What are you listening 2 now?

[Symphonic Addict]

I find that this set is splendid throughout, and perhaps the Op. 135 being the top of the heap.

The other day I was listening to the 12th SQ from that set and it didn't impress me. Their approach to this music as an ensemble is too modern for my taste. I look for a "saucier" and refined playing. The same goes for their Grosse Fuge. Just what I don't want to hear.

[Symphonic Addict]

The Clarinet Concerto just resonates with me. This work has everything to enchant me. It's arguably the best clarinet concerto ever written I would say. That feeling of "malice" that conveys makes me smiling   

If I were a composer, my music would sound like Nielsen's. Quirkiness and energy would be my stamp. 




I was listening to Alfama Suite from this splendid disc. Oh, how lovely and tuneful! Delightful from start to finish. BTW, this CD has no dull works.

[Brass Hole]

Quite possibly the best Christmas album I've ever heard. Superb in every respect: selection*, arrangements, performance, sonics.

* beside the usual suspects, some unknown (to me) German and French Christmas songs that brought tears  of joy to my eyes.

[pjme]

Josquin Des Pres: Miserere / Pierre de Manchicourt: Messe quo abiit dilectus tuus.
Direction R.P Emile Martin de l'oratoire
On BAM record France, disque française de musique sacrée de l'année- i quote what written on it.

Josquin miserere thee killer 20 minutes Motet is here, this make the LP more enjoyable than on same side side A, we get an anonymous XVI Emendemous. So in the end we get a solid  slab of sacred music. On the B-side we get Pierre de Manchicourt, quite elaborated masse, whom would not see the day again on CD format.Any comment on this offering?

Interesting! That's an old recording. Le père Martin was an early researcher/conductor/composer, long before HIP.
His recordings ( ca 1940-1960) are largely forgotten now, but are testimony to his inquisitive mind.
I found some biographical facts - only French!

Le Révérend Père Emile Martin est un homme d'église, organiste, chef de choeur, chef d'orchestre et compositeur, né le 7 mai 1914 à Cendras (Gard) et mort le 7 novembre 1989 à Lisieux.
Sous l'égide de son oncle, maître de chapelle à la cathédrale de Nîmes, dès l'âge de 11 ans il transposait dans tous les tons la première fugue du Clavier bien tempéré de Bach. Emile Martin fut ordonné prêtre en 1939, il est organiste et chef de choeur à l'église Ste Odile du 17ème arrondissement de Paris, de 1939 à 1951, puis dirige l'orgue et les choeurs de St Eustache, de 1964 jusqu'à sa retraite en 1988..
Membre de la Société de l'Oratoire de Jésus en 1947.

Il fut professeur du chef d'orchestre et compositeur Rémi Gousseau.

Il a créé en 1944 et dirigé durant de nombreuses années le choeur de Saint Eustache, qui, aujourd'hui encore, se sont employés à servir un vaste répertoire de musique sacrée.

Le père Emile Martin a réalisé de nombreux enregistrements et contribué à la résurrection de compositeurs oubliés comme Eustache du Caurroy ou Pierre de Manchicourt. Il est également l'auteur d'ouvrages musicologiques tels que Essai sur l'évolution des rythmes de la chanson grecque antique (Paris, 1953) et Une muse en péril : essai sur la musique et le sacré (Paris, 1968).

Parmi les compositions d'Emile Martin, il faut retenir une Messe responsariale des Anges, un Libera me (pour voix, tam-tam, cuivres et orgue), un Leatatus sum, un Prélude funèbre pour orchestre, une Stèle en forme d'élégie pour cordes, une Ode à St Jean Baptiste pour choeur, orgue, fanfare et orchestre, une suite d'Images liturgiques.
Et aussi d'autres oeuvres sacrées : Psaume pour l'Agonie du Monde (1956), Rex Pacificus, oratorio (1959), Le Voilier sous la Croix, oratorio (1956), Le Miroir de Jeanne (1977), Images bibliques, poème symphonique (1959), Hymne de Sérapion pour choeur et orgue, Triptyque musical pour la chapelle Saint-Pierre de Villefranche, texte de Jean Cocteau (1963), Noël des Mages...

In 1949 Martin wrote a festive mass in baroque style, " Messe du sacre des Rois de France", which he jokingly attributed to Etienne Moulinié. It took quite a while before musicologists discovered the scam....
It makes a wonderful noise!
https://youtu.be/4KuS9qwHgfg

[Todd]

[Carxofes fregides]

[Symphonic Addict]

The way you show your recent listening is certainly original.

[Florestan]

The way you show your recent listening is certainly original.

Originality is greatly overrated.

[Carlo Gesualdo]

Interesting! That's an old recording. Le père Martin was an early researcher/conductor/composer, long before HIP.
His recordings ( ca 1940-1960) are largely forgotten now, but are testimony to his inquisitive mind.
I found some biographical facts - only French!

Le Révérend Père Emile Martin est un homme d'église, organiste, chef de choeur, chef d'orchestre et compositeur, né le 7 mai 1914 à Cendras (Gard) et mort le 7 novembre 1989 à Lisieux.
Sous l'égide de son oncle, maître de chapelle à la cathédrale de Nîmes, dès l'âge de 11 ans il transposait dans tous les tons la première fugue du Clavier bien tempéré de Bach. Emile Martin fut ordonné prêtre en 1939, il est organiste et chef de choeur à l'église Ste Odile du 17ème arrondissement de Paris, de 1939 à 1951, puis dirige l'orgue et les choeurs de St Eustache, de 1964 jusqu'à sa retraite en 1988..
Membre de la Société de l'Oratoire de Jésus en 1947.

