What are you listening to now?

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Harry

Quote from: Florestan on September 19, 2016, 02:50:01 AM
Johann Strauss, Sr - Des Wanderers-Lebewohl-Walzer, op. 237

https://www.youtube.com/v/SP6-47JLtyc

Starting at 7:07 one can clearly recognize... one of the main themes of Les Preludes;D

O, bugger, that reminds me of the big Strauss box, in which I am just halfway. Must have gathered dust by now.
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" I am from Barcelona, I know nothing.............."

Florestan

Quote from: zamyrabyrd on September 19, 2016, 03:00:28 AM
Maybe a coincidence?

Probably. The similarity is striking, though.  :)

Quote from: Harry's corner on September 19, 2016, 03:07:17 AM
O, bugger, that reminds me of the big Strauss box, in which I am just halfway. Must have gathered dust by now.

Finished the Johann Strauss, Sr series a few months ago. Now I am 12 or 13 discs through Johann Strauss, Jr series. And then I will tackle the Eduard Strauss series. Makes for excellent car-driving music.
Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind. — Rossini

Monsieur Croche

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Quote from: Spawnofsatan on September 18, 2016, 10:30:47 PM
Isn't that photo a bit slutty? It's virtually porn.

Naw, it is more than several cuts up from the standard fare of the bourgeois gentleman's titillating 'fine art' nude hung over the fireplace in his study.

Eduard Manet's olympia is such a nude, but with a twist that affronted its (mainly) bourgeois male viewers of that era.  She is plainly a courtesan / prostitute, of a sort many a middle-class male 'had' or patronized in that time.  That she in no way appears eager to see him, is clearly not 'his special pet,' or anything of the like is the shock element;  she is bored, all business and no pleasure or affection, and he -- the viewer whose mistress it is greeting him -- is just as plainly "just another John."


Best regards.
~ I'm all for personal expression; it just has to express something to me. ~

Harry

Quote from Manuel, born in Spain, currently working at Fawlty Towers.

" I am from Barcelona, I know nothing.............."

Monsieur Croche

Quote from: SimonNZ on September 18, 2016, 09:27:50 PM


Sebastian Androne's Tektonum - Horia Andreescu, cond.

Live: 3 September 2016, Athenaeum, Bucarest

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nx4lEDfMLHM

Oh, look.  Dmitri Shostakovich and Harry Potter fathered a child. 
Now it waits to be seen if this is a wizard composer!
~ I'm all for personal expression; it just has to express something to me. ~

Florestan

Quote from: SimonNZ on September 18, 2016, 09:27:50 PM


Sebastian Androne's Tektonum - Horia Andreescu, cond.

Live: 3 September 2016, Athenaeum, Bucarest

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nx4lEDfMLHM

Hah! I happened to be in the front of the Athenaeum that very evening. There was a giant screen installed, broadcasting live from the hall. I didn´t catch Tektonum from the beginning and at the moment I had no idea what was played. After a few minutes, maybe two or three, I left. Firstly, I was out for a downtown stroll with my wife and son; secondly, it was not my cup of tea.  :D
Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind. — Rossini

Madiel

Symphony No.2 in all its peculiarity.

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Ghost Sonata

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I had a friend freshman year in college who was learning the Bagatelles, dropped out just after the start of the second semester, no explanation, just gone.  Even his roommate had no clue.  Sure hope and assume it had nothing to do with Bartók's work.

Edit: I remember now he was losing his hair and was most upset about this but still no reason to make himself the invisible man.  Apologies for this extra-musical reminiscence of very little to no interest - funny how many of our earliest musical experiences are laden with such non-musical connections...

I like Conor71's "I  like old Music" signature.

Florestan



Quote from: Ghost Sonata on September 08, 2016, 05:14:24 AM
Sparkling, effervescent and virtuosic, there's no deep psychological or philosophical probing here.  Only delight and not a little amazement.  Herz wrote 8 PCs and they're good enough (at least these three here are) to make you wonder if you may be listening to too many "serious"  piano concertos.  A refreshing carbonated quaff on a hot summer's day.

For me, more like the sun breaklng through the clouds of a rainy autumn day, like today in Bucharest.  :)

Thanks for bringing him to my attention, Gregg.
Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind. — Rossini

Ghost Sonata

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Welcome, I'm sure - I do enjoy Herz a great deal - a lotta fun!  Herzliche grüße, indeed!
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Madiel

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Sergeant Rock

Karl Henning Oxygen Footprint op.138 for flute, viola and harp ...cool piece, I love it.




Sarge
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"hey, they made a movie about
Mahler, you ought to go see it.
he was as f*cked-up as you are."
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Karl Henning

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nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

San Antone



There are nine Wellesz symphonies all tackled by CPO and there are nine string quartets. The big Third Quartet dates from the dying throes of the Great War.

This disc offers three of the nine quartets. I hope that the Arttis and Nimbus will record the rest and will complete the Karl Weigl quartets begun with numbers 1 and 5 on NI 5646. After all they have recorded all four Zemlinskys across NI5563 and NI5604.

;)

Florestan



Andante con variazoni in F minor Hob XVII:6
Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind. — Rossini

Harry

Quote from Manuel, born in Spain, currently working at Fawlty Towers.

" I am from Barcelona, I know nothing.............."

Monsieur Croche

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Piano four-hand / piano duet

Two mid 20th century American Neoclassicists, "Boston School" ...
fine, clear writing, lyrical, 'zippy,' intelligently thoughtful, lyric.
These are an all 'round engaging, satisfying and pleasant listen.
Arthur Berger ~ Suite for Piano Four-Hand; David Kopp & Rodney Lister, piano
https://www.youtube.com/v/Nov1oSd5z9k
Harold Shapero ~ Four-Hand Piano Sonata; David Kopp & Rodney Lister, piano
https://www.youtube.com/v/KpSUXx3stiU

...and on to one sort of American minimalism w
John Adams ~ Hallelujah Junction piano duet; Nicholas Hodges & Rolf Hind, pianos.
~ I'm all for personal expression; it just has to express something to me. ~

Madiel

I am listening to Dvorak's Requiem for the first time.

The Supraphon Sacred Works box. Can't post a picture/link right now.

It's pretty great. Lots of drama, great use of orchestra, choir and soloists. Having a "classic" text seems to help.
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SharpEleventh

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Quote from: Monsieur Croche on September 19, 2016, 05:34:00 AM
Piano four-hand / piano duet

Two mid 20th century American Neoclassicists, "Boston School" ...
fine and clear writing, lyrical, 'zippy,' intelligently thoughtful, lyric.
These are an all 'round engaging, satisfying and pleasant listen.
Arthur Berger ~ Suite for Piano Four-Hand; David Kopp & Rodney Lister, piano
https://www.youtube.com/v/Nov1oSd5z9k

Am I completely out of my mind for hearing something similar to Schoenberg's Piano Suite Op. 25? With the big difference that this wouldn't drive listeners of more conservative tastes completely mad. I like it.

Florestan

Quote from: Florestan on September 19, 2016, 04:10:09 AM





Having listened to PCs 1, 3 and 4 I think Schumann´s harsh judgment on Herz is unfair, and probably biased. There´s drama in the first movements, lyricism and poetry aplenty in the slow movements and infectious, ebullient jollity in the finales. What is conspicuously lacking is any pretension to, or attempt at, profound philosophy and deep psychology --- and all the better, I say. I think Gurn would like them just as much as I did.

Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind. — Rossini