What are you listening 2 now?

[not edward]

First listen:

[asin]B000E6ULKE[/asin]

Interesting earlier works by Charles Uzor; there's something a little reminiscent of the later Kagel in the way that he takes 20th century musical tropes and warps them just enough to keep the listener on their toes--then occasionally turns things completely on their head.

[MusicTurner]

Bax - "Symphony No.4" & "Tintagel" on another disc /Thomson /chandos

[Carlo Gesualdo]

Morning listening:



Franco-Flemish music published by the Antwerp based printer Christophe Plantin.
Quite a list of composers on the front cover, but half of this recording is filled with music by Andreas Pevernage - who is new to me and
quite a find.

Q

Very good album You would like Singer Pur Renaissance Am Rhein and the Delphian  recording Cathedral of  Milan whit obscure composer worth checking, hello QUE

[Traverso]

Schütz

[Que]

Very good album You would like Singer Pur Renaissance Am Rhein

Already on my shelves.... very nice recording... 

and the Delphian  recording Cathedral of  Milan whit obscure composer worth checking, hello QUE

Found it... thnx!

[asin]B07Y97F14L[/asin]

[Que]

Schütz

 

Pioneering Old School! 

Q

[Harry]

Julius Röntgen.

Symphony No. 6. "Rijck God, wie sal ic Claghen".

Symphony No. 19 "B.A.C.H."

Symphony No. 5, "Schnitter Tod".

Consensus Vocalis.
Netherlands SO, David Porcelijn.

In principle I love most of the music Röntgen composed, but I am non to keen on the vocal contributions in the 6th symphony. The first 9 minutes of this work is fabulously orchestrated, but as soon as the wailing of Consensus Vocalis starts, its over and closed for me. The Tenor solo in the 5th is also a bone of contention, I must admit that I am always slightly puzzled why composers think its necessary to ruin a perfect piece of orchestral music.  But that's very personal. So fine disc, good performance and sound, (Stephan Rey).

[Irons]

Encouraged by discussion on the vinyl thread.
Nystroem's Sinfonia del Mare (Stockholm RSO/Westerberg):

First listen planned this evening.

[Traverso]

Memorandum XXI

CD 1

Praetorius-Dowland-Holborne-Palestrina-Desprez-Byrd-Bull and others...

[Harry]

Felix Woyrsch.

Ouvertüre zu Shakespeare' s Hamlet.
Symphony No. 2 in C major.

Oldenburgisches Staatsorchester, Thomas Dorsch

Felix Woyrsch is a magnificent composer.

[Mirror Image]

Dutilleux
Ainsi la nuit
Quatuor sine nomine

[Todd]

[Traverso]

Scarlatti

CD 15

Sonatas KK 230-243

[Carlo Gesualdo]

Capilla Cordina dir. Aléjandro Planchart it's one of there best Jacob Obrecht..

Love this ensemble true master of excellence , talent , skill
Ever and after they remain solid even if this ensemble  old there aim was

honest and passionate

[steve ridgway]

Rainer Riehn - Chants De Maldoror, 1970.

[Que]

Singing from a bygone era:

   

Q

[bhodges]

Rainer Riehn - Chants De Maldoror, 1970.

Comments? I recall this avant garde series with such affection, and still have a few of the original LPs. But am not familiar with this one at all (nor with the composer).

--Bruce

[steve ridgway]

Comments? I recall this avant garde series with such affection, and still have a few of the original LPs. But am not familiar with this one at all (nor with the composer).

Electroacoustic scraping, buzzing, echoing, static and so on, quite harsh in places but I'm finding it absorbingly atmospheric. He doesn't seem to have produced much music - Soundohm says "Between 1965 and 1971, Riehn was a student with Gottfried Michael Koenig at the Institute of Sonology in Utrecht where he realised a number of electronic pieces of which only one, "Chants de Maldoror", was released on Deutsche Grammophon in 1970".

I found it in the Avant Garde Project - Download page

[JBS]

That looks fun. I'm avoiding buying any more music now, there's plenty of free stuff I can explore.

Now playing Peter Schat - Signalement.

Be warned if you ever do go looking for it: it's OOP, has an excellent selection of 20th century music, and is priced accordingly.

[André]

Second listening today.

No 5 (1918) is certainly a highlight of the series, with beautiful themes, superb atmosphere and an excellent balance between moods - both within movements and in its overall structure. Yesterday I listened to the 4th symphony and was bowled over by its first two movements. In contrast the finale - the symphony is in 3 movements - struck me as perfunctory, almost superfluous (I can understand why Schubert left his b minor symphony unfinished. What more could be said after two perfect, almost supernatural movements?). That is not the case with the 5th symphony (in 4 movements) where the inventiveness and artistry of the last two movements perfectly complement the aching beauty and breadth of the first two. A masterpiece IMO.

The 12th from 1932 is in 3 movements - Myaskovsky constantly alternated formats. It is resolutely folk-based in its thematic armoury. Have the composer's style or ideas evolved in the intervening years ? Not really. The 5th was written at the end of WWI. The 5th as Stalin's grip on political, social, cultural institutions was becoming absolute. The same kind of oppressiveness, uneasy joy, tragedy, longing recurs throughout, year after year, symphony after symphony. Among the first 14, only one is in a major key. That's a lot of music in a minor key ! And yet a sense of beauty emerges that keeps the ear not just interested, but wanting more of the stuff. Myaskovsky's relish for life (even a hard, uneasy one) is evident throughout this 12th symphony.

Sometimes Myskovsky sounds like a precursor of Pettersson, sometimes like a reincarnation of Tchaikovsky, Glazunov or Mussorgsky. The atmosphere of Act III from Tristan und Isolde or that of Act II from Siegfried suffuse the more somber, aching moments. Russian folk songs often break into the mix. Rather curiously, I don't detect any hint of Prokofiev. And yet both composers were lifelong friends from their early days in the St Petersburg Conservatory. They often worked together, swapping musical ideas. A number of Prokofiev works owe their title to Myaskovsky. Listening to Myaskovsky is like a journey into russian culture, its soil, its soul, its people.