What are you listening 2 now?

[Mirror Image]

I barely know some of their works. I still need to venture further with these composers.

I've kind of stepped back from a lot of the more avant-garde post-war composers and have been getting more back to my roots lately and really what drew me into classical music in the first place, but don't hesitate to try Takemitsu's Requiem for Strings if you haven't already. I believe it was this work that impressed Stravinsky and this was the work that launched his international career.

[Mirror Image]

Last work of the night:

Mussorgsky
Songs and Dances of Death (Arr. D. Shostakovich)
Dmitri Hvorostovsky, baritone
St Petersburg PO
Temirkanov

[steve ridgway]

Yesterday - first listen to this Giacinto Scelsi album.



Originally released as Musique Sacrée, I enjoyed the organ pieces In Nomine Lucis I & V and the mixed choral Tre Canti Sacri, both in a similar area to Ligeti, but found the solo vocal Three Latin Prayers and male choral Antifona surprisingly traditional for Scelsi and too plain for my tastes. Fortunately this re-release adds Triphon for cello and Pranam II for ensemble so leaving me with a worthwhile 45 minutes.

[Irons]

Yes, those recordings have gone out-of-sight price-wise. Thankfully, I bought them years ago, but I'm still kicking myself for not buying the SQ set, so the search continues.

Saygun and Elgar are odd bedfellows but I have this on order. Hopefully arrive today.

[Irons]

I really fancied this after reading comments of respected GMG posters but then accounted a brick wall! Being "old school" don't do downloads. I am shocked at the price of available copies of this particular CD which are too rich for me.


There is also this, still available at reasonable price (e.g. GBP 11.55 delivered from Amazon UK) :



Some years ago I saw Onay play the 1st PC at Cadogan Hall in London (don't remember which orchestra/conductor) and thought it terrific.  She was a pupil of Saygun and the dedicatee of his 2nd PC.

Cheers!

[Harry]

Marin Marais.

Deuxieme Livre de Pieces de Viole.
Pieces a une et deux Violes Premier Livre (1686)
CD V.

Suite in Re majeur. Continuo: Theorbo.
Suite in Re mineur. Continuo: Guitar, Theorbo, Harpsichord, Bass viol.

Francois Joubert Caillet, Bass viol.
L'Acheron.

For morning music this goes well. And apart from that it is the first time that I so thoroughly enjoy the music by Marais, due to the excellent performances. Apart from Que no one on GMG seems to think so.

[Harry]

Vincent d'Indy.
Orchestral Works, Volume V.
Louis Lortie, Piano.
Iceland SO, Rumon Gamba.

What a rich dish d'Indy's music is offering. Forgive me for partaking in excess of this musical meal. My early lunch, with a delicious Pinot Gris from Slovenia.

[aligreto]

Beethoven: String Quartets [Gewandhaus Quartet]





String Quartet Op. 131

I find this to be a wonderful and somewhat quirky work among Beethoven late string quartets. The Gewandhaus Quartet are suitably solemn in the relevant places providing the requisite gravitas but they are also wonderfully light and fleet of touch when required to be. This is a very engaging presentation which is thoroughly enjoyable.

[Madiel]

Currently:

[Madiel]

Earlier today, the rejected arias from Mitridate



Very interesting because the rejection wasn't by Mozart, it was by the singing stars in Milan. At the time it was very much the prerogative of singers to demand an aria tailored to their own desires, especially when dealing with a little-known teenage boy. So there a number of instances where they didn't want what Mozart had composed before meeting them and he had to write another version of the aria.

But the original ones have been preserved. The author of the liner notes seems to think that Mozart's own ideas are often better than what the singers required of him.

[vandermolen]

Am still greatly enjoying this disc:

[Harry]

Am still greatly enjoying this disc:

Jeffrey my friend your inbox is FULL

[Iota]

I guess it's there because Josquin composed it as a lament on the death of Ockeghem.

Ah right thanks, makes sense now.


Here:



Britten: Cantata Academica

Vyvyan, Pears, London Symphony Orchestra, George Malcolm

An excellent work that doesn't seem to get much of an airing, despite having some really great passages and some rather moving ones. And coloured by that spartan yearning which for me is a magnetic and highly distinctive quality in Britten's armoury.

[vandermolen]

Why I took too long to give this work a proper listen! Simply amazing. One of the best choral works I've heard lately. From the very beginning with the tolling bells you know that what is to come is going to be very affecting and special, and effectively it was so. Both the choral and orchestral writing convey such beauty in a way that leave you moved and touched. Jeffrey was right about the greatness of this sublime masterpiece. It's that good. Very recommended.

Told you so, Cesar! 
And I see that VonStupp is an admirer as well.

[Harry]

Uuno Klami.

Orchestral Works,
Helsinki PO, John Storgards.


What a wonderful disc this.

[VonStupp]

Edward Elgar
Symphony 1 in A-flat Major, op. 55
Symphony 2 in E-flat Major, op. 63
Cockaigne Overture, op. 40
Alassio Overture, op. 50
LPO - Sir Georg Solti

For today:

I have both Solti and Barbirolli on hand, extremely different readings. For now, I am going to spend the first part of the day with Solti's homage to Elgar's recordings of his symphonies.

[Harry]

Edward Elgar
Symphony 1 in A-flat Major, op. 55
Symphony 2 in E-flat Major, op. 63
Cockaigne Overture, op. 40
Alassio Overture, op. 50
LPO - Sir Georg Solti

For today:

I have both Solti and Barbirolli on hand, extremely different readings. For now, I am going to spend the first part of the day with Solti's homage to Elgar's recordings of his symphonies.

I consider the Solti recordings as very good!

[Madiel]

JEFFREY MY FRIEND YOUR INBOX IS FULL, AND I CANNOT SEND YOU A REPLY ON YOUR PM, SO CLEAN YOUR TRASHBIN

THERE'S NO NEED TO SHOUT AFTER ONLY 20 MINUTES.

[Traverso]

Mussorgsky

A Night on a Bare Mountain

Rimsky Korsakov

Sheherezade

Stravinsky

Le Chant du Rossignol

[Madiel]

Let me be the judge of that, if you please

Seriously? You never allow anyone else to have an opinion on anything. And unfortunately the quote marks in your name literally make you impossible to ignore.