What are you listening to now?

[North Star]

Some soothing Silvestrov
Silent Songs
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[Karl Henning]

The first two discs from here, great stuff (as expected)
Chopin
Brahms, Prokofiev, Ravel, Liszt
Argerich[asin]B001BWQVSG[/asin]

(* pounds the table *)

[jochanaan]

3x

Bantock:
Celtic Symphony
The Witch of Atlas
The Sea Reivers
Hebridean Symphony

Royal PO/Handley


My first listen to Bantock (ever) and I find myself loving this music!  I listened to this recording three times over the last 24 hours! I simply cannot believe that I have not come across his works earlier in all my listening sessions. The soundscape invoked by Bantock is mesmerizing - it feels like reading romantic poetry while being surrounded by Waterhouse's art. It is a very romantic soundscape for sure. I wonder what his other works are like, but this is a true winner in my eyes/ears.  Wonderful! Perhaps one can argue that the Celtic Symphony is a bit simplistic with the combination of strings and harps, but it works very well. It was refreshing to have such a contrast in tone poem The Witch of Atlas as the orchestra's soundscape became more complex compared to the Celtic Symphony. Great stuff! I am surprised that Bantock has not been recorded very much (as far as I can tell). Did Handley really become the champion for Bantock with these recordings on Hyperion? What about all the choral works? Regardless, the Royal PO sounds marvelous in these performances. Fantastic! You have to excuse me now as I need to listen to this recording one more time...   

The photographs alone evoke interest.

[North Star]

(* pounds the table *)

Do you know the Silvestrov work, Karl?

[TheGSMoeller]

Some soothing Silvestrov
Silent Songs
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Man, that is some haunting, deeply alluring music. I've listened to it online and haven't looked at the text, but the music and voice alone create plenty of imagery. I've really become a fan of Silvestrov lately.

[Karl Henning]

Do you know the Silvestrov work, Karl?

I do not, as yet.

[North Star]

Man, that is some haunting, deeply alluring music. I've listened to it online and haven't looked at the text, but the music and voice alone create plenty of imagery. I've really become a fan of Silvestrov lately.

Haunting indeed! I haven't looked at the texts yet either - and the booklet only has German & Russian translations of the text. Oh well, I have at least the Keats on paper already, and the Shelley wasn't too hard to find.

I do not, as yet.

You need to fix that.
https://www.youtube.com/v/ap_Vzi3ZQ0E

[Moonfish]

Telemann: The Cornett Cantatas             
Spägele/Voss/Jochens/Mertens/Bläserkollegium Leipzig/ Telemann-Kammerorchester Michaelstein/  Rémy

[aligreto]

John Kinsella: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 10....

[Sergeant Rock]

Mozart Piano Concerto No.18 B flat K.456, Uchida conducting the Cleveland from the keyboard




Sarge

[Jubal Slate]

Mozart Piano Concerto No.18 B flat K.456, Uchida conducting the Cleveland from the keyboard




Sarge

Just looked for a "like" button, forgetting where I was. 

[Mandryka]

Lorenz Duftschmid plays Antoine Forqueray, mostly with someone playing harpsichord. I have six things to say:

1. I got this because I thought that Duftschmid played Marais like a devil. To my great surprise, he's genial to the point of being angelic with Forqueray. I always thought it was supposed to be the other way round.

2. WTF is going on with the harpsichord? They're playing this music like it's basically the viol singing a song and the harpsichord supporting, like in a 19th century lied. I KNOW it deserves a more intesting relation than that.

3. The performaces are frank - you can tell they love the music and that's winning. Totally involved, sincere music making. Poetry. Seductive. (Maybe that's the devil thing . . . )

4. Similarly winning is the fact that Duftschmid swings - these pièces dance.

5. Impeccably recorded.

6. I have come to the conclusion that British viol music is much better than French.

[EigenUser]

https://www.youtube.com/v/Xel78B1rlYg

Reminds me of a cadenza from the end of a famous 1960s cello concerto...

[Sergeant Rock]

Just looked for a "like" button, forgetting where I was. 

Hey, Dave 

Sarge

[ritter]

First dip into the big Monteux that arrived today...

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[Moonfish]

Bax: Tone Poems
In the Faery Hills
November Woods
The Garden of Fand
Sinfonietta

BBC Philharmonic/Handley

Intriguing... literally Baxified....   

[asin] B000EFTEAS[/asin]

[Todd]

A first: DHL would not deliver this package from Amazon Italy, so I had to go to the post office and pay seven extra bucks to pick it up.  The packaging is old school, with 16 discs packed into four fat four-packs.  I started in with lucky disc 13, Schoenberg's Pelleas und Melisande and Verklärte Nacht.  Yowza!  I've got the Karajan disc of both works, and it is superb, but this squashes it like a bug.  It also squashes the other recordings of the orchestrated Verklärte Nacht I've heard.  Over the top lush and romantic in every way.  The sound is a bit bright an edgy, but it's more than adequate.  I hope the rest of the set is this good.  (I know the Mahler 5 is superb, but everything else is new to me.)

[Harry]

3x

Bantock:
Celtic Symphony
The Witch of Atlas
The Sea Reivers
Hebridean Symphony

Royal PO/Handley


My first listen to Bantock (ever) and I find myself loving this music!  I listened to this recording three times over the last 24 hours! I simply cannot believe that I have not come across his works earlier in all my listening sessions. The soundscape invoked by Bantock is mesmerizing - it feels like reading romantic poetry while being surrounded by Waterhouse's art. It is a very romantic soundscape for sure. I wonder what his other works are like, but this is a true winner in my eyes/ears.  Wonderful! Perhaps one can argue that the Celtic Symphony is a bit simplistic with the combination of strings and harps, but it works very well. It was refreshing to have such a contrast in tone poem The Witch of Atlas as the orchestra's soundscape became more complex compared to the Celtic Symphony. Great stuff! I am surprised that Bantock has not been recorded very much (as far as I can tell). Did Handley really become the champion for Bantock with these recordings on Hyperion? What about all the choral works? Regardless, the Royal PO sounds marvelous in these performances. Fantastic! You have to excuse me now as I need to listen to this recording one more time...   

Ohhhh, we all knew this long before you appeared on GMG, we old folks knew our Bantock and his music.

[Harry]

Bax: Tone Poems
In the Faery Hills
November Woods
The Garden of Fand
Sinfonietta

BBC Philharmonic/Handley

Intriguing... literally Baxified....   

[asin] B000EFTEAS[/asin]

And now he discovers Bax, what will be next? And yes we also knew about Bax, a long time ago. If you can get a hold on the OOP set on the label Chandos with all works by Bax, you may consider yourself lucky.
I am torturing the guys from Brilliant to license it, and I will succeed, O, yes I will.

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

I don't care for that Kate Bush song, but I'm not a fan of her music anyway. I would be curious to know about your Delius collection. Do you own a lot of recordings?

Not a lot of them (by my perhaps skewed reckoning).  Curious, myself, so counted 'em :  total of 32 Delius disks and a handful of LPs.  All these Delian Deliberations - pro and con - had me craving his VC all the livelong day :