What are you listening to now?

[Traverso]

The Pilgrimage to Santiago

CD 1 & 2

[Wakefield]

Completely inappropriate to start this so late at night, but I'll play the next Naive Vivaldi album until I drift off...

Lovely oratorio, I'm listening to it right now. Here in the morning in Chile.

Besides, you added a phrasal verb to my vocabulary: to drift off. I liked it. 

A win-win deal. 

[Karl Henning]

I heard Turangalîla-Symphonie for the first time last night (Hewitt) and was delightfully impressed. First piece also I've heard from Messiaen.

I also had the pleasure of first experiencing Xenakis' music, Synaphai (Howarth) which I find really interesting!

Cool!

[Biffo]

Beethoven: Symphony No 1 in C major - Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Herbert von Karajan (1963) - tempi marginally slower and articulation less incisive that the Philharmonia, at least that is my impression. Sound vastly better. (LP).

[aligreto]

Sibelius: Symphony No. 1 [Barbirolli]





I find this to be a somewhat tame yet intense version of this wonderful piece if that makes any sense. I find that it is not as powerfully presented in terms of orchestral dynamics but the emotion of the piece is very well presented.

[aligreto]

Yes, it has made me even more misanthropic that usual. My daughter keeps threatening to pack me off to a care home.

No doubt she has your best interest at heart 

[aligreto]

Ah, yes, the version for piano and bronchial choir. 

Well done; very appropriate!

[aligreto]

Crusell & Weber - some clarinet this afternoon -    Dave

 

I also have both of those CDs. They contain some fine music.

[aligreto]

Rather tempting indeed. I like the cover art too. I enjoy Wiren's music.

Volume 1 was also a recent purchase for me and I am rather glad that I bough both of them; Vol. 1 in particular.

[aligreto]

I heard Turangalîla-Symphonie for the first time last night (Hewitt) and was delightfully impressed. First piece also I've heard from Messiaen.

I only have one version of it but is is a very fine work. Great that you enjoyed it on first listen but I would find it hard not to.

[SonicMan46]

Mozart, WA - Last 10 String Quartets w/ Quatuor Mosaïques - own the 5-CD box (first pic below); now listening to the 'Haydn Quartets' - love the Astrée cover art on the individual disc cases - bought this box for $32 USD on Amazon USA back in 2006, now their only listing is a used set for $410 - also own the Smithson Quartet box of string works, including the Haydn SQ works; and for a complete set, the Quartetto Italiano, older performances (late 60s to early 70s), but well remastered and still a favorite for me.  Dave

     

[aukhawk]

Musica Reservata

That is one heck of a bird-bath.

[pjme]

And after the bath there is always time for some dancing and singing!

[aligreto]

Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels Lustige Streiche [Kraus]





I like this version of this quirky music.

[aligreto]

Mozart, WA - Last 10 String Quartets w/ Quatuor Mosaïques - own the 5-CD box (first pic below); now listening to the 'Haydn Quartets' - love the Astrée cover art on the individual disc cases - bought this box for $32 USD on Amazon USA back in 2006, now their only listing is a used set for $410 - also own the Smithson Quartet box of string works, including the Haydn SQ works; and for a complete set, the Quartetto Italiano, older performances (late 60s to early 70s), but well remastered and still a favorite for me.  Dave

     

Great music and music making, Dave. I have not listened in a while but I must dig this set out soon for a listen after you posting it.

[Sergeant Rock]

Beethoven Symphony No.1 C major, Brüggen conducting the 18th Century




Sarge

[Traverso]

That is one heck of a bird-bath.

cosy and shameless

[Traverso]

Beethoven Symphony No.1 C major, Brüggen conducting the 18th Century




Sarge

I prefer the second recording on Glossa but this one sounds better.

[Kontrapunctus]

[André]

Born in 1866, composer, pianist, violinist and conductor Tor Aulin was a contemporary of Peterson-Berger, Mahler, Strauss, Elgar, Alfven, Stenhammar etc.

Mäster Olof is a suite of movements Aulin arranged from his music to a Strindberg play. Composer and writer were close friends and the notoriously hard to please Strindberg was enthusiastic over their collaboration. Stenhammar had reservations over some of the numbers but conducted the suite often in his Stockholm concerts. Maybe he was repaying a debt to Aulin, who had premiered Stenhammar's first symphony a few years earlier - as well as Peterson-Berger's own first symphony. P-B, a dreaded music critic, reviewed Aulin's work very favourably. In a world as small as Stockholm's music scene ca. 1900, where composers were also pianists, violinists, theatre directors, conductors or music critics, it was good politics to help keep it all going well.

Aulin's Mäster Olof is a 5 movement suite lasting some 30 minutes. Each musical number has nice shape and character. The play's storyline is about the Reformer Olof Persson (1493-1552), a central figure in swedish history at the time of king Gustav Vasa. I know of 3 recordings, one of which I also have (Musica Sveciae). The disc's generous complements are two sets of swedish dances. Tuneful, lively stuff.