What are you listening 2 now?

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Que

Morning listening:



Easter is early this year!
Trying to make a modest dent in my collection of music for the Holy Week.

steve ridgway

And what better to follow than Henry Cowell: Who Wrote This Fiendish 'Rite Of Spring'? from Three Anti-Modernist Songs? :laugh:



Lyrics by Anonymous / Unidentified Author, from the Boston Herald, February 1924, collected in Slonimsky's book Music Since 1900.

Who wrote this fiendish "Rite of Spring"?
What right had he to write the thing?
Against our helpless ears to fling
Its crash, clash, cling, clang, bing, bang bing?
 
And then to call it "Rite of SPRING,"
The season when on joyous wing
The birds melodious carols sing
And harmony's in every thing!
 
He who could write the "Rite of Spring,"
If I be right by right should swing!





Roasted Swan

Quote from: steve ridgway on March 27, 2024, 10:36:41 PMStravinsky: The Rite Of Spring



I said before - I like this Rite - quite cool and objective but also clean and precise in a sinewy atheltic kind of way.  Not as brutal as some performances but still rather fine I think.  Check out Skrowaczewski's Ravel on Vox in Minnesota for more excellent performances....

AnotherSpin


vandermolen

New arrival
Shostakovich 10th Symphony, LSO, Previn
I like this series of Japanese releases of classic recordings, notwithstanding the notes being all in Japanese. I always thought highly of this performance. This CD features the LP cover of the original release:
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

Traverso

Bruhns & Schildt

Another fine organ recording !










Traverso

Berg String Quartet
Janáček  String Quartet No.1  "The Kreutzer Sonata"



DavidW

Schubert SQs 1, 2, Rosamunde, and the other 2 (why are there two SQ #2s!?) Melos Q


Papy Oli

Brahms - Piano Cto No.1
(Rubinstein, Reiner, Chicago SO)

Olivier

DavidW


Iota



Busoni: Fantasia nach J.S.Bach

A dark beauty.

Linz

Shostakovich Symphony No 4 in C minor Op 43, USSR Ministry of Culture Symphony Orchestra, Gennady Rozhdestvensky

Lisztianwagner

Arnold Schönberg
Moses und Aron

Hand Rosbaud & NDR Sinfonieorchester

"Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire." - Gustav Mahler

AnotherSpin


Todd

The universe is change; life is opinion. - Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

People would rather believe than know - E.O. Wilson

Propaganda death ensemble - Tom Araya

Mandryka



I only have a very low quality mp3 transfer but it is clearly a really good 960 -- light and lots of pathos.  But who is it?
Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muss man schweigen

Pohjolas Daughter

Quote from: Mandryka on Today at 12:32:56 PM

I only have a very low quality mp3 transfer but it is clearly a really good 960 -- light and lots of pathos.  But who is it?
Well, at least we know who it isn't.
Pohjolas Daughter

SonicMan46

Haydn's Solo Keyboard Works - spending a few days on the sonatas plus miscellaneous pieces from the three boxes below in my collection, just a handful of discs from each set. According to the Landon (H.C. Robbins Landon) numbering, Haydn composed 62 KB sonatas of which 7 are lost (Nos. 21-27), but some those (esp. the earlier ones) remained in doubt?

So, in these three compilations, the number of sonatas recorded varies, e.g. Brautigam does 55 (i.e. 62 minus 7) while Pienaar does the least, i.e. 48 excluding some of those in question. I'm enjoying all of these keyboardists; of course, Tom Beghin performances are the most varied using 7 historical keyboards (clavichord, harpsichord, fortepiano) in 9 'virtual rooms' (does it make a difference which has been argued?) - reviews attached for the interested.  Now there are other good boxes out there, including one with Bavouzet (expensive on Amazon USA) - I just setup a Spotify playlist of all of his 11 volumes and will take a listen soon.  Dave :)