What are you listening 2 now?

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Yeah, I think it's a good disc --- there's much to admire about the music.

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I will check out the disc.

[Karl Henning]

Maiden-Listen Mondays!

CD 11

Richard Rodney Bennett Calendar for chamber ensemble

Gordon Crosse Concerto da camera for solo violin, wind and percussion

Birtwistle Tragœdia

Maxwell Davies Leopardi Fragments

[Mirror Image]

I will check out the disc.

Sounds like a good plan to me, Dry Brett.

[Mirror Image]

NP:

Prokofiev
Summer Night, Op. 123
Philharmonia Orchestra
Järvi

[Mirror Image]

NP:

Martinů
String Quartet No. 1, H. 117
Zemlinsky Quartet

[vandermolen]

NP:

Prokofiev
Summer Night, Op. 123
Philharmonia Orchestra
Järvi

That Prokofiev CD is one of my favourites (all three works) of that Chandos series.

Now playing:
Rachmaninov 'The Bells' BBC Nat. Orch. of Wales (Otaka) from the 2019 Proms (came with BBC Music Magazine, Aug. 2021)
The coupling is very interesting as well - Mussorgsky's 'Pictures at  an Exhibition' orchestrated by Sir Henry Wood. This is my favourite orchestration - less sophisticated than Ravel's version but IMO, more authentically 'Russian' and closer to the spirit of the original. 'The Great Gate of Kiev/Kyiv' is especially impressive in Wood's orchestration and the audience clearly enjoyed it. From my point of view I was also very interested in the feature of the composer Ruth Gipps in the magazine.

[Madiel]

I know it sounds far fetched, but my main reasoning as to why I feel this way is because in my mind a collector is someone who buys things that are going to bring them some kind of financial gain or they display something in their house like it's some kind of trophy. I never looked at music this way --- it's something that I'm incredibly passionate about and love, but I never thought "Oh, I'm going to sell this on eBay" or "I'm definitely going to get some serious bids on this item". I hope it doesn't come to a point where I have to sale my CDs, because I feel that even though they are material things, they make up a part of my own soul. I have no idea if I'm making any kind of sense here, but I won't say anything further as I've already typed too much.

Interesting. In my mind I wouldn't make that association. If anything I'd make the opposite association, because a collector wouldn't necessarily be interested in DIVESTING.

[Irons]

Elgar: 2nd Symphony.



Cards on table, I did not enjoy this performance apart from the notable exception of the second movement. Elgar markings or not I found it not only rushed, but worse, perfunctory. In the marvellous second movement - always brings a lump to my throat - Solti proves himself a true Elgarian. This does not make up for the other three though.

[Harry]

Starting the morning with CD IV of this set.

Sergei Bortkiewicz.
Piano music.

Ballade opus 42.
Elegie, opus 46.
Trois Valses, opus 27.
Kindheit, opus 39.
Quatre Pieces, opus 10.
Lyrica Nova, opus 59.

Klaas Trapman, Piano.

What was really a sound shock for me, is the fact that they used on CD 3,4,5 a Yamaha CF III S instrument, Coming from a Bösendorfer Concert Grand 280, is something I take issue with. It is a world of difference and not for the better. Ughhh choices people make!

[Que]

Morning listening on Spotify - a Mandryka recommendation:



I guess we should read the title as psalms and motets performed in Renaissance Switzerland.
Since Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck and Claude Goudimel, Ducth and French respectively, take the lion's share of this album of music from the Reformation.

The perfomances are lively and engaging, excellent.

[Tsaraslondon]

Classic recordings of the Brahms Piano Concertos.

[vandermolen]

Elgar: 2nd Symphony.



Cards on table, I did not enjoy this performance apart from the notable exception of the second movement. Elgar markings or not I found it not only rushed, but worse, perfunctory. In the marvellous second movement - always brings a lump to my throat - Solti proves himself a true Elgarian. This does not make up for the other three though.

Interesting Lol. I'm not a great admirer of Solti but enjoy those Elgar recordings, which I have on CD. I much prefer your LP cover however.

TD
Honegger: Symphony No.4, 'Deliciae Basilensis' - this time with Michel Plasson conducting the Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse:

[vers la flamme]

George Frederick McKay: Evocation Symphony, or "Symphony for Seattle". John McLaughlin Williams, National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine

First listen. Sounds like good stuff.

[Madiel]

Earlier today, Tubin Symphony No.10, twice.



I decided I'd compare at least some of the Jarvi and Volmer versions directly. Volmer felt smoother and more polished... which I'm not sure was a good thing in this music. I think I preferred having a little bit of an edge.

[Harry]

Interesting Lol. I'm not a great admirer of Solti but enjoy those Elgar recordings, which I have on CD. I much prefer your LP cover however.

Yep me too!

[vandermolen]

George Frederick McKay: Evocation Symphony, or "Symphony for Seattle". John McLaughlin Williams, National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine

First listen. Sounds like good stuff.

I enjoy that CD.

Now playing:
Parry: Symphony No.5

[Harry]

Marin Marais.

Pieces a une et Deux Violes Premier Livre. (1686)
CD II.
Suite in la Majeur, re Mineur, and a Fantaisie en si Mineur.

Francois Joubert Caillet, Bass Viol.
L'Acheron.

[Harry]

Sergei Bortkiewicz.

Piano music.
CD V.

Lamentations et Consolations, opus 17.
Marionetten, opus 54.
Troix Morceaux, opus 12.


Klaas Trapman, Piano.

The opus 17 is really very good!

[Brahmsian]

I know it sounds far fetched, but my main reasoning as to why I feel this way is because in my mind a collector is someone who buys things that are going to bring them some kind of financial gain or they display something in their house like it's some kind of trophy. I never looked at music this way --- it's something that I'm incredibly passionate about and love, but I never thought "Oh, I'm going to sell this on eBay" or "I'm definitely going to get some serious bids on this item". I hope it doesn't come to a point where I have to sale my CDs, because I feel that even though they are material things, they make up a part of my own soul. I have no idea if I'm making any kind of sense here, but I won't say anything further as I've already typed too much.

If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck?

John, I hate to break it to you, but you ARE a collector. If someone looks at the word collector in the dictionary, your picture is there. 

[Traverso]

Enescu & Liszt