What are you listening 2 now?

[Mirror Image]

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

I know that feeling all too well...

[vandermolen]

Bloch: Poems of the Sea
An epic work in twelve minutes which I hardly know. Had to play it through several times. A marvellous CD which also features the Violin Concerto and 'Voice in the Wilderness' which I find very moving:

[Papy Oli]

I like both of those works very much.

Really liked the piano concerto in C, that much that  i played it twice in a row, particularly keen on the 3rd and 4th mvts.

[vandermolen]

Really liked the piano concerto in C, that much that  i played it twice in a row, particularly keen on the 3rd and 4th mvts.

Glad to hear that Olivier.

[Symphonic Addict]

Symphonies 4 & 5

I'm pretty sure I had listened to these works before. There were vague memories from them in my head. However, I'm rather surprised by what I'm hearing on this occasion. These works are simply phenomenal! The 4th is an agitated and relentless work in an idiom I would never associate with Enescu at all. Seriously, this is good. The 5th is more akin to the composer's style in its sheer voluptuousness and magical sonorities, but distant from the Strauss's influence found in symphonies 2 and 3. Enescu has proved to be a solid symphonist and he's in my book from now.

[aligreto]

J Strauss: Die Fledermaus [C Kleiber]


   

[aligreto]

I listened to this recording a short time ago,it is a fine recording.

Yes, I also really liked it.

[Florestan]

Symphonies 4 & 5

I'm pretty sure I had listened to these works before. There were vague memories from them in my head. However, I'm rather surprised by what I'm hearing on this occasion. These works are simply phenomenal! The 4th is an agitated and relentless work in an idiom I would never associate with Enescu at all. Seriously, this is good. The 5th is more akin to the composer's style in its sheer voluptuousness and magical sonorities, but distant from the Strauss's influence found in symphonies 2 and 3. Enescu has proved to be a solid symphonist and he's in my book from now.

You should know that he left those symphonies incomplete at his death; they were later completed by Pascal Bentoiu, so I think half of the credit should go to the latter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._4_(Enescu)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._5_(Enescu)

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You should know that he left those symphonies incomplete at his death; they were later completed by Pascal Bentoiu, so I think half of the credit should go to the latter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._4_(Enescu)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._5_(Enescu)

Exactly, which is really why I don't find them entirely convincing.

[Maestro267]

Sibelius: Symphony No. 2
Berlin SO/Sanderling

[SimonNZ]

on the radio: Septet

[Symphonic Addict]

You should know that he left those symphonies incomplete at his death; they were later completed by Pascal Bentoiu, so I think half of the credit should go to the latter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._4_(Enescu)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._5_(Enescu)

Sure, Andrei, I was aware of it. Reading the booklet notes, Bentoiu mostly orchestrated movements from those symphonies, so you're right, he deserves part of the credit. Independently of that, I enjoyed enormously these pieces, whether entirely written by Enescu or not. I don't care for it. They're splendid in their own.

[Traverso]

J Strauss: Die Fledermaus [C Kleiber]


   

Iwan Rebroff, did you like it? 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YC2H63DZao&lc=z22cjrywfte2u55yd04t1aokgoe1tvdhoa1l30yguftpbk0h00410

[Karl Henning]

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

I applaud you!

[Carlo Gesualdo]

Hello I took drastic decision detox for a month this mean no more smoking no more drinking, no more coffee, I was so sick yesterday...

Now I'm listening to a small ensemble, not that notorious but they deliver the goods in terms of vocal rendition Manchester Renaissance Ensemble the E.p  is called Lux et tenebrae I recommend this if you love early English Polyphony and polyphony in general sense..

After that perhaps one more listen of Jacob Praetorius (the elder) not Jakob the organist, but in this family there all great on CPO label.

Then I will rest for 3 week, live like a monk, whiteout toxin, smoking is very bad and coffee for the stomach.

So I chose health and abstinence of smoking and drinking, I see what happen yesterday as a warning, beware boy...you know.

Have A nice day

[Karl Henning]

on the radio: Septet

Very nice!

[Karl Henning]

Hello I took drastic decision detox for a month this mean no more smoking no more drinking, no more coffee, I was so sick yesterday...

Now I'm listening to a small ensemble, not that notorious but they deliver the goods in terms of vocal rendition Manchester Renaissance Ensemble the E.p  is called Lux et tenebrae I recommend this if you love early English Polyphony and polyphony in general sense..

After that perhaps one more listen of Jacob Praetorius (the elder) not Jakob the organist, but in this family there all great on CPO label.

Then I will rest for 3 week, live like a monk, whiteout toxin, smoking is very bad and coffee for the stomach.

So I chose health and abstinence of smoking and drinking, I see what happen yesterday as a warning, beware boy...you know.

Have A nice day

Courage!

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This entire recording:

[SimonNZ]

on the radio: Requiem

don't think I've heard this recording before

[Mirror Image]

This entire recording:

Zowie! Schoenberg's Erwartung is incredibly powerful. I think these monodramas from Schoenberg are simply infectious. I can't get enough of them.