What are you listening 2 now?

[Stürmisch Bewegt]

My Saturday treat :

[Que]

On a harpsichord after Johann Leydecker, Vienna, 1755.

[Traverso]

Kagel - Die Stücke Der Windrose Für Salonorchester.

A very fine piece and so well recorded,fun to listen to.

[Traverso]

Piccinini

Book 1

Luciano Contini

[JBS]

More from this 12CD boxset - "Musica en el Quijote":

   

http://www.glossamusic.com/glossa/reference.aspx?id=56

Another gorgeous recording! 

This set is on a fast track to become one of my favourite purchases of the year.

Q

And gracias to you: my copy landed a few days ago, and I started listening to it last night, after finishing up the other Que recommended set of German Lute Set.
Which is now also a JBS recommended set.

[JBS]

TD
Boulez conducts various works by Boulez
CD 7 of the Complete Works set

Cummings is der dichter 2nd version 1986
Livre pour cordes
Rituel in memoriam Bruno Maderna
Messagesquisse, sur le nom de Paul Sacher
Notations I-IV et VII
Memoriale (...explosante fixe...originel

[Karl Henning]

And arguably the best recording.

Wonderful disc entirely

[Karl Henning]

I've seen Janacek's Sinfonietta live twice, and was supposed to see it a third time but then the pandemic happened. It is my all-time #1 favorite piece to see live in concert. The effect is just tremendous. Last time, I took my parents, who had never heard any Janacek before, and it blew them away. They said it was worth the 500 mile round trip drive just to hear it.

Très cool!

[Karl Henning]

I am maybe struggling to enjoy classical music these days, but Valentin Silvestrov works for me.

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Sweet!

[vandermolen]

Howell: Lamia
Karelia State PO/M. Stravinsky

Holbrooke: Variations on "The Girl I Left Behind Me"
Karelia State PO/M. Stravinsky

Bliss: Violin Concerto
Mordkovitch (violin)/BBC NOW/Hickox

What a great concert! I was fortunate enough to see 'Lamia' live at the Proms - a fine work.

[T. D.]

A very fine piece and so well recorded,fun to listen to.

Interesting. I have the earlier Montaigne recording (plus Phantasiestück) by the same ensemble. De Leeuw was a huge Kagel advocate, but I'm surprised by the double recording.
OTOH, the timings (per discogs) seem much different...the Winter & Winter has just 3 compass pieces with total timing longer than what the Montaigne allocates to 5 pieces. So maybe the compositions were revised in the early 2000s?

[Piano1]

[Daverz]

I am maybe struggling to enjoy classical music these days, but Valentin Silvestrov works for me.

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If Silvestrov is working for you, what will Beethoven do!

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Albéniz: Suite Espanola.

An arrangement for orchestra by the conductor on this recording Rafael Fruhbeck De Burgos of piano pieces composed by Albéniz. Eight pieces representing not so much places in Spain but more the type of music played in such locations. Austurias is worth the price of admission alone. Spain in a nutshell and it sounds fantastic. In a different way I enjoyed the sweeping Granada. Of the others Castilla, Aragon, Cadiz, Sevilla, Cataluna and Cordoba I have only visited Cadiz which remains strong in the memory as a very nice place with friendly people.

I love the album. Great arrangement and performance.  Ravel told Albeniz that he wanted to make an arrangement of "Iberia". But Albeniz declined since he had already given a permission for orchestration to his friend, Arbos. If Ravel had asked for Suite Espanola instead, it would have sounded very different.

[Que]

I was particularly taken by the sonata in B flat major, Hob. XIV:2. It has a gorgeous Largo.
So I decided to listen to it again, but this time by Christine Schornsheim on a unfretted clavichord after Joseph Gottfried Horn, Nickern (near Dresden), 1788.

Q

[Que]

And gracias to you: my copy landed a few days ago, and I started listening to it last night, after finishing up the other Que recommended set of German Lute Set.
Which is now also a JBS recommended set.

Excellent, good to hear!   

[Karl Henning]

 No great surprise, with the warming weather, I've now listened to this disc three times in two days:

Stravinsky
Le sacre du printemps (1947 version)
L'oiseau de feu (1919 version)
Jeu de cartes
LSO
Abbado

When I was in the music program at the College of Wooster, hearing the Rite for the first time (I hadn't yet seen Fantasia, for instance) changed my musical life forever and made permanent imprint on my compositional sensibility. For no particular reason, I return to it relatively seldom, but it is evergreen for me. A great, Protean piece for which my ardor never cools.
Before I was graduated from "Woo," I heard the Clevelanders play it live in Severance Hall I still remember climbing up to the "nosebleed seats." What a great night that was!

[steve ridgway]

Interesting. I have the earlier Montaigne recording (plus Phantasiestück) by the same ensemble. De Leeuw was a huge Kagel advocate, but I'm surprised by the double recording.
OTOH, the timings (per discogs) seem much different...the Winter & Winter has just 3 compass pieces with total timing longer than what the Montaigne allocates to 5 pieces. So maybe the compositions were revised in the early 2000s?

Oh, there are 8 pieces in total and your disc seems to have the other 5. I found the one I'm listening to as MP3s on archive.org but see there's another (1 hour 45) performance of the whole thing on 2 CDs. I might go for the FLAC download from Presto as £11.25 is very reasonable.



Presented for the first time as a whole, the cycle of 8 pieces of 'Die Stücke Der Windrose für Salonorchester' was composed between 1988 and 1994. Mauricio Kagel worked here on the imagination attached to the cardinal points, inventing musical places that create a singular sound universe.

[T. D.]

Oh, there are 8 pieces in total and your disc seems to have the other 5. I found the one I'm listening to as MP3s on archive.org but see there's another (1 hour 45) performance of the whole thing on 2 CDs. I might go for the FLAC download from Presto as £11.25 is very reasonable.



Presented for the first time as a whole, the cycle of 8 pieces of 'Die Stücke Der Windrose für Salonorchester' was composed between 1988 and 1994. Mauricio Kagel worked here on the imagination attached to the cardinal points, inventing musical places that create a singular sound universe.

Thanks. The Aleph recording looks really good. And this clears up my confusion!

[steve ridgway]

Stockhausen (and Beethoven) - Opus 1970.