What are you listening to now?

[Tsaraslondon]

Les pecheurs de perles is not on the same level of inspiration as Carmen, no doubt, but it has enough golden nuggets to hold the interest.

Pretre, who can be prosaic at times, presents the score complete, with the correct finale to Act III and Au fond du temple saint as Bizet wrote it. Captured a little late in his career, it is still a pleasure to hear the under-recorded Alain Vanzo spinning out Nadir's beautiful Je crois entendre encore here. Cotrubas makes a lovely Leila, Sarabia a powerful, if less idiomatic, Zurga and Soyer an excellent Nourabad.

[SimonNZ]

Mohammed Fairouz's Symphony No.4 "In The Shadow Of No Towers" - Paul Popiel, cond.

[Henk]

Yesterday night's listening:
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Aperghis is to Donatoni what De Raaff is to Takemitsu. Four such great composers.

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

I'm starting off with Quatrain before moving on to the piece whose title on the cover of this wonderful disc



Then I'll decide what to listen to next.....

[mc ukrneal]

I like Arnold - I wonder why I don't listen to him that often? Enjoying some film music of his....
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[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

Duttilleux: Correspondances



Barbara Hannigan is some kind of superhuman. I'm going to be listening to more stuff from this box set tonight.

[North Star]

Duttilleux: Correspondances



Barbara Hannigan is some kind of superhuman. I'm going to be listening to more stuff from this box set tonight.

Yes, good stuff indeed. Damn, I didn't need an urge to expand my Dutilleux collection..
https://www.youtube.com/v/FbufRIeSkQY

[EigenUser]

Very nice, Nate! I bet seeing the Turangalila-Symphonie was incredible, especially under Salonen with the CSO. Man, that must have been some performance! I guess you don't remember who played the ondes martenot in that Thibaudet/Salonen performance per chance? I wouldn't mind seeing this work live either, but, alas, my local orchestra the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra aren't doing anything interesting this season.

The "ondiste" (in the photo) was Valerie Hartmann-Claverie (she has the perfect name for the instrument lol, "Claverie" kind of sounds like "clavier", i.e. keyboard). She was also the ondiste in my hands-down favorite recording of the piece:
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Not sure who the ondiste will be for the NYPhil performance in March. I liked Salonen a lot, but I kind of wish someone else was conducting it just so I could see another person do it. Then again, Turangalila two times in less than a year -- I have no right to complain .

It is really great living only two hours away from NYC. There are a lot of great concerts there.

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

It is really great living only two hours away from NYC. There are a lot of great concerts there.

Well, a few... On the hour every hour!

[Madiel]

This is wonderful. At times I wondered if I had chanced upon a lost Shostakovich viola concerto, but only momentarily; the piece is fully Holmboe's own.

I've been truly enjoying the late Tubin symphonies; but pieces such as this of Holmboe's really get my blood going.

Belated table pounding.

THREAD DUTY: well, now that I've bought Petrenko's set of Shostakovich symphonies, I thought I should do a whole Shost-exploration, going through opus numbers chronologically and using streaming services for the (many) works I don't have.

Not sure whether I'll do the film music...

The first one I actually own will be Piano Trio No.1

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[Karl Henning]

Return to the land of It's only MIDI As Yet:

Henning
Sonata for Clarinet & Piano, Op.136
i. Another Think Coming

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

The wind's moaning and groaning 'round the corners of our house.  Feels like it's Siberia where Stalin has sent me for listening to composers he didn't approve of.

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[Karl Henning]

This was only a matter of time:

http://www.youtube.com/v/PFsdU0BJ7V8

[Lisztianwagner]

Franz Liszt
Dante Symphony

[James]

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

[North Star]

Fresh from the mailbox

Mozart
Piano Concertos KV 482 in E flat major & KV 595 in B flat major
Zacharias
Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne
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Nielsen
Wind Quintet*, String Quartets, String Quintet
The Danish String Quartet / DiamantEnsemble*
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[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

More about conductor Adriano :

http://www.adrianomusic.com/resources/Too-obscure.pdf

[bhodges]

The "ondiste" (in the photo) was Valerie Hartmann-Claverie (she has the perfect name for the instrument lol, "Claverie" kind of sounds like "clavier", i.e. keyboard). She was also the ondiste in my hands-down favorite recording of the piece:
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Not sure who the ondiste will be for the NYPhil performance in March. I liked Salonen a lot, but I kind of wish someone else was conducting it just so I could see another person do it. Then again, Turangalila two times in less than a year -- I have no right to complain .

It is really great living only two hours away from NYC. There are a lot of great concerts there.

It will be Hartmann-Claverie! And the pianist will be Yuja Wang. This is already looking like one of the spring's best concerts.

http://nyphil.org/concerts-tickets/1516/salonen-and-messiaen

--Bruce

[Karl Henning]

It's a while since I listened to any Rouse:

http://www.youtube.com/v/T4SlLHTLaLc

[Tsaraslondon]

LIstening to the two hitherto unknown to me pieces on this disc, The Voyevoda and Moscow, but both are worth hearing. The symphonic ballad, The Voyevoda, is Tchaikovsky in sweeping, dramatic form. Typically Tchaikovsky had second thoughts about it after conducting the first performance nds triaed to destroy the parts. Thankfully his friend Ziloti rescued the orchestral parts before they were taken away to be torn up, and later reconstructed the score from the orchestral parts. We will never know why Tchaikovsky wished to destroy the work, but it is at least as good as other symphonic pieces like Hamlet and Francesca da Rimimi.

Moscow is a piece d'occasion, written for the coronation celebrations of Alexander III, but in no way deserves its neglect. The soprano and baritone arias are reminiscent of his best opera work, and the choruses splendidly dramatic.

Great discoveries.