What are you listening to now?

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aligreto

Quote from: André on September 11, 2019, 05:56:24 PM


The organ concerto is challenging music set in a challenging sound world. The symphony inhabits a different sphere. It is coruscating, airy, almost pointillistic. It is also challenging but for a different reason: the musical argument is hard to pin. It makes me think of those glass cages with a blower where someone tries to catch dollar bills. I find myself more attuned to the symphony than the concerto. Although titled « no 1 » by the composer, it seems to be his only symphony.


As far as I know André this is still his only Symphony.
Interestingly, I really like the Organ Concerto. I find it to be a powerful and dramatic work.

Madiel

Piano stuff

Sibelius, 8 Little Pieces op.99 (and they are indeed very little)
Scriabin, 4 Preludes op.22
Brahms, Fantasias op.116 (which apparently I haven't listened to since 2010, ouch)

I am now working on a discography of the works of Vagn Holmboe. Please visit and also contribute!

Tsaraslondon

Quote from: aligreto on September 12, 2019, 06:11:26 AM
Debussy: Pelleas et Melisande [von Karajan]




It often gets a bad press, but I rather like Karajan's take on Debussy's great opera.
\"A beautiful voice is not enough.\" Maria Callas

Tsaraslondon



Wonderfully sprightly performances of the Brandenburgs from Alessandrini and Concerto Italiano.
\"A beautiful voice is not enough.\" Maria Callas

aligreto

Quote from: Tsaraslondon on September 12, 2019, 06:39:53 AM
It often gets a bad press, but I rather like Karajan's take on Debussy's great opera.

Yes, I thoroughly enjoyed the listen after many years.

aligreto

Tchaikovsky: Eugen Onegin [Gerdes]





This is a work that I have only heard two or three times. I dislike making comparisons between composers but listening to this work on this occasion I got more than a hint of the music of R Strauss, particularly Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier.

Karl Henning

Brian
Symphony # 8 in b-flat minor
Symphony # 9 in a minor
Royal Liverpool Phil
Sir Chas Groves
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

Biffo

Quote from: aligreto on September 12, 2019, 07:05:17 AM
Tchaikovsky: Eugen Onegin [Gerdes]





This is a work that I have only heard two or three times. I dislike making comparisons between composers but listening to this work on this occasion I got more than a hint of the music of R Strauss, particularly Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier.

Tchaikosky's Eugene Onegin was premiered in 1879 when Strauss was just 15; Rosenkavalier came along in 1911. I vastly prefer the Tchaikovsky.

aligreto

Smetana: Die Moldau [von Karajan] from this....





This is such a very fine work and it is given a very fine interpretation and performances here.

aligreto

Quote from: Biffo on September 12, 2019, 07:27:38 AM



Tchaikosky's Eugene Onegin was premiered in 1879 when Strauss was just 15; Rosenkavalier came along in 1911. I vastly prefer the Tchaikovsky.

Yes, I would be aware of the chronology. Perhaps what I should have articulated was my surprise at the suggested influence of Tchaikovsky on the music of Strauss. This is something that I had not contemplated before.

Muzio

What is the phonetic pronunciation of 'Reyghere'?  Thanks.

Traverso

Quote from: Mandryka on September 12, 2019, 05:19:58 AM
She made a recording of BWV 21 for Kuijken, rather nicely. I'm very keen on voices like that, voices which shower you with diamonds.

Many years ago I was impressed by her voice,it was this piece.
"Es ist g'nug "

The question is or it is a composition from Weckmann or anonyme?





https://www.youtube.com/v/-qT7XQHKKrE

https://www.youtube.com/v/13eGqGA8RLs




Ken B

Bach
Goldberg Variations
Angela Hewitt

It's been a looong time since I played the Goldbergs, of which I have many wonderful recordings, but home alone today and it's rainy so ...

Traverso


Ken B

Quote from: Ken B on September 12, 2019, 07:50:57 AM
Bach
Goldberg Variations
Angela Hewitt

It's been a looong time since I played the Goldbergs, of which I have many wonderful recordings, but home alone today and it's rainy so ...

On to the French Suites, also Hewitt.

Florestan



This is very good. Excellent, actually.



This is meh. Pleasent background music but nothing caught my attention.
Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind. — Rossini

j winter

Strauss is not normally my cuppa tea, but I'm quite enjoying this one...

The man that hath no music in himself,
Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds,
Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils.
The motions of his spirit are dull as night,
And his affections dark as Erebus.
Let no such man be trusted.

-- William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

Karl Henning

RVW
Serenade to Music
Partita for Double String Orchestra
Sinfonia antartica

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Chorus & Orchestra
Handley
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

j winter

The man that hath no music in himself,
Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds,
Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils.
The motions of his spirit are dull as night,
And his affections dark as Erebus.
Let no such man be trusted.

-- William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

Christo

Playing this new disc again and again, the highlight IMHO being an 'entirely beautiful', moving tone poem by Patrick Hadley, Kinder Scout (from 1923).
... music is not only an 'entertainment', nor a mere luxury, but a necessity of the spiritual if not of the physical life, an opening of those magic casements through which we can catch a glimpse of that country where ultimate reality will be found.    RVW, 1948