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[Symphonic Addict]

Lajtha's Piano Quintet "Dramma per musica"

According to the booklet notes, this is his first surviving chamber work (1922). A quite complex and fascinating work this is. Dramma per musica sounds quite apt to describe it.

[Que]

Morning listening:



http://www.musica-dei-donum.org/cd_reviews/Enchiriadis_EN2029.html

[Florestan]

The Melos Quartet set is really good.  I like the Auryn Q set, but I guess I should have mentioned that they were an acquired taste!  Oh well I think you already ordered it when I initially commented.

Yes, I forgot about the Auryn. 

Did Melos record the complete things? I have only their late quartets set.

[Madiel]

Haydn, Piano trio no.6 (Hob. XV:40)



Charming as heck.

[Biffo]

Mozart: Piano Concerto No 6 in B flat major, K 238 - English Chamber Orchestra with Daniel Barenboim conductor and soloist

[Madiel]

Pejacevic, Piano Quintet op.40



I think this might have been the last Pejacevic work I streamed before deciding to spring for some purchases (which then took over 10 weeks to get here). But I'm not certain and have no particular memory, so it certainly feels like a first listen. And the first work I'm listening to from those purchases now that they've arrived.

[Papy Oli]

Good morning all,

Starting this new week with a new French composer to explore. D'Indy.

[aligreto]

Ohki composed the 8-movement symphonic fantasy To the Hiroshima Panels in 1953. It was later renamed Symphony no 5 'Hiroshima'. Rather similar to Mussorgsky's Pictures, it is a musical portrayal of the Marukis' first 6 Panels, painted between 1950 and 1982. At the time Ohki composed the symphony, the Panels were still a work in progress. They now number 15 and are on display at the Maruki Museum for Pictures of Atomic Bomb, Higashimatsuyama-shi, Saitama, Japan. Here is one of them, Fire, painted in 1950. Ohki used it for the 3rd movement of his symphony:



One can sense the kind of connection between earth and heaven, humanity and metaphysical familiar from the paintings of William Blake. Or a japanese version of Guernica. Ohki's music is not descriptive of the bombing itself, rather the effects on the people in the aftermath, once the blinding flash and deafening roar had given way to fire, death and the procession of ghosts (title of the second movement).

It is a powerful work, very bleak of course, evocative in its very restraint.

An intriguing post. I may well investigate that work.

[Madiel]

Finishing off this album.



Nocturne no.5, followed by 4 songs (not presented as part of opuses or cycles like the rest of the disc).

[Stürmisch Bewegt]

It's French Baroque Week chez Stürmisch, beginning with "the greatest man who ever was in all things pertaining to music," Jean-Baptiste Lully (Marin Marais in a dedication to the master, an object lesson in exercising care using that adjective - I'd much prefer not to use it at all, frankly, but certainly handy when currying favor). 

[The new erato]

Stunning playing.

[Karl Henning]

LvB en fa:

Symphony № 6, « Pastorale » Op. 68
Symphony № 8 Op. 93
NY Phil
Lenny

[Mandryka]

Now streaming on Qobuz.

[Traverso]

Schubert

String Quartets  1-2 & 3
Quartettsatz



I agree with Que that the recordings with the leiziger Quartet lacks some Viennese touch and sound a bit academical.I frankly never listen to these recordings.
This is the complete set with the Melos Quartet wich sounds still very fine.
The Diogenes Quartet recordings are also very fine.
In the past I liked also the collegium Aureum chamber quartet recordings,I do not have their recordings anymore but I would like to have them again.

[aligreto]

Beethoven: Symphony No. 4 [Morris]





This is a wonderful, powerful effort from the LSO. It has great presence.

[aligreto]

Schubert

String Quartets  1-2 & 3
Quartettsatz



I agree with Que that the recordings with the leiziger Quartet lacks some Viennese touch and sound a bit academical.I frankly never listen to these recordings.
This is the complete set with the Melos Quartet wich sounds still very fine.
The Diogenes Quartet recordings are also very fine.
In the past I liked also the collegium Aureum chamber quartet recordings,I do not have their recordings anymore but I would like to have them again.

Wonderful music.
I presume that the collegium Aureum chamber quartet recordings were on LP.

[Traverso]

Wonderful music.
I presume that the collegium Aureum chamber quartet recordings were on LP.

That's right Fergus,I have only found a CD  release from their "Forellen Quinetet" 

[aligreto]

That's right Fergus,I have only found a CD  release from their "Forellen Quinetet" 

Cheers Jan. Collegium Aureum had a great sound. I always liked them.

[Mirror Image]

NP: Ives Central Park in the Dark (Sinclair)



Another gem from Ives. It still baffles me why he's not performed in the concert halls as much as he should. The guy was a pioneer and one of the first great American composers. Some people would argue he is the most important American composer --- I certainly wouldn't disagree with that assertion.

Here's an interesting quote from Schoenberg about Ives:

"There is a great Man living in this country — a composer. He has solved the problem how to preserve one's self and to learn. He responds to negligence by contempt. He is not forced to accept praise or blame. His name is Ives."

[SonicMan46]

Saw the Albert de Rippe (c.1500-1551) recording w/ Hopkinson Smith lauded in some previous posts, so I headed over to Spotify and being a BIG H. Smith fan, put together the playlist shown below - 5+ hrs of music - will be listening the rest of the morning and half the afternoon!  Dave

P.S. on my den speakers using the Spotify app on my Apple TV (although the app is available on most of my HDTV connected devices) - a plethora of choices!