What are you listening 2 now?

[aukhawk]

  A remarkable coincidence! It's not exactly a popular composition. However, I'm pretty sure you are not listening to an 'older' version--the Serkin is 1975, and according to Amazon, the one you are playing is 1996. Anyway, I'm curious to do a comparison. I'll look for a copy...

Yeah I meant 'older' in the general sense of 'not this century' - though on checking my collection I do also have Austbo (1994) and Loriod (like Serkin, 1975)  - so Joanna MacGregor is more of a spring chicken than I thought!   
As to not popular, I think Vingt Regards, at least the quieter movements, is Messiaen's easiest piano music to listen to (disregarding the early Preludes which are more like Debussy than Messiaen) - certainly easier going than the more commonly-recorded Oiseaux.   Though there are oiseaux hidden in the Vingt Regards too - check out No.5.

[Irons]

Hello guys I fell neck deep into Peter Warlock Music, was so impress by the download of Warlock Choral Music on naxos that I purchase it in CD media and... that feel morally obligated to by an on 60'' vinyl of Warlock Choral ,chanson , instrumental ,all does it's is dark choral music I favor more, that is pitch dark.

Any fan of Peter Warlock here?
I am a born again fan now, what a strange, odd, creepy kinda fellow ? hey ?

I am looking for more  dark choral work aala  Peter Warlock other composers, that I would dig in choral work of the early past century?

Sorry, not choral but definitely creepy and dark. More importantly a masterpiece, anybody with the slightest of interest in Warlock must hear "The Curlew". My favourite recording (LP) is an old Argo - like it so much to take the trouble of visiting the place of the cover image! More plentiful on both vinyl and CD is an excellent EMI recording featuring Ian Partridge.

[Irons]

Shostakovich: 11th Symphony.

Recorded in Jesse Jones Auditorium, Houston, Texas, April 9-12 1958.

[Karl Henning]

Two questions
Is the music worth getting?
What the heck is a heckelphone?

Kind of a bass oboe (i.e., an octave lower)


i'd call both the cl quartet and the Sonara for four horns worthwhile

[SonicMan46]

Well, two recent acquisitions below - newest volume of the Dussek series & a second go-through of the Schumann box w/ Ciocarlie.  Dave

Dussek, Jan - Sonatas, V. 9 w/ Bart van Oort & Petra Somlai and Schumann, Robert - Piano Works w/ Dana Ciocarlie

 

[Todd]

It's not exactly a popular composition.

As to not popular, I think Vingt Regards

I'd say it's fairly popular, and very popular for a post-war piano work.  There are at least 28 complete recorded versions, which I believe numbers more than complete sets of Oiseaux.  It's definitely Messiaen's finest piano compositions, and in the right frame of mind, easy to get into.

[Traverso]

Beethoven

Diabelli Variations

[Mirror Image]

Kind of a bass oboe (i.e., an octave lower)


i'd call both the cl quartet and the Sonara for four horns worthwhile

Have you heard the Trio for Viola, Heckelphone and Piano, Karl? This one is worth your time as well. It's early Hindemith, but quite a fun piece.

[Karl Henning]

Have you heard the Trio for Viola, Heckelphone and Piano, Karl? This one is worth your time as well. It's early Hindemith, but quite a fun piece.

Haven't heard it (yet?) but I do think any Hindemith chamber music with viola worth looking into.

[steve ridgway]

Varèse - Arcana.

[Benji]

Varèse - Arcana.

That'll wake you up! Also, the dead. 😄 I'm having a listen as well now, it's been a while.

[springrite]

Shostakovich: 11th Symphony.

Recorded in Jesse Jones Auditorium, Houston, Texas, April 9-12 1958.

Still my favorite version.

[steve ridgway]

That'll wake you up! Also, the dead. 😄 I'm having a listen as well now, it's been a while.

Oh the score includes a heckelphone.

[Traverso]

Beethoven

piano sonata op.111 No.32

Friedrich Gulda

Wintermeditation

[SonicMan46]

Kind of a bass oboe (i.e., an octave lower)


i'd call both the cl quartet and the Sonara for four horns worthwhile

Well, I own a LOT of Hindemith's Chamber Works and was surprised that I could not find the work for hecklephone (which I believe a tenor sax can be substituted?) - short quote below from a much longer Wiki article, plus a pic.  Looking on Spotify, I found the Centaur album shown w/ the 'hecklephone' played by Arthur Grossman - will take a listen shortly; invented by Wilhelm Heckle, hence the name.  Dave

The heckelphone is a double reed instrument of the oboe family, but with a wider bore and hence a heavier and more penetrating tone. It is pitched an octave below the oboe and furnished with an additional semitone taking its range down to A. (Source)

 

[Karl Henning]

Well, I own a LOT of Hindemith's Chamber Works and was surprised that I could not find the work for hecklephone (which I believe a tenor sax can be substituted?)Dave

Aye, Dave.  There are perforce practical substitutions for several obscure/archaic wind instruments.

[vandermolen]

Sorry, not choral but definitely creepy and dark. More importantly a masterpiece, anybody with the slightest of interest in Warlock must hear "The Curlew". My favourite recording (LP) is an old Argo - like it so much to take the trouble of visiting the place of the cover image! More plentiful on both vinyl and CD is an excellent EMI recording featuring Ian Partridge.

+1
The Curlew is a masterpiece, especially in that Ian Partridge recording.

[vandermolen]

Still my favorite version.

Coincidentally I came across it on my shelf today - must give it another listen to.

[Karl Henning]

CD 16

"Papa"
Symphonies nos. 52 in c minor, 42 in D
DRD
Stuttgarters

The highlight of today's listening is the Andantino e cantabile from the D Major symphony

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

[Traverso]

Delius

Irmelin Prelude
Concerto for Violin
A Song of Summer
A Late Lark
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra