What are you listening 2 now?

[aligreto]

I'll do myself the very slight favor of not being surprised that I enjoy this so well.

Good for you and I am pleased that you found the music enjoyable.

[aligreto]

Perhaps my favourite symphony by someone not named Bruckner. 🥸

And Kertesz is a marvelous performance!

Cheers, Ray. Superb music and music making all round!

[Karl Henning]

I'll do myself the very slight favor of not being surprised that I enjoy this so well.

Same with this 'un.

[Spotted Horses]

I'll do myself the very slight favor of not being surprised that I enjoy this so well.

I hope I'm getting my brownie points for that.

[Lisztianwagner]

Gustav Mahler
Das Lied von der Erde

Grace Hoffmann (mezzosoprano), Ernst Haefliger (tenor)
Hans Rosbaud & Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra



Absolutely gorgeous so far, what a marvelous orchestral sound and what an intensity......

[Karl Henning]

I hope I'm getting my brownie points for that.

(* chortle *)

[Pohjolas Daughter]

You should, it is great.  I returned to the forum because I wanted to see some huge discussion thread on the movie... and I was shocked to see that nobody was talking about.  Nobody was talking about the best movie of the year which also happened to be almost exclusively what this forum is about!  I was shocked!!

Sorry, but I missed which movie you were talking about?

PD

[Mandryka]

He really knows how to take complicated music and make it sound sweet and limpid and natural and easy and interesting and expressive and surprising.  I wish he'd play some piano music by Stockhausen or Babbitt.  He makes me think of Yo Yo Mar, who did much the same with his last Cello suites.

[Baxcalibur]

This week's listening:



I was speechless when I listened to these symphonies, especially the 7th. Despite their menacing and dissonant sounds, they are tonal works full of what I can only describe as the man's beating heart. Inextinguishable, you could say.

As with the Stenhammar "Serenade" from last week, I haven't heard other renditions of these pieces. But the performance here seems beyond criticism, and I dearly hope that I won't be tempted to nitpick the differences when I hear other performers.

[Mandryka]

https://www.qobuz.com/gb-en/album/william-byrd-music-for-the-virginalls-lydia-maria-blank/ytvooru32xmcc

Some unusually slow pavans in this one, it is taking some getting used to.

[Karl Henning]

Sorry, but I missed which movie you were talking about?

PD

I think, Tár.

TD:

"Wolferl"
Pf Sonata in c minor, K. 457
Dino Ciani

[aligreto]

Parry: Symphony No. 2 [Bamert]





The opening of the first movement is almost overwhelming. The music in the opening movement is wonderfully scored and it is also imbued with effusive emotion. The delivery of the music here is absolutely wonderful. The movement progresses quite assertively and it is both unrelenting and very powerfully and engagingly delivered here.
The second movement, Scherzo, is a wonderfully turbulent affair. The music is unrelenting in its drive and this yields both powerful and exciting performance here as this music is very well played here. The second movement is a particularly fine piece of orchestral writing!
The third, slow movement is wonderfully lyrical. Parry's ability as an orchestrator is very well demonstrated here. The music is both wonderfully powerful and turbulent and lyrical in this movement; it is wonderfully atmospheric music and it is very well delivered here.
The music in the final movement is wonderfully driven. There are also elements of very fine lyricism here but the overwhelming sense from this music is the determined forward momentum and inherent drive of the music. It is wonderfully delivered here! There is a wonderfully appropriately dramatic conclusion to the work.

It must also be acknowledged that the orchestration is particularly wonderful throughout the work.

[aligreto]

Same with this 'un.

Great to see you enjoying Albinoni's music, Karl.

[Karl Henning]

Great to see you enjoying Albinoni's music, Karl.

Delighted!

[Karl Henning]

TD:

JSB
e minor Partita, BWV 830

[Baxcalibur]

Parry: Symphony No. 2 [Bamert]

[...]

The opening of the first movement is almost overwhelming. The music in the opening movement is wonderfully scored and it is also imbued with effusive emotion. The delivery of the music here is absolutely wonderful. The movement progresses quite assertively and it is both unrelenting and very powerfully and engagingly delivered here.
The second movement, Scherzo, is a wonderfully turbulent affair. The music is unrelenting in its drive and this yields both powerful and exciting performance here as this music is very well played here. The second movement is a particularly fine piece of orchestral writing!
The third, slow movement is wonderfully lyrical. Parry's ability as an orchestrator is very well demonstrated here. The music is both wonderfully powerful and turbulent and lyrical in this movement; it is wonderfully atmospheric music and it is very well delivered here.
The music in the final movement is wonderfully driven. There are also elements of very fine lyricism here but the overwhelming sense from this music is the determined forward momentum and inherent drive of the music. It is wonderfully delivered here! There is a wonderfully appropriately dramatic conclusion to the work.

It must also be acknowledged that the orchestration is particularly wonderful throughout the work.

This must be a wonderful symphony.  

[Karl Henning]

Never heard this piece before:

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Veselin Stoyanov: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in D minor.
Sasha Popov, Konstantin Iliev & Sofia Phil.

[Todd]

[Bachtoven]

Excellent playing and sound.