What are you listening 2 now?

[Karl Henning]

Not quite so in Romanian: sistem (system, singular masculine) but problemă (problem, singular feminine), teoremă (theorem, singular feminine),  as a rule of thumb, any noun ending on a vocal is feminine.

But then again: sisteme (systems, plural feminine)*

* ie, the neutral gender: masculine for singular, feminine for plural --- quite common in Romanian, virtually unkown in any other Romance language.

Thanks.

[Karl Henning]

RVW Tuba Concerto

[Florestan]

Thanks.

For instance, clarinet in Romanian is neutral: un clarinet (a clarinet, singular, masculine) and două clarinete (two clarinets, plural, feminine ).

Well, cf. Brahms:'Fräulein Klarinette'. 

[vandermolen]

RVW Tuba Concerto

Great stuff Karl! Which recording?
The Fletcher/Previn is my favourite. It has a beautiful middle movement.

[Mirror Image]

I know this is not teh right thread but ---

If I like Wolf's Lieder, would I like Webern's as well? Which one of these would you recommend?

The recording on the left is quite good as it came as part of the DG Webern Complete set I snagged many years ago.

[Mirror Image]

When I am not doing my exploration of French works, I just make a conscious effort at the moment to revisit my purchases of 2019 & 2020...which were basically mostly British, as a result of what I explored during that particular period.

When I am done with the main bulk of Ravel, Debussy & Fauré (and a couple more names in that French list - Berlioz, Bizet & Boulez come to mind), I think I will move on to another project. I am thinking of listening to everything Russian on my shelves...maybe Scandinavian or Czech after that, just to get more familiarity with particular disregarded chunks my own collection.

American composers are pretty much a blind spot for me (bar one Copland CD and whatever is in the Bernstein boxes...listened to once sadly  ) I should maybe address that down the line too.

Sounds like a sensible plan to me, Olivier.

[Mirror Image]

Good evening, John & Andrei. I've been summoned...

Unfortunately, "fantasma" (ghost) is not the best example, as it's always a masculine noun. For a fantasma to be female, it would have to be specified. E.g. "un fantasma femenino", "los fantasmas femeninos", "el fantasma de una  mujer" (the ghost of a woman). Since the noun is masculine, adjectives related to it must  remain masculine: el fantasma de la mujer era blanco.

Hope the above helps (I'm no linguist, so probably haven't explained it the best way  ).

BTW, I never paid much attention to that cover of the Enesco CD on Capriccio, but boy is it bad! 

Thanks for the clarification, Rafael. And a fine evening to you, sir.

[Papy Oli]

A little gem of an album to wrap up the night:

[Mirror Image]

NP: Janáček Elegie na smrt dcery Olgy (James Wood et. al.)

[Todd]

An exceptionally fine disc of Lutoslawski's music, in SOTA sound.

[DavidW]

[Symphonic Addict]

Thanks for this, Cesar. I was not aware of this particular program - very interesting indeed. 

You are welcome, André!

[Symphonic Addict]

Deserving a seat at the table*, IMNSHO : Joseph Marx. 

*Even if it's only the desert table...

A big fan of Marx here, especially of his lush and colourful tone poems.

[André]

You are welcome, André!

I ordered it this morning  .

[Symphonic Addict]

Piano Quartet in E minor by Max d'Ollone. Very beautiful work. I detected some traces of Fauré in several passages.




Piano Quartet by Copland. This was quite interesting. A rhytmically substantial movement sandwiched between two slow movements of some profoundity.




It also includes a substantial Ballade for flute and orchestra which is not showed on the cover art. A solid programme. The Harp Concerto was really special.

[Symphonic Addict]

I ordered it this morning  .

Good to know!

[André]

A 2 disc set of orchestral and choral music from the 'Fenby years' (1928-1934). Eric Fenby was the blind and impotent conductor's amanueansis, taking down on paper Delius' dictation. Not much was achieved in that period in terms of new music, but Fenby helped rekindle the composer's interest in unfinished works and projects, as well as recomposing or transcribing previous works. The big ticket items here are Songs of Farewell, Idyll, A Song of Summer and Cynara. The smaller items are welcome both as independent works, but also as reminders of what a fantastic mood painter Delius was. Great soloists, fine performances and recorded sound.

[Mirror Image]

NP: Bacewicz Symphony for Strings (Smolij et. al.)



A fantastic and substantial work for string orchestra. I could hear this doing well on a program of string orchestra works from Bartók, Martinů, Dvořák, etc.

[Todd]

[Karl Henning]

Great stuff Karl! Which recording?
The Fletcher/Previn is my favourite. It has a beautiful middle movement.

The Fletcher/Previn is what I've got, Jeffrey!
Now:

https://www.youtube.com/v/KFBIKAw1GZs