What are you listening 2 now?

[Sergeant Rock]

Bizet Symphony in C, Stokowski conducting




Sarge

[Karl Henning]

My favorite Russian word is "toska" (tocka).  Russian friends told me that it is a feeling of deep melancholy, emptiness and sadness. Vladimir Nabokov said that "No single word in English renders all the shades of toska."

True ... and tangentially, there are two words for truth: Правда Pravda, meaning the opposite of falsehood, and Истина, Istina, more like the core essence of something.

[Karl Henning]

Oh, very nice, indeed. I should go through these Fuga Libera box sets as well. Franck wrote some lovely music.

Both surface beauty and structural subtlety.

[Sergeant Rock]

Great to "see" you, Sarge!

It has been awhile since I last posted in this thread. I've been resting my ears 

Sarge

[Todd]

Second day possessing it, second listen.

[Karl Henning]

(* chortle *)

It has been awhile since I last posted in this thread. I've been resting my ears 

Sarge

(* chortle *)

[Lisztianwagner]

Franz Liszt
Les Preludes

[VonStupp]

Tangentially, in Russian the same word is used for both dove and pigeon.

  With that in mind:

Sergei Prokofiev
War and Peace Suite (Palmer)
Summer Night: Suite from The Duenna, op. 123
Russian Overture, op. 72

Phiharmonia Orchestra
Neeme Järvi

War and Peace might be some of the most beautiful music I have heard from Prokofiev so far, but it is new to me. If anyone has a recommendation for the entire opera (are there that many?), I could be interested.

The Russian Overture and Duenna Suite were also quite enjoyable. I think Järvi with the Philharmonia, recording at St. Jude's-on-the-Hill (also in Ivan the Terrible which was great), set themselves apart from the RSNO from the rest of his Prokofiev series.

VS

[Karl Henning]

  With that in mind:

Sergei Prokofiev
War and Peace Suite (Palmer)
Summer Night: Suite from The Duenna, op. 123
Russian Overture, op. 72

Phiharmonia Orchestra
Neeme Järvi

War and Peace might be some of the most beautiful music I have heard from Prokofiev so far, but it is new to me. If anyone has a recommendation for the entire opera (are there that many?), I could be interested.

It's a while since I watched or listened (and I certainly have not done a comparison), but I do remember very much enjoying the Gergiev/Mariinka on CD, and the French production on DVD:

[Karl Henning]

TD:

Franck
CD 3

Les Djinns (1884) Poème symphonique pour piano et orchestre
Variations symphoniques (1885) pour piano et orchestre
Cedric Tiberghien, pf

Psyché (1887) Poème symphonique pour orchestre et chœurs

[Karl Henning]

Peter Mennin:https://www.youtube.com/v/Gxdtm1Ep_bA

[Todd]

Splitting listening into two sessions.  The first session has been devoted to the five homages to Messiaen by five different composers.  Four are nice, and the Harvey is blah.  (I can just spin some Nancarrow player piano works to get more musical satisfaction.)  The Kurtag is quite nice - so nice that its brevity counts against it.  Head and shoulders above the others is the Tristan Murail piece.  It really sounds magnificent.  Three of my favorite living pianists - Schuch, FFG, and now Chamayou - have all recorded some of Murail's music, and all superbly.  I should probably investigate the composer's work more thoroughly sometime soon.

Mr Chamayou dispatches the pieces at a Chamayou level.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Peter Mennin:https://www.youtube.com/v/Gxdtm1Ep_bA

The video doesn't show up. Maybe because I am using iPad. What is this?

[Karl Henning]

The video doesn't show up. Maybe because I am using iPad. What is this?

Concertino for flute, strings & percussion, Manabu.

[SonicMan46]

Rosetti, Antonio (c. 1750-1792) was a short-lived Bohemian/German composer with a name change (not sure that he ever visited Italy?). Short bio below - extremely prolific (check link for Murray and Kaul catalog numbers) - amazed that I own 17 discs of his works, orchestral and chamber music, so will be selective in my listening - first ones up below.  Dave

Francesco Antonio Rosettiborn Franz Anton Rösler, changed to Italianate form by 1773 was a classical era composer and double bass player, and was a contemporary of Haydn and Mozart. Rosetti was born in Northern Bohemia. Rosetti wrote over 400 compositions, primarily instrumental music including many symphonies and concertos. Rosetti also composed a significant number of much vocal and choral works. The English music historian Charles Burney included Rosetti among the most popular composers of the period in his writings. Rosetti is perhaps best known today for his horn concertos, which may have been a model for Mozart's four horn concertos. Rosetti is also known for writing a Requiem which was performed at a memorial for Mozart in December 1791. (Source)

     

[Karl Henning]

Shostakovich
Preludes & Fugues, Op. 87
Ashkenazy

[JBS]

Another first listen.


ATM the Nonet which might be called a chamber symphony and gives no hint that the composer was just 18 at the time.

[kyjo]

Without taking any sides, what he is referring to is the argument you seemed to make (deliberately or not) that the choice is between Wilson and Celi, or better put, between surface excitement and spiritual depth. Madiel was saying there's a middle ground or possiblity of both. I'm stepping in here because I think we'll all happily agree to meet in that middle ground without further fuss.

(Okay I said I wouldn't take sides but I do think Wilson is less interesting as a "surface excitement" guy than Kuchar, Svetlanov, Denève, Muti, Previn, etc.)

Okay, cool. If that's what Madiel meant, I happily agree with him. My original response to Roasted Swan's criticism of Wilson was too simplistically and rudely put, I'll admit.

[kyjo]

I actually rate the 5th higher than the much acclaimed 4th. My favorite is the 3rd, though. The 1st is 'okay'.

Re Braga Santos' symphonies: Can't say I agree with you there. I love them all, though, with the 4th at the top and the 6th on the (relative) bottom.

[Spotted Horses]

Your incessant criticisms of this conductor are getting to be quite tiresome, to be honest....

Sort of like when you can't mention a Malipiero symphony without a certain person chiming in about how disappointing de Almeida is?