What are you listening 2 now?

[Traverso]

Froberger

CD 1

[brewski]

It's very influential and important (according to Richard Barrett.) I found these notes quite helpful to make sense of it

http://classicaldrone.blogspot.com/search/label/envers_dune_oeuvre

The book which that blog is based on, L'envers d'une œuvre, is here

https://www.scribd.com/document/209073064/L-Envers-D-Une-Oeuvre-Parmegiani

Thanks so much for these, especially Caleb Deupree's blog post. If nothing else, this sentence alone taught me a lot, as I know the term "wefts" only from the textile world.

"As with Accidents Harmoniques, Parmegiani started with an hommage to orchestral music, using samples from Schoenberg, Debussy and Verdi, but these were obliterated in the final piece. Instead, there was a long period of sound gathering to create a catalog of wefts (trames), a technical term from Pierre Schaeffer's groundbreaking theoretical work Traité des objets musicaux."

-Bruce

[Que]

Froberger

CD 1

I love that series!

[Traverso]

I love that series!

It is not cheap to purchase this series in its entirety, but it is well worth it.

[Roasted Swan]

Currently:



Shostakovich: Symphony #5 in D Minor, Op. 47


On a bit of a Shostakovich binge the last couple of days - He is probably one of my favorite Composers...

The cycle might be an old 'un but its a good 'un!!

[Harry]

It is not cheap to purchase this series in its entirety, but it is well worth it.

For 14,99 a month you can listen in HiRes to all the volumes, all ya need is a streamer, saves tons of money

[Karl Henning]

Leningrad Symphonies
Orest Yevlakhov
Symphony 3
Arvids Jasons
Leningrad PO
Northern Flowers

Bit of a doleful and gloomy symphony according to some, but this is just my kind of thing. Lots of drama in here. Thoroughly enjoyable!

Nice cover photo. The wrought iron gate at the Neva side of (IIRC) the Field of Mars.

[Spotted Horses]

Brahms, Piano Trio No 3. First listened to the Beaux Arts Trio, then Angelich-Capucon^2.

A gorgeous piece, quite concise for a late 19th century work.

As in the case of the 2nd trio, the Beaux Arts struck me as a bit dry, Angelich-Capucon^2 more effusive. I am just swept away by the beauty of this music.

[Traverso]

For 14,99 a month you can listen in HiRes to all the volumes, all ya need is a streamer, saves tons of money

I need more time to give attention to what is already in my collection.

[Traverso]

Rameau

CD 10

[DavidW]

Act 1

[Traverso]

Dvořák

CD 3

String Quartets 4 & 5

[Linz]

Miaskovsky Vol.8 Symphony No.22 in B minor Op.54 and Symphony No.26 in C major Op.79, Evgeny Svetlanov, Russian State Symphony Orchestra

[vers la flamme]

Robert Schumann: Fantasy for Violin & Orchestra in C major, op.131; Violin Concerto in D minor, WoO 23. Felix Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor, op.64. Christian Tetzlaff, Paavo Järvi, Frankfurt RSO

Randomly found this CD, attached to an Ondine catalog, at Half Price Books today. Good find, the music sounds amazing.

[Mandryka]

Thanks so much for these, especially Caleb Deupree's blog post. If nothing else, this sentence alone taught me a lot, as I know the term "wefts" only from the textile world.

"As with Accidents Harmoniques, Parmegiani started with an hommage to orchestral music, using samples from Schoenberg, Debussy and Verdi, but these were obliterated in the final piece. Instead, there was a long period of sound gathering to create a catalog of wefts (trames), a technical term from Pierre Schaeffer's groundbreaking theoretical work Traité des objets musicaux."

-Bruce

Weft: A type of excentric sound of prolonged duration, created by superimposing
prolonged sounds

Excenrtic: sounds which display a lack of balance in the sense of being too
original

Balanced:  the 9 types of balanced sounds are those which
present "a good compromise between the too structured and the too simple"

https://monoskop.org/images/0/01/Chion_Michel_Guide_To_Sound_Objects_Pierre_Schaeffer_and_Musical_Research.pdf

[ritter]

Music for solo instruments (guitar, harp, piano) or chamber ensemble by Rodolfo Halffter, spanning more than 50 years of his career, from his beginnings in his native Spain to his years in Mexico after the Spanish civil war.



R. Halffter's life in some aspects mirrors that of author and painter José Moreno Villa, a fundamental —even if now quite forgotten— figure of the Spanish "silver age" of the arts (i.e., from the beginning of the 20th century through to the outbreak of the civil war), whose autobiographic texts I am currently reading:

[foxandpeng]

Einojuhani Rautavaara
Garden of Spaces
Clarinet Concerto
Cantus Arcticus
Leif Segerstam
Helsinki PO
Ondine

Hearing Rautavaara should be made mandatory, really. At least in our house.

[brewski]

Hearing Rautavaara should be made mandatory, really. At least in our house.

I still recall hearing Cantus Arcticus for the first time, and thinking, this is a sort of 20th-century riff on Respighi's nightingale in The Pines of Rome. Obviously Rautavaara takes the effect much further.

-Bruce

[foxandpeng]

Einojuhani Rautavaara
Complete Symphonies
Symphony 7 'Angel of Light'
Leif Segerstam
Helsinki PO
Ondine

Night watches before sleep...

I still recall hearing Cantus Arcticus for the first time, and thinking, this is a sort of 20th-century riff on Respighi's nightingale in The Pines of Rome. Obviously Rautavaara takes the effect much further.

-Bruce

I don't know the Respighi work, but will certainly seek it out 😁. Cheers, Bruce.

[Linz]

Mahler Symphony No. 2 in C minor The Resurrection, Leonard Bernstein