What are you listening 2 now?

[Papy Oli]

Ralph Vaughan Williams

Prelude and Fugue in C minor
Piano concerto in C

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The 3rd Piano Sonata:

[ritter]

The 3rd Piano Sonata:

I don't know that performance, but the work itself is a beauty... Good day to you, John.

THREAD DUTY:

The "Cav & Pag" of SQs  (i.e., the Debussy and the Ravel), by the Juilliard SQ.



From this set:

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[Karl Henning]

Nice!

Thread duty -

Enescu
Piano Quartet No. 2 in D minor, Op. 30
Tammuz Piano Quartet

When I get on a Stravinsky tear, I stay torn for a bit:

Stravinsky
Mass
Three Church Slavonic motets
Tres sacræ cantiones (after Gesualdo)
Anthem, The Dove Descending Breaks the Air
Introitus In memoriam T.S. Eliot
Cantata

Netherlands Chamber Choir
Schönberg Ensemble
Reinbert de Leeuw

[Karl Henning]

Stravinsky Time! Playing the cd that I probably love more than all others, Stravinsky at his most overtly 'Russian':



 

Not sure I reported it, but I listened to this this past weekend,too.

[Karl Henning]

Ralph Vaughan Williams
Serenade to Music (choral version)
Partita for double string orchestra

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Very nice!

[Papy Oli]

Very nice!

Hi Karl, the Partita didn't work for me. The Serenade on the other hand is something else 

[Traverso]

Italia Mia

[Marc]

Sebastiàn de Albero (1722-1756): Sonatas for harpsichord.
Played by Gilbert Rowland.

Good music for the early evening!

https://www.amazon.com/Albero-Sonatas-Harpsichord-Gilbert-Rowland/dp/B003HKEDOE/?tag=goodmusicguideco

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I don't know the piece, but the work itself is a beauty... Good day to you, John.

THREAD DUTY:

The "Cav & Pag" of SQs  (i.e., the Debussy and the Ravel), by the Juilliard SQ.



From this set:

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G'day, Rafael.

Re: Enescu's 3rd Piano Sonata --- surely, you meant performance and not piece?

[Florestan]

I don't know the piece, but the work itself is a beauty...

I don't understand this, Rafael. You don't know a piece, but the work is a beauty? What do you mean?

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I don't understand this, Rafael. You don't know a piece, but the work is a beauty? What do you mean?

He meant performance (I'm assuming).

[ritter]

G'day, Rafael.

Re: Enescu's 3rd Piano Sonata --- surely, you meant performance and not piece?

I don't understand this, Rafael. You don't know a piece, but the work is a beauty? What do you mean?

Perhaps it's that I don't know the work, but think it must be a beauty...

No, seriously, I apologise for the typo. Good day to you as well, Andrei!.

[Florestan]

Perhaps it's that I don't know the work, but think it must be a beauty...

No, seriously, I apologise for the typo. Good day to you as well, Andrei!.

That makes more sense. 

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Debussy
'Le jet d'eau' de Cinq poèmes de Baudelaire
Alison Hagley (soprano)
Cleveland Orchestra
Pierre Boulez

[j winter]

Haydn Op 50, Aeolian Qt.  An exceedingly civilized way to listen through one's lunch hour...

[vandermolen]

A most enjoyable, if not essential album of often folk-inspired music.

[vandermolen]

Ralph Vaughan Williams

Prelude and Fugue in C minor
Piano concerto in C

I like both of those works very much.

[ritter]

Some late Stravinsky in the late (European) afternoon. Igor Fyodorovich conducts his Threni.



From the old budget box (which I keep at the office):

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I hadn't listened to this particular performance since the wonderful Herreweghe was released. TBH, the composer's pioneering recording has a certain roughness that is endearing at first, but soon becomes tiresome. The solo vocals are rather unsteady at times, and the English-inflected Latin pronunciation is also irritating at some points. Herreweghe does this work proud in a way the composer himself couldn't even dream of IMHO.

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Lux aeterna from this recording: