What are you listening 2 now?

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Dutch Overtures. Jac van Steen and Netherlands Radio Symphony.

[Traverso]

Schönberg  piano Concerto
Webern     variations op 27
Schönberg  drei klavierstücke op 11
           sechs klavierstücke op 18
Berg       piano sonata op.1

[Karl Henning]

I found this on YouTube: Borenstein's If You Will It, It Is No Dream.

Makes me think of Jn Goodman in The Big Lebowski: If you will it, it is no dream.

[Florestan]

This, on repeat, for several days now. It's that good, really. The L'Uccelliera quintet alone is worth the price. A strong contender for the best Boccherini recording ever.

Also, started my journey through this set:

[Karl Henning]

There is a special charm to exploring one's own collection! 

"You've already paid for this."

[JBS]

Revisiting this recent purchase.

I know you're not keen on them, but the Tallis Scholars have just released a Fayrfax CD. Four motets, including the two listed on the cover of the CD you were listening to, but no mass.


https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9724775--robert-fayrfax-maria-plena-virtute-ave-dei-patris-o-maria-deo-grata-eterna-laudis-lilium

[ritter]

Albéniz: Iberia, Book 1



Not so long since I've listened to this, but hey, I've been to these places now. A religious procession went right through where I was staying on my first day in Seville.

Edit: Though apparently, the march tune in "El Corpus Christi en Sevilla" is from the other end of the country...

Nice!

TBH, the origin of the tune you mention ("La Tarara") is unclear. It is understood it's been sung since the Middle Ages, and it is thought to be of Jewish or Arab ancestry (apparently, versions of it are sung in Northern Africa to this day).

It was being used in the mid-19th century as a children's "corro" (a sort of ring-a-ring-a-roses) in the province of Soria (effectively at the opposite end of Castile compared to its borders with Andalusia), but some sources mention Valencia as its place of origin. In any case, it's one of those songs that I'd say every Spaniard, from whichever region, will be familiar with.

Federico García Lorca made a harmonisation for his collection of popular songs. Here it is, sung by Victoria de los Ángeles:

[Linz]

Arnold Bax Symphony No. 3 and Happy Feet, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Lloyd-Jones

[brewski]

And another performance of Shostakovich's Violin Concerto No. 1 from the Queen Elisabeth Competition in September, this time with violinist Kevin Zhu. As one barometer of the quality of the entrants, Zhu placed fourth — and he's superb.

I'm saving the winner, Dmytro Udovychenko, for last.

-Bruce

[NumberSix]

You are definitely showing your age! If you look at an adult and wonder if they are a child, you're over the hill old man.

 

[VonStupp]

Wilhelm Stenhammar
String Quartet 3 in F Major
String Quartet 4 in F minor
Lodolezzi Sings: Elegy & Intermezzo
Stenhammar Quartet

VS

[DavidW]

[Kalevala]

Been listening to this excellent disc.  So far:  Stravinsky's violin concerto, Bartok's first and second rhapsodies.  Then (if time allows) Martinu's Suite Concertante (2nd version) and his original Meditation from the Suite Concertante.



K

[ritter]

Continuing with CD1 of The Music of Elliott Carter, Vol. 8 (after the first track, the Horn Concerto, made a very favourable impression last night).



Mad Regales (for six voices a capella) is quite wonderful, Carter at his most playful. Very enjoyable. Tinitinnabulation (for six percussionists), OTOH, I found insufferable. A pure percussion piece lasting almost eight minutes is for me one possible definition of inhumane torture (TBH, I might have been impressed by Varèse's Ionisation when I was first exposed to it many decades ago, but now, e.g., whenever I listen to jazz, I dread the moment when the drummer gets his solo  ). Wind Rose (for wind ensemble) and Sound Fields (for string orchestra) are peculiar, as they both sound like "tapestries of sound" and eschew the composer's contrapuntal inventiveness. Strange, but interesting. Finally, On Conversing with Paradise (on texts by Ezra Pound) is Carter at his considerable best, and a fitting conclusion to the string of brilliant vocal cycles he composed throughout his career.

[Karl Henning]

I found this on YouTube: Borenstein's If You Will It, It Is No Dream.

Nice!

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony No. 4 in E Flat Major, 1878/80 Version (1880 with Bruckner's 1886 revisions) - Ed. Leopold Nowak, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, Eliahu Inbal

[NumberSix]

Symphony Saturday!



Haydn: Symphony No. 94, "Surprise"
Giovanni Antonioni, Il Giardino Armonico

[André]

Bruckner Symphony No. 4 in E Flat Major, 1878/80 Version (1880 with Bruckner's 1886 revisions) - Ed. Leopold Nowak, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, Eliahu Inbal

Coincidentally today's listening will include Inbal and the Tokyoites in the 9th symphony. It's an excellent, objective, direct version.

[NumberSix]

Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 20, 23; Piano Sonata No. 16
Khatia Buniatishvili, Academy of St Martin in the Fields

[Maestro267]

Technically a self-titled album.