What are you listening 2 now?

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Malcolm Arnold, Guitar Concerto.  @Irons you may like this recording. The second movement is even blues!

[VonStupp]

Jean Sibelius
7 Choral/Orchestral Works
14 A Cappella Men's Choral Pieces

YL Male Voice Choir - Matti Hyökki
Lahti SO - Osmo Vänskä

The tenors have a noticeably nasal-focused sound in some portions. I wonder if it is cultural or their leader's choice.
VS

[ritter]

Another recent purchase...

The Ensemble Accroche Note performs Betsy Jolas: Quatuor VI for string trio and clarinet, Motet IV "Ventosum vocant" for soprano, flute, clarinet, cello, violin and harp, Lovemusic for flute and bass clarinet, and Trio "Les heures" for violin, viola and cello.

[Que]

[DavidW]

[Que]

PS I liked it very much, but the excitement wore off a little bit further in.
This might be a brutal comment, but he is no Sviatoslav Richter... Who had an almost supernatural connection with Schumann IMO.

[Linz]

Anton Bruckner Symphony no. 9 in D Minor, 1894 Original Version. Ed. Leopold Nowak
SWR Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, Sergiu Celibidache

[Linz]

Mozart and Rossini Overtures
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Colin Davis

[André]

Concertos 1 and 3. This set is not a first recommendation, but it's a useful one, with superb pianism by Jan Panenka - rythmically alert, tonally translucent. The Prague Symphony are rather diffident in the first concerto, with a rather 'wet' sound that doesn't convey the energy of the orchestral part.

They are much more awake in no 3, with a nicely vibrant tang to the strings. Panenka chooses the rather showy Smetana cadenza in I. It suits the more extrovert slant the performers adopt for this concerto.

I prefer Serkin (Ormandy, Bernstein) in these works, or Michelangeli for its noble, almost marmoreal beauty. Pollini/Böhm in no 3 is a reference. I find Panenka/Smetacek friendly enough to return to their interpretations every 4-5 years. Contains the 5 piano concertos, the Violin Concerto and the Romances, the Triple Concerto and the Choral Fantasia. Like I said, nice and useful.

[Karl Henning]

Jean Sibelius
7 Choral/Orchestral Works
14 A Cappella Men's Choral Pieces

YL Male Voice Choir - Matti Hyökki
Lahti SO - Osmo Vänskä

The tenors have a noticeably nasal-focused sound in some portions. I wonder if it is cultural or their leader's choice.
VS

Good to "see" you, buddy!

[Karl Henning]

Another recent purchase...

The Ensemble Accroche Note performs Betsy Jolas: Quatuor VI for string trio and clarinet, Motet IV "Ventosum vocant" for soprano, flute, clarinet, cello, violin and harp, Lovemusic for flute and bass clarinet, and Trio "Les heures" for violin, viola and cello.

Flute and bass clarinet: great combination!

[Karl Henning]

Viola subbing for the clarinet?

[Spotted Horses]

Viola subbing for the clarinet?

Op 111 is string quintet no 2. The clarinet quintet is op 115.

[AnotherSpin]

[Roy Bland]

The melody sounds like the musical scale of Okinawa music more than that of Indian music. Specially, as for the 7th note, it sounds like major 7 rather than flat 7, which is often used in the Indian music. I love the composition.

Dear Manabu
Surely it is. I would actually appreciate your input on regionalism in Japanese composers, a topic that, apart from the Ainu, is completely unknown to me. I only know Kikuko Tanai, who was associated with Okinawan folklore.
obviously it's better to put it here:
https://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,6161.msg147568.html#msg147568
TIA

[Karl Henning]

Op 111 is string quintet no 2. The clarinet quintet is op 115.

Aye, but if there's a clarineist, they didn't rate mention on the cover. 

[Madiel]

Beethoven: Piano concerto in C major, op.15



The first orchestral opus after all this time. This is actually my 2nd day in a row listening to it, but yesterday I was distracted and very clearly not in the mood.

It's definitely going better today, but to be honest it doesn't grab me as much as the piano and chamber works. I do wonder whether a slightly livelier performance of the first movement might puncture the pomposity a little, but on the whole the length is down to Beethoven - Perahia is the pianist I have for the Mozart concertos as well. And he plays the heck out of the cadenza.

The other movements probably go down a little easier. Not great Beethoven to my mind. But it's still Beethoven.

[Spotted Horses]

Aye, but if there's a clarineist, they didn't rate mention on the cover.

There's no clarinetist because neither of the works recorded is scored for clarinet. Just the two Brahms String Quintets.

[Que]

Morning listening: one of my favourites of the Huelgas box set and fascinating French Ars Subtilior music.

 

A short introduction into the background of this music (more HERE and HERE):

At the end of the fourteenth century—amidst war, famine, and religious division—an extraordinary musical society flourished in southern France. Nurtured in the courts of wealthy lords, the music of this society reflected and contributed to the prestige of the upper-class society. In this style, now known as the Ars subtilior (the more subtle art), highly trained poet-musicians wrote and performed complex music for the entertainment of an elite, highly cultured audience. Many pieces written at this time were dedicated to specific patrons, celebrating their achievements. One of the principle patrons of this music was Gaston Febus III, count of Foix and Béarn, two small but wealthy territories in southern France.

[Que]

I prefer Serkin (Ormandy, Bernstein) in these works, [...]

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(One of) the best LvB cycles ever IMO, live or studio.