Topic: What are you listening 2 now?

[Traverso]

Delius

CD 1

Start listening today with this promising set,thank you again Jeffrey to make  this possible.

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Delius

CD 1

Start listening today with this promising set,thank you again Jeffrey to make  this possible.

Oh, it arrived Jan! I'm so pleased.

Now playing: Lutoslawski: Concerto for Orchestra
What a great work this is - I now prefer it to the Bartok.
This seems like a classic recording (Rowicki, Nat. PO of Warsaw):

[Papy Oli]

Good afternoon all.

Continuing the Debussy Preludes with Book II today (Bavouzet).

["Harry"]

Maximilian Steinberg.

Violin Concerto, opus 37.
Symphony No. 4 "Turksib", opus 24.

Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Martin Yates.
Sergey Levitin, Violin.

Hat tip to Jeffrey for the recommendation.

Fine music in superb performances. The only quibble I have is that the violin is rather closely recorded, and my near field monitors do not like that a bit.

[Papy Oli]

Today I had the rare privilege of hearing Poulenc's music for the short film La Belle au bois dormant.

As best I can tell there is no commercial audio recording of the work. But incredibly the National Film and Sound Archive here in Canberra is one of 2 places in the world listed on WorldCat as having a copy of the film.

And they let me watch it. Twice.

Poulenc himself played harpsichord. There are also wind instruments (definitely clarinet and bassoon and fairly sure flute and oboe are the others), a harp and percussion (at least a xylophone and woodblock), though the 'credits' don't give all that detail for the rest of the instruments.

About 6 minutes long, continuous score throughout the film, which is stop motion puppetry. It's basically an advertisement for a wine company, where the prince is told that wine will revive sleeping beauty ("l'âme du vin reveillera la belle"). She wakes, everyone has champagne and dances.

Nice one !

When i did a search for l'âme du vin, I found this page that gives a brief description (in French) of the movie under that name. The side note confirms Poulenc on harpsichord so I assume this is the right one.

Page 18 of that PDF :

http://www.cineressources.net/consultationPdf/web/o000/589.pdf

There's also a couple of pages about it in this google book, page 234-236 (again, in French).

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=KsUGv8-TVGcC&pg=PA235&lpg=PA235&dq=L%27ame+du+vin+Poulenc&source=bl&ots=1MC9x3o_gk&sig=ACfU3U3NRz8vxWFq_8tWlAPkGEXefT4wVg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjA0oKLo7zuAhW-TxUIHSQcBukQ6AEwEnoECAgQAg#v=onepage&q=L'ame%20du%20vin%20Poulenc&f=false

Whoever wrote the article quoted in that book funnily enough also mentions "On a bissé le film", meaning the audience had asked to see it a second time and they did ! 

[Biffo]

Beethoven: Symphony No 5 in C minor - Halle Orchestra conducted by John Barbirolli - recorded in 1947. The Andante con moto seems rather plodding by modern standards but otherwise a dynamic performance

[Papy Oli]

Fauré - Piano quartet No.1 (Rogé, Ysaÿe Qt)

[k a rl h e nn i ng]

Souvenir de Florence from here:

As the original sextet esp., one of my top Tchaikovsky scores.

[k a rl h e nn i ng]

Today I had the rare privilege of hearing Poulenc's music for the short film La Belle au bois dormant.

As best I can tell there is no commercial audio recording of the work. But incredibly the National Film and Sound Archive here in Canberra is one of 2 places in the world listed on WorldCat as having a copy of the film.

And they let me watch it. Twice.

Poulenc himself played harpsichord. There are also wind instruments (definitely clarinet and bassoon and fairly sure flute and oboe are the others), a harp and percussion (at least a xylophone and woodblock), though the 'credits' don't give all that detail for the rest of the instruments.

About 6 minutes long, continuous score throughout the film, which is stop motion puppetry. It's basically an advertisement for a wine company, where the prince is told that wine will revive sleeping beauty ("l'âme du vin reveillera la belle"). She wakes, everyone has champagne and dances.

Wonderful.

[DavidW]

Time for more chamber music!

You know Saints Saens clarinet sonata is quite lovely.  Never heard it before.

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Finn Mortenson.
Symphony, opus 5.

Stavanger SO, Peter Szilvay.

One of the finest discoveries I made in 2020. A magnificent work, in a superb performance, never mind the duration of it. It's short but a powerful statement. I love this symphony to bits, and cannot stop playing it.
State of the Art sound. I take my hat off for the engineer, Jim Anderson. Quite a feat

I discovered that excellent recording thanks to you.

Now playing: VW Piano Quintet

[OrchestralNut]

As the original sextet esp., one of my top Tchaikovsky scores.

Same here, Karl.

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Maximilian Steinberg.

Violin Concerto, opus 37.
Symphony No. 4 "Turksib", opus 24.

Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Martin Yates.
Sergey Levitin, Violin.

Hat tip to Jeffrey for the recommendation.

Fine music in superb performances. The only quibble I have is that the violin is rather closely recorded, and my near field monitors do not like that a bit.

Thanks Harry. I hardly know the VC but the Symphony (poorly reviewed in Gramophone) has given me great pleasure. Your posting has encouraged me to listen to it again.

[Papy Oli]

Fauré - Piano quartet No.1, again.

This time, Domus.

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NP: Ginastera Concerto for Strings, Op. 33 (Candida Thompson/Amsterdam Sinfonietta)

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Delius

CD 1

Start listening today with this promising set,thank you again Jeffrey to make  this possible.

Very nice, Jan. Good to see you were able to get this set.

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Now playing: Lutoslawski: Concerto for Orchestra
What a great work this is - I now prefer it to the Bartok.
This seems like a classic recording (Rowicki, Nat. PO of Warsaw):

I bet that recording is excellent, Jeffrey. I’m quite the fan of Lutoslawski’s music. I hate to admit to this since Bartók is in my ‘Top 3’ favorite composers, but I never could quite come to appreciate his much-acclaimed Concerto for Orchestra, but I’m making better progress on it. The Boulez account with the New York Philharmonic is my go-to for this work. Anyway, I love Lutoslawski’s work of the same title. It’s interesting that Lutoslawski didn’t think much of this work when asked about it. I think it perhaps represented a bad time for him creatively as he had to make artistic compromises in order not to get in trouble with the Soviet authorities. Well, regardless, I think it’s a fabulous work.

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NP: Lutoslawski Concerto for Orchestra (Lutoslawski/Polish National RSO)

[Todd]

[DavidW]

Some atmospheric music for a grey morning...