What are you listening 2 now?

[Papy Oli]

I'm going through a pretty rough time: my sister ended her life last night due to a number of health issues. I'm not sure how much I'll be posting for a few days, but since she loved listening to me play guitar, I listened to this today in her honor.

Really sorry to read this @Bachtoven . My condolences to you and your family.

[Mandryka]

For some reason, and this may be nonsense, this morning I feel that this music is an enormous towering masterpiece - at the limits of my understanding or my capacity to feel - sublime in the romantic, Kantian and Wordsworthian sense -  same feeling as I have when listening to Winterreise, AoF, Op 131, Ferneyhough Quartet 6, The Ring the Leipzig Chorales,

[Que]

I'm not feeling it... Perhaps they afe just not convincing enough in this repertoire.

[Mandryka]

I'm not feeling it... Perhaps they afe just not convincing enough in this repertoire.

Totally different lineup from Missa Caput - I don't think Chris Page directed it either. That being said, I do feel it!

[Madiel]

Beethoven: Serenade for flute, violin and viola

[JBS]

Is it the music or the performances? (Sofar I'm not a very big fan of I Fagiolini)

I'm not familiar enough with Wilbye's music to be sure. But it is nice enough to at least stream a couple of times.

[Traverso]

For some reason, and this may be nonsense, this morning I feel that this music is an enormous towering masterpiece - at the limits of my understanding or my capacity to feel - sublime in the romantic, Kantian and Wordsworthian sense -  same feeling as I have when listening to Winterreise, AoF, Op 131, Ferneyhough Quartet 6, The Ring the Leipzig Chorales,

Much praise indeed among the works mentioned. Must listen to this piece again.

[Traverso]

Messiaen





part of this box with the organ on wich Messiaen played himself for many years.
The organists in this box vary but are all familiar with Messiaen and his organ works. Unfortunately OOP.

[Madiel]

Nielsen: Saul and David, Acts Three and Four (via Youtube)

Pretty good. I've seen some criticism that the opera is a bit static, and I can understand that, but to be honest I find most opera tends towards being static. It's certainly unfortunate that battles happen off stage (though of one of them potentially could be onstage, this production basically cut to graphics for a scene change).

But whatever the dramatic shortcomings, the music held my interest pretty well. Each of the four acts is basically half an hour long, so it's in manageable chunks. It's probably something that works quite well on CD.

[foxandpeng]

Malek Jandali
Symphony 1, 'Syrian Symphony'
Sergey Kondrashev
The Russian PO

Another winner for Jandali.

[Mandryka]

I'm not feeling it... Perhaps they afe just not convincing enough in this repertoire.

Try this one Que - it has some Landini with the old line up - a very different vibe. I think better. 

[Mandryka]

Much praise indeed among the works mentioned. Must listen to this piece again.

Well I don't pretend it's rational, I may feel differently tomorrow!

[ritter]

Alexander Goehr in memoriam.



Alexander Goehr, born in Berlin in 1932 (but settled in England since he was one year of age) died in his Cambridgeshire home on Monday this week (August 26). He was the son of reputed conductor Walter Goehr, and one of the leading figures of the New Music Manchester Group (even if he was overshadowed by colleagues such as Harrison Birtwistle and Peter Maxwell Davies). He adopted Boulezian serialist methods, but then reverted to what I'd call a more traditionalist Schoenbergian style (with some neoclassical traits occasionally thrown into the mix). Be that as it may, I have always found much to enjoy in his music since first being exposed to it in the early 1990s. The oratorio The Death of Moses, is a major work from 1992, and is an impressive achievement IMHO (with masterful orchestral writing).

R.I.P.

[Traverso]

Well I don't pretend it's rational, I may feel differently tomorrow!

Wise words....

[André]

[Todd]

[Brian]

After listening to the Concertgebouw/Davis Firebird yesterday, wanted to focus on Dutch winds and why Dutch woodwind culture is almost as famed as Czech. My exposure to it is not very strong. Recommendations welcome.



So far seems like a very appealing blended sound, but I don't know if I could describe a distinguishing characteristic except maybe the approach to vibrato. The bassoons feel "light".

[71 dB]

Richard Strauss - Oboe Concerto, Wind Serenade & Wind Sonatina No. 2
Alexei Ogrintchouk
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Andris Nelsons
BIS-2163 SACD

[Karl Henning]

Scelsi: Quattro Pezzi (Su Una Nota Sola)

One of my favorites!

[Mandryka]

Messiaen





part of this box with the organ on wich Messiaen played himself for many years.
The organists in this box vary but are all familiar with Messiaen and his organ works. Unfortunately OOP.

On the basis of Dieu Caché (III) this does seem to be very fine indeed. Thanks for making me aware of it.