What are you listening 2 now?

[bhodges]

Brahms: Schicksalslied (Radio Filharmonisch Orkest / Groot Omroepkoor / Karina Canellakis) - Recorded on September 11, 2020 in Utrecht, and considering the date and the occasion, quite something.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFe2hbw1FRo

--Bruce

[Mirror Image]

Suk: Asrael Symphony.

Impressive in parts but a work I have difficulty coming to terms with.

Same here. It's not one of Suk's better works, IMHO.

[Mirror Image]

NP:

Respighi
Metamorphoseon, P 169
Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège
Neschling



All of these Neschling recordings of Respighi on BIS are excellent.

[Mirror Image]

NP:

Glazunov
Symphony No. 8 in E-flat, Op. 83
USSR Ministry of Culture SO
Rozhdestvensky

[Carlo Gesualdo]

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I am listening to my favorite musician of 15th century , focus on him the great Flemish Master Johannes Ockeghem, I like Ockeghem Masses vol 1-2 trough Beauty Farm Fra Bernardo, very good, now I felt tonight to explore a  double album Johannes Ockeghem (the chanson) on Music en Wallonie, direction: Jesse Rodin, ensemble CUT CIRCLE double albums, ya like songs there you have it, but admit I would like the Dufay work better by same ensemble.

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[vandermolen]

Totally agree about your last two musical choices John. The Respighi 'Metamorphoseon' and Glazunov's 8th Symphony are two of their finest works and in magnificent performances. We don't agree, however, about Suk's 'Asrael' Symphony which I regard as a masterpiece (I especially like performances by Mackerras and Ashkenazy as well as the classic Tallich recording).
Now playing - NYM Symphony No.24 - one of the strongest of the cycle I think:

[Que]

Maybe I do not search sufficiently, but as far I can see, it's The Sound and the Fury, which recently has released a CD with the title Pierre de la Rue Masses vol. 2, and not Beauty Farm.

Yes, indeed.  And I thought TSATF was disbanded - apparently not!

https://frabernardo.com/portfolio-item/la-rue-masses-2-the-sound-and-the-fury/#tab-id-1

[Harry]

A keeper, or not.

CPE Bach.
Flute Concertos.
CD I.

Concerto in D minor-A minor-A major.

Eckart Haupt, Flute.
Kammerorchester CPE Bach, Hartmut Haenchen.
Christine Schornsheim, Harpsichord.
Recorded in 1985, Christuskirche, Berlin.

Of course these are not authentic performances, but done in a quasi period style. I have grown a little more tolerant of these hybrid performances. Its all tastefully done, no real offences here, save for a bit more legato, but vibrato is tolerably low in the orchestras framework. Sound is excellent.

[Madiel]

Sibelius violin/piano works from 1884-88.



I know I've tried this music before, none of it is really essential though my recollection is that some bits are better than others. Some of it's a bit fragmentary, but in that respect it's not nearly as bad as certain other albums in the BIS Sibelius series. The earliest work is actually the most substantial, an entire violin sonata (though the inner movements are a lot less interesting than the 1st).

[Que]

Morning listening:

[vandermolen]

Franz Schmidt: Symphony No.4

[aligreto]

CPE Bach: Sinfonias





Sinfonia for Two Violins, Viola and Basso Wq 182/5 [Café Zimmermann] It is like Café Zimmermann speaks a different dialect of musical language with this music. I have heard it before but never like this. This is assertive, compelling and very elegant music making. The opening and middle movements have great poise and refinement and the final movement is definitely a piece of music of note and this is a particularly fine performance.

Sinfonia for Two Violins, Viola and Basso Wq 182/6 [Café Zimmermann] For me, the opening movement has echoes of middle Mozart, which is not a bad thing. The drive and forward momentum of the music is laudable without it being driven too hard. I like the musical language of the middle movement which, once, again, is very forward looking. It is very engaging. The final movement is a sprightly affair but it still has the requisite gravitas and presence to be a full blooded performance.

[Papy Oli]

Good morning all,

Finishing Corelli's opus 6 (/5,11,6,12,8,7)

[Mandryka]

Auryn Haydn op 33/1. Sparkling - champagne.  Very well recorded. The Auryn Quartet seem to think that the function of this music is to put you in a good mood - like a happiness drug - send you way with melodies going round your head and a smile on your face, having just had a thrilling ride in a fast machine. There is no weight, gravitas. There is no ambiguity - I mean emotional ambiguity. This is Haydn as genial gent, charming, agreeably diverting. He sends you up, he takes you down - you always know what to feel - simple. Nice and simple. Like music in primary school.  An op 33/1 which makes Haydn sound as though no one was writing funner or more witty quartets in the 18th century. Not even you know who.

It is the exact polar opposite of The London Haydn Quartet - who are much much much much much deeper. Obvs.

This time op 33/2 and it's basically more of the same - but while listening some nonsense popped into my head. This does for op 33 what Yo-yo Ma did for the Bach cello suites in the last recording. He makes quite thorny music (IMO) very easy going,  hummable and foot tappable. Not totally unlike Mosaïques maybe, from memory.

[Roasted Swan]

NP:

Respighi
Metamorphoseon, P 169
Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège
Neschling



All of these Neschling recordings of Respighi on BIS are excellent.

I liked Neschling in Sao Paulo on BIS - all excellent but I find these Liege recordings far less impressive.  Acousitically not as precise, technically not as detailed or spectacular and orchestra simply not as good.  Compare the old Chandos/Downes/BBC PO in the Symphony for example - in Liege it fails (for me) to be at all "Drammatic"

[steve ridgway]

Rainer Riehn – Chants De Maldoror. Nearly half an hour of incredibly noisy electroacoustic sounds. I wonder if DG thought this was the next big thing?

[aligreto]

Mendelssohn: String Quartet in E flat major [Gewandhaus Quartet]





I understand from wikipedia that this string quartet was written in 1823 when Mendelssohn was merely 14 years of age! Wow! This was not a portent of what was to come. He was already there! He was obviously born with the gift of music composition. The command and maturity of string quartet writing at this level, at that age, is definitely disconcerting. This is simply amazing string writing from a young boy. One simply cannot detach the significance of his age from this work. I think that it simply shows astonishing musical and compositional maturity.

[Mandryka]

Rainer Riehn – Chants De Maldoror. Nearly half an hour of incredibly noisy electroacoustic sounds. I wonder if DG thought this was the next big thing?

Actually by coincidence this morning while cleaning the house this has been playing -- I think there was a lot of acid in DG at the time.

[Que]

I am listening to my favorite musician of 15th century , focus on him the great Flemish Master Johannes Ockeghem, I like Ockeghem Masses vol 1-2 trough Beauty Farm Fra Bernardo, very good, now I felt tonight to explore a  double album Johannes Ockeghem (the chanson) on Music en Wallonie, direction: Jesse Rodin, ensemble CUT CIRCLE double albums, ya like songs there you have it, but admit I would like the Dufay work better by same ensemble.

I agree with your view on the Ockeghem songs by Cut Circle/Rodin on Musique en Wallonie

This I liked better, hopefully a 2nd volume will be issued shortly :



http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2020/Feb/Ockeghem_songs_v1_BHCD1010.html


BTW an absolutely ravishing Flemish song collection on Musique en Wallonie:

[steve ridgway]

Actually by coincidence this morning while cleaning the house this has been playing -- I think there was a lot of acid in DG at the time.

Late 1960s might well explain it.