What are you listening 2 now?

[vers la flamme]

Great set, phenomenally well done.

I really want this, but it's expensive, that would be my whole music budget for the week. Rest in peace to Mr. de Leeuw. An iconic artist.

[Que]

Good morning Que
Spotify seems to be giving you joy. You certainly try out a lot of things.

It's my wife's account that I use as long as my CD-player hasn't been repaired or replaced.

Thought to make the most of a bad situation - there's certainly a lot of stuff to try! 

Q

[aligreto]

Wagner: Siegfried [Solti]





Being only an occasional listener to Wagner one forgets how powerful, dramatic and tension filled his music is. And so it is here in what I still consider to be a tremendous version of this work.

[Karl Henning]

First-Listen Friday -

Schoenberg
Das Buch der hängenden Gärten, Op. 15
Jan DeGaetani, mezzo-soprano
Gilbert Kalish, piano

Classic!

[Karl Henning]

All the tough ponding certainly did little good to an old wooden table in Boston. 

It's still in the MFA's Restoration Department.

[Traverso]

Great set, phenomenally well done.

+1

[Mirror Image]

Classic!

Yes, indeed. A fine work. I need to revisit it at some juncture.

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Boulez : Sur Incises.

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Super cool!

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Ives
Orchestral Set No. 2
MTT
Concertgebouw

[vers la flamme]

Erik Satie: Trois Sarabandes. Reinbert de Leeuw, in memoriam.

Ives
Orchestral Set No. 2
MTT
Concertgebouw

I have this, too. Got it at Fantasyland here in Atlanta (check it out if circumstance ever brings you to the Buckhead area, one of my favorite stores!)—the Orchestral Set No.2 is great, but I admit that the Symphony No.3 has not clicked with me yet. Still, my appreciation of Ives is new and I am sure there is much in his music that I'm still missing.

[Mandryka]

Another O'Dette recording via Spotify:

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Q

What do you make of that one (I've not managed to get into it much, I really should try again.)

[Mirror Image]

I have this, too. Got it at Fantasyland here in Atlanta (check it out if circumstance ever brings you to the Buckhead area, one of my favorite stores!)—the Orchestral Set No.2 is great, but I admit that the Symphony No.3 has not clicked with me yet. Still, my appreciation of Ives is new and I am sure there is much in his music that I'm still missing.

The whole MTT Ives series is invaluable, IMHO. I've heard of Fantasyland, but I've never been down there. Honestly, I seriously doubt there would be much at this store I could find considering the size of my collection. Keep trying with Ives. He's one of my favorites. In fact, he's one of the first composers I ever got into. Symphony No. 3, 'The Camp Meeting' is like his 'pastoral' symphony more or less, but it does contain some darker undertones that make it interesting. Try his SQs and violin sonatas sometime --- they're fantastic.

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Poulenc
Flute Sonata, FP. 164
Philippe Bernold (flute), Alexandre Tharaud (piano)



Such an exquisite work and performance.

[aligreto]

Mahler: Das Klagende Lied [Rattle]

[aligreto]

That is a great CD.

[HIPster]

Morning listening:

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My appreciation for this recording continues to grow.  The Robert Fayrfax motet Lauda vivi alpha et oo is outstanding.

Detailed notes from Amazon, including this:

The British choral ensemble Alamire can always be relied upon to produce sonically vibrant, vocally well-matched and balanced, and interpretively authoritative performances, and that's what you'll find in this thoroughly interesting program of motets, songs and instrumental pieces from the time of Henry VIII. In fact, many of the selections are attributed to the king himself, nine songs and instrumental pieces being drawn from the so-called "Henry VIII Manuscript" that resides in the British Library.

The instrumental works are performed by harp or by the ensemble QuintEssential, which consists of cornett, shawm, sackbut and percussion; the solo songs are sensitively, beautifully sung by mezzo Clare Wilkinson, whose timbre here is remarkably like a countertenor's. Highlights include Sampson's Salve radix and Quam pulcra est (those cross-relations!); Jacotin's Beati omnes (sung by the lower voices), with its wonderfully flowing, interwoven lines and thrillingly resonant harmonies; and the opening O Christe Jesu, pastor bone by John Taverner, a perfectly written little gem that should be in every serious choir's repertoire. I can't overemphasize how much of the success of this recording is due to Alamire's impeccably balanced, full-bodied, well-tuned sound, so expertly recorded in three different venues -- and to the scholarship and clearly inspired direction of David Skinner. -- Listen: Life with Classical Music, David Vernier, October 2009

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That is a great CD.

It is, indeed.

[Mirror Image]

Great set, phenomenally well done.

I need to get around to listening to this set. My copy is still in shrinkwrap.

[HIPster]

It's my wife's account that I use as long as my CD-player hasn't been repaired or replaced.

Thought to make the most of a bad situation - there's certainly a lot of stuff to try! 

Q

Glad you are making the most out of this unfortunate situation Que!  Sorry you have to endure this and I hope you find a resolution soon! 

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Piazzolla
Histoire du Tango
Cecile Daroux, Pablo Marquez