What are you listening to now?

[Florestan]

First listen ever



Grandiloquent and overly dramatic and way too long --- exactly how I don't like my Stabat mater.

[Bogey]

First listen ever



Grandiloquent and overly dramatic and way too long --- exactly how I don't like my Stabat mater.

We'll do.  Thanks!

[Florestan]

We'll do.  Thanks!

Posting in the wrong thread, I presume? 

[Que]

Posting in the wrong thread, I presume? 

I presume Bogey is indicating that he will like it in your stead..... 

Q

[Harry]

New acquisition. Muffat's music is not well served on this CD. I rather expected a bit more as what came out of my speakers.


http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2016/04/muffat-georg-1653-1704-selections-from.html?spref=tw

[ludwigii]

He's done some great work no doubt.

P.S. Love the new avatar! Schnittke's first composition was Concerto for Accordion.

Strange that you like it ! 
Careful remark, but i don't know that Concerto.

(Opus 1: Concerto for accordion and orchestra (1949) : lost)


Obviously I agree about the painter.

[Florestan]

I presume Bogey is indicating that he will like it in your stead..... 

Q

I'm not so sure. Take a look at the RTYAC thread. 

[Karl Henning]

Elgar
Violin Sonata
Piano Quintet
Nash Ensemble

(* gives the table a dignified tap *)

[Karl Henning]

If I had written an accordion concerto as a youth, I should certainly have arranged to lose it, too 

[Sergeant Rock]

Arnold Symphony No.6




Sarge

[Sergeant Rock]

Arnold Symphony No.7, Gamba conducting the BBC Phil




Sarge

[Sergeant Rock]

If I had written an accordion concerto as a youth, I should certainly have arranged to lose it, too 

That deserves a chortle...or at least a snicker.

Sarge

[Drasko]

Interesting Harry, thanks for posting.  So Schmelzer goes a similar route as Marcel Pérès, who also chooses a Byzantine oriented approach?

Q

They go right past Peres, judging by the samples:

http://www.glossamusic.com/glossa/reference.aspx?id=403

[Mandryka]

Rerun:

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Tremendously. 

Q

I was surprised by the hesitations, rubato, changes in touch and changes in tempo.

[Mandryka]

They go right past Peres, judging by the samples:

http://www.glossamusic.com/glossa/reference.aspx?id=403

Schmelzer commented somewhere that he was pleased to have found very low and very high voices, and this inspired him to work on the mass. They'd dropped that Byzantine sound for their Binchois and Honnecourt. I get the feeling that Graindelavoix is a very changeable ensemble, just like Ensemble Organum in fact.

I've not heard the recording, by the way, or the sample. I hope he's produced a nice juicy essay for the booklet explaining some of his decisions.

[Que]

I was surprised by the hesitations, rubato, changes in touch and changes in tempo.

True, but no objections on this side.

Now:

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On rehearing, perfpmances are sophisticated and elegantly done. I do wonder however, if this music wouldn't have benefited from stronger, more involved interpretations. Another angle I note on reviews is that most of these trios are not amongst Haydn's strongest output (but some are), due to the fact that they were written for amateur use by Haydn's employer, prince Esterhazy...
I think both is true.

For those reasons this is a set that almost anyone will enjoy but nobody really needs, except for devoted Haydn lovers.

Q

[prémont]

New acquisition. Muffat's music is not well served on this CD. I rather expected a bit more as what came out of my speakers.


http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2016/04/muffat-georg-1653-1704-selections-from.html?spref=tw

Completely agreed. I have always found Radulescu's playing dull (I also own his other Muffat CD and Bach's CÛ III), so even if I am an ultra completist in these matters, I have passed his Bach integral (which by the way is difficult to get hold of) by.
Radulescu's force is as an organ teacher.

[prémont]

I was surprised by the hesitations, rubato, changes in touch and changes in tempo.

Do you think I is too much?

[Karl Henning]

Probably fair.  But a larger population of devoted Haydn lovers is also called for 

[prémont]

Schmelzer commented somewhere that he was pleased to have found very low and very high voices, and this inspired him to work on the mass. They'd dropped that Byzantine sound for their Binchois and Honnecourt. I get the feeling that Graindelavoix is a very changeable ensemble, just like Ensemble Organum in fact.

Having heard the Machaut clip (Agnus Dei) I would be inclined to think of this as a blatant travesty of the recording by Ensemble Organum. Never-the-less I have ordered the CD.