What are you listening to now?

[SymphonicAddict]

I have the Naxos recordings of the VCs plus Vivaldiana. I have to say they left me feeling Henze was not my cup of tea, so to speak.

It's easily understandable! If I hadn't been into this kind of stuff earlier, I wouldn't have liked it either, but now I am more tolerant to this music.

[Mirror Image]

Thank you for those embedded videos; I quite enjoyed them!  Will keep an eye out for his Nonesuch LPs.   

My listening earlier today:



Looking through my LPs, I noticed that I have both the stereo and mono versions; alas, the stereo copy doesn't look very nice.  I cleaned off the mono one and played it instead.  Great performance!  I don't know Mahler's symphonies well at all so it was nice to dip into them.

Best,

PD

You're welcome! Jacobs' Debussy has become a reference for me. Of course, he didn't record all of Debussy's solo piano music, but I really wished he had.

[Mirror Image]

Enescu
Symphony No. 1 in E-flat major, Op. 13
Lawrence Foster, conductor
Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo



Really amazing work. Of course, the orchestration is first-rate, but there's much more to this work than orchestration. There is a musical narrative happening. I still won't say that orchestral music is Enescu's strongest point, but there's nothing unworthy about this symphony and it's his first, so I can't wait to revisit the other two.

[TheGSMoeller]

Ligeti - Ramifications
Boulez / Ensemble InterContemporain

[TheGSMoeller]

[NikF4]

Koechlin: Ballade for Piano & Orchestra - Myrat/Rigutto/Monte Carlo Philharmonic.



Early morning post-workout listening.

[Que]

Morning listening:

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[NikF4]

"Que c'est beau!", said Igor Stravinsky. And I fully agree with him...

Indeed, beautiful.
And I'll need to put together an updated list of the works I own by Schmitt, because there's bound to be much I'm missing out on.

[Irons]

Be it as it may, GB / UK is now only a pale and laughable shadow of her former self. Sic transit gloria mundi.

What! Have you forgotten Frank Lampard and Wayne Rooney already? 

[The new erato]

Enescu
Symphony No. 1 in E-flat major, Op. 13
Lawrence Foster, conductor
Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo



Really amazing work. Of course, the orchestration is first-rate, but there's much more to this work than orchestration. There is a musical narrative happening. I still won't say that orchestral music is Enescu's strongest point, but there's nothing unworthy about this symphony and it's his first, so I can't wait to revisit the other two.

I didn't quite warm to Enescu's symphonic works (I have the Foster) until I bought the Ondine recordings. I'm sorry if that makes you spend more money.

[NikF4]

D'Indy: Orchestral Works - Janowski/Radio France Philharmonic.

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[SurprisedByBeauty]

#morninglistening to #DavidGompper on @naxosrecords w/#WolfganDavid, @rpoOnline, #EmmanuelSiffert et al.

: http://a-fwd.to/3NR5l6b

@surprisedbeauty music!

[Florestan]

What! Have you forgotten Frank Lampard and Wayne Rooney already? 

Alas! they too belong to the past.

[Irons]

Alas! they too belong to the past.

OK. Declan Rice then. (Forgetting the fact we "stole" him from the Irish Republic).

[Traverso]

Debussy

Préludes  book 1
Tarantelle Styrienne
Hommage à Haydn

[vandermolen]

Symphony 5 'Solitudo':

[Florestan]

OK. Declan Rice then. (Forgetting the fact we "stole" him from the Irish Republic).

Declan who?

[Madiel]

UK is England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, while Great Britain is all of the above plus the rest of the Commonwealth. Is this right?

"Britain" is the name of an island. Someone decided it warranted the adjective "Great".

The island used to be the home of the Britons. Only after the Anglo-Saxons invaded, quite a lot of them fled across the sea, to Brittany. Where they became Bretons.

[Traverso]

Kurtàg

CD 1

[vandermolen]

Just heard that my aunt (actually a cousin of my dad's) died last night just five weeks short of her 100th birthday - so thought this would be appropriate and consoling music. I often turn to it at such times: