What are you listening 2 now?

[Karl Henning]

https://www.youtube.com/v/Dc3iX7x73JY

[Mirror Image]

Is not VW anymore? 

No, I haven't yet. For now I don't have much interest to explore them.

I love Vaughan Williams and I think he's composed some fine music, but this past year or so I've truly came under the spell of Britten's music. There's a darkness and eeriness in his music that highly appeals to me. I once read that Britten's music is like a reflection of water and wind. I think that's pretty apt.

[springrite]

An excellent disc 

There's another one on the same label with symphony no 12 that I like just as much:

Yes, I like this disc as well.
Did you like Old Lady's Song? I asked a few old ladies and have yet to identify that supposedly famous song that grandma's used to sing to put kids to sleep. But somehow it sounds familiar...

[Symphonic Addict]

I love Vaughan Williams and I think he's composed some fine music, but this past year or so I've truly came under the spell of Britten's music. There's a darkness and eeriness in his music that highly appeals to me. I once read that Britten's music is like a reflection of water and wind. I think that's pretty apt.

Your avatar change confirms it. 

[Mirror Image]

Your avatar change confirms it. 

Yes, indeed.

[Symphonic Addict]

Two very pleasant works by the Norwegian Iver Holter (1850-1941). His style is similar to that of Svendsen. Not indispensable stuff but it is certainly entertaining and well-written.

[André]

Not masterpieces, but these two symphonies do contain masterful moments that make the whole disc wonderfully satisfying. Myaskovsky's forte are those big, imposing first movements and soulful, melancholic slow ones. About half of his symphonies are in three movements (which is the case with the two recorded here) with the last movement being more complex structurally (sometimes embedding a scherzo within them). Both no 2 and no 18 contain richly melodic slow movements. The link between Tchaikovsky, Glière and Rachmaninoff is palpable. They drew their inspiration from the same well.

[Todd]

[bhodges]

Just finished a second viewing of All is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914, from Theater Latté Da in Minneapolis, showing on PBS this month. The show combines popular songs of the time, in terrific a cappella arrangements, with scraps of text from gravestones, letters, and other artifacts of the time. It's showing on PBS stations this month, and is well worth seeking out.

https://alliscalm.org/

--Bruce

[JBS]

This morning I'm searching Spotify for some decent Palestrina recordings.

Tried some in the series by Sergio Vartolo (Bongiovanni)... horrible singing & conducting, with performances that seem to drag their way through... Vartolo and I really can't get along.
Torturous stuff, for me at least, nuff said. 

Next some of the huge Palestrina series by The Sixteen...
I can't recognise any Palestrina in this smooth eathereal stuff,  but I'm sure it's just me!

Then I stumbled upon this, which sounds much better:



Of course, the real danger is that I really like it and I'll have to try to find some rare OOP discs.. 

Q

If Amazon US listings reflect reality, the answer is yes, although you can download one of them as MP3s from the Offspring of Bezos. It shows three, including the one you Spotified.

Tallis Scholars have recorded a bunch of Palestrina, but I seem to remember you aren't very keen on them.

TD
Bertrand Chamayou playing a good slice of Ravel's piano music, including Valses noble et sentimentale and Le Tombeau de Couperin, filled out by Beatrice Rana playing the piano transcription of La Valse.

From Warner's Complete Ravel set.

[Mirror Image]

Berg
Kammerkonzert
Boulez et. al.

[Mirror Image]

Hindemith
Die vier Temperamente
Idil Biret (piano)
Yale Symphony Orchestra
Toshiyuki Shimada

[Harry]

Johann Pachelbel.
Complete Keyboard Works, Volume XII.
Simone Stella plays on a Pinchi-Skrabl organ, 2013.

[Que]

Morning listening:



This time on disc, ordered used in used condition for a few euros.
Disc looked pristine, new case, done... 

Q

[SimonNZ]

[Harry]

New acquisition, first listen.

Moritz Moszkowski.
Orchestral music, Volume II.

Suite No. 2 & 3.

Sinfonia Varsovia, Ian Hobson

As marvelous as the first volume. Looking forward to the rest of his orchestral music. A valuable addition to my collection.

[Biffo]

Handel: Suite in A major, HWV 426 - Pierre Hantai harpsichord - newly downloaded from Qobuz this morning

[Florestan]

The Scuola di Ballo ballet put a smile on my face and turned a bleak afternoon into a sunlit midday. 

[Harry]

The Scuola di Ballo ballet put a smile on my face and turned a bleak afternoon into a sunlit midday. 

Yes, thats a remarkable work, as are all of his works on this CD. After I heard this ballet, I bought practically all music composed by him.

[MusicTurner]

Mozart - Concertos for horn, for bassoon, for oboe; Sinfonia Concertante K297 /Markiz etc. / Brilliant 170CD box
Again, these are some of the better features of the Brilliant complete Mozart box.

Händel - Judas Maccabeus /Somary /Brilliant 40CD box.
Found out that I wasn't in the mood for this rather ~average recording, so only half an hour's listening.

Händel - Brockes Passion /McGegan /Brilliant 40CD
A fine, festive and dramatic performance. Includes a boy's choir and countertenor, but it works. McGegan is generally good in Baroque music - for example also in Rameau's La Princesse de Navarre ...

There are a few comments on that old Händel box set here http://www.gfhandel.org/recordings/reviews/masterworks.htm
I kept about two thirds of the content of it.