdrawn by the composer but Ursula Vaughan Williams lifted the ban on its performance. I'm so glad that she did as it is a beautiful work and, as the booklet says, VW never forgot it as he resurrected the theme of the finale in his late, craggy Violin Sonata fifty years later.

[Mandryka]

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First impressions are good, great period organ! 

Q

Which organ?

[Que]

Continuation:

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Disc 2 has like all three disks seperate blocks of music by Johann Christoph Bach and of Johann Michael Bach, uncles to Johann Sebastian.

That's an illuminating review. Thanks Que.

I think it is right in identifying the main weakness: a certain lack of clarity in the recording, creating a bit of a "muffled" effect in the denser passages. Brilliant should hire the same sound engineers as DIVOX! 

Which organ?

Volcklandt organ (1732-37), Crucis Kirche, Erfurt (Thuringia):



Q

[San Antone]

A recording with three favorite works by Ravel, all played beautifully.

Ravel: String Quartet; Violin Sonata; Piano Trio
Quartetto Italiano, Arthur Grumiaux, Istvan Hajdu, Beaux Arts Trio

[Karl Henning]

Over the weekend, here and there, I revisited the Toch Fourth, Sixth & Seventh symphonies.  I find them engaging, lucidly rhetorical, and (just speaking as a clarinetist) I think I should find them gratifying to play.  Mature Toch I find a bit like Hindemith, in the balance between good humor, and clarity of narrative (in good earnest), only a shade more Romantic than Hindemith in character;  and a bit like Ravel with a bit less perfume (not to speak at all ill of the Impressionist parfumerie).

As a matter of principle, I can certainly chalk dislike for these up to chacun à son goût.  Yet I myself find the music so readily enjoyable, the dislike does baffle me a bit.

[San Antone]

Over the weekend, here and there, I revisited the Toch Fourth, Sixth & Seventh symphonies.  I find them engaging, lucidly rhetorical, and (just speaking as a clarinetist) I think I should find them gratifying to play.  Mature Toch I find a bit like Hindemith, in the balance between good humor, and clarity of narrative (in good earnest), only a shade more Romantic than Hindemith in character;  and a bit like Ravel with a bit less perfume (not to speak at all ill of the Impressionist parfumerie).

As a matter of principle, I can certainly chalk dislike for these up to chacun à son goût.  Yet I myself find the music so readily enjoyable, the dislike does baffle me a bit.

To be fair, I only noticed one member expressing displeasure with Toch's music ...     

[Maestro267]

Maxwell Davies: Worldes Blis
Royal PO/Maxwell Davies

I find this a fascinating work. Requires a totally different listening mentality to many other works. I don't think it's intended, but I compare the long opening section to the movement of the sea. There is constant movement on the sea, the water bobbing up and down when you're close up to it, but then you zoom out and you have the entire edifice (the tide) very gradually and slowly moving forwards as well.

[Que]

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[Karl Henning]

To be fair, I only noticed one member expressing displeasure with Toch's music ...     

That is fair, since snypsss' comment is sufficiently inscrutable that . . . it does not exactly express displeasure 

[Traverso]

Ligeti

Works for Piano   Études book 1
                            Études book 2
                            Musica ricercata
                            Études book 3

Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Piano

[Biffo]

Vaughan Williams: On Wenlock Edge - John Mark Ainsley (tenor) and The Nash Ensemble - prompted by recent postings. I also have the work in the orchestral version (with Robert Tear) but greatly prefer it with piano and string quartet.

[Madiel]

Streaming Dvorak, Prague Waltzes.

Which turns out to be a lovely bonbon.

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[SurprisedByBeauty]

Streaming Dvorak, Prague Waltzes.

Which turns out to be a lovely bonbon.

Ah, that brief time when Philips was going for fancy covers - anyone remember that phase?  Like a last Hurrah before being folded into Decca.

It surely is exciting, listening to Boulez  is leaving  the comfort  zone,  to climb  the highest Mountain has his intrinsic   rewarding

Oh, Bouelz isn't the highest mountain by any stretch. (But perhaps the highest worth climbing.)