What are you listening to now?

[Ken B]

What are the eigenvalues?

Um, 93, 94, 100

EigenHaydn
93, 94, 100

Too much Ravel Nate, too much Ravel.

[Wakefield]

Hey, Que, look at this! 

[mn dave]

Good evening.
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[EigenUser]

Um, 93, 94, 100

Too much Ravel Nate, too much Ravel.

While we're on the topic of vector spaces, you should open up a thread in the composing/performing section called "Ken's Kernel" and post nothing. 

[mn dave]

.[asin]B0037SQ3C6[/asin]

[Ken B]

While we're on the topic of vector spaces, you should open up a thread in the composing/performing section called "Ken's Kernel" and post nothing. 

Well, it depends.

[Todd]

The Third.

[kishnevi]

Good evening.
[asin]B00HS95HPO[/asin]

worth getting?

thread duty;  Ashkenazy playing Chopin's Etudes.

[EigenUser]

Mauricio Kagel's 3rd SQ. The first two are horrible (sorry, this is really what I think), but I'm listening to the 3rd now and it actually has some beautiful melodies in it. I hope that he doesn't have the players pull out the rubber bands (I read somewhere that they somehow use rubber bands in the first one).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-DIal25XpM

I'm sure I'll catch hell from hardcore pro-modernists and Kagel fans for this, but I'll say it anyways: See what happens when you actually sit down and try and write decent music as opposed to just trying to be different? "Pan" for SQ and piccolo was also quite nice.

[Ken B]

I'm sure I'll catch hell from hardcore pro-modernists ... for this, but I'll say it anyways: See what happens when you actually sit down and try and write decent music as opposed to just trying to be different?

+1

[not edward]

It's a Scelsi evening here, with the Ardittis playing the quartets, plus string trio and Khoom. Weird and wonderful in roughly equal proportions.

[asin]B00DCGYFFA[/asin]

I have an older issue, but I'm glad to see Stradivarius bringing this much-travelled set back into print (this is I think the third label it's been on now).

[Mirror Image]

RVW
Symphony № 9 in e minor (1956–57)
LSO
Thomson

[asin]B000000AQ2[/asin]

This whole set is marvelously good.

Certain is, Karl. My favorite RVW symphony set.

[Ken B]

Shosty's best piece, the Cello Concerto 2

[asin]B0000013YS[/asin]

I adore this.

[springrite]

worth getting?

My general feeling about his playing is a beautiful tone but no depth and, when he attempts to show depth, is very pretentious sounding. Anyway, I also happen to know how shallow he is, fast fingers but little IQ and even less EQ. After two CDs I gave up on him completely. Lang Lang, if you go past his antics, is much better (although by no means great).

[kishnevi]

Martin Matalon Le Scorpion (2002)
Written as a soundtrack for this

And the major part of CD 13 of the Percussions de Strasbourg set.

ETA: Amazon imagery not cooperating.  The film is Bunuel's L'Age d'Or.

[kishnevi]

My general feeling about his playing is a beautiful tone but no depth and, when he attempts to show depth, is very pretentious sounding. Anyway, I also happen to know how shallow he is, fast fingers but little IQ and even less EQ. After two CDs I gave up on him completely. Lang Lang, if you go past his antics, is much better (although by no means great).

And I have a hard time with Lang Lang's antics.

[Ken B]

We live in the golden age of the accordion. Nyman, Silence http://m.youtube.com/results?q=motion%20trio&sm=3

A bootleg, so the sound ain't great but still ... http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=A25PCwPkZac
.. To the edge of chaos but always retaining perfect Mozartian grace, and it rushes forward. With accordions!
(Music starts at 90 second mark)

[listener]

Scandinavian wind quintets: FERNSTROM op. 59, KVANDAL op. 34 NIELSEN op. 43
KVANDAL again Three Hymn-Tunes op. 23b
Oslo Wind Ensemble

[Que]

Hey, Que, look at this! 

I am looking...and it makes me terribly jealous  


Coincidentally,  or maybe not  , listening this morning to some organ music myself.

Just in, another volume from one of my favourite series by Andrea Marcon:

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[Mookalafalas]

From the Staier DHM box.  Did Ken B. recommend that first?  Anyway, as good as I had hoped it would be--no, much better. How could I have imagined how good all this is?

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  An Amazon reviewer rips this disc, saying Staier misunderstands Dussek's notation and pounds too much on the keys. He's probably right, but it's still wonderful.