What are you listening 2 now?

[Karl Henning]

It's not in my top tier of Shostakovich symphonies [12], but it is one I like.

And so say I

[hopefullytrusting]

Peter Sculthorpe ("Australian Copland":

Earth Cry (didgeridoo concerto):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWuLo3wyWFQ

String Quartet No. 16 (with didgeridoo):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5y1TUFiG18

Sun Music 1-4 (for orchestra)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NU1p4uW1UQU

[steve ridgway]

Kagel - Südwesten

[Madiel]

Peter Sculthorpe ("Australian Copland":

Earth Cry (didgeridoo concerto):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWuLo3wyWFQ

String Quartet No. 16 (with didgeridoo):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5y1TUFiG18

Sun Music 1-4 (for orchestra)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NU1p4uW1UQU

"Australian Copland" doesn't seem too far off the mark.

I did meet him once. Though this hasn't especially led to exploring his music. Maybe one day.

[hopefullytrusting]

"Australian Copland" doesn't seem too far off the mark.

I did meet him once. Though this hasn't especially led to exploring his music. Maybe one day.

I got that Copland comment from Wikipedia, and, I also think it is fitting.

Liked his music enough to purchase it - full price.

[Que]

[Florestan]

[Re: Boccherini]

Well, the real Boccherini expert here* is Florestan...   but here are my two cents:

*And, how could I forget, our SonicMan!

Top Boccherini performers are La Real Cámara, La Ritirata and Europa Galante. Anything they have recorded is Gold, really.. Ensemble 415 for the Stabat Mater (though there are some good options around), and they made some other great recordings.

Recently I was quite taken by the 1st volume of the violin sonatas by Igor Ruhadze.

Those are very good recommendations which I fully second --- and no, I'm not a Boccherini expert, just someone who deeply loves his music and has lots of recordings.

The cpo set of complete symphonies with the Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss conducted by Johannes Goritzki is also excellent.

The Brilliant Classics Boccherini Edition (some 30 CDs) is fairly good and includes the complete cello concertos and quite a lot of the string quintets, which is what he was famous for.

[Madiel]

Boccherini expert == Premium Boccherini consumer.

[Iota]

Scriabin: Piano Sonata No. 5 in F sharp major, Op. 53
Dmitri Alexeev (piano)

Though he has ditched the Chopin influence of the earlier sonatas in No. 5, and is now decidedly 'Scriabinesque', he sneaks into Ravel territory fairly frequently in some of the more energetic passages to my ears. But all to good effect, and a notable ending that leaves you waiting for the shoe to drop.

[Florestan]

This thread is still unpinned. @ritter @Brian

[hopefullytrusting]

Schubert Symphonies 4, 5, 6, & 8 (de Vriend conducting the Residentie Orkest The Hague)

[ritter]

This thread is still unpinned. @ritter @Brian

Fixed.

To moderate, to serve...

[Mister Sharpe]

I thought - in keeping with Christine Rosen's notion of "embodied experiences" (The Extinction of Experience: Being Human in a Disembodied World, 2024), I'd listen to a few more records, prioritizing medium over matter (I pulled-out, randomly, two LPs). In other words, acquiesce to what another writer calls "the allure of the analog".  In other other words, a sophisticated way of saying I enjoy remaining in touch with my 1960s-era self by playing vinyl. The Scriabin set is Japanese-pressed - is it better than the Netherlands one? - I suspect that it is. 

[Mister Sharpe]

BTW, the Blue Danube Waltz recorded Dec., 1966, and released the next year on the above album, was the very one used in Kubrick's 2001:a Space Odyssey.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Ned Rorem: Piano Concerto No. 2 / Cello Concerto.

[Cato]

Petrassi: Concertos for orchestra 1-3

Impressive stuff. Interesting to notice how the style from one concerto to another changes pretty significantly. I can already imagine how daring and advanced the rest of them will sound.

Yes, Petrassi is an all-around fave!

Recently...

Raitio: Fantasia Estatica.

Its title could also be: Impressions of Scriabin's Poem of Ecstasy.

It is uncanny how much some of it presages Alexander Nemtin's construction of Scriabin's Prefatory Action/Universe.

[AnotherSpin]

Bach: Clavierübung Chorales etc.
(Complete Organ Works 9)

Christopher Herrick

[Brian]

All Czech day today. The working day's playlist:



and if time allows,

[Florestan]

All Czech day today. The working day's playlist:



and if time allows,

All Czech with a tinge of Hungarian... 

[AnotherSpin]

Well, what can I say? A superb blend of historical authenticity, technical finesse and top-tier audiophile engineering. Played through a proper sound system, the recording breathes and sings most naturally.