What are you listening 2 now?

[Madiel]

Some ancestors of this forum (going back 15 to 25 years) had a coterie of posters who frequently badmouthed and railed about "atonal crap". Was that lot ever on GMG?

Oh don't go there. Half the problem over this a few years ago was that a member assumed that if you wrote "atonal" what you MEANT was "atonal crap". Whereas if myself or Mirror Image write "atonal" we simply mean "atonal".

[Mirror Image]

Oh don't go there. Half the problem over this a few years ago was that a member assumed that if you wrote "atonal" what you MEANT was "atonal crap". Whereas if myself or Mirror Image write "atonal" we simply mean "atonal".

That's quite true. How someone could be offended if myself or you write atonal is beyond me. The problem is always the other person who makes the assumption that you meant it as 'atonal crap'.

[springrite]

That's quite true. How someone could be offended if myself or you write atonal is beyond me. The problem is always the other person who makes the assumption that you meant it as 'atonal crap'.

Not everyone took offense of the term "AC". Some of us took it as a badge of honor.

[pjme]

"Not everyone took offense of the term "AC". Some of us took it as a badge of honor."

That's the spirit!

https://www.youtube.com/v/LH_Sw0t1YKc
https://www.youtube.com/v/8Hn9KB07AkE

Wallingford Riegger
Jan Krenz & the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra
The name of the organist, strangely enough, isn't mentioned.

[SimonNZ]

[Harry]

Not everyone took offense of the term "AC". Some of us took it as a badge of honor.

True, true, those were the days of which the youngsters know nothing. We had lovely fights, and boisterous arguments. Savy!

[Que]

Morning listening:



Another amazing recording by the Binchois Consort! 

A short explanation on the content, copied from Amazon:
This CD is a cultural, historical and musical delight thematically constructed around the victorious military campaigns of Henry V, culminating in the legendary battle of Agincourt, the coronation of his son Henry VI and the veneration (and exploitation) of the English saints Thomas Becket and king Edmund for patriotic purposes.
The Binchois Consort have chosen a selection of simply sublime music to illustrate each theme ranging from anonymous works to those of the leading English composers of the period Forest, Leonel Power and John Dunstable.
A bonus is the beautifully illustrated booklet with photos of English carved alabasters from the Castle Museum, Nottingham and full texts.

Q

[Harry]

Good morning my AC friends.

Johann Pachelbel.
Complete Keyboard Works, Volume X.

Chaconne in F minor.
Magnificat Septimi Toni, P.336-343.
Miscellaneous works.

Simone Stella plays on a Pinchi-Skrabl organ, 2013.

I am still amazed at the gorgeous sound this organ is producing, the high artistry of playing, the excellent sound, and above all the music by Pachelbel.

[vandermolen]

Thanks, Jeffrey. I'm not quite sure what the point of taking Prokofiev's 5th audaciously slow would be. It's a score full of life and zest which I think would hardly benefit from slow tempi.

Yes, I take that point Kyle. However, Prokofiev's 5th Symphony is one of those works, great as it is, which have become a bit 'stale' for me over the years through over-exposure. Therefore, it was interesting to hear a rather 'heavier' approach to the score. I certainly wouldn't want this recording as my only version. I prefer it however to the much admired Karajan version on DGG which never appealed to me in the first place. Leinsdorf and Martinon are two conductors whose Prokofiev recordings I enjoy very much.
TD
Haydn: Symphony 45 'Farewell' (Mackerras, Orchestra of St Luke's, Telarc CD)

[Carlo Gesualdo]

Morning listening:



Another amazing recording by the Binchois Consort! 

A short explanation on the content, copied from Amazon:
This CD is a cultural, historical and musical delight thematically constructed around the victorious military campaigns of Henry V, culminating in the legendary battle of Agincourt, the coronation of his son Henry VI and the veneration (and exploitation) of the English saints Thomas Becket and king Edmund for patriotic purposes.
The Binchois Consort have chosen a selection of simply sublime music to illustrate each theme ranging from anonymous works to those of the leading English composers of the period Forest, Leonel Power and John Dunstable.
A bonus is the beautifully illustrated booklet with photos of English carved alabasters from the Castle Museum, Nottingham and full texts.

Q

Look fairly quite interesting dear QUE

[Harry]

Charles Gounod.

Symphony No. 1,2 & 3

Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, Oleg Caetani.

Superb music, and ditto performances.

[Florestan]

Hat tip to Todd.



Disc 7. Two more to go from this consistently good set.

[Harry]

Robert Schumann.

Violin Concertos in D minor & A minor.
Phantasie in C major.

Anthony Marwood, Violin.
BBC Scottish SO, Douglas Boyd.

[vandermolen]

Villa Lobos: Symphony 4 'War':

[Traverso]

CD 11

Sonatas KK173-188

I enjoy every disc, for me Scott Ross may not be the ideal interpreter but he is one that really appeals to me. Skip Sempé is the most adventurous of them all and dares to take paths where others do not dare, wonderful.

[Harry]

Just arrived, new acquisition.

Alexander Vasilievich Mossolov.

Cello Concerto, No. 2.
Symphony in E major. (1944)

St Petersburg State Academic SO, Alexander Titov.
Dmitry Yeremin, Cello

[Todd]

Disc 7 of the mono LvB cycle. 

[Traverso]

Haydn

Streichquartette op.77 1 & 2
opus 103

[Traverso]

Camille Saint-Saëns

Septet in E flat
Tarentelle in A minor
Bassoon Sonata in G major
Piano Quartet in B flat major

[Papy Oli]

Saint-Saëns - Symphony No.3 (Mehta, LA Phil)