What are you listening 2 now?

[Traverso]

https://www.youtube.com/v/UMxSH9IvZn4

This is one of Radigue's Occam pieces. I wonder what I'm supposed to do with it.

take your traveller bag

https://www.youtube.com/v/5tVGei24TdQ

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Sibelius 4 & 5, Karajan.  Those Berlin strings are simply gorgeous here...

Karajan's performance of Sibelius' 4th (the early DG, the one you're listening, NOT the EMI/Warner recording) is one of my favorite recordings of anything. In this symphony, Karajan captures the bleakness, uncertainty, and austere beauty better than any other conductor I've heard.

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Debussy
Préludes, Livre I
Sasaki

[aligreto]

Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 [Chailly]





This is a broad sweeping, expansive and lyrical work which also has a touch of poignancy to it. Chailly gives a very good account of the work with this performance. His pacing allows the music to breathe but it is never lethargic or ponderous. There is also ample tension and drama to be found throughout.

[aligreto]

Well performed too!

It is that.

[André]

Nice stuff. Nourlangie evokes nature, with its bird cries imitations - kind of a down under Cantus Arcticus.

[aligreto]

John Kinsella: Symphony No. 11 [RTE National Symphony Orchestra/Deroyer]





On Friday 29th November I had the privilege to be present at the world premier of Kinsella's Symphony No. 11. I know that there are one or two Kinsella fans here and I can report to them that it was a very memorable night.  John Kinsella himself was present. After the performance he was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award 2019. Kinsella gave a speech at the end of the ceremony on stage which merely reaffirmed how unassuming a man he is.

Kinsella's Symphony No. 11 is a standard three movement work [fast, slow, fast] and it is scored for a medium sized orchestra. This work is something of an homage to Kinsella's musical idol, Sibelius, and in particular the projected Eight Symphony. To quote Kinsella himself, "I freely constructed motifs from the sketches and built the work from them". One can hear clear echoes of Sibelius in Kinsella's Symphony No. 11 but it is a work which has a clear and distinctive voice of its own. The music is powerful, dramatic, thrilling and noble. The performance was also dramatic, thrilling and very exciting from a very committed orchestra who gave their heart and soul to the performance.

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Nice stuff. Nourlangie evokes nature, with its bird cries imitations - kind of a down under Cantus Arcticus.

A nice work, indeed. I should probably revisit it at some point today.

Thread duty -

Lutoslawski
5 Songs
Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Antoni Wit
Jadwiga Rappé (alto)

[ritter]

This set arrived today (from literally the other end of the world):



I don't have time to listen to all the pieces tonight, so I've jumped directly to the Sept Berceuses, among my favourite works by Reynaldo Hahn. Leslie Howard and Mattia Ometto take a much softer, childlike approach to these delightful pieces than Kun Woo Paik and Hüseyin Sermet (the only other recording of the series), and the work seems much closer to e.g. Fauré's Dolly in this version. The tempos are also rather more relaxed. Quite nice, I must say. Will try to report on the world premiere recordings included in this set when I have time.

[Symphonic Addict]

John Kinsella: Symphony No. 11 [RTE National Symphony Orchestra/Deroyer]





On Friday 29th November I had the privilege to be present at the world premier of Kinsella's Symphony No. 11. I know that there are one or two Kinsella fans here and I can report to them that it was a very memorable night.  John Kinsella himself was present. After the performance he was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award 2019. Kinsella gave a speech at the end of the ceremony on stage which merely reaffirmed how unassuming a man he is.

Kinsella's Symphony No. 11 is a standard three movement work [fast, slow, fast] and it is scored for a medium sized orchestra. This work is something of an homage to Kinsella's musical idol, Sibelius, and in particular the projected Eight Symphony. To quote Kinsella himself, "I freely constructed motifs from the sketches and built the work from them". One can hear clear echoes of Sibelius in Kinsella's Symphony No. 11 but it is a work which has a clear and distinctive voice of its own. The music is powerful, dramatic, thrilling and noble. The performance was also dramatic, thrilling and very exciting from a very committed orchestra who gave their heart and soul to the performance.

How interesting to read, aligreto! Certainly I'm one of those fans. It looked like a most fascinating experience as you say. Now let's hope a CD recording of that work.

[Papy Oli]

John Kinsella: Symphony No. 11 [RTE National Symphony Orchestra/Deroyer]





On Friday 29th November I had the privilege to be present at the world premier of Kinsella's Symphony No. 11. I know that there are one or two Kinsella fans here and I can report to them that it was a very memorable night.  John Kinsella himself was present. After the performance he was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award 2019. Kinsella gave a speech at the end of the ceremony on stage which merely reaffirmed how unassuming a man he is.

Kinsella's Symphony No. 11 is a standard three movement work [fast, slow, fast] and it is scored for a medium sized orchestra. This work is something of an homage to Kinsella's musical idol, Sibelius, and in particular the projected Eight Symphony. To quote Kinsella himself, "I freely constructed motifs from the sketches and built the work from them". One can hear clear echoes of Sibelius in Kinsella's Symphony No. 11 but it is a work which has a clear and distinctive voice of its own. The music is powerful, dramatic, thrilling and noble. The performance was also dramatic, thrilling and very exciting from a very committed orchestra who gave their heart and soul to the performance.

Jens retweeted an article link to this premiere some days back, with a video of it :

https://www.rte.ie/culture/2019/1129/1095980-the-lyric-concert-john-kinsellas-11th-symphony-premiered/

[aligreto]

d'Indy: Istar [Monteux]

[aligreto]

Jens retweeted an article link to this premiere some days back, with a video of it :

https://www.rte.ie/culture/2019/1129/1095980-the-lyric-concert-john-kinsellas-11th-symphony-premiered/

Excellent! Thank you very much for posting that. I can relive the experience.

[Papy Oli]

Excellent! Thank you very much for posting that. I can relive the experience.

you can thank Jens

[aligreto]

you can thank Jens

Thank you Jens 

[SonicMan46]

Well, I've been spending the day w/ Papa Bach's youngest son:

Bach, Johann Christian (1735-1782) - Keyboard Sonatas, Op. 5 & Op. 17 - 4 discs (3 owned & 1 on Spotify, i.e. clavichord) - four different instruments; all quite well done - performers on the cover art (Op. 5 discs top & Op. 17 bottom) - Dave

 

 

[Madiel]

You'll dig that two piano version of Symphonic Dances. I listened to it not too long ago.

I've been digging it for years.

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I've been digging it for years.

Thread duty -

Britten
Holiday Diary, Op. 5
Stephen Hough

From this set:



For those that missed this box set and are Britten fans, you truly missed one of most amazing box sets released by Decca, IMHO.

[André]

Jens retweeted an article link to this premiere some days back, with a video of it :

https://www.rte.ie/culture/2019/1129/1095980-the-lyric-concert-john-kinsellas-11th-symphony-premiered/

Fantastic! Thanks Olivier, Jens and Ali the Great!

[André]

A set of 7 orchestral works by Sculthorpe. It centers around the series of four Sun pieces composed in the period 1965-1969. Although not forming an entity they were eventually heard together (with a fifth, unrelated work) in a ballet production. This is sometimes harsh, pendereckian stuff (Sun Music I) but there are many moments of original (aboriginal?) sounds and rythms (Sun Music III), sometimes showing the influence of Colin McPhee. Altogether a very good compilation. Recommended.