What are you listening 2 now?

[ChamberNut]

The Turina portion of this album (representing an LP from near the end of de Larrocha's Hispavox period)



The music of Turina is perhaps the best discovery I've made from exploring Alicia de Larrocha's output (though I should say I also didn't know Falla's piano works). Of the composers I didn't know at all, Turina is the one that I think is worthy of putting next to Albeniz, Granados and Falla. The music is consistently inventive. He's definitely on my list for further exploration.

Thanks, just added to mine. I was going to post somewhere in the Spanish composer universe: "After Albeniz, Granados, and Falla, where to go next?"

I'm only familiar with Turina's guitar music. Same goes for other Spanish composers.

[ChamberNut]

Stravinsky

Symphonies of Wind Instruments
Octet



One of my favourite discs in the Netherlands Wind Ensemble box so far (I think I've listened to 13 out of 17).

Boy am I tempted to get the box set.

[pjme]

He's definitely on my list for further exploration.

Indeed, Madiel, there is some refined music to be found in Turina's oeuvre. Some time ago, I heard this lovely song on the radio (fragment from the complete Canto a Sevilla)

 First perf: 21 décembre 1911, salle Gaveau, Joaquín Turina tenait la partie de piano, et Lise Blinoff, membre de l'orchestre Colonne à qui la partition est dédiée, l'alto, rejoint par le quatuor féminin Leroux-Reboul.

Scène Andalouse - two movements: "Crépuscule du soir" and "A la fenètre"

Wonderful swooning Art-nouveau music! 

[Madiel]

Boy am I tempted to get the box set.

I'm not a box set kind of person, and even I got it.   

I can't remember who it was here who convinced me about it when I was talking about Mozart (possibly @Traverso ? Apologies if that's wrong) but I'm not regretting it. Not everything in it is what I'd consider great music, but it does do a fine job of covering key works in the genre. Mozart, Beethoven, Dvorak, Strauss, Stravinsky. That was the big selling point for me. And the lighter discs are often quite fun too.

[Madiel]

Indeed, Madiel, there is some refined music to be found in Turina's oeuvre. Some time ago, I heard this lovely song on the radio (fragment from the complete Canto a Sevilla)

 First perf: 21 décembre 1911, salle Gaveau, Joaquín Turina tenait la partie de piano, et Lise Blinoff, membre de l'orchestre Colonne à qui la partition est dédiée, l'alto, rejoint par le quatuor féminin Leroux-Reboul.

Scène Andalouse - two movements: "Crépuscule du soir" and "A la fenètre"

Wonderful swooning Art-nouveau music!

That first album is on Hurwitz' series of greatest recordings ever.

[Traverso]

Mozart

Hi Madiel,I think it was me,indeed not everything is very interesting but 80% is....

Serenade No.10  : "Gran Partita"

[Florestan]

Of the composers I didn't know at all, Turina is the one that I think is worthy of putting next to Albeniz, Granados and Falla. The music is consistently inventive. He's definitely on my list for further exploration.

Jordi Maso has recorded Turina's complete piano music, 12 CDs on Naxos.

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

NP:

Schubert
String Quintet In C, Op. 163, D 956
ABQ, Heinrich Schiff

From this set -

[Madiel]

Jordi Maso has recorded Turina's complete piano music, 12 CDs on Naxos.

Thanks. I know I'd seen some mention of a Naxos series, but I didn't know there were that many volumes! 

[Harry]

BLASIUS AMON (HALL ca. 1560 -VIENNA 1590)

MISSA QUATUOR VOCUM PRO DEFUNCTIS (Vienna 1588).
SACRAE CANTIONES (Vienna 1590).
HUELGAS ENSEMBLE, PAUL VAN NEVEL.
ALL WORKS ARE WORLD PREMIERE RECORDINGS.
Live Recording: August 26, 2024, Sint-Pauluskerk, Antwerp.
Cover Photo: Getijdenboek (Book of Hours), Katharina von Kleve (1417–1479).

This is a extraordinary fine performance, with works from a for me totally unknown composer, and that should not be, listening to the quality of his music. The live recording is well done, and the balance in the choir is near perfect. Van Nevel seldom disappoints. Just 46 minutes of music, but it does not mean anything if the music is worth every penny.

Amon died in mid-June 1590 - he was barely thirty years old at the time! The obituary reads: Fr. Blasius Amon  a pious and zealous priest, such an excellent musician that Germany could not place anyone else at his side

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

Now playing this entire Bach Gardiner disc:

[pianococo90]

Luc Ferrari
Suite pour piano

[Roasted Swan]

That first album is on Hurwitz' series of greatest recordings ever.

Don't know the Chandos/Mena version of Canto a Sevilla but it is a rather wonderful work.  Unusually it is a song-cycle but with extened orchestra-only interludes.  I think there are some versions that omit these interludes but I think they make the work.  The Chandos version is complete as far as I know.

[Harry]

La Magdalena,
Lute music in Renaissance France.
See back cover for details.
Christopher Wilson, Lute.
Recorded 1995?
No PDF file attached.

Very enjoyable in all respects. A recording I did not hear before. The sound is remarkable good for its age.

[Brian]

Boy am I tempted to get the box set.

Royal Mail processed my order of that box from Europa on Jan. 27...hope it shows up this month! 

Speaking of woodwind music:



This delightful LP seems to be streaming only, no CD reissue, but gosh would I snap up a Supraphon box of the Czech Nonet + Czech Philharmonic Wind Quintet.

Quintets by Jiri Pauer, Stefan Lucky, and Jan Novak.

Stylistically Pauer is like a blend of French composers with Janacek or (younger) Suk - very bubbly and melodious. Novak is more like Martinu. Lucky is a totally new name to me.

[Brian]

Royal Mail processed my order of that box from Europa on Jan. 27...hope it shows up this month! 

Oh dear...just looked up the tracking number...it was "delivered" a month ago. I guess it was stolen.       

[Kalevala]

I'm not a box set kind of person, and even I got it.   

I see that you've forgotten about those four crates of box sets that you have still under your bed from your move to your new house!   

K

[Kalevala]

Oh dear...just looked up the tracking number...it was "delivered" a month ago. I guess it was stolen.       

Oh, no!  Did the delivery person provide a photo?

K

[prémont]

I'm not a box set kind of person, and even I got it.   

Indeed, you evidently prefer recordings which are out of the box. 

[Brian]

Oh, no!  Did the delivery person provide a photo?

K

Just ordinary US Mail. Says delivered "in/around" mailbox on Feb. 5. I hope some neighborhood miscreant is falling in love with Mozart right now??