What are you listening 2 now?

[Mahlerian]

Sessions: Piano Sonata No. 3
David Holzman


Hosokawa: Etude No. 5, "Anger"
Momo Kodama


Takemitsu: For Away
Aki Takahashi

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Britten
Phaedra, Op. 93
Baker
Steuart Bedford
English Chamber Orch.

From this incredible set:



The more I listen to Britten, the more I love his music. Such a troubled man and you can hear this uneasiness in his music, but there is great beauty within. Not all of his operas are winners, but the ones I love like Peter Grimes, The Turn of the Screw and Death in Venice are such overwhelming aural experiences that I have never forgotten. I love a lot of the non-operatic works like Phaedra, Cantata academica, War Requiem, Nocturne, Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings, and so many of those folk song arrangements for voice and piano plus song cycles for voice and piano like A Charm of Lullabies, The Poet's Echo, Six Hölderlin Fragments, Winter Words, and so many others. Then there are choral works like A Ceremony Of Carols, A Boy Was Born, Rejoice in the Lamb, Missa Brevis, and Christ's Nativity. Outside of these vocal works, I love the concerti like the Violin Concerto, Piano Concerto, Diversions, Double Concerto, the Cello Symphony...pretty much all of them. Other favorites: Sinfonia da Requiem, The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra (quite light-hearted fun really), Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge, Simple Symphony (both in its string quartet arrangement and the one for string orchestra), String Quartets Nos. 1-3 (plus, the non-numbered works for SQ or just differently named altogether), Lachrymae (in both viola/piano and viola/string orchestra arrangements), and the solo piano suite, Holiday Diary. I'm sure there are more, but my brain has gone into meltdown right now.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Well PD, I like hard copy CDs rather than downloads or listening on 'Spotify'. My wife says that I should put my entire collection on an 'iPod' (whatever that is) and get rid of all the CDs and LPs. Can you imagine?

I understand:  I love my CDs!  iPod....your collection?!  No! Compressed...well, I'll let you fill in the word...though I did put some music on an Apple device...though I went for Apple's Lossless (not the best, but so much better than various mp3s).

[André]

Still a benchmark for such compilations, warts (they are well known) and all.

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I understand:  I love my CDs!  iPod....your collection?!  No! Compressed...well, I'll let you fill in the word...though I did put some music on an Apple device...though I went for Apple's Lossless (not the best, but so much better than various mp3s).

Actually, as long as the bitrate is high, the sound quality will be rather good. It's just that so many people use such low bitrates, that there's no possible way the music would ever sound good. Compressed it certainly would be, but for these people who use low bitrates, I think butchered would be a more appropriate adjective in describing the sound quality.

[Todd]

Wonderful Faure, as expected.  Ravishingly beautiful, aided by the piano, while being clean, clear, and bright, something of Dumont's specialty.  The playing flows well, and the fastidious attention to detail really catches the ear.  For instance, in the B Major, he terraces his dynamics somewhere between piano and pianissimo to brilliant effect.  Bring on the rest of the discs.

Miraculously, Faure fans can hear this recording made in late May 2020 right now.

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Boulez
Sur Incises
Vincent Bauer (percussion), Daniel Ciampolini (percussion), Dimitri Vassilakis (piano), Marianne Le Mentec (harp), Michel Cerutti (percussion), Sandrine Chatron (harp), Florent Boffard (piano), Hideki Nagano (piano), Frédérique Cambreling (harp)
Boulez

[Symphonic Addict]

Sensuous, exotic, magical, lush, subdued. A quite entertaining ballet.

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Sensuous, exotic, magical, lush, subdued. A quite entertaining ballet.

Yes and rather Ravelian, but still beautiful and enjoyable all the same.

[Todd]

When I picked up Jordi Maso's set, I figured why not buy Adolf Pla's, too.  Preludis.  Very fine, with fine dynamic gradation and tonal variation.

[JBS]

Earlier, CD 9 from this
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I am finding I enjoy Arnold's concertante works more than his straight symphonies.