Il fut professeur du chef d'orchestre et compositeur Rémi Gousseau.

Il a créé en 1944 et dirigé durant de nombreuses années le choeur de Saint Eustache, qui, aujourd'hui encore, se sont employés à servir un vaste répertoire de musique sacrée.

Le père Emile Martin a réalisé de nombreux enregistrements et contribué à la résurrection de compositeurs oubliés comme Eustache du Caurroy ou Pierre de Manchicourt. Il est également l'auteur d'ouvrages musicologiques tels que Essai sur l'évolution des rythmes de la chanson grecque antique (Paris, 1953) et Une muse en péril : essai sur la musique et le sacré (Paris, 1968).

Parmi les compositions d'Emile Martin, il faut retenir une Messe responsariale des Anges, un Libera me (pour voix, tam-tam, cuivres et orgue), un Leatatus sum, un Prélude funèbre pour orchestre, une Stèle en forme d'élégie pour cordes, une Ode à St Jean Baptiste pour choeur, orgue, fanfare et orchestre, une suite d'Images liturgiques.
Et aussi d'autres oeuvres sacrées : Psaume pour l'Agonie du Monde (1956), Rex Pacificus, oratorio (1959), Le Voilier sous la Croix, oratorio (1956), Le Miroir de Jeanne (1977), Images bibliques, poème symphonique (1959), Hymne de Sérapion pour choeur et orgue, Triptyque musical pour la chapelle Saint-Pierre de Villefranche, texte de Jean Cocteau (1963), Noël des Mages...

In 1949 Martin wrote a festive mass in baroque style, " Messe du sacre des Rois de France", which he jokingly attributed to Etienne Moulinié. It took quite a while before musicologists discovered the scam....
It makes a wonderful noise!
https://youtu.be/4KuS9qwHgfg

Hello thanks for comments on this LP I like it Josquin, rustic & analogic shine one this LP, never felt so alive since my Older LP (Concert Hall Society Label: Paul Boepple conduct Josquin and Lassus, what a bill, these old LP have souls of there own . Dear pjme thanksyou for info on pere Emile Martin, I did not know he ddone Eustache de Caurroy wow, neat, greeting to you kind pjme , I would subject Pierre de Manchicourt too since for  purist sake, because back than Pierre de Manchicourt was newly discovered, just like Missa Ise Confessor by Palestrina and rarely  it would see the day in CD media to my knowledge. Very epic Missa almost lost to be found on old vinyl. Neato , Goodnight

[Todd]

[Mirror Image]

Two different performances of the same work: Grieg's Old Norwegian Melody With Variations, Op. 51

From these two sets -

[Mirror Image]

Selections from this fine disc:

[André]

The way you show your recent listening is certainly original.

Indeed. Very informative as well.

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TD:



All three works on this disc were written in 1975. Norby's tone poem is the best known piece here, and the most approachable as well. It's a slow-moving orchestral crescendo-decrescendo. The other two works are more eventful and volatile affairs, with a rather enigmatic subtext. A varied and interesting program.

[Mirror Image]

Glazunov's 5th from this superb set with Rozhdestvensky:



This set and the one from Svetlanov are so much better than Serebrier's, IMHO. The fidelity may not be on par with Warner, but that's no matter the enthusiasm from Rozhdestvensky on the podium and his Russian cohorts is infectious. This is one of my favorite symphonies from Glazunov.

[JBS]

The Clarinet Concerto just resonates with me. This work has everything to enchant me. It's arguably the best clarinet concerto ever written I would say. That feeling of "malice" that conveys makes me smiling   

If I were a composer, my music would sound like Nielsen's. Quirkiness and energy would be my stamp. 




I was listening to Alfama Suite from this splendid disc. Oh, how lovely and tuneful! Delightful from start to finish. BTW, this CD has no dull works.

The concertos CD is (I think) the best one in Gilbert's Nielsen cycle.

TD



The Bruce work seems to be the weakest portion of this CD:  scored for Mandolin, Guitar, Harp, Theorbo, and Harpsichord, it sounds like a mashup of New Age and PBS Celtic music specials. It's actually pleasant to listen to, but nothing beyond that.

[JBS]

Streaming because I seem to have a curious obsession with hearing versions of the 5th at the moment.



EDIT: I rather liked this. The finale made more sense than usual.

I think that whole set is the best LvB Symphony cycle to appear in the last 20 years. It seems to dig deeper into the emotional content of the music than others.

[Mirror Image]

First-Listen Tuesdays!

Holst
The Cloud Messenger, H 111
Della Jones (mezzo-soprano)
London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra
Richard Hickox

[Symphonic Addict]

The concertos CD is (I think) the best one in Gilbert's Nielsen cycle.

It could be! That's a solid set of Nielsen's masterworks.

[Symphonic Addict]

Selections from this fine disc:

The Cello Sonata is a stunning piece. Grieg is one of those composers where I seem to prefer his chamber works over the orchestral ones.

[Symphonic Addict]

I've heard some CDs of Beethoven's complete cello music and these ones with Schiff and Perényi are my favorites. Both instruments have prominence, clarity and vigour. I was listening to the 4th Sonata. Simply great.




And Martinu's 6th String Quartet from here: