What are you listening 2 now?

[Que]

Excellent!

[Mandryka]

@Karl Henning @Traverso @Harry @prémont @Que @Cato

I know you'll think I'm crazy for suggesting this, but I want to you to listen to Finnissy's Pious Anthems and tell me what you think. I've just got an intuition that you'll find the experience rewarding.

[Harry]

Lennox Berkeley, & Michael Berkeley.
Chamber Music.
See back cover for details.
Recorded: 2005, Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk.

I always had a strange fascination for the music by Lennox and Michael Berkeley. Their orchestral works are much loved and played by me, and I am pretty sure the chamber music will follow suit. What I hear has the same mesmerizing quality, and draws me quickly in this wondrous world of daring and contemplation. Astringent, and bitter sweet, extreme contrasts and perfect harmony. No better way for me to describe this music. SOTA recording and performance.

[foxandpeng]

Paul Watkins
Paul Watkins is an outstanding cellist.

Certainly plays well here 🙂🎻

[Harry]

@Karl Henning @Traverso @Harry @prémont @Que @Cato

I know you'll think I'm crazy for suggesting this, but I want to you to listen to Finnissy's Pious Anthems and tell me what you think. I've just got an intuition that you'll find the experience rewarding.

Will try and let you know.

[Harry]

Anders Nilsson.
Orchestral works.
See back cover for Details.
Recorded: 2017, Västeras, Konserthus.

First listen. Impression is good, although I do not like Piano concertos that much. It came recommended by a fellow member, forgot though who he was.

[Madiel]

Paul Watkins is an outstanding cellist.

Responsible for one of my favourite Bach cello suites.

[ritter]

Rudolf Serkin plats Schubert's Piano Sonata in C major, D. 840, "Reliquie",

CD 2 of this set:

[pjme]

All that talking about and listening to Benjamin Britten, made me take out this (quite old) recording of that joyous romp "Cantata academica". I love this Carmen basiliense to bits!  

[foxandpeng]

Lennox Berkeley, & Michael Berkeley.
Chamber Music.
See back cover for details.
Recorded: 2005, Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk.

I always had a strange fascination for the music by Lennox and Michael Berkeley. Their orchestral works are much loved and played by me, and I am pretty sure the chamber music will follow suit. What I hear has the same mesmerizing quality, and draws me quickly in this wondrous world of daring and contemplation. Astringent, and bitter sweet, extreme contrasts and perfect harmony. No better way for me to describe this music. SOTA recording and performance.

Great call. I will be following up on this one!

I also really appreciate the Anders Nilsson #4

[Harry]

Great call. I will be following up on this one!

I also really appreciate the Anders Nilsson #4

Yes me too, actually, but Zarah's Suite is also devastatingly beautiful. I gather is was you who put this composer in reach of my radar. He is a very good composer, I heard Shostakovich march themes coming briskly along in Zarah's Suite, and the Fourth Symphony, especially the first movement "Largo". It made quite some impression. The "Scherzo-Allegro" was also a stunner to my ears. But the last part of this recording, the " Chaconne" threw me into a state of extreme contemplation, forgetting the physical strains plaguing me these last few weeks for the duration of the piece.

[vandermolen]

Hafliði Hallgrímsson
Cello Concerto
Herma
Truls Mørk
John Storgårds
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Ondine

This is another winner. Not a negative comment from the critics, but more importantly, I'm really impressed. Modern, but accessible.

Must look out for this one.

[Todd]

[vandermolen]

Khachaturian: Symphony No.1 (new CPO disc)
Better than anticipated. After an unpromising start things pick up and I found the slow pace at the end of the 1st Movement to be more affecting than in any other performance.
Robert-Schumann-Philharmonic
Cond. Frank Beermann
Apologies for the image below - it's the only way I can post images at the moment.
PS the Dance Suite, which was new to me, is also enjoyable.
PPS the Dance Suite has a lovely, inspiriting 'Uzbek March' - worth having the CD for this alone.

[ritter]

The Bugallo-Williams Piano Duo performs Igor Stravinsky's Agon, in the arrangement for two pianos by the composer.

[Traverso]

Will try and let you know.

Likewise..

[Traverso]

Muffat

Tobias Lindner organ and cembalo

Toccata  IX-XII
Ciacona
Passacaglia
Nova Cyclopeias Harmonica

[DavidW]

3 Pieces for Orchestra, Lyric Suite, Violin Concerto

[Karl Henning]

JQ are doing a complete DSCH cycle next year at Wigmore Hall, presumably other places as well.  With luck this means we'll finally get a complete set of recordings too.

Sweet!

[Traverso]

Jacobus Handl Gallus (1550-1591)

Moralia (29-47)
Harmoniae Mrales (1-19)


Jacob Handl (born 1550, Reifnitz, Carniola [now Ribnica, Slovenia]—died July 18, 1591, Prague, Bohemia [now in Czech Republic]) was a German-Austrian composer known for his sacred music.

A Cistercian monk, Handl traveled in Bohemia, Moravia (now part of the Czech Republic), and Silesia (now southwestern Poland), was a member of the Viennese court chapel in 1574, and was choirmaster to the bishop of Olmütz (modern Olomouc, Czech Republic) in 1579–85. His most notable work is the Opus musicum (1590), a collection of motets for the entire year. His wide-ranging, eclectic style blends archaism and modernity. He rarely used cantus firmus, preferring the then new Venetian polychoral manner, yet he was equally conversant with earlier imitative techniques. Some of his chromatic transitions foreshadowed the breakup of modality; his five-voice motet Mirabile mysterium contains chromaticism worthy of Don Carlo Gesualdo. He enjoyed word painting in the style of the madrigal, yet he could write the simple Ecce quomodo moritur justus later used by George Frideric Handel in his funeral anthem The Ways of Zion Do Mourn (1737).