What are you listening 2 now?

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NP:

Harp Concerto

I'm not really sure how I feel about this work. It has some neat moments, but, overall, it feels rather disjointed and not in a cool Schnittkian way either. It's also just too long given the musical material or, in the case, the lack thereof. I'll definitely not be revisiting this piece any time in the near future. Tishchenko is such a frustratingly uneven composer. He's even more inconsistent than Shchedrin who, in my view, is a major composer or, at least, I've come to this opinion after listening to so many of his works.

[Carlo Gesualdo]

Tonight yes!, this night, this very night to CPO Augustin Pfleger , were good composer, for various reason even better , following Sebastian Knupfer( love this album to death), and to end the program Johannes Eccard and is might and magic.CPO is like the wife I always wanted , she has taste in renaissance , she know my taste and liking, and Manfred Cordes is very professional and give a lot to the sound, a real god director of ensemble, we all love  Bremen Weiser renaissance Germany, and Meiholf Bruiser of Josquin Capella too, great Germans  directors respectively love there works

[Mirror Image]

Slavenski: Balkanophonia, Op. 10

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Mahler Fifth. Truly fantastic performance. On the livelier and passionate side, imo.

Yes, I always preferred this Abbado 5th compared to his one with the Berliners.

[Mirror Image]

Me too. I think this version is hard to beat although I haven't heard them all.

This is a great box set; really love the Bartok piano concertos, too.

There are a lot of great performances of M5 out there, but, yes, Abbado/CSO are very fine.

[Madiel]

Vivaldi Naive, next volume.



I've only listened to the RV589 Gloria so far (the RV588 still to go), but it was a very engaging performance.

[vandermolen]

Rubbra: SQ No.1
A great new discovery for me through this forum:

[Que]

Morning listening:



http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2003/Feb03/Byrd_Cantiones.htm

http://www.cardinallsmusick.com/cardinalls/william-byrd

Q

[Harry]

Morning listening:



http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2003/Feb03/Byrd_Cantiones.htm

http://www.cardinallsmusick.com/cardinalls/william-byrd

Q

I never could warm myself to the recordings of this choir.

[Harry]

New arrival, first listen.

Le mystère de Malheur me bat.

Huelgas Ensemble, Paul van Nevel.

This is quite good, in fact its a marvel again. Seldom do I encounter a less than good recording from the Huelgas.
Perfect choir balance. And very good sound.

[Daverz]

From today's Qobuz new releases:

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Who?  A Norwegian composer, his dates were 1888-1974.  We have yet another composer who chose the wrong side in WWII, this time Quisling's pro-Nazi puppet government.

The music is quite good.  The Piano Concerto sounds like melancholy Ravel.

[Que]

I never could warm myself to the recordings of this choir.[The Cardinall's Musick]

I'm exploring, and understand your reservations.

The Cornysh et al recording was wonderful. The Byrd recordings are nice but are sofar not wowing me....
The ensemble sound is not very transparant and the singing not always as tightly structured.

I own three of their Fayfax recordings, and the music sounds very (too) mellow and smooth for such an early composer.

Q

[Que]

New arrival, first listen.

Le mystère de Malheur me bat.

Huelgas Ensemble, Paul van Nevel.

This is quite good, in fact its a marvel again. Seldom do I encounter a less than good recording from the Huelgas.
Perfect choir balance. And very good sound.

Nice! 

Q

[Daverz]

Continuing on with another new CPO release: Bruch Symphony No. 3

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The symphonies were a disappointment to me after the Scottish Fantasy.  I've had the Masur set for years, and can't remember revisiting it much.  But this is lovely and probably does not deserve so much neglect.

[Papy Oli]

Good morning all,

New composer of the day : Franz Krommer - wind sextets.

Saw the name pop up in the purchases thread a day or two ago, in a post from Brian I think. this is simply lovely music. Will have a go at his symphonies at some point (the CPO covers of those is what caught my eye in the first place in the post).

[aligreto]

JS Bach: Sonata No. 3 BWV 1005 and Partita No. 3 BWV 1006 [Faust]

[aligreto]

Good morning all,

New composer of the day : Franz Krommer - wind sextets.

Saw the name pop up in the purchases thread a day or two ago, in a post from Brian I think. this is simply lovely music. Will have a go at his symphonies at some point (the CPO covers of those is what caught my eye in the first place in the post).

A nice "find" Olivier. I find Krommer's music to be very appealing and inventive. I have concentrated on his wind music thus far and have not yet heard any of his symphonies.

[Harry]

Continuing on with another new CPO release: Bruch Symphony No. 3

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The symphonies were a disappointment to me after the Scottish Fantasy.  I've had the Masur set for years, and can't remember revisiting it much.  But this is lovely and probably does not deserve so much neglect.

It is by far the best recording of the symphonies, and every one of them is beautifully orchestrated.

[SurprisedByBeauty]

Hmmm...rather surprised to read this, Jeffrey. You like these works better than Bernstein's Jeremiah Symphony? I can't say I know the Kubelik work, but I have heard the Goossens and I can say I don't find his music too memorable.

Oh heaven... I find that Kubelik's compositions do so much more for me than MOST of Bernstein. Anything of Bernstein's that was meant to be serious, at any rate. (His Candide is a masterpiece that Kubelik doesn't quite get near, granted... but their style is so very different.) Serious Bernstein is, to me, awful. Serious Kubelik (there wasn't another kind in music) is very much worth taking seriously. I wish his string quartets were more easily available.

TD:



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OT
Nice fountain pen! Is that a Parker Duofold?

Yes, it's a modern Parker Duofold, third (current) generation. (The "big orange" model, I believe, only comes in the slightly bigger "Centennial" size, anyway, and not the slimmer "International" one.)
It is one of my absolute favorite pens... and I have quite a few. Fittingly filled with an amazing looking orange ink, Noodler's "Apache Sunset".

[Harry]

Third rerun.

British Tone Poems, Volume II.

BBC Philharmonic, Rumon Gamba.

As brilliant as the first volume. Let us hope there will be many volumes to follow.