What are you listening 2 now?

[Karl Henning]

I have this one

I am guessing, Jan, that is the Suite from Le pas d'acier?  The fantasy of Markevich recording the complete ballet, I find alluring.

[Karl Henning]

A bunch of Haydn lately from these sets

   

Hi, Karlo!

[Karl Henning]

Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky [Ancerl]





This work apparently started life as film music. Prokofiev apparently then arranged it as a cantata. This is big and epic music, befitting the subject matter. It is very "Soviet" in feel, I must say.

Excellent!

[Florestan]

A bunch of Haydn lately from these sets

   

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When sanity needs to be restored, Haydn is the man.

[Karl Henning]

Igor Fyodorovich
Serenade in A
Sonata

Arnold
Suite, Op. 25
Two pf pcs, Op 33a & 33b
Rosen

Not my favorite Stravinsky works, by a country mile, but a fine disc nonetheless.

[André]

7-9

Each quartet is different, although they often take off where the preceding one left. All three here were composed in 1965. Holmboe seems to have been working with sets of three in mind. The abundance of material doesn't seem to have been a challenge, as every work is self-contained in terms of musical ideas and structure. Nos 8 and 9 for example are mirror images of each other, each in 5 movements, with no 8 having a structure of fast-slow-fast-slow-fast while no 8 is slow-fast-slow-fast-slow.

That being said, I didn't enjoy no 8 (agitated, hyperkinetic) as much as the more settled ones framing it. It could be that I prefer Holmboe's slow movements to his fast ones. Come to think of it, that's the case also with the quartets of Beethoven, Shostakovich and Bartok, too...

[vers la flamme]

Bohuslav Martinů: Sinfonietta Giocosa for piano & orchestra. Dennis Hennig, Charles Mackerras, Australian Chamber Orchestra

This is the first Martinů work I ever heard and I still enjoy it a good bit, even if the composer's other works as a whole has yet to really click with me.

[vers la flamme]

Changing it up...



Olivier Messiaen: Trois Petites Liturgies sur la présence divine. Myung-Whun Chung, Maîtrise et Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France

Messiaen's music is so out there, especially his sacred works. It sounds like nothing before or since. I have to really be in the mood for it. Lately, this has been really clicking with me.

[staxomega]

When sanity needs to be restored, Haydn is the man.

Thoughtful of you to include the link for the Brautigaum box in your edit  0:) Maybe one or two more drinks and my finger will hover towards the purchase button.

Some of my listening from later this evening - Ives Ensemble in Feldman's first String Quartet and 13, 14 and 15 Weinberg String Quartets.

[André]

Along with the Lulu-Suite and the three movements for strings from the Lyric Suite, this disc includes Three Fragments from Wozzeck for a generous repast of 80 minutes' duration. The so-called fragments are actually a suite devised by Berg himself to promote his opera. Soprano Alessandra Marc's chestnut tones and absolute security over a wide tessitura are a big plus here, imparting an instrumental quality and a concertante feel to her participation.

Berg chose the movements of the Lulu-Suite (premiered in 1934) to give audiences an avant-goût of his newest project. He didn't live to complete the work. I was not aware of that fact. I had always assumed that the Lulu-Suite had been put together by another hand, after Berg's death in 1935. Sinopoli and the Dresdeners produce hothouse performances, passionate, sumptuous, luxuriant. This is cd 6 of the Second Viennese School works Sinopoli and the SD recorded for Teldec just a year or two before his sudden death. A very important collection.

[Symphonic Addict]

Rautavaara: Garden of Spaces
Rubinstein: Don Quixote



One of the features why I find Rautavaara fascinating is his ability to conjure up mesmerizing and puzzling atmospheres. This work has much of that, and some impressive climaxes too! The whole disc is great. The Clarinet Concerto makes a strong impression too.

The epic story of Don Quixote has inspired various kind of substantial musical pieces. I'm not sure if this Rubinstein's work is one of them, but it's certainly a pleasant listen. The way some tension is built up in some passages is effective.

[kyjo]

Very nice, Kyle. Good to know you enjoyed the Raff. Yesterday, curiously, David Hurwitz uploaded a video talking about that quartet:

https://www.youtube.com/v/Dh0pqZ1veC4

Thumbs up for the other works, except Zemlinsky' Clarinet Trio which is not much of my liking.

Yeah, I noticed that. Funny coincidence!

[MN Dave]

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[SimonNZ]

[Mandryka]

I listened to his Barolotti CD last night! He's very good, though I never managed to get into Rainer's music - I'll give it another go someday.

[Madiel]

Holmboe, Viola Concerto op.189

[Carlo Gesualdo]

What the hell is an Oratorio please classical knowledge people explain to me  this about baroque music, because to me per. se thee Oratorio of  Leopold L  DIE KAISER OF BELGIUM OR EMPEROR
whit thee IL Sagrificio d'Abramo - Miserere
Weser-Renaissance at it'S finest super neat incredible sound melody, it's pleasant to hear great job  Manfred Cordes  nail it, wow.


My note is 5/5+ this mean I stay riveted stoic like Rodin the thinker and listen, focus, think, imagine, all in all good music  but heck guys it's CPO, who can blame them.

[Que]

Morning listening, my curiosity was piqued.... 



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[vandermolen]

Excellent!

That was my introduction to Alexander Nevsky. Nice to see the old Supraphon LP.

Thought I should play some VW today (born 12th October 1872):

[Irons]

Schumann: 3rd Symphony "Rhenish".



Inspired to play this by a BBC Radio 3 recent "Building a Library". Top choice in the programme for the "Rhenish" is Paavo Jarvi.