What are you listening 2 now?

[Papy Oli]

Good morning all,

I don't think I have ever listened some Bizet beyond some Carmen highlights.

Starting with Une chasse dans la forêt d'Ostie.

Symphony in C will follow from the same set.

[Que]

A new arrival:



https://www.thestrad.com/reviews/alessandro-tampieri-vivaldi/10294.article

[Madiel]

Dvorak, Violin Sonata



The violinist being Josef Suk, the composer's great-grandson.

[vandermolen]

Rawsthorne: Piano Concerto No.1
Best Rawsthorne disc known to me.
I rate Pritchard's 'Symphonic Studies' as the No.1 choice. He was an underrated conductor:

[aligreto]

Varèse: Ecuatorial [Chailly]





This is a powerful and atmospheric work with, what I find to be, a menacing undertone to it.

[Madiel]

Dvorak, 6 Mazurkas op.56

[Traverso]

Messiaen

Continue my exploration of Vingt Regards sur L'Enfant-Jésus now with Yvonne Loriod

[Mandryka]

Finishing my night off (well early morning, currently 3AM here) with two pieces by Jennifer Walshe, a truly lovely, visionary, and revolutionary composer (it is likely you've never heard anything like her before).

Duration & its simple modes (has some Meredith Monk vibes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XffBZePtEWc

Language ruins everything (has some The Twilight Zone - The Obsolete Man vibes).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl26ORHSdrk

So good. 

The same sort of mindset as Cassandra Miller I think, kind of Fluxus meets c21 postmodernism.  They both work here in London often, I have a friend who works with them. I like the stuff with the invented personae the best -- Irish Avant Garde etc. And this, whis has a slightly disturbing Beckett like mad quality

https://jenniferwalshe.bandcamp.com/album/all-the-many-peopls

[Brahmsian]

Listened to the Rosza, Tiomkin, 2 Steiners, 2 Korngolds this week. Amazing production values. Gerhardt was able to secure the participation of the Ambrosian Singers, pianist Earl Wild and contralto Norma Procter (aka the solo alto from Horenstein's famous M3) for what are sometimes very short contributions. Orchestra and recorded sound are top notch. The whole series was recorded in the Kingsway Hall in 1973. DeLuxe stuff.

It is a marvelous set, André. Glad you are enjoying it!

[Stürmisch Bewegt]

Some Alkan to start the day.  BTW, the story of his death due to a falling bookcase has been fairly debunked by music scholar Hugh Macdonald (whom I've met twice!).  Instead, he was found under a porte-parapluie (a heavy coat/umbrella rack).  He likely fainted and brought it down on himself while grabbing onto it to support himself.  He was found, still alive, and taken to his bedroom but died later that same day. 

[Stürmisch Bewegt]

Stunning! 

Me wants. 

[vandermolen]

Bernstein: Symphony No.2 'The Age of Anxiety':

Review here:
https://www.edwardseckerson.biz/reviews/gramophone-review-bernstein-symphonies-no-1-jeremiah-no-2-the-age-of-anxiety-anna-larsson-roland-pontinen-arctic-philharmonic-orchestra-lindberg/

[Que]

Me wants.

A larger but more economical investment would be this box set with all notes & texts in pdf:

[asin]B01L32LU7K[/asin]

And you get nine jaw dropping Italian madrigal recordings. 

[Biffo]

Beethoven: Symphony No 3 in E flat major Eroica - Les Siècles conducted by François-Xavier Roth. Fine dramatic performance.

[aligreto]

Miaskovsky: Symphony No. 8 [Svetlanov]





The stand out in this work, for me, is definitely the slow movement. It is very intriguing, atmospheric and beguiling; haunting in places. The final movement also has a different "feel" to it. Am I wrong or am I sensing an emergence of a sort here?

[Que]

 

[Traverso]

Schönberg

Gurrelieder

[Mirror Image]

Schönberg

Gurrelieder

Pounds the table! Fantastic, Jan.

[steve ridgway]

Messiaen

Continue my exploration of Vingt Regards sur L'Enfant-Jésus now with Yvonne Loriod

Crikey, it looks like it took her some time to complete recording that!

[Mirror Image]

Martinů
Sinfonietta La Jolla, H 328
Josef Hála, Petr Jiríkovský (piano)
Prague Chamber Orchestra
Ondrej Kukal



I have to be careful here as Martinů is one of those 'potato chip' composers and I hear one work and dozen more will follow.