Now, CD of Janne Martenen's set of Sibelius's complete piano music.
Ten Pieces Op. 24
Six Impromptus Op. 5
Sonata Op. 12

[If Amazon US has a listing for this, I can't find it.]
ETA
Thanks to MI, I found an image on Amazon UK

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Now, CD of Janne Martenen's set of Sibelius's complete piano music.
Ten Pieces Op. 24
Six Impromptus Op. 5
Sonata Op. 12

[If Amazon US has a listing for this, I can't find it.]

This is a listing for it, but with no photo and it seems to be OOP:

https://www.amazon.com/Piano-Works-J-Sibelius/dp/B019D93B18/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=B019D93B18&qid=1588299312&s=music&sr=1-1

[JBS]

This is a listing for it, but with no photo and it seems to be OOP:

https://www.amazon.com/Piano-Works-J-Sibelius/dp/B019D93B18/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=B019D93B18&qid=1588299312&s=music&sr=1-1

Thanks. I remember now that I actually got the set from Amazon UK, which has it available, but only as a download.

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Thanks. I remember now that I actually got the set from Amazon UK, which has it available, but only as a download.

Yes, indeed. I never bought the set as I already owned all the works in the Sibelius Edition on BIS. I do like Sibelius' solo piano music, but probably not enough to buy another set of it.

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The second disc of this set:

[SimonNZ]

[Mandryka]

https://soundcloud.com/amstelquartet/hugues-dufourt-les-courants-polyphoniques-dapres-klee

Hughes Dufourt, Les Courants Polyphoniques d'après Klee (2019) Not easy to find small form music by Dufourt apart from piano, this is for a quartet of saxophones I think.

[Harry]

Goodnight Harry!
I'm still up here listening to Shchedrin's First Symphony (again). Ok, so other than No.5 which other Raff symphony would you recommend?

That would be difficult, since you already told me, that there is only one Symphony by Raff which you like. I am a great admirer of Raff's art, so for me all works are equally fine. There is not a single Symphony in his oeuvre that i do not like. Thus the concept of a work above all others is not really an issue for me. Apart from his vocal works, I like his output totally.
On another note, I was hugely surprised that new recordings of Max Bruch his Symphonies attracted no sympathy on GMG, while I think he is a marvelous composer. He is one of many composers I admire, but not many beside me. So it's always a dialogue with myself and some close friends outside GMG.
Forgive me my passionate plea for Raff and Bruch and many others, but I feel strongly about this, already a lifetime.

[Carlo Gesualdo]

Hello there, I'm listening to the new Gesualdo by graindelavoix, very interesting. I might had, like what I'm hearing, this ensemble as always an interesting twist, experimental?

Always diifferent then otther ensemble  but close to ensemble Organum this had been said here and it's truth.

I cherished both ensemble as marvelous, Mandryka would agree. Whit zillion Gesualdo recording I heard I most admit...
it's spectacular, contemplative.

I knew deep down, I had to purchased it even if expensive, but this is a prestige ensemble, a one of a kind. Though I heard it all but this is fascinating, the voice are fluid, in good symbiosis.

So I'm captivated this is fantastic so far...

What else can I can put on the table, well beside this Gesualdo I still did not received my Philippe Rogier album on Linn label annd my Palestrina album on music d'abord too bad I GUESS, will have to wait a bit more everything slower nothing new here, perhaps everyone dead in U.K or Canada postage is keeping my packages hostage or worst scenario I have been robbed...stolen, let's hope not.

Farewell good night folks, that about it...

To be follow in the next episode, the four knight of apocalypse are there famine is waiting  and also the grim reaper... hahahaha better laugh than cry, Now I ask my mother to help her whit her grocery, she frail she old she like 4''8, 90 pounds she did survived, she is fine. 

Beside are you guys doing well,  thus said in good health, and that it...take good care.


Deprofundis neutralized a parasitic enemy, whom was doing espionage, and block about 376 profile 7 of them on my Facebook  or hidden I can't block them '' des connards'' two of them had 300 different profile is this legal to have 300 profile whit different name F word hacker & spy , like Covid 19 was ain't enough.

[Que]

Morning listening:



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