What are you listening 2 now?

[Papy Oli]

Good morning all,

A slice of Holbrooke to start the day.

[pjme]

What the hell is an Oratorio please classical knowledge people explain to me  this about baroque music, because to me per. se thee Oratorio of  Leopold L  DIE KAISER OF BELGIUM OR EMPEROR
whit thee IL Sagrificio d'Abramo - Miserere
Weser-Renaissance at it'S finest super neat incredible sound melody, it's pleasant to hear great job  Manfred Cordes  nail it, wow.
My note is 5/5+ this mean I stay riveted stoic like Rodin the thinker and listen, focus, think, imagine, all in all good music  but heck guys it's CPO, who can blame them.

Hello Deprofundis, at first I was truly amazed. The Belgian kings and ...music?
Forget the Belgian kings (Leopold 1 & 2), but read all about :

Leopold I (full name: Leopold Ignaz Joseph Balthasar Felician; Hungarian: I. Lipót; 9 June 1640 – 5 May 1705) was Holy Roman Emperor, King of Hungary, Croatia, and Bohemia. The second son of Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor, by his first wife, Maria Anna of Spain, Leopold became heir apparent in 1654 by the death of his elder brother Ferdinand IV. Elected in 1658, Leopold ruled the Holy Roman Empire until his death in 1705, becoming the longest-ruling Habsburg emperor (46 years and 9 months).
Like his father, Leopold was a patron of music and a composer.[22] He continued to enrich the court's musical life by employing and providing support for distinguished composers such as Antonio Bertali, Giovanni Bononcini, Johann Kaspar Kerll, Ferdinand Tobias Richter, Alessandro Poglietti, and Johann Fux. Leopold's surviving works show the influence of Bertali and Viennese composers in general (in oratorios and other dramatic works), and of Johann Heinrich Schmelzer (in ballets and German comedies). His sacred music is perhaps his most successful, particularly Missa angeli custodis, a Requiem Mass for his first wife, and Three Lections, composed for the burial of his second wife.[23] Much of Leopold's music was published with works by his father, and described as "works of exceeding high merit."[24][25]

Read more at Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_I,_Holy_Roman_Emperor#Music

and , at JPC/CPO:

Leopold I assigned music a central place in the cultural life of his times. He encouraged the production of music at his Vienna court and composed over 150 arias in Italian, some German-language oratorios and musical comedies, and many sacred works. His oratorio Il Sagrificio d'Abramo occupies a special place among Viennese Passion compositions because the figure of Isaac is described as a prefiguration of Christ. Since the librettist, Conte Caldana, places the sacrifice scene in the foreground in the first part of his text, an entirely new level of meaning is created. As a result, Ubidienza (Obedience) and Humanità (Humanity) become Abraham's partners in dialogue from the very beginning. Although Leopold was only twenty years old at the time, he was already a composer of true mastery who was also able in his music to capture in tones the hopelessness of the situation and in part to venture beyond the actual limits of tonality as observed and understood by his contemporaries. Leopold's Miserere is appealing above all because of its unusual instrumentation consisting exclusively of stringed instruments.
https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/cpo/detail/-/art/leopold-i-abramo/hnum/6096077


OK?
Peter

[vandermolen]

Good morning all,

A slice of Holbrooke to start the day.

Good morning Olivier,
Probably my favourite Holbrooke CD as I prefer the chamber music to the orchestral music.

[Madiel]

String quartet no.6, "Tintinnabulary"

https://www.youtube.com/v/poiTPOL7hbQ

[Madiel]

Shostakovich, Violin Sonata



First proper listen, since successfully hunting down a version of this album a year ago. Already finding the 1st movement compelling.

[Papy Oli]

The Koechlin journey begins here :

La course de printemps op.95

[vandermolen]

The Koechlin journey begins here :

La course de printemps op.95

Le buisson ardent is my favourite work by Koechlin.

[Biffo]

The Koechlin journey begins here :

La course de printemps op.95

Good place to start, hope you enjoy it. The Jungle Book in Zinman's recording was my introduction to Koechlin. The Holliger set doesn't contain all the Jungle Book pieces but a representative selection. I have the box set and it took me a while to work my way through it, I don't know how you are going to approach it but it will be interesting to hear your opinions. I can't remember if it was in this forum but Le Buisson ardent gained a lot of positive comment when this box set was discussed.

[Biffo]

Vaughan Williams: Songs of Travel - Neal Davies bass-baritone with the Halle Orchestra conducted by Sir Mark Elder. This is my third time of listening and the performance is growing on me. The first time I listened to the mp3 download on the Amazon Music Player and was wasn't impressed. That turned out to be unfair as when the CD eventually arrived (second time of asking) the difference was striking. Neal Davies isn't my first choice in this work, I still prefer Thomas Allen in the orchestral version and Christopher Maltman with piano.

[Harry]

dieterich Buxtehude.Opera Omnia VII.
Vocal Works III-CD 2. (CD 17)
Arias, Concertos and Cantatas.
The Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir.

What I can say about the Koopman recordings is that the instrumental parts are good. But the singing has a tinge of aggressiveness, that bothers me. Phrases are expressed in an exaggerated staccato way, and it all sounds a bit artificial, pushy almost, in short, that is not the way in which I like to hear Buxtehude. I have given Koopman the chance to prove that he is more as I thought he was, but he miserably failed my test. I have to find a good home for the vocal works in this box.

[Harry]

New acquisition, first listen.

Joachim Raff.
Piano Works Volume II.

Fantasie sonate, opus 168.
Variationen über ein Originalthema, opus 179.
Vier Klavierstücke, opus 196.

Tra Nguyen, Piano

Words fail me, such is the music, absolutely gorgeous. A great discovery.

[Papy Oli]

Good place to start, hope you enjoy it. The Jungle Book in Zinman's recording was my introduction to Koechlin. The Holliger set doesn't contain all the Jungle Book pieces but a representative selection. I have the box set and it took me a while to work my way through it, I don't know how you are going to approach it but it will be interesting to hear your opinions. I can't remember if it was in this forum but Le Buisson ardent gained a lot of positive comment when this box set was discussed.

Le buisson ardent is my favourite work by Koechlin.

I am replaying La Course de Printemps again now. The first listen was more background music as I was busy on something else this morning. I don't have a particular approach in mind. I read the musicweb review posted yesterday by pjme in the French thread and that reminded me of the Jungle Book. I remembered that Zinman CD being praised here (by John/MI among others, ah those days when Koechlin was his favourite composer of the month week tuesday afternoon between 2 and 3 pm    0:) )  Some random things stick in mind like that so I picked that one up to start with. Qobuz hasn't got the Zinman so I am making do with those 3 mvts  in that set and will play Purun Bhagat and Bandar-Log afterwards.

Sounds like Buisson Ardent will need to be an early encounter too then.

La Course de Printemps so far is very... disjointed.

[Papy Oli]

Good morning Olivier,
Probably my favourite Holbrooke CD as I prefer the chamber music to the orchestral music.

Was a tad underwhelmed this second time round, Jeffrey. I'll stream again another time in the future.

[Todd]

Disc three equivalent.

[Papy Oli]

Koechlin
La Méditation de Purun Baghat, Op. 159
Les Bandar-log, Op. 176, "Scherzo des singes"

[vandermolen]

Vaughan Williams: Songs of Travel - Neal Davies bass-baritone with the Halle Orchestra conducted by Sir Mark Elder. This is my third time of listening and the performance is growing on me. The first time I listened to the mp3 download on the Amazon Music Player and was wasn't impressed. That turned out to be unfair as when the CD eventually arrived (second time of asking) the difference was striking. Neal Davies isn't my first choice in this work, I still prefer Thomas Allen in the orchestral version and Christopher Maltman with piano.

What's 'Job' like?

[Traverso]

Messiaen

Les Corps Glorieux
L'Ascention

[Papy Oli]

Koechlin - SQ No.1 & 2

[Biffo]

What's 'Job' like?

Refraining from comment until I have had a second listen. Initial impression - good

[Papy Oli]

Again. Very moving.

Cecil Armstrong Gibbs - Symphony No.3 "Westmorland"