What are you listening 2 now?

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Later today, I'll be listening to Peter Serkin's recording of the Schoenberg PC conducted by Boulez.

A fine idea, Rafael. I think I'll do the same or, at least, make an attempt to.

[San Antone]

Per Nørgård - Seadrift
Works for soprano and instruments

[Symphonic Addict]

Concerti grossi Nos. 1-6

Delightful miniatures. Succinct, direct, playful. A good alternative to the weightiest stuff I used to.

[Karl Henning]

Hovhaness
Lousadzak

[listener]

Choral Music:   American: BARBER: Agnus Dei, Reincarnations,  BERNSTEIN: The Lark, DEL TREDICI, FINE,
COPLAND: 4 Motets
The Sixteen     Harry Christophers
Finland:  SIBELIUS, RAUTAVAARA, KUULA, MÄNTYJÄRVI
Accentus Chamber Choir           Eric Ericson

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First-Listen Mondays (well...it's Tuesday now):

Boulez
Anthemes
Anthemes 2
Jeanne-Marie Conquer (Violin)
Kang Hae-Sun (Violin), Andrew Gerzso (Electronics)



Really great stuff. I particularly like the use of electronics in the 2nd Anthemes. Looking forward to exploring the rest of this set.

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One more work before bed...

Boulez
...explosante-fixe...
Sophie Cherrier (MIDI Flute), Pierre-André Valade (Flute), Emmanuelle Ophèle (Flute)
Ensemble InterContemporain
Boulez



This is a fantastic piece. The textures and colors are mesmerizing.

I found this video quite interesting:

https://www.youtube.com/v/ie5Ore2rjhk

[SimonNZ]

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Couldn't access the forum for long periods yesterday but enjoyed listening to these two in my car and at home:
Wordsworth Symphony No.2, Shostakovich Symphony No.10 and Tormis 'Overture No.2'. I enjoyed all of them greatly.
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[Tsaraslondon]

Gorgeous Delius from Sir Thomas.

With EMI achieving such wonderful results as this back in 1956 and 1957, it makes me doubly regret that Callas's opera sets were still being recorded in mono. Beecham's La Boheme, also recorded around this time, is unfortunately also mono.

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Woke up with a memorably inspiriting musical phrase going through my head. I couldn't place it so had to search through my pile of recently played CDs. Then I recalled what it was. It was from 'Epinikia' by Einar Englund. I definitely intend to listen to more Englund this year. Now, where is that 'Great Wall of China CD?':

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One more work before bed...

Boulez
...explosante-fixe...
Sophie Cherrier (MIDI Flute), Pierre-André Valade (Flute), Emmanuelle Ophèle (Flute)
Ensemble InterContemporain
Boulez



This is a fantastic piece. The textures and colors are mesmerizing.

I found this video quite interesting:

https://www.youtube.com/v/ie5Ore2rjhk

Yeah!! Awesome to see you giving Boulez's music a fair chance. I think you will find much, if not all of it, right up your alley.

TD:



Johann Sebastian Bach: French Suite No.1 in D minor, BWV 812 & Pierre Boulez: Incises pour piano. David Fray. This is just a phenomenal disc. Exactly what my ears needed to help me adjust to reality after a tormented and sleepless night. The short Boulez piece has just ended. Just put on this:



Sergei Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No.1 in F-sharp minor, op.1. Vladimir Ashkenazy, André Previn, London Symphony Orchestra. Beautiful playing. So far, so good. Perhaps even better than his later great recording with Haitink and the RCO.

[Harry]

Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa.

Responsoria.

Et alla ad Officium Hebdomadae Sanctae Spectantia (1611)
CD III. Sabbato Sancto.

Madrigali:, "Sparge la morte al mio Signor nel viso". (Madrigali a cinque voci. Libro Quarto-1596)
Madrigali by: Pietro Vince: "Le Braccia aprendo in croce". (Quattordici sonetti spirituale e cinque voci, 1580.)
Psalm 50, "Miserere mei, Deus".
Motectum, "Ne Reminiscaris Domine". (Stefano Felis, Liber secundus Motectum-1585)

La Compagnia del Madrigale.

I think the Responsoria by far the best compositions Gesualdo wrote. It is so expertly performed that I actually felt traveling to that era having my eyes closed, not to be distracted from outside stimulus, thus getting all of the finely adjusted notes for the singers. A wealth of details are passing my ears and heart. Such a perfect ensemble that captures all there is to be had.
Absolute necessary to have, if you are into the Renaissance. Sound is as always with them stunning!

[Tsaraslondon]

Lovely music beautifully performed by countertenor David Daniels and the Arcadian Academy under Nicholas Mc Gegan.

[Madiel]

Per Nørgård - Seadrift
Works for soprano and instruments

I loved that one when I tried it on streaming.

[pjme]

Woke up with a memorably inspiriting musical phrase going through my head. I couldn't place it so had to search through my pile of recently played CDs. Then I recalled what it was. It was from 'Epinikia' by Einar Englund. I definitely intend to listen to more Englund this year. Now, where is that 'Great Wall of China CD?':

Thanks for the inspiration!

https://www.youtube.com/v/zvle65sMmeA

[aligreto]

Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex [Solti]





I am not thoroughly engaged with this one. I do find the choral writing to be interesting, rewarding and engaging but my particular problem is with the solo writing for the bass line.

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Thanks for the inspiration!

https://www.youtube.com/v/zvle65sMmeA

My pleasure!
I've just been enjoying Symphony No.2 'Blackbird' and No.4 for strings and percussion which I hardly know.

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Legend, by John Ireland. Piers Land, Lloyd-Jones, Ulster Orchestra



A remarkable single movement piece for piano and orchestra. It starts out with a mysterious horn call, joined by strange string harmonies, then expands to an extended section in which piano and orchestra expand on the horn motif. There is a faster central section suggesting dance rhythms, and a return to the material of the opening section.

The notes suggest that the piece can be traced back to an experience Ireland had in which he sat musing in the sun on the hills above Angmering, a coastal town in England, and saw children dancing in the distance. Ireland's subsequent musings on England's neolithic past inspired the music.

I've only just spotted this posting. This thread is probably the most active on the forum and if you blink you can miss several pages (maybe a slight exaggeration but basically true). Anyway, that is a fabulous disc which has given me great pleasure. The PC is one of those works which, through over-familiarity, has lost its magic for me but the Legend is very poetic. Mai-Dun, The Forgotten Rite and These Things Shall Be are works that I still greatly admire - also some of the piano music like 'April'. The CD features my favourite work by Delius as well, in its original version.

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Disc 5

I really like the First Symphony by Daniel Jones - a pity that cilgwyn is no longer here to discuss it with as he was a great Daniel Jones admirer.