What are you listening 2 now?

[André]

Theresienmesse.

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Alfred Schnittke: The End of St. Petersburg Suite. Frank Stroebel, RSO Berlin

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Alfred Schnittke: The End of St. Petersburg Suite. Frank Stroebel, RSO Berlin

As much as you listen to this recording, it just baffles me why you won't go for the other Strobel recordings of Schnittke's film music.

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As much as you listen to this recording, it just baffles me why you won't go for the other Strobel recordings of Schnittke's film music.

Hey, man, I'm not made of money. I'm sure I'll get around to it eventually.

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Hey, man, I'm not made of money. I'm sure I'll get around to it eventually.

Okay, man... 

The box set is going for $22 right now on Amazon. Not bad for 4 CDs, especially ones that were initially released as hybrid SACDs with much higher asking price individually.

[TheGSMoeller]

Still one of my favorite pieces of music. If you're familiar with Preisner's film scores then you know what to expect as it can seem like an extended version of some of that music, however it is definitely more of a complete work rather than fragments of a score pieced together.

[vers la flamme]

Okay, man... 

I'm not ignoring your fervent recommendations, I promise Just have other financial priorities at the moment outside of music. I'm sure those Capriccio recordings are every bit as good as this CPO disc.

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I'm not ignoring your fervent recommendations, I promise Just have other financial priorities at the moment outside of music. I'm sure those Capriccio recordings are every bit as good as this CPO disc.

Oh, I know. I completely understand the need to prioritize.

[Mirror Image]

Now playing this new acquisition:

Penderecki
A Sea of Dreams Did Breathe on Me
Agnieszka Rehlis (mezzo-soprano), Izabela Matula (soprano), Leszek Skrla (baritone)
Podlasie Opera and Philharmonic Orchestra & Choir
Wojciech Rajski

[classicalgeek]

More delightful Poulenc chamber music (and music for two pianists):



I particularly love the sonata for clarinet and bassoon!

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Well hello there fellows pssit come closer , ya closer here a cyber hugs a greeting non covid 19 related, a friendly warm huge respect for yeah, message for Ya,

I discovers some while a go had a new pasion for classical guitar of ancient lore Europe, I am an ancient soul remember, So something formidable occur here Jacob Arcadelt  Lyricord brew, that not all , Alejandro Planchart as director of Ensemble top gun ensemble Capella Cordina LP,  to be listen whit a passionated hear I swear it's that great :Missa Noe Noe IN LP +secular work.
LP like this bring confort great joy sound implacable, and Alejandro Planchart remain the greatest Venezuelan of all time for classical devotion, he a hero of mine and to Venezuelan's that respect themselves and to everyone!

Any nice stout beer with the recording? I will check some recordings by Alejandro Planchart. Have a nice week, D!

[JBS]

Another new arrival


The Reicha is one of three works (the other two are for 10 instruments) that were known about but thought lost until they turned up in an archive donated to the Bibliotheque National de France. That was in 2017. One of the ten piece works was performed in the 1840s, but otherwise the three pieces have never been performed before now. Hopefully the other two will be recorded before long.

[André]

Disc 2/4.

La Vita non è Sogno (Life is not a Dream), based on poems by Salvatore Quasimodo for reciter, tenor, baritone, chorus and orchestra. Sung in Italian (1971).

De Profundis for chorus and orchestra (1968).

Testamento de Otoño, composed in 1991, on poems by Pablo Neruda, for tenor and orchestra. Sung in Spanish.

Laporte was fluent in Italian, Spanish and a few other languages (Flemish, German, French). He set texts that carried emotional weight and had musical feel to them (rythm, sonorities).

The first work sets 9 texts from Nobel Prize winner Salvatore Quasimodo's collection of poems. It is sung without a break. There is a lot of variety (reciter, soloists, chorus) and the whole work (38 minutes) passes by quickly. It teems with incessant incidents, noises (taped), unusual vocal and orchestral sonorities. A bit like an audio version of a Fellini film on LSD (it was written in 1971, after all !). I usually loathe that kind of noise and nuisance but this is truly fascinating. It's also immensely accomplished. This is no aleatoric junk, there's a musical purpose, a discernable structure and an highly sophisticated allotment of musical resources. Quite the ride, and quite a find, really.

I am less keen on the a cappella choral piece, De Profundis. Quite an intractable piece for my taste, and certainly the one most directly influenced by Laporte's participation in the 'Summer Courses in New Music' in Darmstadt and Cologne (1960-65). Fortunately it is quite short.

Testamento, is a very evocative solo cantata where the orchestra comments and supports the soloist in a constant flux evoking a pendulum movement (as per the notes, but this is quite easily discernible). The pendulum effect is also due to the free alternation of tonality and atonality. The music's atmosphere is dreamy and starry (made me think of a van Gogh painting). 14 minutes.

[TheGSMoeller]

Jammin out to some Milhaud from this disc, starting with La creation du monde...

[Klavier]

The Violin Sonata works well in this solo piano arrangement.

[Carlo Gesualdo]

Any nice stout beer with the recording? I will check some recordings by Alejandro Planchart. Have a nice week, D!
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Hello great dude mighty Dry Brett Kavanaugh, This album a pure blessing and check The Gombert from Capella Cordina, OUTSIDE a side Gombert Missa DE Pacem mass there is motets of other great composers of burgundy, one heck of a vynil it's Lyricords, Like there Wiliaert and Ar's Nova album Alejandro Planchar direction was astonishing perfect passionate, true to the work, viva La Capella Cordina,
r.i.p dear sir of polyphony gem craft-er of 60'' and 70'' kingdom of Burgundy music master and ancient lore genius.

[Artem]

Bolero and Tombeau from this disk. Tombeau is on the slower side, playing on Bolero sounds rather shaky. Based on these two performances so far this is not the best Ravel disk in my collection.

[Tsaraslondon]

For St Cecilia
Dies Natalis
In terra pax
Magnificat

Richard Hickox conducts the London Symphoy Orchestra in For St Cecila and Dies Natalis with soloist Philip Langridge and the London Symphony Chorus in the former.

The forces for In terra pax and the Magnificat are the Richard Hickox Singers and the City of London Sinfonia.

Wonderful performances all, and I have a particular fondness for this version of In terra pax, which is my favourite of all the ones I've heard, but has unaccountably only ever been reissued by Decca just once for this release, whereas the inferior David Hill version has been reissued many times over.

[Irons]

An excellent performance of Finzi's Clarinet Conerto and a lovely disc all round.

Agreed. A performance of the Clarinet Concerto that gives the Lyrita recording a run for it's money. As you say, the rest excellent too.

[vandermolen]

For St Cecilia
Dies Natalis
In terra pax
Magnificat

Richard Hickox conducts the London Symphoy Orchestra in For St Cecila and Dies Natalis with soloist Philip Langridge and the London Symphony Chorus in the former.

The forces for In terra pax and the Magnificat are the Richard Hickox Singers and the City of London Sinfonia.

Wonderful performances all, and I have a particular fondness for this version of In terra pax, which is my favourite of all the ones I've heard, but has unaccountably only ever been reissued by Decca just once for this release, whereas the inferior David Hill version has been reissued many times over.

A fabulous disc! Great cover image too.
V much agree about In terra pax.