What are you listening to now?

[SimonNZ]

[kyjo]

Jacques Ibert's  ballets Le chevalier errant (suite) and Les amours de Jupiter:

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Enjoyable and atmospheric (probably too atmospheric, reminiscent of cheapish film music at times  ).

I enjoy a lot of music that has been described as "cheapish film music". So, thanks for the recommendation!

[SymphonicAddict]

That, and his Clarinet Concerto....

Indeed! 

[SymphonicAddict]

Glagolitic Mass: A fantastic recording of my all-time favorite mass (along with Beethoven's Missa Solemnis). However, something I've always noticed in nearly every recording of this work is the few fluency of the soloists. It seems like they struggle to sing.




Sonata for piano duo in F major: As almost every work of this composer, it's a lovely piece with some memorable tunes. The 3rd movement has a melody that seems coming from the Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 1.

[JBS]

Bought the most recent [in the US] BBC Music Magazine, Vol 27 No 11 [August 2019]
Just finished listening to it.
Contents
Ravel Sheherazade  Sarah Connolly, BBC Natl Orch Wales, Thomas Sondergard conductor
Debussy Nocturnes BBC Natl Orch Wales, Pascal Rophe conductor
Boulanger  Faust et Helene BBC Symph Orch, James Gaffigan conductor Vocalists: Katarina Dalayman (Helene), Samuel Sakker (Faust), Benedict Nelson (Mephistopheles)

Anyone interested in Boulanger will probably want this CD. Faust et Helene was her winning entry for the Prix de Rome in 1913. Half an hour long, based on an episode in Goethe's Faust Part II, seems much better than the Prix de Rome entries I have heard from Debussy and Ravel.

[Karl Henning]

Home Internet is dead so no pictures from me.

Dvorak, The Noon Witch.
Holmboe, Sinfonia in Memoriam. I'd forgotten how beautifully luminous the first movement is...

Both excellent.

[Karl Henning]

Schönberg

Exquisite!

[Daverz]

Myaskovsky: Symphony No. 23

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Two beautiful slow movements followed by a rollicking finale.  Based on this, Myaskovsky was one of the great British composers.

[Que]

What do you think of it? 

Q

[vandermolen]

Myaskovsky: Symphony No. 23

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Two beautiful slow movements followed by a rollicking finale.  Based on this, Myaskovsky was one of the great British composers.

Haha. I think that it's one of the most approachable and immediately engaging of the Miaskovsky symphonies. He uses quite a few folk tunes which perhaps makes the work sound a bit 'British'. It was written during his period of evacuation to the Caucasus during World War Two, hence the local folk tunes.

[vandermolen]

Coincidently I picked up the Dyson on Friday. I listened to the Overture and Concerto with the Symphony to follow. I have not formed an opinion of the Concerto da Chiesa on a single playing. Not the type of work to grab you by the lapels.

I like this CD very much and prefer the performance of the Symphony to the one on Chandos, good as that one is as well.

[Madiel]

It has been 5.5 months since my last Bach cantata...



BWV 102.

EDIT: The opening chorus and the alto aria are both very impressive.

[Madiel]

Holmboe, Concerto for oboe and viola

[Irons]

Myaskovsky: Symphony No. 23

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Two beautiful slow movements followed by a rollicking finale.  Based on this, Myaskovsky was one of the great British composers.

I have always thought Russian and British music are often cut from the same cloth.

[Irons]

I like this CD very much and prefer the performance of the Symphony to the one on Chandos, good as that one is as well.

Good to know. After such a positive response I will give the disc the attention it deserves.

[Traverso]

Bach

[Irons]

Sibelius: 2nd Symphony.



The first Sibelius symphony I heard (Gibson). Over forty years ago and I can still recall that WOW moment.

[Traverso]

Bach

6 Schübler Chorales BWV 645-650
18 Leipzig Chorales  BWV 651-668

The Amsterdam Baroque Choir
Christian Müller organ  Leeuwarden

Ton Koopman

[Andy D.]

Exquisite!

Oh man the Boulez Schoenberg! (drool drool) Wish I was you, dude (not just because you're such a fine composer and friend )

Me:

Enjoying maestro Malcom Arnold's music for winds (Naxos).

[Madiel]

Sibelius, In Memoriam



I noted when I was busy sampling Sibelius orchestral recordings and choosing what to buy that Segerstam, in both of his recordings, plays this far slower than anyone else. Which is a general habit of his in any case, but when it comes to a piece called In Memoriam that is essentially a funeral march, it makes a hell of a lot of sense. He gives the piece far more weight than rival conductors.

And it certainly does sound like something composed in the same era as the 4th symphony.