What are you listening 2 now?

[Sergeant Rock]

Cheers, Sarge! As will not surprise you, that classic 1968 album was the inspiration

"Up to your ass in brass"

Sarge

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Yes, you are. 

I wish I had the same enthusiasm with his SQs as you, but they leave me cold, moreso his violin sonatas. The latter are just prolixity. 

Pretty much everything I've heard from Bax has left me cold. Definitely not a composer I flock to very often these days.

[Daverz]

Schumann: Spring Symphony

[asin] B00EXS4OVQ[/asin]

https://open.qobuz.com/album/4260034860902

Wonderfully youthful Schumann.

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SQ No. 10

[Symphonic Addict]

Pretty much everything I've heard from Bax has left me cold. Definitely not a composer I flock to very often these days.

British members of this forum do have Bax in high esteem + Kyle and me as far as I can see. I do like many of his works very much.

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British members of this forum do have Bax in high esteem + Kyle and me as far as I can see. I do like many of his works very much.

Yeah, I just never could get into him. Oh well, plenty of music to go around for everyone.

[Symphonic Addict]

SQ No. 10

I've also found tons of enjoyment on these quartets.

[Symphonic Addict]

Schumann: Spring Symphony

[asin] B00EXS4OVQ[/asin]

https://open.qobuz.com/album/4260034860902

Wonderfully youthful Schumann.

This conductor is very popular on the another forum.

[Karl Henning]

D'Anna Fortunato and Peter H. Bloom performing the première of my Op.119 № 1, a setting of our Cato's "The Crystalline Ship"

https://soundcloud.com/karlhenning-1/the-crystalline-ship-op119-no-1

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I've also found tons of enjoyment on these quartets.

Yes, I've come to really regard them in the same league as Shostakovich, Bartók, etc. In my mind, Villa-Lobos was a major composer and I'm finding that as the years go by, I continue to get so much gratification out of his music. There are many other fine Brazilian composers of course, but Villa-Lobos is like a separate world on his own.

[Mirror Image]

The Lark Ascending





One of the best performances of The Lark Ascending I've heard in years. Benedetti's heart is completely into the music and the sympathetic support she receives from Litton with the London Philharmonic is superb.

[Mirror Image]

I'm trying not to let tonight's listening session turn into a RVW marathon, but it's turning out that way so far.

Flos campi



Which I usually follow with Five Mystical Songs.

[Symphonic Addict]

I'm trying not to let tonight's listening session turn into a RVW marathon, but it's turning out that way so far.

Flos campi



Which I usually follow with Five Mystical Songs.

Hmm I know what your next avatar will be. 

[Karl Henning]

Hmm I know what your next avatar will be. 

(* chortle *)

[Symphonic Addict]

André Mathieu - Concertino No. 2 for piano and orchestra, Piano Concerto No. 3



Mathieu was a Canadian composer, a prodigy child who began composing at the age of 4!!! Just astonishing.

I guess the Concertino would come being the Piano Concerto No. 2 and it's rather good with a quite sentimental slow movement. No. 3 has Rachmaninovian exuberance, of unabashed late-Romanticism. Very enjoyable pieces altogether.

[Madiel]

Another day, another attractive Faure album.



I can tell you that track 1 is a raging success...

EDIT: Make that the first several tracks. This album covers from op.51 up to op.94, so pretty much what you could consider Faure's middle period. And in op.51 these artists absolutely know what they're doing.

SECOND EDIT: I think some of the later songs are a just a trifle too bright and dynamic for their own good. Finding the balance between flow and reticence is a tricky business.

[Todd]

[SonicMan46]

JC Bach: Oboe Concerto No. 1 [Robson/Halstead]


 


This work is elegant and engaging and is an example typical of its genre and its time. It is given a refined presentation by all concerned here. I particularly like its singing, aria-like slow and final movements.

+1 - own both of the above - Dave 

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Hmm I know what your next avatar will be. 

[amw]

Pretty much everything I've heard from Bax has left me cold. Definitely not a composer I flock to very often these days.

I usually have had the same reaction but the other day I had something stuck in my head and was like "I should listen to that" and it turned out to be the beginning of Bax's Symphony No. 4. So I listened to it and enjoyed it a good deal. I guess that's why it's worth maintaining a large music library, because you never know....