What are you listening to now?

[SimonNZ]

Gloria Coates' Time Frozen - Dieter Cichewiecz, cond.



Stockhausen's Engel-Prozessionen

[Que]

Part 2:

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Rousset selected a few more some slower pieces for the 2nd disc, superbly done!

I think after this set nobody will so easily scoff at Duphly anymore. He is still often depicted as an historical curiosum - the last of an era, he died the day after the start if the French revolution - producing 2nd rate music in an antiquated style...

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[Wanderer]

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[Tsaraslondon]

Alessandrini's blithely dancing rhythms are a wonderful counterpart to this grey, cold damp London morning.

[Daverz]

Brunetti Symphonies

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Never heard of him before.  He's pretty good!

[Florestan]

Last night and earlier today



Superb performances of two great violin sonatas.



The sonics on this is mindblowing. Could easily compete for top 5 best Vivaldi recordings ever.



This series is absolutely charming.

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Krommer is rapdily becoming one of my favorite Classical composers. His bassoon quartets are a marvel and I expect no less from these.

[Harry]

Best Buy, 2015. Vocal Renaissance. An absolutely stunning recording and performance.

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2015/11/willaert-adrian-c1490-1562-motets-best.html?spref=tw

[Sadko]

Schubert

Betrand Chamayou plays

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[Florestan]

Krommer is rapdily becoming one of my favorite Classical composers. His bassoon quartets are a marvel and I expect no less from these.

And I was right. These are excellent.

Now playing:

[Karl Henning]

Finally getting started on this set:

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I am curious

[Karl Henning]

I could never see what was written on this cover.

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I don't read anything on it, either.

[North Star]

I don't read anything on it, either.

Try backing away from the screen.

[Madiel]

Finally listening to the last sonata in this box.

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The set was just as good as people on the forum said it was, so, to those who recommended it: thank you!

[Karl Henning]

Try backing away from the screen.

Ah, thanks.

[Florestan]

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

First listen from a composer who claimed to have been born on a graveyard : "My music is terribly melancholy--wildly melancholy."

[The new erato]

First listen from a composer who claimed to have been born on a graveyard : "My music is terribly melancholy--wildly melancholy."

His home is quite close to where I live (approx 5 miles). A large property:




He became quite old, and I used to see him at concerts with the Bergen Philharmonic.

Some quite odd composer dudes living nearby, here is Ole Bulls villa (reflecting his travels in Russia):



and of course Grieg's home Troldhaugen which is a short walk away:



A couple of hours car ride away (on twisty roads that's not as far as it sounds) I have Geirr Tveitt's and Fartein Valen's homes.

Here's Geirr Tveitt's house in Hardanger before the tragic fire that destroyed a significant amount of his scores:



Fartein Valen's home in Valevåg:

[Florestan]

His home is quite close to where I live (approx 5 miles). A large property:

If I lived there my music would be not wildly melancholy but utterly depressed and depressing. 

Kitschy and bombastic. Never heard his music but that gives me an idea about it.

and of course Grieg's home Troldhaugen which is a short walk away:

Now that´s great! Matches perfectly his music and his idea about warm dwellings where people feel at home.   

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

His home is quite close to where I live (approx 5 miles).

A couple of hours car ride away (on twisty roads that's not as far as it sounds) I have Geirr Tveitt's and Fartein Valen's homes.

Thank you so much - those pictures are (almost) as wonderful as being there.  I have but one Geirr Tveitt recording, below :

[The new erato]

If I lived there my music would be not wildly melancholy but utterly depressed and depressing. 

There are less gloomy views: