What are you listening 2 now?

[Lisztianwagner]

Granville Bantock
Celtic Symphony

[aligreto]

Martinu: Chamber Music [Dartington Ensemble] - Sonatina





Once again we have a very exciting musical language and writing with very compelling scoring for a standard ensemble [here, two violins and piano]. It is a very engaging work.

[aligreto]

Granville Bantock
Celtic Symphony

I have very fond memories of listening to that album relatively recently. I hope that you enjoy it.

[Peter Power Pop]

Rameau: Les Indes Galantes - Suite [Bruggen]



Prologue
Le Turc généreux

Rameau and Brüggen: What a fabulous combination.

[Que]

This non-HIPster says: very good. 

[aligreto]

Portuguese Polyphony [Holten]:





Lobo:

Audivi vocem de caelo: This is a short but wonderfully atmospheric work with haunting soprano lines that are well delivered here.

Pater peccavi: This is a short but elegant work which is wonderfully delivered here by Ars Nova.

[aligreto]

Rameau and Brüggen: What a fabulous combination.

Yes, it certainly is a special combination.

[Lisztianwagner]

I have very fond memories of listening to that album relatively recently. I hope that you enjoy it.

Thanks, I've enjoyed it immensely, as a matter of fact it's one of my favourites! I think Handley's recording is excellent and magnificently performed, especially the Celtic Symphony, which is an absolutely mesmerizing, beautiful work; the fourth and fifth movements, in particular, are so powerful and passionately intense that always leave me greatly impressed.

[aligreto]

Thanks, I've enjoyed it immensely, as a matter of fact it's one of my favourites! I think Handley's recording is excellent and magnificently performed, especially the Celtic Symphony, which is an absolutely mesmerizing, beautiful work; the fourth and fifth movements, in particular, are so powerful and passionately intense that always leave me greatly impressed.

I am delighted that you have derived so much listening pleasure from it. It is a CD that come highly recommended for those who have not heard it.

[Madiel]

The John Field Nocturnes played by Bart van Oort on a Broadwood (1823).

I just sampled a Field Nocturne and a Chopin Nocturne.

The pianos sound rather similar to modern ones, only a little janky in the case of the Field. Like it could do with a tuner.

Yesterday I listened to a podcast episode about the psychology of people thinking they need to eat "healthy" food and believing they are depriving themselves of pleasure in the process - and how their bodies show physiological signs of being less satisfied just because of that belief.

For me, the thoughts are not unconnected.

[JBS]

Windy Ludwig.

[vers la flamme]

Anton Bruckner: Symphony No.7 in E major, WAB 107. Georg Tintner, Royal Scottish National Orchestra

I know Tintner catches some flak here for various reasons, but I think he has such incredible feeling for this music. (I will admit that the recordings with the RSNO are much better than the New Zealand or Ireland ones, though.)

The Allegro moderato of the 7th is probably my favorite movement Bruckner ever wrote. It's so incredible, especially the first 5 minutes or so, and the last 3 minutes or so—but really, all of it.

[foxandpeng]

Anton Bruckner: Symphony No.7 in E major, WAB 107. Georg Tintner, Royal Scottish National Orchestra

I know Tintner catches some flak here for various reasons, but I think he has such incredible feeling for this music. (I will admit that the recordings with the RSNO are much better than the New Zealand or Ireland ones, though.)

The Allegro moderato of the 7th is probably my favorite movement Bruckner ever wrote. It's so incredible, especially the first 5 minutes or so, and the last 3 minutes or so—but really, all of it.

I very much enjoy the Tintner Bruckner. He was my introduction to the symphonies and I return to these first.

Thread:

Talivaldis Kenins
Symphony 1
2 Concertos
Andris Poga
Guntis Kuzma
Latvian NSO

In anticipation of the upcoming release of Symphonies 2, 3 and 7 which will complete this fine cycle.

[JBS]

And now Wagner transcribed

Lohengrin: Elsas Brautzug*
Tristan und Isolde: Vorspiel-Akt 1**
Tristan und Isolde: Liebestod*
Meistersinger: Vorspiel-Akt 1**
Parsifal: Feierlicher Marsch*

*transcribed by Liszt Ferenc
**transcribed by Kocsis Zoltan

[Operafreak]

Milhaud: Chamber Symphonies- Ensemble Des Temps Modernes, Bernard Dekaise

[listener]

A couple of new discs drawing on old forms for new pieees
BARTOK: Sonata for solo violin,  LIGETI: Sonata for solo viola
VERESS: Sonata for solo violin  EÖTVÖS: Adventures of the Dominant Seventh Chord
Nurit Stark,  violin/viola
Bartok was the teacher of Veress who in turn taught Ligeti
The Bartok Sonata is an easy read of the score but fiendish to play and most people would say not "nice" to listen to.
HOVHANESS: Symphony no. 2 "Magic Mountain"  op.132   *Lousadzak op. 48
Lou HARRISON: Symphony no.2 "Elegiac"
Keith Jarrett, piano *     Anerican Composers Orchestra     Dennis Russel Davies, cond.
Nimbus re-issue of a MusicMasters original

[Operafreak]

Bach, J S: St Matthew Passion, BWV244

Dresdner Kapellknaben, Rundfunkchor Leipzig & Staatskapelle Dresden, Peter Schreier

[vandermolen]

I have very fond memories of listening to that album relatively recently. I hope that you enjoy it.

My favourite Bantock CD.

[Que]

I just sampled a Field Nocturne and a Chopin Nocturne.

The pianos sound rather similar to modern ones, only a little janky in the case of the Field. Like it could do with a tuner.

Yesterday I listened to a podcast episode about the psychology of people thinking they need to eat "healthy" food and believing they are depriving themselves of pleasure in the process - and how their bodies show physiological signs of being less satisfied just because of that belief.

For me, the thoughts are not unconnected.

Dislike what you dislike, but please spare us the derogatory pseudo-psychoanalysis.

[Que]

Morning listening, the physical set just arrived: