What are you listening 2 now?

[Papy Oli]

Sounds like Bate 4 will be a keeper. Onto Arnell 7.

[Traverso]

Haydn

Symphony No.26  "Lamentatione"

Symphony No.42

[Iota]

I know what you mean about Luonnotar - it is a very special work. I like the old Dorati recording.

Thanks, haven't heard that, will investigate. : )


Played here:



Lindberg: Clarinet Concerto


A rather brilliantly constructed funfair ride, with spectacular acrobatics and extraordinary noises/multiphonics from the soloist, a high sassy and/or fantasy quotient, and seemingly spiced with interesting nods in various directions (e.g the classical tradition of a trill at the end the cadenza heralding the return of ensemble).  Enjoyed it very much.

[Papy Oli]

Sampling some bits and bobs from this Britten box 

[kyjo]

I believe that Stanford wrote some of his best music in his chamber works.

I don't know enough of his chamber output yet to say whether I agree with you or not. But I'm sure there are some gems hidden in there! I'm particularly curious to hear his later quartets.

[kyjo]

Various stuff from the Tristan Keuris box.

The Piano Concerto, Movements for Orchestra and possibly the Double Concerto for 2 Cellos and Laudi vocal symphony are among the classics here. Like for example Denisov, he does have a tendency of repeating certain musical gestures, however; I'm trying to track some works with marked differences.

What's his music like?

[kyjo]

Two of my favourites there Kyle; Rosenberg Symphony No.4 which has some wonderfully poetic moments. One critic described Rosenberg as having something of an 'Old Testament Prophet' about him (the symphony is based on the New Testament). Alwyn's Second Symphony is my favourite of his cycle although I like them all. I agree that Symphony No.3 (which John Ireland thought the best British symphony since Elgar) is a highlight. I rather like the filmic First Symphony and the opening movement of Symphony No.4 is my favourite movement of any of his symphonies (unfortunately the second movement, which I find rather banal, is my least favourite).

Good to hear you're an admirer of Rosenberg's 4th as well, Jeffrey. I think it's my favorite work of his I've heard thus far, though his 2nd and 3rd symphonies and PCs are excellent too.

[aligreto]

Romantic Ireland:





Victory: Three Irish Pictures
Potter: Rhapsody under a High Sky
O'Connor: Introspect

I am particularly fond of O'Connor's Introspect. It is a short but very fine work.

[aligreto]

I don't know enough of his chamber output yet to say whether I agree with you or not. But I'm sure there are some gems hidden in there! I'm particularly curious to hear his later quartets.

Yes, they are very fine works. I do not think that you will be disappointed.

[Traverso]

CD 16

[Que]

One of my goals this holiday is finding a LvB SQ cycle I really like.
If the result is that I'll have to wait for the first HIP cycle, so be it...

After a failed attempt with the mono cycle of the Hungarian Qt, which I hoped had the Bush Qt magic in Hungarian style but hadn't, I  decided to start with some newer recordings.



Q

[MusicTurner]

(Keuris ....) What's his music like?

Much of it is not particularly 'difficult', speaking as a layman I guess one could very roughly compare it to say passages in Stravinsky's Dumbarton Oaks or Ebony Concertos, with some added features and a bit more variation in it. Some typical characteristics would be a strong rhythmic and even quite repetitive pulse, with passages of staccato-like effects of intensifying volume and the notes maybe getting more plentiful and shorter in the course of these staccato-like passages, like pictured fireworks or whirls; this being combined with long, slow episodes of stasis-like or processional chords and melodies by soloists in the orchestra.

"Movements" for orchestra is a good example,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3IxvYWXfrQ
likewise the Piano Concerto (won the European Rostrum Prize; notice how the fast 2nd movement at 7:35 reminds one of the 1st Movement of "Movements")
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ch_q3CvENLY

The Double Concerto often has a somewhat more cantabile approach, cf also the soloist instruments
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDl4qy6kDvw

[SonicMan46]

This morning I listened to this familiar (to us) recording! 

   

Loved it, all over again... 

Hi Que - after seeing your post on the Haydn above (which is in my collection), I had to pull our a few more CDs w/ Jean-Claude Veilhan (inserted above).  Dave

[Que]

Hi Que - after seeing your post on the Haydn above (which is in my collection), I had to pull our a few more CDs w/ Jean-Claude Veilhan (inserted above).  Dave

All beauties! 

[Todd]

[listener]

on dvd: ADÈS: Powder Her Face
based on the life of Margaret, Duchess of Argyll, a woman brazenly avaricious for money and sexual experience.
Filmed on location and sets, not just a stage production.
As boring as Parsifal.

[Todd]

[Traverso]

Telemann

Matthäus Passion

[vandermolen]

Romantic Ireland:





Victory: Three Irish Pictures
Potter: Rhapsody under a High Sky
O'Connor: Introspect

I am particularly fond of O'Connor's Introspect. It is a short but very fine work.

That's a very nice disc Fergus, especially O'Connor's 'Introspect' and the Potter work. I wonder if you know Potter's fine Sinfonia 'De Profundis'.

[Traverso]

Bach