What are you listening to now?

[Florestan]

Concert Piece in D major, Op. 8, for violin and orchestra (1898)
Storgårds, Oramo & Finnish RSO
https://www.youtube.com/v/sASiNKPTwcg

Concert Piece in e minor, Op 9, for Piano and Orchestra
Liisa Pohjola, Hannu Lintu & Finnish RSO
https://www.youtube.com/v/S3UXFOUxg3k

Two delightful works.

[North Star]

Two delightful works.

They are indeed. (revisited after a long time)

I didn't realize that there were three Mielck CDs!

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[NJ Joe]

Some of the earliest sonatas.

[mc ukrneal]

They are indeed. (revisited after a long time)

I didn't realize that there were three Mielck CDs!

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The first disc (and the symphony in particular) is a real pip. Why this symphony (and the opening in particular) is not better known makes no sense to me. It's really good. Another case of a life cut too short - he died at 22.

[North Star]

The first disc (and the symphony in particular) is a real pip. Why this symphony (and the opening in particular) is not better known makes no sense to me. It's really good. Another case of a life cut too short - he died at 22.

It is indeed, and it is the only Mielck my parents (or I, on my computer) have.

[GuybrushThreepwood]

Very interesting, nothing really new but the whole selection it's quite voluptuous (in the Venetian context).

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[Jo498]

People who dismiss art on those grounds don't deserve attention. What next? Die Kunst der Fuge mere entertainment for the Lutheran God? 

Everything is for the glory of God but in some other works Bach actually explicitly mentions secondary purposes: Learning to improvise on chorales, to play the keyboard fluently, to compose. Also "recreation of spirit" (Gemüths-Ergötzung).
In the "Orgelbüchlein":
Dem höchsten Gott allein zu Ehren,
Dem Nächsten draus sich zu belehren.

[San Antone]

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I have been listening to a number of Amandine Beyer recordings and finding them extremely fine.

[Maestro267]

Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor
Kaler (violin)/Polish National RSO/Wit

First time listening to this concerto. Nocturne (I) definitely inhabits the same desolate sound world as the 6th & 10th Symphonies (both first movts.)

[Florestan]

http://www.youtube.com/v/H1GX6gAmom8

Not quite in the proper mood for following the text attentively but I do like what I hear. Not my daily cup of tea, honestly, but certainly worth a second, third or n-th hearing.

[Karl Henning]

Not quite in the proper mood for following the text attentively but I do like what I hear. Not my daily cup of tea, honestly, but certainly worth a second, third or n-th hearing.

Thank you!

[Karl Henning]

Hindemith
Mass (1963)
Aachen Youth Choir
Fritz ter Wey

http://www.youtube.com/v/AmVFKmO8mXs

Forget about Stockhausen, you've got Weinberg – The Anti-James

[North Star]

Beethoven
Piano Sonata Op. 110
Penelope Crawford
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[Florestan]

Thank you!

You´re welcome, maestro! Keep them coming --- and don´t forget about that "Rhyme of the Ancient Marinere" tone poem --- or, if it suits you more, make it a voice and piano / whatever chamber combinations you find appropriate stuff.

I mean it seriously, Karl!

[SonicMan46]

For the morning, some period clarinet music:

Mozart, WA - Clarinet Chamber Works w/ Charles Neidich on two different period reproductions, including a basset clarinet and Robert Levin on a fortepiano, along w/ the always wonderful L'Archibudelli.

Mozart & Brahms - Clarinet Quintets w/ Jean-Claude Veilhan on a basset clarinet (reproduction, Oliver Cottet, 1987) - Dave

 

[North Star]

You´re welcome, maestro! Keep them coming --- and don´t forget about that "Rhyme of the Ancient Marinere" tone poem --- or, if it suits you more, make it a voice and piano / whatever chamber combinations you find appropriate stuff.

I mean it seriously, Karl!

Yes, Rime of the Ancient Mariner for a voice or several and accompaniment does sound like a good idea.

[Florestan]

Yes, Rime of the Ancient Mariner for a voice or several and accompaniment does sound like a good idea.

The self-same moment (sic!) I finished reading it I thought it would make a great tone poem, or cantata or whatever, and I am flabbergasted that nobody, not even English composers, considered it. It begs, begs, begs being put to music.

The ice was here, the ice was there,
The ice was all around:
It cracked and growled, and roared and howled,
Like noises in a swound!

or

Water, water, every where,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, every where,
Nor any drop to drink.

or finally, my favorite stanza of them all

Day after day, day after day,
We stuck nor breath, nor motion,
As idle as a painted ship,
Upon a painted ocean

[North Star]

The self-same moment (sic!) I finished reading it I thought it would make a great tone poem, or cantata or whatever, and I am flabbergasted that nobody, not even English composers, considered it. It begs, begs, begs being put to music.

It is not a small task to live up to the poem, though, and the greatest setter of English words to music since Coleridge's time, Britten, probably didn't feel at home with it..
But yes, it certainly cries to be put in music, and in a way that the storm and the silence are felt in the music.

[Florestan]

It is not a small task to live up to the poem, though, and the greatest setter of English words to music since Coleridge's time, Britten, probably didn't feel at home with it..
But yes, it certainly cries to be put in music, and in a way that the storm and the silence are felt in the music.

Well, that might be really a case of "the rest is silence".

Anyway, one of the greatest English poems ever written.

[Camphy]

Received this set today; in his recent posts Aligreto kindly suggested a starting point:

Janáček, Sinfonietta

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