What are you listening 2 now?

[Mirror Image]

While listening to Honegger's delightful Concerto da camera (flute, cor anglais & strings)

Lovely work sans the ketchup.

[Karl Henning]

Piston
Pf Quintet

[bhodges]

Missy Mazzoli: Still Life with Avalanche (eighth blackbird)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZFEuP_VPE8

While Mazzoli was writing this, her cousin died, and that comes out in the music. Was listening after hearing that the Houston Grand Opera has canceled the rest of its season, which was to have included her opera, Breaking the Waves (which is highly recommended).

--Bruce

[André]

I was lucky to hear this live in 2010, when Alan Gilbert conducted it with the New York Philharmonic. The orchestra's marketing department posted a short video (below) of Gilbert and the percussionists poking through a Staten Island junkyard, searching for metallic items to use. When the time came for the Lincoln Center performance, I had the great pleasure of sitting behind an old rusty oxygen tank. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTMOpE_t8BA&list=PLE29CA11BB8CB4230&index=6&t=0s

--Bruce

Nice disc, and an even better live experience - one to remember every time you listen to the work 

[André]

Cencic's voice is squarely in mezzo/contralto territory, darker than most other countertenors'. Despite his often colourful attire, Max is a most tasteful singer, not given to Bartoli-like dubious pyrotechnics.

[Mirror Image]

Continuing with the Myaskovsky symphonic cycle: the 6th

[pjme]

Lovely work sans the ketchup.

No, no it is excellent with ketchup.

[Mahlerian]

Obrecht: Missa de Sancto Donatiano
Capella Pratensis

[ritter]

Summer is here....


Eleanor Steber sings Samuel Barber's Knoxville: Summer of 1915.

[Symphonic Addict]

I was lucky to hear this live in 2010, when Alan Gilbert conducted it with the New York Philharmonic. The orchestra's marketing department posted a short video (below) of Gilbert and the percussionists poking through a Staten Island junkyard, searching for metallic items to use. When the time came for the Lincoln Center performance, I had the great pleasure of sitting behind an old rusty oxygen tank. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTMOpE_t8BA&list=PLE29CA11BB8CB4230&index=6&t=0s

--Bruce

I just watched the video. Rather original activity to say the least. 

[Symphonic Addict]

Playing this work again. Lovely. Cesar, Jeffrey, Kyle, Johan...I think you'll enjoy this work. By the way, Cesar, have you got around to getting The Humpbacked Horse yet? I don't have to tell you how riveting it is again do I? Oh wait, I just did.

John, you're perverse! 

[ritter]

Summer is here....


Eleanor Steber sings Samuel Barber's Knoxville: Summer of 1915.

It turns out that Miss Steber is uniquely qualified to provide a perfect summer evening's vocal recital. Following the Barber with Berlioz's Les nuits d'été (in one of the great classic recordings of this music, conducted by Dimitri Mitrpoulos).

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EDIT:

And today being Johannistag (hat tip to Mirror Image btw), what better than to finish the evening's listening with what, for me, is some of the finest music ever composed: Meistersinger! The beginning of Act III (the prelude and Sach's Wahnmonolog).

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This historic recording under Keiberth was made live at the reopening of the Bavarian National Theatre in Munich in 1963.

"... daß wer am Ufer des Jordans
Johannes ward genannt,
an der Pegnitz hieß der Hans..."

Wunderbar! 

[Irons]

Robert Simpson: 8th String Quartet.

Heavy Beethoven influence, his late quartets in particular.

[vers la flamme]

I wanted in after seeing a few listening to this...



Gabriel Fauré: Piano Quintet No.1 in D minor, op.89. Domus Ensemble + Anthony Marwood on second violin

What a remarkably beautiful work. Probably my favorite of all Fauré if not the great Requiem. I'm not always game for Fauré's music, and I'm certainly not the superfan that I see in some of y'all, but I do consider him to be one of the great French composers (& teachers of composition) of all time, and if anyone doubts that, I direct them to listen to this work. I have yet to find as much love for the second quintet. I'm unsure whether I'll listen only to the one or to both. Maybe I will listen through both, as I have a bit of a headache and find this kind of music soothing in a way that, say, Stockhausen might not be.

[71 dB]

Gabriel Fauré: Piano Quintet No.1 in D minor, Op. 89 - The Schubert Ensemble. Spotify

My intent was to listen to Domus, but the damn Spotify doesn't seem to have it!! 
Anyway, this Chandos release sounds very good. 

[Madiel]

Hyperion albums are not on streaming services. Ever.

[Madiel]

I wanted in after seeing a few listening to this...



Gabriel Fauré: Piano Quintet No.1 in D minor, op.89. Domus Ensemble + Anthony Marwood on second violin

What a remarkably beautiful work. Probably my favorite of all Fauré if not the great Requiem. I'm not always game for Fauré's music, and I'm certainly not the superfan that I see in some of y'all, but I do consider him to be one of the great French composers (& teachers of composition) of all time, and if anyone doubts that, I direct them to listen to this work. I have yet to find as much love for the second quintet. I'm unsure whether I'll listen only to the one or to both. Maybe I will listen through both, as I have a bit of a headache and find this kind of music soothing in a way that, say, Stockhausen might not be.

Agreed entirely on the 1st quintet. It's incredible (and of course I primarily know it from this recording). And the interesting thing is, it's one of the compositions that gave Fauré the most trouble. It took him many years.

[71 dB]

Hyperion albums are not on streaming services. Ever.

Well that sucks.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

I was lucky to hear this live in 2010, when Alan Gilbert conducted it with the New York Philharmonic. The orchestra's marketing department posted a short video (below) of Gilbert and the percussionists poking through a Staten Island junkyard, searching for metallic items to use. When the time came for the Lincoln Center performance, I had the great pleasure of sitting behind an old rusty oxygen tank. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTMOpE_t8BA&list=PLE29CA11BB8CB4230&index=6&t=0s

--Bruce

Bruce, I just watched that...looks like the percussionists (and the conductor) were having a lot of fun.  Junkyard owner was rather perplexed I think.   

[Madiel]

Well that sucks.

Indeed. But the company said many years ago that streaming services pay an absolute pittance (something of course many artists have pointed out as well), and they concluded that if they relied on streaming for income they would go broke.

So it's CDs or downloads.

Edit: you can of course sample 90 seconds on iTunes.