What are you listening to now?

[Mirror Image]

I need to check this out!  And (incidentally) I feel similarly about the other guy.

Funny how, if the other guy wears dark glasses, we mightn't be able to tell them apart, eh? 

Yeah, I love how you can actually feel the northern landscapes in Adams' music whereas in John Adams' music, in some cases, I head right for the stop button on the CD player. I'm super-excited about getting Adams' Become Ocean. I've heard nothing but good things about this work and it won a Pulitzer Prize. Pretty cool.

[Brian]

I'm super-excited about getting Adams' Become Ocean. I've heard nothing but good things about this work

Then I'll keep quiet

[Mirror Image]

Then I'll keep quiet

Granted, this kind of music doesn't appeal to everyone just like Schoenberg or Ligeti doesn't appeal to everyone. All of the music I've heard from J. A. Adams so far has been very enjoyable and dare I say relaxing for the mind. If I were a composer, I would probably compose the way he does as I'm generally into this 'ambient landscape' type of thing myself.

[mc ukrneal]

'ambient'

Nothing turns me off to music more than this word. Take it back!

[North Star]

Schönberg
Chamber Symphony No. 2, Op. 38
Die glückliche Hand, Op. 18*
Mark Beesley (bs)*, Simon Joly Chorale*
Philharmonia Orchestra
Robert Craft

Sounds quite ambient at times.

[Harry]

New Acquisition, which was delivered today...

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2014/11/new-acquisition-glass-kancheli-tuur.html?spref=tw

[EigenUser]

Granted, this kind of music doesn't appeal to everyone just like Schoenberg or Ligeti doesn't appeal to everyone. All of the music I've heard from J. A. Adams so far has been very enjoyable and dare I say relaxing for the mind. If I were a composer, I would probably compose the way he does as I'm generally into this 'ambient landscape' type of thing myself.

*cough*mortonfeldman*cough*

I like what JLA I've heard. Don't ask me exact pieces because I don't remember, but I remember enjoying them and I'm sure I'll listen again soon.

[Karl Henning]

Schönberg
Chamber Symphony No. 2, Op. 38
Die glückliche Hand, Op. 18*
Mark Beesley (bs)*, Simon Joly Chorale*
Philharmonia Orchestra
Robert Craft

Sounds quite ambient at times.

(* chortle *)

Thread Duty:

Schönberg
Six Pieces for Men's Chorus, Op. 35
BBC Singers
Boulez presiding

Dreamy!

[Moonfish]

Charpentier: Motets pour le Grand Dauphin      Ensemble Pierre Robert/Desenclos

Wonderful way to start my day!  French Baroque music is indeed enchanting!

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[Ken B]

*cough*mortonfeldman*cough*

I like what JLA I've heard. Don't ask me exact pieces because I don't remember, but I remember enjoying them and I'm sure I'll listen again soon.

You are an ambient fan.

[Que]

Some really fine Mottetti....

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2014/11/melani-alessandro-1639-1703-mottetti.html?spref=tw

Agreed! Really love that disc.

Q

[Sergeant Rock]

Gossec Sinfonia à più stromenti C minor played by Concerto Köln




Sarge

[Karl Henning]

If I were a composer, I would probably compose the way he does as I'm generally into this 'ambient landscape' type of thing myself.

May (or may not) be your thing:

http://www.youtube.com/v/OnLYQ748aEg

[SonicMan46]

Well, no new acquisitions in a week or more - so going to the beginning of the alphabet in my collection - Dave

Abel, Carl (1723-1787) - Chamber Works from the discs shown below.

 

[EigenUser]

You are an ambient fan.

Currently, Schoenberg's Violin Concerto
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[listener]

Having mentally inflated a minor crisis that's now over, relaxing with the SAINT-SAËNS 3 violin concertos and assorted short pieces for violin and orchestra, 3-LP set
Ulf Hoelscher, violin      New Philharmonia Orch.,   Pierre Dervaux, cond.
will follow with STRAVINSKY: Persephone
Vera Zorina, Michele Molese, The Columbia Symphony Orch., assorted choirs
Stravinsky conducting.

[Drasko]

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[Brian]

This looks like a good one!



Sarge, how do you like Gossec?

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

Not my usual cup of tea, but this came with such strong recommends and from so many forum members that when I saw it pre-enjoyed at my local FYE, I snatched it up with unaccustomed alacrity.  You forgot to mention that it could possibly, might very well be, in all likelihood is intoxicating. 

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[Sergeant Rock]

Sarge, how do you like Gossec?

Great music (enjoyed especially the C minor and La Chasse). I'm glad you pointed it out.

Sarge