What are you listening 2 now?

[Que]

For me it helps to orientate yourself around the caesura in each motet. But really, I don't rate this sort of post- Josquin music very highly. Too academic. And it's certainly not suited to a whole CD IMO, one motet in a programme more like.

And this ensemble did 6 discs of his motets! 

[Karl Henning]

Nicolas Gombert liked his polyphony complex and dense...

The challenge of listening can be either very satisfying or off putting.

Advanced Early Music listening, I'd say.

Back to the Future!

[Que]

Stravinsky

I got that set in the nick of time, but still have to break it in...

[Traverso]

I got that set in the nick of time, but still have to break it in...

Chailly is a fine Stravinsky conductor.

[Que]

Chailly is a fine Stravinsky conductor.

I know! I heard some of it live at the Concertgebouw back in the day, the main reason why I purchased this set.

[Karl Henning]

Hindemith: Kammermusik No.1, Op.24 No.1
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Chailly

The opening with heavy hints of Stravinsky's Petrushka such a great start to this wild, razzmatazz-y trip, the oasis-like refuge from the mayhem in the slow movement a lovely thing, and the whole piece just fizzing with creative energy.

Thanks. High time I listened to this again!

[Karl Henning]

Until I attended a 7th and 8th grade Honors Musicians Concert yesterday, (over 150 students ages 12-14 from our semi-rural region were performing in choirs and orchestras) I had never heard of Pavel Chesnokov !

The student orchestra performed a version of his Salvation is Created:

An incredible work for Basso Profundo, at one point the music sinks to the note G1 for the Bass soloist!

Oh, haven't heard this in an age,either!

[Karl Henning]

[SonicMan46]

Danzi, Franz - Bassoon Concertos w/ Jane Gower and the Kölner Akademie/Michael Willens, all period instruments - a new WAV DL from Prestomusic which came with the booklet (notes written well by Gower); her bassoon is a copy by David Mings (Amsterdam) of Biihner Et Keller. Strasbourg, ca. 1806.  Dave

 

[Karl Henning]

Thanks to the R-K thread, this is a test:

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Symphony № 1 in e minor, Op. 1
Bergen Phil
Dmitri Kitaenko

[brewski]

At two hours, it's as if Stravinsky's Rite of Spring and much  of Varèse's work had somehow merged and expanded. And it's a must for anyone who likes OTT percussion writing.

Quite wonderful!

As a fan of OTT percussion writing, *raises hand.*

Thanks, despite being a Rihm fan, never heard this piece, and sounds like a must.

[VonStupp]

George Lloyd
Piano Concerto 1 'Scapegoat'
Piano Concerto 2

Martin Roscoe, piano
BBC PO - George Lloyd

Lloyd at his most volatile and explosive.
VS

[Madiel]

A truly lovely set. I need to get back to listening to it. I should've bought the Schubert Hyperion set when it was still in-print, but my love for this composer hadn't quite reached its apex, so I stupidly passed on it. But that's okay, the Matthias Goerne set of various Schubert lieder on Harmonia Mundi has been incredibly enriching.

I never persuaded myself to go for the Schubert set. To be honest I don't find Schubert Lieder as engaging as Schumann. Although it might also be I don't want more Graham Johnson and his liner notes in my life...

I do want to try the Goerne sometime.

[hopefullytrusting]

The score from Minding the Gap: minimalistic, stark, heart-wrenching, beautiful.

[vandermolen]

Copland: Statements for Orchestra
I do not know a better performance of Copland's 3rd Symphony than the one featured here.

[Karl Henning]

Thanks to the R-K thread, this is a test:

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Symphony № 1 in e minor, Op. 1
Bergen Phil
Dmitri Kitaenko

I like this fine.

[Linz]

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Mozart Szell Original Jacket Cleveland Orchestra CD3, Symphony No. 4o in G minor, K. 550, Symphony No. 41 in C Major, K. 551 "Jupiter", The Impresario Overture, K. 486,  Georg Szell

[Lisztianwagner]

Johann Sebastian Bach
Orchestral Suites

Ton Koopman & Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra

[Karl Henning]

Again:

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Symphony № 1 in e minor, Op. 1
Bergen Phil
Dmitri Kitaenko

[Karl Henning]