What are you listening to now?

[vandermolen]

MacMillan: The Confession of Isobel Gowdie
BBC PO/MacMillan

Vaughan Williams: Five Mystical Songs
Herford (baritone), Guildford Choral Society
Philharmonia Orchestra/Wetton

Chávez: Symphony No. 6
London SO/Mata

A great concert!

[vandermolen]

Streaming the next Sibelius orchestral work as I don't own it.

The (reconstructed) full score of the Karelia music.



EDIT: This is easier, more popular music than before (not least because the movements are far shorter than anything in Kullervo or En Saga). Though still very recognisably Sibelian.

The complete Karelia music was a wonderful discovery, although I prefer the Ondine recording.

[vandermolen]

Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 4 in F minor - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Paavo Berglund

BBC's Building a Library No.1 choice.

[vandermolen]

William Alwyn: Autumn Legend for Cor anglais and String Orchestra - Nicholas Daniel with the City of London Sinfonia conducted by Richard Hickox

Alwyn's 'Swan of Tuonela'.

[Biffo]

Alwyn's 'Swan of Tuonela'.

An apt comparison, a beautiful piece that should be better known.

[prémont]

Of course I did, but I am not an admirer of Alain's playing, not at all, the other recording I could find,  but no possibility to listen.

She changed her style with time (became more informed as to German Baroque music). But in the French Baroque repertoire I think she ranges among the greatest.

What is it precisely about her playing, you don't like?

[pjme]

The Low Countries bask in the sun....time for (some favorite) Spanish music:

https://www.youtube.com/v/2Ios-NT0fNI

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elne


P.

[prémont]

Isn't it strange how, given that I suspect I'm less religious than either you or Harry (sorry if I've got you guys wrong!) I really enjoy to hear organ masses with the chant! At home (I'm not sure I'd enjoy it so much in a church!)

(I'm going to see Richard Egarr tonight play Bach partitas)

Even the most atheistic people are often able to get into religious feelings, because such feelings seem to be universal and independent of one's conviction. This is why Bach's music is loved by so many.

BTW I do not think that you possibly can be less religious than me.

[Karl Henning]

I love the piano versions of anything from his orchestral ballets.

I note that you said love and not prefer   

That way, this is not a challenge . . . I still remember, as if it was yesterday, the summer when I must have listened to the Ozawa/BSO recording of Romeo and Juliet ten times in the course of two weeks.  Without alienating me at all to all the more designedly modernist music which I had come to love, this piece enthralled me, and I understood, not as an absolutely new idea, but as an equal truth deep in my musical being, that there was equal greatness in the 20^th-c. composers whose music was vilified and mocked by the "Moderns."

[Karl Henning]

Thread Duty:

This cracking new piano sonata by my friend & colleague, Avrohom Leichtling:

http://www.youtube.com/v/GPoy5Uq8dts

[Madiel]

The complete Karelia music was a wonderful discovery, although I prefer the Ondine recording.

My understanding is that a different reconstruction is used there. I don't know how different they are.

[Que]

De Leidse Koorboeken

Book 5 CD 1

Still enjoying the series? 

Q

[Karl Henning]

And, mostly because I mentioned this to my band last night (Pam had just seen Il barbiere di Seviglia):

http://www.youtube.com/v/vI2K5V7C49I

[Harry]

She changed her style with time (became more informed as to German Baroque music). But in the French Baroque repertoire I think she ranges among the greatest.

What is it precisely about her playing, you don't like?

That is a bit difficult to explain, and can only be very subjective by nature:  Well I think her mannered, a certain blandness, polished in a high degree and in effect too extravert for me, I miss the inward spirituality. Exactly the reason why I dislike Ton Koopman so much.
But I will again ask some of my musical friends to provide me with some of her recordings, and weigh her effort again.
Sorry, my range of words to express myself properly in English is hampering me seriously.
Especially since I have to battle with the flu that got me just a week before my Flu jab.
If you so wish I will PM you later in a more detailed way and in better language as today.

[Traverso]

Still enjoying the series? 

Q

I sure am  but I love also the Morley Madrigals
O grief ev'n on the bud and no, no, no, no,Nigella are so dear to me.I listened to it many times,a beautiful recording one of my favorites with the Consort of Musicke and the fine voice of Richard Wistreich

[Karl Henning]

Weinberg
Pf Quintet, Op.18
Matthias Kirschnereit, pf
Szymnawski Quartet

[North Star]

Debussy
La mer, L. 109
Orchestra Dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Leonard Bernstein
[asin]B077TR4QSX[/asin]

[aligreto]

Strauss: Arabella, Act 1 [Solti]

[André]

Symphony no 6. A « soft » version, with a very beautiful, elegiac slow movement. Rythms are soft too, and the sound much too echoey, making for a big mess in the scherzo and the agitated portions of the finale.

[aligreto]

D Scarlatti: Sonate per cembalo 1742 Nos. 12, 13 & 14 [Cera]





Robust performances on a wonderfully sounding instrument which is very well caught on a good recording.