What are you listening 2 now?

[Brian]

Good to see you around, North Star, and incredible playlist!

[Papy Oli]

Ravel - L'Enfant et les Sortilèges

[Tsaraslondon]

These performances perhaps don't sparkle quite as much as I'd like, but there is some wonderful playing, especially from the Philharmonia's superb woodwind section.
 

[North Star]

Good to see you around, North Star, and incredible playlist!

Cheers, Brian!

Thread duty

Kabeláč
Mystery of Time. Passacaglia for Large Orchestra, Op. 31

Prague RSO
Marko Ivanović

[Traverso]

Richard Strauss

Salome  (1953)

[Lisztianwagner]

Neujahrskonzert 2008
CD 1

Georges Pretre & Wiener Philharmoniker

[SonicMan46]

Fasch, Johann (1688-1758) - Overtures & Concertos w/ Tempesta di Mare, V. 2 - a new arrival; my Fasch collection is up to 13 discs w/ one more 'in the mail' - I keep tract of the individual works in Google Docs - if interested, check the attached PDF - works are listed based on Rüdiger Pfeiffer's Fasch Werke Verzeichnis; symbols indicate the performers; bolded pieces are duplicated and not much.

Myslivecek, Josef (1737-1781) - Cello Works w/ the performers on the cover art - modest collection of this early and later rejected friend of the Mozarts - there is a book on the composer nicknamed Il Boemo (OOP on Amazon HERE) - read as a library loan back in 2010; some brief notes in his short thread on GMG - will continue w/ my listening of Myslivecek over the next few days and peruse Amazon for new recordings?  Dave

   

[Karl Henning]

Karl Henning

The Young Lady Holding a Phone in Her Teeth
(Double Wind Quintet)

Première Performance by Kammerwerke
The composer conducting

Thanks for listening. Oli! a centime for your thoughts....

[Karl Henning]

Today's listening

Debussy
String Quartet

Zemlinsky
String Quartet No. 2

Cuarteto Casals


Weinberg
Violin Concerto*
Sonata for 2 Violins**

Gidon Kremer
*Gewandhausorchester & Daniele Gatti
**Madara Pētersone


Liszt
Années de pèlerinage - Première année: Suisse

Julian Gorus

Hi, Karlo! I love that Weinberg album!

[Linz]

The Art of Knappertsbusch Wagner Seigfried Idyll, Tristan and Isolde, Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg, Prelude de l'acte 3, Die Gotterdammerung, Immolation de Brunhilde, Die Meistersinger von Nurmberg, Prelude de l'acte 1

[Florestan]

Myslivecek, Josef (1737-1781

One of my favorite Classical-period composers.

[Florestan]

Since we talked about it yesterday, I have to listen today.

I'll be listening to that tonight.

Meanwhile, I absolutely love this quote from Rota himself:

You see, when someone says that all I seem to be
doing in my music is trying to convey a bit of
nostalgia and a good deal of humour and
optimism, I think that that is just how I should like
to be remembered, with a little bit of nostalgia and
a good deal of optimism and good humour.


A man after my own heart.

[Traverso]

Mahler


Symphony No.5

[Traverso]

One of my favorite Classical-period composers.

I like his music for wind ensemble 

[vandermolen]

Cyril Scott: Cello Concerto, which has a wonderfully hypnotic and dreamy opening:

[Mapman]

I would like to disagree with that view, for me this is a remarkable fine piece of music, that gave me much pleasure over the years.

Thank you for providing your dissenting opinion! Perhaps I am sometimes unfair in my judgements after only 1 listen. (Although, like another member recently mentioned, I can often get a sense that the music is high quality, even if I don't understand it at first. Not always, though!) I'll give the music another chance at some point, although I'll probably listen to the Pibroch Suite first.

One of the most valuable parts of this forum is the immense amount of music known (and loved) by its members. Several people have recently praised Hadley's The Trees So High. I listened several months ago and was unimpressed. I listened again last night as I was falling asleep, and I got more of the sense that it contains high quality music. It's still in a style that I struggle to appreciate, though.

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony No. 5 in B Flat Major, 1878 Version Ed. Leopold Nowak

[Lisztianwagner]

First listen to:

Luigi Dallapiccola
Canti di Prigionia

Hans Zender & Ensemble Intercontemporain

[Symphonic Addict]

Brian: Symphonies 25-27

Only 5 symphonies are missing to totally reacquaint myself with this symphonic cycle.

[ritter]

First listen to:

Luigi Dallapiccola
Canti di Prigionia

Hans Zender & Ensemble Intercontemporain

Great! Hope you like it.

I'm just starting with this (prompted by your recent posts, Ilaria  ).

Luigi Dallapiccola: Quaderno musicale di Annalibera, played by Lya De Barberiis.



...to be followed by the Variazioni per orchestra (BBC Philharmonic, conducted by Gianandrea Noseda).



EDIT:

More Dallapiccola. Due Cori di Michelangelo Buonarroti il Giovane and Canti di liberazione, from this CD: