What are you listening 2 now?

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Nobody else at my office bothered coming in to the office today, so I am cranking this sh*t up loud!!!!



Schuman 3. Lenny. Heck yeah!

Hah! Good choice!

[Symphonic Addict]

First-Listen Friday:

Roslavets String Quartets 1 & 3



Got this ages ago, for Mosolov's 1st SQ - a great personal favourite - but never found time until now to hear any of the rest.

Roslavets wrote some very interesting music. Do you know his piano trios, chamber symphonies, violin concertos and the tone poem In the Hours of the New Moon? Fascinating stuff.

[VonStupp]

Sergei Prokofiev
Piano Concerto 1 in D Major, op. 10
Piano Concerto 2 in g minor, op. 16
Piano Concerto 3 in C Major, op. 26
Michel Béroff, piano
Gewandhaus - Kurt Masur (1974)



I always liked Béroff's way with Prokofiev, particularly these early concertos. The EMI sound was never superb, though.

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NP:

Arnold
Viola Concerto, Op. 108
Rivka Golani, viola
London Musici
Mark Stephenson



A lot of Arnold's concerti are short and to-the-point, but this Viola Concerto is a notable exception. Quite a serious work --- you can feel the darkness seething from underneath the viola. I'll have to give this work another listen or two before giving it the thumbs up.

[Harry]

I didn't have bad days listening to these works at all. I know what I like and what I don't, I know enough music to detect what works are rewarding and what ones are not. What I do think by seeing many of your posts is that for you whatever composer is important and whatever work is great. You often make overstatements that simply leave me like: for real??? Seriously??? 

One example I'm thinking about is Carlo Giorgio Garofalo's Romantic Symphony. You consider that work important or great, when what I detect is a very banal and bombastic work. But at the end of the day, everybody has their own experiences on listening to music, we all have our own criteria, so my opinion is not more important than yours or viceversa.

Krommer wrote nice music, but essential? I don't think so.

Well at least I now know what you think of me and what I write, thank you for this.

[SonicMan46]

Bach, CPE (1714-1788) - Cello Concertos & Flute Sonatas for the morning listening (reading a book on 18th century classical music and just finished the discussion of Frederick the Great and his two most famous musician/composers, Johann Quantz and CPE Bach).

The Cello Concertos are performed by Anner Bylsma on a c. 1695 Venetian cello and the period instrument group 'Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment' conducted by Gustav Leonhardt.  Barthold Kuijken performs on two different period flute copies, Alain Weemaels, Brussels, 2005 after an A. Grenser, Dresden, c. 1750 and a Rudolph Tutz, Innsbruck, 2005 after a J.H. Rottenburgh, Brussels, c. 1730.  Ewald Demeyere also plays period KB copies, an harpsichord by Anthony Sidey/Frederick Bal, Paris, 1995 after school of Silbermann, Thuringia, c. 1730s and a fortepiano by Barbara & Thomas Wolf, Washington (date?) after a Gottfried Silbermann, 1746 (location?).  Dave

P.S. had to check on the 'Washington' location, i.e. D.C. vs. the USA state in the Pacific northwest (a BIG difference having been to both areas multiple times) - Washington, D.C. and environs is correct (Source).

 

[Symphonic Addict]

And what I find even more amusing than Harry's 'everything I'm listening to is great' pronouncements is the fact that it's 'okay' for him to offer a contrary opinion, but when you comment on something that he is listening to, you're made out to be the bad guy.

Some people take others' opinions very personally. As long as you don't allow to be affected by them in a negative way and you really enjoy the music, that is what must count.

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Some people take others' opinions very personally. As long as you don't allow to be affected by them in a negative way and you really enjoy the music, that is what must count.

Exactly right, my friend.

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The Arnold-a-thon continues apparently...

Arnold
Concertino for Oboe and Strings, Op. 28a
Nicolas Daniel, oboe
Bournemouth SO
Handley

[Papy Oli]

Bach - Sonata No.1 for violin and Harpsichord BWV 1014

(Faust, Bezuidenhout)

[Harry]

Some people take others' opinions very personally. As long as you don't allow to be affected by them in a negative way and you really enjoy the music, that is what must count.

Right, since you are all agreeing that my participation's on GMG is all Hyperbole, consider this my last post on GMG. Some want to dominate the whole spectrum, and so I give room to all that think its okay to bash a composer, while not even able to write a single note themselves.

[Brian]

I agree with Sonic Dave - the Krommer symphonies have some really good movements, and as a Haydn fan I enjoy them, but the woodwind stuff is even more fun.

[foxandpeng]

Ahmed Saygun
Symphony 1
CPO

What an attractive, compelling adagio. The cello backdrop to the meandering oboe seems to me almost an orchestral 'breathing' after the colour of the first movement and before the folk dance (?) that follows. I found this really engaging and look forward to the rest of the cycle.

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NP:

Bacewicz
Piano Concerto
Julia Kociuban (piano)
Arthur Rubinstein Philharmonic Orchestra
Paweł Przytocki



This may be my third or fourth listen to this particular concerto and I'm even more impressed. I should spend more time with Bacewicz's music.

[steve ridgway]

Right, since you are all agreeing that my participation's on GMG is all Hyperbole, consider this my last post on GMG. Some want to dominate the whole spectrum, and so I give room to all that think its okay to bash a composer, while not even able to write a single note themselves.

No, don't cancel yourself Harry.

[ritter]

More Hindemith from the three CPO boxes. On this occasion, CD4 of the first set, with the overture to Neues von Tage, the Symphony in B flat for concert band, and the Symphony in E flat.



Werner Andreas Albert conducts the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.

[Traverso]

And Wanderer had the audacity to call me the narcissist.

It's better to leave comments like this out of this forum

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More Hindemith from the three CPO boxes. On this occasion, CD4 of the first set, with the overture to Neues von Tage, the Symphony in B flat for concert band, and the Symphony in E flat.



Werner Andreas Albert conducts the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.

I don't like every work in those Hindemith CPO orchestral sets, but there is some fine music within them. Good day to you, Rafael.

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It's better to leave comments like this out of this forum

This is true, Jan. I deleted that post.

[ritter]

I don't like every work in those Hindemith CPO orchestral sets, but there is some fine music within them. Good day to you, Rafael.

Good day to you as well, John (and a belated happy Saint John's / midsummer day).

This is only the second of the 15 CDs of the series I listen to. And so far, so good...I'm actually pleasantly surprised by the Symphony for Concert Band...