What are you listening to now?

[milk]

Just listening to the track called Adam & Eve by Bunita Marcus. Lovely piece of music!

[Mandryka]

How do they compare to the Auryn Quartet (if you've heard them)?

Just thinking about the first movement Leipzig are infinitely more affecting, sadder, more brooding, better recorded sound and Leipzig take the repeat - rather convincingly. I quite like Auryn but I like Leipzig more. The cello in the Leipzig ensemble is really special.

[Mirror Image]

Now:





Listening to Silesian Triptych. Such a mesmerizing work as are all of Lutoslawski's vocal works. Gorgeous performance.

[SonicMan46]

Foerster in the second rerun. CD 1. Its pretty amazing music.

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2014/04/foerster-bohuslav-josef-1859-1951.html?spref=tw

Hi Harry - thanks for bringing to my attention the Josef Foerster solo piano offering - just have 3 discs of this composer (chamber works and symphonies - not sure 'how much' more exists on recordings?) - your comments in the link and a laudatory review on MusicWeb HERE convinced me to make a purchase from the Amazon MP - Dave

[Todd]

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Second listen to Starker and Giulini teamed up in Haydn, Boccherini, and Saint-Saens.  Good stuff, even the Saint-Saens.

[SonicMan46]

Yesterday for a pre-Easter Sunday, some Bach JS seasonal Choral Works:

 

[DavidW]

Just thinking about the first movement Leipzig are infinitely more affecting, sadder, more brooding, better recorded sound and Leipzig take the repeat - rather convincingly. I quite like Auryn but I like Leipzig more. The cello in the Leipzig ensemble is really special.

Thanks!  I had been thinking about buying their Schubert recordings for awhile now... think it might be about time.

[Mirror Image]

Now:



Listening to Symphony No. 1. Not a bad work at all.

[North Star]

Maiden-listen Monday

Great work 

Lutoslawski
Cello Concerto
Paul Watkins, Thomas Adès & BBC SO

[Ken B]

Pettersson, Symphony 8
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Sanderling
CPO

[ritter]

Last night, from this recently purchased set:



Bruno Maderna: Violin concerto (1969) - Theo Olof (violin), Diego Masson (conductor)....Amazing!!!! 
Why, oh why, is Maderna so neglected these days??? 

Then wandered further (on the same CD) to Luciano Berio's Calmo (in memoriam Bruno [Maderna]), with Dorothy Dorow (soprano) and Masson again conducting , and a rather unconvincing performance of Boulez's 'cummings ist der Dichter..' under Gilbert Amy...

[Brian]

I recently had a dream that every recording in this new set was perfect, and in the dream I listened to it with rapturous delight (although the music was my dream-brain's own invention, and clearly not Sibelius):



Trying out #1 to see if it was a premonition.

[ritter]

...and now, French soirée chez Ritter  :



Goerges Auric: Phèdre, ballet on a scenario by Jean Cocteau (1950)
Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg, conducted by Arturo Tamayo.

[Mirror Image]

...and now, French soirée chez Ritter  :



Goerges Auric: Phèdre, ballet on a scenario by Jean Cocteau (1950)
Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg, conducted by Arturo Tamayo.

Auric was a member of Les Six and I don't think I've heard a note of his music. What do you think of this recording, ritter?

[bhodges]

Last night, from this recently purchased set:



Bruno Maderna: Violin concerto (1969) - Theo Olof (violin), Diego Masson (conductor)....Amazing!!!! 
Why, oh why, is Maderna so neglected these days??? 

Then wandered further (on the same CD) to Luciano Berio's Calmo (in memoriam Bruno [Maderna]), with Dorothy Dorow (soprano) and Masson again conducting , and a rather unconvincing performance of Boulez's 'cummings ist der Dichter..' under Gilbert Amy...

That's a great box (as are all of them) and a big "yes" to the Maderna - I've never even seen it on a concert program. Wonderful that they included it here.

--Bruce

[North Star]

Jean Richafort (c1480 - after 1547)
Requiem

Josquin des Prez
Nymphes, nappés (6vv), Faulte d'argent (5vv), Nymphes des bois (5vv)

Appenzeller: Musae Jovis (4vv)
Gombert: Musae Jovis (6vv)
Vinders: O mors inevitabilis (7vv)
Cinquecento
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[ritter]

Auric was a member of Les Six and I don't think I've heard a note of his music. What do you think of this recording, ritter?

I find it quite enjoyable, in an endearing kind of way... Auric is a very capable composer, and his work sounds nostalgic to me (less tongue-in-cheak, but also less sentimental, than Poulenc--and probably less individual as well). It's that postwar France that looked back to the good old prewar days with regret, and behaved as if nothing new was happening in the world. Quite charming, actually.

The music is a bit cinematographic, too. In fact, he was a successful film composer. His score for Cocteau's La Belle et la bête is very good, and in the English-speaking world he may be remembered for writing the music to The Lavender Hill Mob, Passport to Pimlico and John Huston's Moulin Rouge, among may other well known movies.

Worth exploring, IMHO.

[Mirror Image]

I find it quite enjoyable, in an endearing kind of way... Auric is a very capable composer, and his work sounds nostalgic to me (less tongue-in-cheak, but also less sentimental, than Poulenc--and probably less individual as well). It's that postwar France that looked back to the good old prewar days with regret, and behaved as if nothing new was happening in the world. Quite charming, actually.

The music is a bit cinematographic, too. In fact, he was a successful film composer. His score for Cocteau's La Belle et la bête is very good, and in the English-speaking world he may be remembered for writing the music to The Lavender Hill Mob, Passport to Pimlico and John Huston's Moulin Rouge, among may other well known movies.

Worth exploring, IMHO.

Thanks for the feedback, ritter. I'll investigate him at some point as I've always been curious to get beyond Poulenc, Milhaud, and Honegger.

[listener]

some light listening to start the day
J. STRAUSS II vol. 11
CSSR State Philh. O. Kosice /Alfred Walter
contains a quadrille based on themes from L'Africaine, might get to that this evening
HERRMANN:  5 Fingers, The Snows of Kilimanjaro  - film scores
Moscow S.O. / Wm. Stromberg
and an organ disc with DUPONT: Ah vous dirai-je, maman variations, WENCK: O, du lieber Augustin Variations
HANDEL, LEFÉBURE-WÉLY, LINCKE, anonymous 1600 and 1850 dances...
Franz Haselböck, organ of the Parish church, Krems a.d. Donau (1986, Oberbergern)  3 manuals, 40 stops

[ritter]

Thanks for the feedback, ritter. I'll investigate him at some point as I've always been curious to get beyond Poulenc, Milhaud, and Honegger.

I think it'll be worth your while, Mirror Image. But just so you get an idea of what Auric's style is like: everything in this Phaedra is elegant, in a very French way. For all you would guess, throughout most of the score Phaedra,  Theseus and Hippolytus could be enjoying a placid picnic in the country around Athens, rather than living a drama of lust and incest...