What are you listening 2 now?

[pjme]

Frankel (amazing! The picture didn't appear twice)
One of my favourite CD covers!
It's actually my favourite score by Frankel

I can enjoy a good bit of '60 horror kitsch (Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing....) .
Oliver Reed is the werewolf!
I never saw the film nor do I know the music. I'm curious now!

The poster was ok ...but Reed , under lots of make up looked really terryfying!

[Que]

Morning listening of a recent arrival (on disc):



Always thought Isaac was a bit less original than his contemporaries amongst Netherlandish composers. But...this was on sale and performance by Cinquecento always adds a little bit extra. I wasn't wrong. 

[vandermolen]

I can enjoy a good bit of '60 horror kitsch (Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing....) .
Oliver Reed is the werewolf!
I never saw the film nor do I know the music. I'm curious now!

The poster was ok ...but Reed , under lots of make up looked really terryfying!

I have the DVD of the film which, for its type, was rather impressive. The doomed processional at the end of the score is terrific. I wish that Frankel had written more of his 'serious' music in a total idiom. I loved horror films as a child. Christopher Lee was very nice to me when I met him at a charity function at that time and allowed me to take a photo of him under his golfing umbrella (and sent me a charming reply when I sent him a copy).

[The new erato]

I guess you meant tonal idiom? :-)

Last night i played this. I find Fasch both fasc(h)inating and underestimated. Fine disc!

[pjme]

Thanks!

Do you know Tiomkin's score to Lost horizon? My favorite part is The Funeral procession

I also like Humphhrey Searle's score for (1957) The abominable snowman. The opening sequence is quite impresssive.
Sound quality is low...

[Operafreak]

Hoffmeister: Double Bass Quartets Nos. 2, 3 & 4

Norbert Duka (double bass), Erno Sebestyen (violin), Helmut Nikolai (viola), Martin Osertag (cello) & Phillip Moll (piano)

 

[Mookalafalas]

Better than I had anticipated. Since Kempff does that to me all the time, why don't I anticipate it?

[Spotted Horses]

Better than I had anticipated. Since Kempff does that to me all the time, why don't I anticipate it?

Kempff's stripping of ornaments from the statement of the theme gets people's hackles up, but I like the set a lot, overall.

[Papy Oli]

JS Bach - Sonata for solo violin BWV 1001.
S. Kuijken

[Papy Oli]

Novak - De Profundis

[Traverso]

Dufay

Today seems to be his birthday and that is a good reason to listen to his secular music again. This is a set to cherish and which I would recommend to anyone.
The songs are of a moving beauty.

CD 2

[Que]

More of this set, which is a delight to revisit.
And I forgot that a substantial part of the pieces is performed on a clavichord!

[Todd]

Op 12/2 & 12/3. 

[vandermolen]

Thanks!

Do you know Tiomkin's score to Lost horizon? My favorite part is The Funeral procession

I also like Humphhrey Searle's score for (1957) The abominable snowman. The opening sequence is quite impresssive.
Sound quality is low...

No, I'll have to look out for them, although I think that I have the Searle on a Horror compilation CD. Thanks for the recommendations. Two of my favourites are 'Night of the Demon' (Clifton Parker) and 'Dead of Night' (my favourite Horror film) by Georges Auric (who also wrote the wonderfully atmospheric score for the French 'Beauty and the Beast').

[Traverso]

Enescu

Romanian Rhapsody No.1

[Operafreak]

 Mozart 'The Weber Sisters'

Sabine Devieilhe (soprano)-Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon

[Traverso]

Messiaen

Messiaen

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Frankel (amazing! The picture didn't appear twice)
One of my favourite CD covers!
It's actually my favourite score by Frankel

Excellent music, unforgettable cover art!

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Not enough to stay with it. It is somehow superficially impressive - piano colours, energy - but that's not enough for me  in this music. I much prefer Kaouru Bingham's more monochrome playing, she seems to me to find something quite magical, metaphysical, in them. A touch of iki sensibility maybe.

I'll try to say something which may be nonsense: for Bingham the heart and soul of the music is in the joints, the articulations, the junctions of the phrases rather than in the phrases themselves.

Ok, I've been curious about the recording. I will pass on this recording. I like Kaoru's unpretentious playing too.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

It was one of Naxos' free album downloads last month (free albums and tracks downloads if you subscribe to their various newsletters).

It is nothing more than ok. it feels very restrained, sadly; It lacks oomph and enthusiasm.

I like Bernstein's recording of Gershwin works.