What are you listening 2 now?

[Florestan]

Love this music. Free from any self-conscious introspection and neurosis, it flows like a limpid, rippling brook in a Summer morning forest full of chirping birds. Simple, unassuming but all the more touching beauty. A perfect embodiment of my signature line.

[Florestan]

Sparkling, shining fun.



Chopin's shadow looms large over Elmas' music which is none the worse for that in its melodious melancholy.

[Que]

Late Baroque motets in Galant style from Liège, Southern Netherlands (present day Belgium). Hamal was clearly influenced by his trip to Italy, where became acquainted with Jommelli and Durante. This has a distinct Neapolitan feel to it. Another distinct feature is the use of hunting horns - love it...

https://www.musicwebinternational.com/2023/04/hamel-motets-musique-en-wallonie/

[Que]

Love this music. Free from any self-conscious introspection and neurosis, it flows like a limpid, rippling brook in a Summer morning forest full of chirping birds. Simple, unassuming but all the more touching beauty. A perfect embodiment of my signature line.

Absolutely! I love the "lack of profundity"...     

Assuming that the celebration of life wouldn't be a profound human feeling. I think it is.

[Florestan]

Absolutely! I love the lack of profundity...     
Assuming that the celebration of life wouldn't be a profound human feeling. I think it is.

I am currently reading this book



and in the concluding chapter the author states:

Much Classic music was written to please - to provide spontaneous, immediate enjoyment. Such music may well be profound without being self-conscious and introspective, without intending to represent or symbolize violent struggle, exaltation, or apotheoses of various kinds.

I am in complete agreement with his assessment.

[Lisztianwagner]

Arnold Schönberg
Von Heute auf Morgen

Hans Rosbaud & Het Residentie Orkest

[Madiel]

There is one aria in this that I utterly adore and bought the track on iTunes just so I could listen to it over and over.

[Madiel]

Haydn: op.17 quartets, first listen to the E major (no.1 in publication, 2nd in Haydn's ordering).



I keep using words like 'delightful' as I go through these, but really what other sort of word would one use?
One day I'll probably do something like just listening to the menuets. How does he keep making a menuet & trio such a pleasure?

[Traverso]

Bach

Starting with Vol 10 CD 1





 

[Pohjolas Daughter]

There is one aria in this that I utterly adore and bought the track on iTunes just so I could listen to it over and over.

Which track is that Madiel?

PD

[vandermolen]

Khachaturian: Cello Concerto

An underrated work in my view.

I agree!

[Harry]

BYRD 1588.
Psalmes, Sonets & Songs of Sadnes and Pietie.
CD I and II.

Grace Davidson, Soprano.
Martha McLorinan, mezzo-Soprano.
Nicholas Todd, Tenor.
Fretwork.
Alamire, directed by David Skinner.
Recorded in the Church of All Saints, Holdenby, Northamptonshire, on August 2020.
Recorded at 96khz/24-bit resolution.

The first volume in this series, after I did the second volume yesterday. My estimation is that the vocals are transposed an octave higher, for the soprano is singing near the maximum she can muster, and the Tenor can be painful to the ears in the opening Psalm, "O God, give ear"  This is often done by Englisch vocal ensembles, like the Tallis Scholars, the Sixteen, (For me that is a reason not to listen to them) and so on, for no valid reason at all. It means that one can listen to it at a low volume, for the recording is quite direct. It will after 78:00 minutes be tiring to the ear, so my advise would be to take it in small doses. The second CD though is much better, the singing is more relaxed, and it is better recorded in the sense that there is more air around  the voices. The conclusion is that I like the Second volume better, but there is enough to like in this first volume.

[Madiel]

Which track is that Madiel?

PD

Track 11 (Act 1, Scene 5):Vede orgogliosa l'onda.

[Brian]

Needed something short to put on while making breakfast. Dipped into the Warner Prokofiev Edition and brought out the Sinfonietta (Philharmonia, Muti).

[Spotted Horses]

As long as Schubert's Sonata D845 is in my head, I decided to listen to one more recording of the first movement, Uchida



It just doesn't work for me. Slower than any other version, and works too hard to be "poetic."

I find Badura-Skoda to be ideal, and Haebler's more classical approach to be the most satisfying on a modern piano (so far).

[Mandryka]

Love this music. Free from any self-conscious introspection and neurosis, it flows like a limpid, rippling brook in a Summer morning forest full of chirping birds. Simple, unassuming but all the more touching beauty. A perfect embodiment of my signature line.

We all know that the birds are only chirping to ward off the threatening hungry cat, the brook is full of vicious pike - if they're not all poisoned by the effluent from nearby intensive agricultural complexes. And inevitably the local council has already given permission to cut the forrest down to make room for a new airport.  Get real!

[Florestan]

We all know that the birds are only chirping to ward off the threatening hungry cat, the brook is full of vicious pike - if they're not all poisoned by the effluent from nearby intensive agricultural complexes. And inevitably the local council has already given permission to cut the forrest down to make room for a new airport.  Get real!

In UK, maybe. Come to Romania and you'll see what I mean. 

[Mandryka]

In UK, maybe. Come to Romania and you'll see what I mean. 

Soon, hopefully.

Listening to Foccroulle's Tunder. To me this is quintessentially Foccroulle, reticent and tasteful - I like this style very much.

[Florestan]

Soon, hopefully.

Great!

[Mandryka]

Great!

yes I'm busy with business till October, my mate Petru is over there now with his kids, staying on his family farm, he's due to come to see me here on the 21st and I'm going to get him to help me plan a trip in Autumn if all goes well.