What are you listening 2 now?

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The new erato

Quote from: Traverso on February 14, 2020, 04:18:47 AM
Sorry, I didn't pay attention, just looked at Brendel's head and I thought about the Schubert set. ;)
The Gilels and Backhaus are very good. Personally, I value Brendel more as a Schubert performer than his Beethoven.
Brendels Schubert box was one of my very early LP aquisitions.....

Traverso

Quote from: The new erato on February 14, 2020, 05:00:35 AM
Brendels Schubert box was one of my very early LP aquisitions.....

I have listened to the records in this box so often that the box almost fell apart and I am very careful with my records. ;)
I have it all now on CD the analoque as well as the digital.
I remember very vividly the profound effect the three Klavierstücke D.946 (impromptus) had on me,I was mesmerized and  astonished.Schubert feels always so close to me. ;)







Carlo Gesualdo

#10302
Dear amw, I did not heard this album by The sixteen of great Robert Fayrfax, I'm glad I inspired you perhaps to re-discover Fayrfax he sch a super composer, I hope you like Missa Albanus, take care and enjoy the music.

English polyphony is so cruelly overlook beside  big name Tallis , Byrd, but there are composer worth investigating, just as captivating, thanks for your post.

Fayrfax is a great favorite of mine like I said, than you for posting and sharing.

Papy Oli

Ralph Vaughan Williams - 5th Symphony
(Handley)
Olivier

Mirror Image

More selections from this gorgeous set:


Pohjolas Daughter

This with the wonderful Hungarian cellist Janos Starker with Shigeo Neriki's sensitive and elegant accompaniment  :-)


vandermolen

#10306
Quote from: Papy Oli on February 14, 2020, 04:34:16 AM
Good afternoon all,

Ralph Vaughan Williams - Job, A Masque for Dancing.
(LSO / Boult)

[asin]B00156ZWV0[/asin]

Boult recorded the work four times and it is dedicated to him. They are all good but the last one on EMI is very special. I saw Boult conduct in at the Festival Hall on VW's 100th Birthday concert (12/10/1972).
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

Traverso

Beethoven-Mozart Dvořák

Beethoven Octet Op.103
March for 2 clarinets,2 horns and 2 bassoons

Mozart
Serenade No.12 K388

Dvořák
Serenade in D minor for 10 woodwinds ,celloo and double bass,Op.44

Beethoven
march in C major for military band "Zapfenstreich"


listener

It is Friday so I do have music by VIERNES (both Louis and René)
plus BARIÉ, d'INDY, ROUSSEL, HONEGGER, DUPRÉ and LANGLAIS
Marie-Bernadette Dufourcet at the Cavaillé-Coll organ of Notre-Dame-des Champs, Paris
and a re-listen to BANTOK: Celtic Symphony (for string orchestra and six harps)
The Witch of Atlas, The Sea-Reivers and Hebridean Symphony
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra,  Vernon Handley, cond.
pretty dull when heard at low volume, gets a lot more interesting when neighbours are out and the volume can be pumped up.
"Keep your hand on the throttle and your eye on the rail as you walk through life's pathway."

vandermolen

Quote from: listener on February 14, 2020, 08:04:40 AM
It is Friday so I do have music by VIERNES (both Louis and René)
plus BARIÉ, d'INDY, ROUSSEL, HONEGGER, DUPRÉ and LANGLAIS
Marie-Bernadette Dufourcet at the Cavaillé-Coll organ of Notre-Dame-des Champs, Paris
and a re-listen to BANTOK: Celtic Symphony (for string orchestra and six harps)
The Witch of Atlas, The Sea-Reivers and Hebridean Symphony
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra,  Vernon Handley, cond.
pretty dull when heard at low volume, gets a lot more interesting when neighbours are out and the volume can be pumped up.
I really like the Bantock CD and was very lucky to see the Celtic Symphony live in concert (all those harps!) I'd recommend the Pagan Symphony and Symphony No.3 'The Cyprian Goddess'.
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

Carlo Gesualdo

#10310
Hello I,m listening to Jacquet of Berchem aka in dutch Jacobs van Berchem aka Jacques de Berchem, an obscure composer of Franco-Flemish , but I really like my Accent(label) album called la Favola di Orlando and he wrote lovely motets here and there like on Bnf, his allelouia is so soulful, full of hope and triumphant.

The album on Accent is special theatrical & narrative, a good listen, I disagree whit my friend here in Montréal a musicologist, he said it's good album not the best he had, but there is so little of this composer recorded in term of full album, are there is an I'm not aware of, yep even me...shame on me lol

Karl Henning

Quote from: Tsaraslondon on February 14, 2020, 02:12:27 AM


Kennedy's first recording of the Elgar concerto has always been a prime recommendation for the work, but this one recorded 12 years later with Rattle and the CBSO is equally fine, and arguably even finer.

The Vaughan Williams at 17'39 must be one of the slowest on record, and no doubt some will find it too self indulgent. I enoyed it though.

Love this disc.
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

Karl Henning

Quote from: vers la flamme on February 14, 2020, 02:52:31 AM


Alban Berg: Violin Concerto "Dem Andenken eines Engels". Reiko Watanabe, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Staatskapelle Dresden.



Must be a nice disc!
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

Karl Henning

Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

listener

Quote from: vandermolen on February 14, 2020, 08:34:14 AM
I really like the Bantock CD and was very lucky to see the Celtic Symphony live in concert (all those harps!) I'd recommend the Pagan Symphony and Symphony No.3 'The Cyprian Goddess'.
Got it, and will eventually have it on my playlist again.   I also have the (reprint) score for the Hebridean Symphony, not too expensive from Performers Reprints,
"Keep your hand on the throttle and your eye on the rail as you walk through life's pathway."

André



This same performance also appears on the Naxos Historical series. It dates from April 22, 1941. It is a different one from that on another Telefunken disc I listened to last year (recorded in December 1937). Apparently the conductor was dissatisfied with the latter and wanted to give it another go. Tchaikovsky conducted the work's premiere in October 1893. Mengelberg conducted it for the first time with his orchestra in 1897. He held it in the highest esteem, purchasing his own score in 1896 and peppering it with indications given to him by the composer's brother, Modeste, a personal friend.

What strikes the listener today is the many differences in phrasing and accent throughout the work. The second movement in particular is like no other version I've heard. Instead of a strictly metrical waltz, the movement moves and breathes like a drunken dancer, heaving here, pulling there, until he/she falls from exhaustion. That may sound crass and in bad taste but the feeling I get is that of a music finally freed from the constraints of a strict adherence to the letter of the score. Similarly, the very liberal use of string portamento (in the first movement in particular) is something one will never hear in the concert hall and even on record - most date from a time when it had gone out of fashion, thanks to literalist conductors like Toscanini and Klemperer. And yet, what a difference these slides make here!

The orchestra, its brass in particular, play superbly. The sound is ridden with surface noise, but the soundstage is surprisingly wide, clean and full. Only the very bottom sound layer is deficient (the bass drum). A specialist's version, not for the faint of heart - but what an incredible emotional ride! 1812 is given a surprisingly straight account, but it's very powerful and builds up to a rousing finish. Recorded April 11, 1940. Bells, organ, but no cannon shots. Those came the following month with the german invasion of the Netherlands, Belgium and France.

Traverso

Reinbert de Leeuw died at 81 r.i.p.

Traverso

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Karl Henning

Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

Karl Henning

Berg pf Sonata, Op. 1
Donahoe

Four pcs cl/pf
Meyer/Vogt
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot