What are you listening 2 now?

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All three are excellent pieces! A bit out of your comfort zone a bit, perhaps? I've never seen you post Brahms.

I wouldn't say Brahms is out of my comfort zone as this would imply that I have some kind of boundary, but I'm finding the older I get, the more the boundaries (or mental blocks --- whatever you want to call them), simply don't exist.

[vers la flamme]

I wouldn't say Brahms is out of my comfort zone as this would imply that I have some kind of boundary, but I'm finding the older I get, the more the boundaries (or mental blocks --- whatever you want to call them), simply don't exist.

With so much great music in the world, that's the best way to be.

[Karl Henning]

Sergio Vartolo playing Frescobaldi

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With so much great music in the world, that's the best way to be.

I think if you're going to learn to appreciate anything, you first have to be curious enough to listen to it in the first-place and I've tried to maintain a curiosity about music even if my first reactions aren't positive.

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NP: Feldman's Rothko Chapel

[bhodges]

NP: Feldman's Rothko Chapel

If you're interested, this live Rothko Chapel from Brussels (with the Flemish Radio Choir) still up on YouTube, after the livestream last Friday. It's the third of three works on the program, and starts at about 37'. Audio and video are excellent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZavHlY5kSw

--Bruce

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If you're interested, this live Rothko Chapel from Brussels (with the Flemish Radio Choir) still up on YouTube, after the livestream last Friday. It's the third of three works on the program, and starts at about 37'. Audio and video are excellent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZavHlY5kSw

--Bruce

Thanks a lot, Bruce. I'll check it out!

[André]

Too early to form an opinion on nos 11-13, but I listened to 8 and 9 three times and think that no 8 is one of his best.

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The 4th:

[André]

My favourite choral work by Bach. This is a magnificent version, with a thrillingly dramatic account of the Evangelist recits and tenor arias by Michael Schade.

[Symphonic Addict]

Too early to form an opinion on nos 11-13, but I listened to 8 and 9 three times and think that no 8 is one of his best.

Yes! Sinfonia boreale is a masterpiece of huge impact. I can't get enough of that piece. The 6th would come second in my preferences.

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Lutoslawski's Piano Sonata

[Symphonic Addict]

Friedrich Gulda - Concerto for cello and wind orchestra

If there is a cello concerto that stands out for being fun, for its inexhaustible freshness and originality, it has to be this. It would be a guaranteed hit in concert halls! The first and fith movements are especially exhilarating.

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Schumann: Geistervariationen

[Handelian]

My favourite choral work by Bach. This is a magnificent version, with a thrillingly dramatic account of the Evangelist recits and tenor arias by Michael Schade.

Rilling took the mental from Karl Richter as upholder of the German Bach tradition

[vandermolen]

Too early to form an opinion on nos 11-13, but I listened to 8 and 9 three times and think that no 8 is one of his best.

I agree about No.8
It was my first encounter with Holmboe:

[Harry]

Johann Ludwig Krebs.
Complete Organ Works Volume VIII.
Robert Vanryne, Natural Trumpet.
Felix Friedrichs plays on a Trost Organ in Altenburg,

I am not that keen on this combination to say the truth. But I love the compositions never the less. The organ works have less impact combined with the trumpet, added not a very sensitive musician, and coarsely recorded.

[Irons]

Try those last couple of minutes if nothing else.

I found this work fascinating on so many levels. Delius based his Requiem on non-religious text from passages he collected from the bible, which must have been a massive task in itself. The work lives and breathes the natural world and mostly extremes of emotion are kept in check - this isn't Verdi. There is a mighty climax at the end for baritone, soprano and chorus followed by a peaceful orchestral coda.   

[Irons]

Concerto in due tempi, for piano and orchestra

I liked it because of the sonorities and some good effects from the piano, but I had the feeling that this music went to nowhere.




Cello Concerto

This was much better. Oddly enough I perceived certain "English pastoral melancholy" in some passages. A very good work by Myaskovsky.

I often think that when listening to Russian music.

[Harry]

Gian Francesco Malipiero.
Orchestral Works.

Symphony of Heroes.
Tragic Dithyramb.
Armenia.
Grotesque.
From Tombs.

Thessaloniki State SO, Amaury du Closel.