What are you listening 2 now?

[Karl Henning]

One of the better! (performances, there are about 20 around). 

Wow! I should never have guessed that there are so many!

[Karl Henning]

Good morning to all, let's hope the site will work fluently today

Music in Europe at the time of the Renaissance. CD IV.

France: Secular vocal music, part I.
France: Instrumental music. part II.

As interesting as the previous discs, but I take exception with the performances by Ensemble Clement Janequin, led by Dominique Visse. That's a tiring experience, this aggressive way of declamation, and pushy way of singing. Never liked it, never will. The rest is quite good.

Goededag, mijn vriend!

[Karl Henning]

RVW
Symphony # 5

Both
LSO/Previn & Handley

[Harry]

Goededag, mijn vriend!

Een goede en gezonde dag, jou toegewenst Karl

[aligreto]

Stravinsky: Firebird Suite [Giulini]


   

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RVW
Symphony # 5

Both
LSO/Previn & Handley

Thumbs up, especially for the Previn recording. One of the best 5ths on record, IMHO.

[Papy Oli]

Revisiting Richard Arnell's 3rd symphony more attentively.

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[ritter]

Returning to an all-time favourite 

Igor Stravinsky conducts the Columbia Symphony Orchestra in his Pétrouchka. CD 2 of this set:

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"Elle avait une jambe en bois..." 

[Traverso]

Messiaen


Louis Thiry, who has died aged 84, was a brilliant French organist, blind from birth, best known for his enthusiastic interpretation of Olivier Messiaen's works, which he recorded  to great acclaim.

 

[André]

The chamber music arrangement Schönberg commissioned for his Society for Private Musical Performances in Vienna:

[aligreto]

Brahms: Two Rhapsodies Op. 79 [Argerich]

[amw]

Laurence Crane - new purchase which just arrived. This guy Crane's the real McCoy I think, in a Feldman/Cage x Webern sort of way.

It'll be a few years before I have enough cash to actually build an another timbre collection but based on the available recordings I know, mostly agree. His use of consonance might be offputting to some Cage/Feldman fans but I do find it refreshingly defamiliarised in most cases.

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Vaughan Williams: Symphony Nos. 4, 5 & 6

From the following recordings:

[aligreto]

Rossini String Sonatas Nos. 3 & 4





I really like this music and in particular the scoring/instrumentation.

[Harry]

Revisiting Richard Arnell's 3rd symphony more attentively.

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I am a great admirer of Arnell's music, and have almost all his orchestral works. Glad that you like his music too.

[Mandryka]

It'll be a few years before I have enough cash to actually build an another timbre collection but based on the available recordings I know, mostly agree. His use of consonance might be offputting to some Cage/Feldman fans but I do find it refreshingly defamiliarised in most cases.

Hard for me to understand what's going on (without being cynical) when the tonality isn't defamiliarised, from Spiegel im Spiegel to this

https://youtube.com/v/H4Bsw560XaA

[Traverso]

 Just finished listening to Messiaen, what can I say, it is so beautiful and it has such an impact on me that it fills me with a silence that reaches to another dimension, I am just happy.
Louis Thiry is a very gifted musician and I love his Messiaen recordings,
the recordings of Calliope sound very good

[amw]

Hard for me to understand what's going on (without being cynical) when the tonality isn't defamiliarised, from Spiegel im Spiegel to this

https://youtube.com/v/H4Bsw560XaA

If Cardew is any indication, it has something to do with trying to translate Maoist principles into musical aesthetics, but I have no idea if Skempton shares his mentors particular leanings or not. There is some literature out there about "British experimentalism" but I couldn't tell you where to find it tbh, it's never been a strong interest of mine.

Skempton transcends pastiche in Lento for sure, and maybe also in Rise Up My Love, but if you're not already into traditional tonality it's probably still hard to appreciate those. There's also the NMC disc of John White piano sonatas which are hard not to see as tongue in cheek commentaries on the "canon", and the Mode disc of Chris Newman piano sonatas which are similar but significantly less tongue in cheek and more surrealist (probably would appeal in the same way Crane does)

[Mandryka]

Just finished listening to Messiaen, what can I say, it is so beautiful and it has such an impact on me that it fills me with a silence that reaches to another dimension, I am just happy.
Louis Thiry is a very gifted musician and I love his Messiaen recordings,
the recordings of Calliope sound very good

Time for me to reassess this I think

https://www.youtube.com/v/Gj6xBBS2MFo

[Mandryka]

If Cardew is any indication, it has something to do with trying to translate Maoist principles into musical aesthetics, but I have no idea if Skempton shares his mentors particular leanings or not. There is some literature out there about "British experimentalism" but I couldn't tell you where to find it tbh, it's never been a strong interest of mine.

Skempton transcends pastiche in Lento for sure, and maybe also in Rise Up My Love, but if you're not already into traditional tonality it's probably still hard to appreciate those. There's also the NMC disc of John White piano sonatas which are hard not to see as tongue in cheek commentaries on the "canon", and the Mode disc of Chris Newman piano sonatas which are similar but significantly less tongue in cheek and more surrealist (probably would appeal in the same way Crane does)

There's a book on Cardew which I'd really like to read, but I'm resisting pressing the command button



I think the really interesting one (mention of Rise Up My Love made me think of it) for going beyond pastiche is Michael Finnissy, here. I really like it