What are you listening to now?

[Kontrapunctus]

No.4 played by the CSO and conducted by Solti.

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No.4 played by the CSO and conducted by Solti.

Speaking of Tippett, there's a feature on his A Child of Our Time in the new BBC Music Magazine (July '16) where they pick the 'best' performances. For me, A Child of Our Time is Tippett's masterpiece and I prefer it to his later works which seem like empty note-spinning and that lack the kind of accessibility and melodic invention which made Child one of the great works of the 20th Century.

[Karl Henning]

Speaking of Tippett, there's a feature on his A Child of Our Time in the new BBC Music Magazine (July '16) where they pick the 'best' performances. For me, A Child of Our Time is Tippett's masterpiece and I prefer it to his later works which seem like empty note-spinning and that lack the kind of accessibility and melodic invention which made Child one of the great works of the 20th Century.

You don't mean it? I thought you liked The Rose Lake?

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You don't mean it? I thought you liked The Rose Lake?

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Oh, sorry, yes, I do like The Rose Lake.

[Karl Henning]

Well, I'm glad I did not misremember

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Well, I'm glad I did not misremember

Yeah and it was quite an unusual work for him to be such a late work. It was his last (I believe).

[HIPster]

Hovhaness - Celestial Fantasy
Stratton/Slovak Radio Orchestra

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A. What do you think?

B. Unrelated to the Celestial Gate Symphony?

Hi Karl - I like the disc very much and as you know, I am an unabashed Hovhaness fan. 

As far as I know the Celestial Fantasy is separate from the symphony. I have several Hovhaness discs, but, perhaps oddly do not have a version of Celestial Gate; this version keeps staring at me:

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Have you heard this release?

[Todd]

Disc 1.  The first of the LvB Violin Sonata set.  I'm already familiar with the set thanks to YouTube, but it's nice to go legit and hear full red book on a proper rig.  The playing is good, with Pires, though subordinate to Dumay, bringing some nice insights to some passages.  Not one to displace my big three - Ferras/Barbizet for mono, Francescati/Casadesus for analog stereo, Cerovsek/Jumppanen for digital stereo - but most enjoyable.

[Karl Henning]

... I have several Hovhaness discs, but, perhaps oddly do not have a version of Celestial Gate; this version keeps staring at me:

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Have you heard this release?

That was perhaps the very first Hovhaness disc I bought, and it is a great advocate for the composer.

[HIPster]

That was perhaps the very first Hovhaness disc I bought, and it is a great advocate for the composer.

Excellent, thanks! 

Wishlisted (with an eye toward a purchase). . . 

This is a very beautiful release, from the same group and is my favorite Hovhaness CD:

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Cheers Karl.

[Karl Henning]

Excellent, thanks! 

Wishlisted (with an eye toward a purchase). . . 

This is a very beautiful release, from the same group and is my favorite Hovhaness CD:

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Cheers Karl.

Yes, I've that 'un, too!

[Mirror Image]

Some late-Romantic Schoenberg before hitting the sack:



Listening to Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5. Love this work.

[Dancing Divertimentian]

Liszt, Hungarian Fantasy for piano and orchestra, Bolet, Irving/Symphony of the Air. Bolet in his dynamic, hair-raising prime in 1960.

[Wanderer]

First listen (I think) to Davies' B5. Did not grab me.

I listened to the finale sometime during the previous days and it didn't grab me, either. The words mediocre and hollow came to mind.

[Wanderer]

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Opp. 106 & 109-111

[Autumn Leaves]

Now playing:



My two favourite versions of Mahler 2 at the moment.
Im turning into a bit of a Mahler-head lately - where will it all end I wonder?

[Autumn Leaves]

Now playing:



Symphony #5 (Original Version)



Symphony #6

[The new erato]

Beautiful quartets in a relaxed, moderately modern language (warning: some atonality is present!)

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Superb playing and recording. A disc from the JPc sale.

[Wanderer]

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In reverse order.

[Camphy]

Symphonies 1 & 6