What are you listening 2 now?

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Claude Debussy
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Estampes
Pour le Piano

Pianist: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet

I've been wanting to acquire those recordings (as I do enjoy his recordings and have heard good things about them).

PD

[DavidW]

I'm going to be moving some off topic posts to the missing members thread and then I'll unlock.

Edit: and it is done.  Let us please keep this thread for our music listening discussions only.

[Spotted Horses]

...and while the thread was locked my post in progress was sent to oblivion. Oh well.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

...and while the thread was locked my post in progress was sent to oblivion. Oh well.

Augh!  Sorry to hear that.

PD

[Spotted Horses]

Augh!  Sorry to hear that.

PD

You can only imagine how profound it was... 

[Roasted Swan]

Count me as someone who isn't fond of George Lloyd's music. I'm not at all dismissive of him because of his rather backward-looking musical ideals, but the music itself is just boring and uninteresting to me. I remember @vandermolen sent me a disc of his (I forget which symphonies were on the disc), but it was on Lyrita and I just found the music dull (sorry Jeffrey!). When I saw that these Lyrita sets were coming out, I thought maybe I should give him another try, so when I listened to one of the symphonies via my free Spotify account, my general feeling about his music remained the same. When it comes to English composers, give me RVW, Bax, Delius, Britten, Tippett, Walton et. al. any day of the week over Lloyd.

to the bolded text - a guilty +1!!

[steve ridgway]

You can only imagine how profound it was... 

Oh, you were listening to Messiaen?

[Spotted Horses]

Oh, you were listening to Messiaen?

Good thing I wasn't drinking my coffee, I would have spit it out all over my keyboard! 

[brewski]

Lutosławski: Concerto for Orchestra (Frankfurt Radio Symphony / Marta Gardolińska). Superb. This is now the third version of this piece on the orchestra's YouTube channel, after Edward Gardner and Krzysztof Urbański. Might try an A-B-C comparison at some point, but in the meantime, what a joy to have so many great readings of this piece available.

-Bruce

[Karl Henning]

Lutosławski: Concerto for Orchestra (Frankfurt Radio Symphony / Marta Gardolińska). Superb. This is now the third version of this piece on the orchestra's YouTube channel, after Edward Gardner and Krzysztof Urbański. Might try an A-B-C comparison at some point, but in the meantime, what a joy to have so many great readings of this piece available.

-Bruce

Heard the Buffalo Phil play this back when. Damn, I love that piece!

[brewski]

Heard the Buffalo Phil play this back when. Damn, I love that piece!

It really is great, isn't it!

-Bruce

[DavidW]

...and while the thread was locked my post in progress was sent to oblivion. Oh well.

Sorry.  Especially if it was about Weinberg.  Not so sorry if it was about George Lloyd. jk

[Brian]

It really is great, isn't it!

-Bruce

I've gotten to see it live twice here in town and count Lutoslawski-hipness as one of the Dallas band's best qualities.

[Linz]

Edward Elgar Violin Concerto in B minor, Op.61, Ida Haendel, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult
Johann Sebastian Bach Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004

[Todd]

[Le Buisson Ardent]

NP:

Sibelius
String Quartet in B-flat major, Op. 4
The Sibelius Academy Quartet

From this OOP set -



@Symphonic Addict mentioned this work in the Sibelius composer thread and it was high-time I revisited it. Lovely work.

[Que]

I listened to a lot of things yesterday including Aho, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov and all were stellar but the crown jewel of the evening, if not the week, if not the month was this total surprise for me, I instantly loved these sonatas never having heard them before (I only knew CPE Bach from the concertos and Sinfonias):



Will probably buy this!

Those are such lovely pieces! 
And suddenly there seem to be so many recordings around... This is how I got to know them:

[Spotted Horses]

Sorry.  Especially if it was about Weinberg.  Not so sorry if it was about George Lloyd. jk

Weinberg, I'm afraid. And apparently you can't save a draft of a post on a locked thread.

[Brian]

Skipped the Ravel and went straight to the unusual stuff. The Ibert Suite Symphonique is full of vividly colorful images: a Metro train starting from the station, a mosque, a busy restaurant. Fluffy fun light music.

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony No. 9 in D Major, 1894 Original Version. Ed. Leopold Nowak. New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra, Takashi Asahina