What are you listening to now?

[Harry]

New arrival.

Yedid Nefesh, Amant de Mon Ame.
Jewish Music and the paths of Exile.

Music and religion are interconnected in innumerable ways, and the mutual influence has been evidence in Jewish music since Antiquity.
And you can hear that on this fantastic re-release. Don't miss it. Its one of my top acquisition in 2019.

[Traverso]

Hans Werner-Henze

Da habe ich begriffen dass Leben und Kunst ein und dasselbe ist und dass ich alles tun muss um den Beweis für die Richtigkeit dieser Behauptung zu erbringen.

That's when I realized that life and art are one and the same and that I have to do everything I can to prove that this claim is correct.

[Florestan]

Hans Werner-Henze

Da habe ich begriffen dass Leben und Kunst ein und dasselbe ist und dass ich alles tun muss um den Beweis für die Richtigkeit dieser Behauptung zu erbringen.

That's when I realized that life and art are one and the same and that I have to do everything I can to prove that this claim is correct.

If Life and Art were really one and the same, then why do we really need two different, distinct and not overlapping words for them? 

[vandermolen]

Michael Kennedy wrote the notes for the Haitink and Boult recordings and it is in the Boult notes that he suggests the 6th as a memorial tribute to Holst - 'The allusions to Mars and Neptune from The Planets seem almost deliberate'

He also mentions thematic connections to some unused incidental music to Richard II, the film Flemish Farm and a work as bleak as the symphony, Riders to the Sea. Plenty to listen out for if you know all those works!

Thanks. I know all of this works and was fortunate enough to see a semi-staged version of 'Riders to the Sea' a few years ago in London. Richard II has recently been released on a very enjoyable Dutton CD and the 'Story of a Flemish Farm' on several CDs (Pearl/Dutton/Chandos). There are clear connections, I think, with Symphony No.6 and it is one of VW's finest film scores.

[Traverso]

Rachmaninov

Rachmaninov piano concerto No.2

It always reminds me...........The Seven Year Itch

[ChopinBroccoli]

Rachmaninov

Rachmaninov piano concerto No.2

It always reminds me...........The Seven Year Itch



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A great rendition... the two must-haves for me on that piece are this one for Richter's overwhelming, voluminous power and vision and the other is Van Cliburn/Fritz Reiner for Cliburn's sheer elegance and romanticism... Those two find the essence of this beautiful concerto in a way no other interpreters have even approached

[Traverso]

A great rendition... the two must-haves for me on that piece are this one for Richter's overwhelming, voluminous power and vision and the other is Van Cliburn/Fritz Reiner for Cliburn's sheer elegance and romanticism... Those two find the essence of this beautiful concerto in a way no other interpreters have even approached

It sure is a very fine recording with everything in it.I will later pursue this DG box

[Traverso]

Handel

Watermusic,an old one but still attractive to me.

[vandermolen]

Kullervo Symphony
A very fine live performance:

[ChopinBroccoli]

It sure is a very fine recording with everything in it.I will later pursue this DG box

If you love Richter, you won't regret it... it was money well spent for me

[Traverso]

If you love Richter, you won't regret it... it was money well spent for me

Well these are my other boxes.







Together with the DG box it will be (I hope)just enough.

[ritter]

Assorted piano pieces by Olivier Messiaen, ranging from the early Huit préludes (1928-29) to the late Petites esquisses d'oiseux (1985), and including the groundbreaking Quatre études de rythme (1949-50). Played by Roger Muraro.

CDs 1 & 2 of the complete edition on DG:



I definitely think Messiaen is at his best in the solo piano pieces. With a few major exceptions,  I find his orchestral output (with all its kitschy excess and bombast) unpalatable.

[Mandryka]

If Life and Art were really one and the same, then why do we really need two different, distinct and not overlapping words for them? 

Pierre Bergounioux (my favourite author) commenting on Sartre's Lettres au Castor, says "it's half past eleven when I abandon regretfully these very penetrating and funny pages where the dust of facts, the randomness of encounters, the simple life passing, transformed by the power of reflection, become  pure literature" (My translation, from Carnet de Notes 1987)

Maybe that's it, that art is the power of thought to transform life.

[ChopinBroccoli]

Well these are my other boxes.







Together with the DG box it will be (I hope)just enough.

[ChopinBroccoli]

I definitely think Messiaen is at his best in the solo piano pieces. With a few major exceptions,  I find his orchestral output (with all its kitschy excess and bombast) unpalatable.

Agree; pretty much my feeling on his music

[SymphonicAddict]

Song of the Forests: The lyrics can be utterly spurious (even ridiculous), but it's undeniable how magnificent this music is. Shostakovich was both a terrific orchestrator and a tunesmith in my view.

[Traverso]

Assorted piano pieces by Olivier Messiaen, ranging from the early Huit préludes (1928-29) to the late Petites esquisses d'oiseux (1985), and including the groundbreaking Quatre études de rythme (1949-50). Played by Roger Muraro.

CD 1 of the complete edition in DG:



I definitely think Messiaen is at his best in the solo piano pieces. With a few major exceptions,  I find his orchestral output (with all its kitschy excess and bombast) unpalatable.

I have this edition and was surprised that DG did not use one of their own recordings.

I understand your remarks concerning the orchestral works,how about his organ pieces which are in some cases the same.

[Brian]

Glazunov & Taneyev Quintets
Gringolts, Poltera, & friends



The Gringolts Quartet should record more of this fervent High Romantic type material.

[ritter]

I understand your remarks concerning the orchestral works,how about his organ pieces which are in some cases the same.

I've never been a fan of organ music in general, and Messiaen is no exception in that respect. I did enjoy La Nativité du Seigneur, though, when I first heard it many years ago (in the recording by the composer himself).

[Traverso]

I've never been a fan of organ music in general, and Messiaen is no exception in the respect. I did enjoy La Nativité du Seigneur, though, when I first heard it many years ago (in the recording by the composer himself).

Well,I'm quite the opposite and like the organ very much,well we can't be all the same.