What are you listening 2 now?

[aligreto]

Hi Fergus, thank you.
I have added another 10 sacred music CD's of his in the queue yesterday. I'll listen to some of it soon. Enjoying those sonatas as it is.

Cheers, Olivier. I hope that you enjoy them.

[aligreto]

Gasp. Not even in Sarabandes?

That was what did it for me. In some of them it was "oh my goodness, I can actually hear where the beats are".  Especially in Suite no.5. Literally every other performance I've heard besides Queyras sounds to me like Sarabande no.5 begins with an upbeat. Only Queyras made me correctly hear that the first note is the start of the bar.

Nope.

[Madiel]

Holmboe, To a Pine Tree

[André]

Good morning all,

Decided to have a proper look at Qobuz after it being mentioned these last few days, giving a go finally to this streaming thingy, living with the times 

Started the trial account yesterday. An hour and a half later, I ended up with about 400 albums saved in the favourites for stuff i had in my explore list, in my potential purchase list now or in the past, in any list really...and that was only in Classical   I think it only came short on 3 or 4  CD/sets yesterday, not listed, so pretty good rate really. Me thinks that might make it beyond the trial period.

Listening to so far today:

That disc of overtures conducted by Arnold is terrific in all respects. These are symphonic poems, really. Arnold injects a tension, a layer of uneasiness absent from other versions.

[Biffo]

Mozart: Symphony No 41 in C major, K 551, Jupiter - English Chamber Orchestra conducted by Jeffrey Tate

[Harry]

The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, Volume VII.
CD I.
Works by Giles Farnaby.
Pieter Jan Belder plays on a Adlam Burnett 1980, after Ruckers.

Absolute delight from beginning to end. Superb recording and performance.

[Madiel]

Faure, Nocturne no.13

His last piano work, and for me one of the most enigmatic.

[Papy Oli]

That disc of overtures conducted by Arnold is terrific in all respects. These are symphonic poems, really. Arnold injects a tension, a layer of uneasiness absent from other versions.

Bonjour André,

I have the overtures by Ramon Gumba which are very good already but, in this one, you are right.  Arnold feels much more "in your face" and intense. I remember this CD being mentioned in the composer's thread as well as being one of the references of its time for hi-fi testing. That's an added incentive to get it at some point. That should be a blast on high-end headphones.   

[Florestan]

Faure, Nocturne no.13

His last piano work, and for me one of the most enigmatic.

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[Traverso]

Boulez

Pli Selon Pli

[Karl Henning]

I do greatly enjoy the Tafelmusik Masses, yet (as the saying goes) there's more ways to the woods than one, and I enjoy Lenny's "big band" recordings no less:

"Papa"
"Theresia" Mass, Hob. XXII:12
London Symphony Chorus & Orchestra & al.

Missa in tempore belli, Hob. XXII:9
Norman Scribner Choir & al.

Missa in angustiis, Hob. XXII:11
Westminster Choir & al.
NY Phil
Lenny

[ritter]

Boulez

Pli Selon Pli

A beauty....

[Mahlerian]

Boulez

Pli Selon Pli

Phyllis Bryn-Julson's voice is gorgeous here.

Mozart: La finta giardiniera, K196, Act 2

[Madiel]

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Noted. Although reading the score just now was in some ways more helpful... 

That one figure that emerges out of the chromaticism, and once it's emerged just keeps hammering away. It does suit that kind of description.

[Todd]

The only positive aspect to the Covid pandemic that I can see is that it affords me the opportunity to listen to music on my main system during the work day.  So I get to revisit hidden gems like this one.

[Papy Oli]

First listen to Egon Wellesz.

Symphony No.1

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[aukhawk]

Stockhausen: Mantra.



Not bad, the sounds of the two pianos are made a bit more interesting by a touch of light electronic perversion.

Ring modulators.  In electronics terms, they are about as archaic as a druid's staff.



I saw the Kontarsky brothers play it live, with the composer sitting on the edge of the platform dressed like an underpaid schoolmaster.  In that performance the electronics was not subtly done.

[Traverso]

A beauty....

I can't explain how this process goes, but through repeated listening, there is an indefinable learning process. What used to be a loose, disorderly bundle of sounds is slowly gaining more and more meaning.
This sounds quite theoretical but the music is by no means dry, although abstract there is clearly an experience of beauty and order.
Phyllis' voice is of great beauty which greatly contributes to the impact of this recording.
Life is a great learning process and as a music lover I cannot neglect the more contemporary music.
As Ritter said before, "a beauty"

[Traverso]

Phyllis Bryn-Julson's voice is gorgeous here.

Mozart: La finta giardiniera, K196, Act 2

The music of Boulez must be performed almost perfectly in order to experience, unlike Bach's music where the structure remains much more audible in a poor performance

[Mahlerian]

The music of Boulez must be performed almost perfectly in order to experience, unlike Bach's music where the structure remains much more audible in a poor performance

As someone who's stumbled through bits of both at the keyboard, I have to agree!