What are you listening to now?

[Harry]

From recorders to some Italian guitar music.

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And after this some Huelgas.

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And after this a few things by Bach

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[Que]

Good morning.

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Good morning! How are those?

Q

[Harry]

Good morning! How are those?

Q

Good morning Que

The Cazzati is well sung, a fine balance in this choir. A warm yet lucid approach, very detailed, I think right in your ally.
The Salazar is in my ears an absolute winner, it had me moved quite a bit, partly because it is a fine choir, and partly because the music struck several chords with me.
http://www.amazon.com/Cazzati-Absalone-ed-altre-cantate/dp/B004G6L7F6/ref=sr_1_2_title_0_main?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1385722014&sr=1-2&keywords=Ensemble+C%C3%A9ladon
I had no previous recordings by these musicians, but they came highly recommended by a German music friend of mine.

[Que]

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Q

[North Star]

Varèse
Amériques, Ionisation
Boulez & CSO
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Schumann
Papillons
Chopin
Fantaisie Impromptu
Murray Perahia
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Bach
Lute Suites BVW 995 & 996, Prelude BWV 998
Hopkinson Smith
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[Que]

Good morning Que

The Cazzati is well sung, a fine balance in this choir. A warm yet lucid approach, very detailed, I think right in your ally.
The Salazar is in my ears an absolute winner, it had me moved quite a bit, partly because it is a fine choir, and partly because the music struck several chords with me.
http://www.amazon.com/Cazzati-Absalone-ed-altre-cantate/dp/B004G6L7F6/ref=sr_1_2_title_0_main?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1385722014&sr=1-2&keywords=Ensemble+C%C3%A9ladon
I had no previous recordings by these musicians, but they came highly recommended by a German music friend of mine.

Thanks!  I have other recordings by Angel Recasens and his ensemble - heartily recommended:

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Q

[mahler10th]

Schmidt
Symphony 1
Sinaisky
Malmo SO

[Harry]

This is really great fun. When I reviewed it for my friends some time ago, most of them bought it.


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[Harry]

Thanks!  I have other recordings by Angel Recasens and his ensemble - heartily recommended:

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Q

Both are on my list too, after hearing some samples of it. Thanks Que!

[listener]

BLISS: A Colour Symphony, Adam Zero (ballet)
English Northern Philharmonia     David Lloyd-Jones, cond.
IRELAND: The Overlanders suite, Epic March
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: On Wenlock Edge   tenor and orch.
Gerald English, tenor    West Australian S.O.,   David Measham, cond.

[Sergeant Rock]

Poulenc: Sextet for Piano and Winds; Clarinet Sonata; Flute Sonata; Oboe Sonata




Sarge

[Harry]

Some nice quiet music.

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Some more Flute music.

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[Sean]

James sure has some stamina...

Actually I do admire most of the Stockhausen he's posted, which includes some of the best serial music ever written.

[Sadko]

Schumann

Kinderszenen
Faschingsschwank aus Wien
Carnaval

Daniel Barenboim

[Karl Henning]

Bach-Busoni
Prelude in B^b
Holger Groschopp

[Sadko]

Bach

Das Wohltemperierte Klavier I

Tatiana Nikolaeva

[Madiel]

Of course I was right. Hollow conjecture & empty assertions from you guys. That's all.

But of course when I indicated that I liked Zyklus and now mention that my sampling of Evas Traum was quite engaging, suddenly I'm demonstrating what an enlightened listener I am.

I have actually found quite a few remarks along the lines that Stockhausen was a brilliantly talented composer who tended to go off the rails in later years. From what little I know so far, that's an assessment I'd tend to subscribe to. It's not all black and white. It's not the case that finding some of Stockhausen's work to be good prevents me from finding things to be highly critical about. It's not the case that your assertions are 'full' and ours are 'empty'.

If you want to consider monks smashing coconuts and hybridised people-beasts-machines copulating to be high art, and indeed if you want to conclude that recycling utterly disconnected scenes that were commissioned separately and saying "oh look, I wrote an opera" is tremendously clever, then you can assert that to your heart's content, but the rest of the world is equally entitled to assert that it looks an awful lot like a series of attention-seeking gimmicks from a man who was secretly afraid his music couldn't speak for itself anymore and he had to do something to keep himself in the news.

[Madiel]

Poulenc: Sextet for Piano and Winds; Clarinet Sonata; Flute Sonata; Oboe Sonata




Sarge

Ooh! I know what I'm supposed to do here...

*Pounds the table*

[Karl Henning]

https://www.youtube.com/v/NE6n2VBo2cM

Mmm, I shall listen to that one as well.

[Karl Henning]

Well, soon. For now:

Mendelssohn
Sinfonia № 1 in C
Amsterdam Sinfonietta
Lev Markiz

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