What are you listening 2 now?

[Karl Henning]

Silvestrov
Mysterium for alto flute and six percussion groups (1964)

https://www.youtube.com/v/Oy4sMKako1o

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NP:

Lutosławski
5 Songs
Jadwiga Rappé, alto
Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Wit

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Enescu

CD 1

Prelude and Fugue in G major
Nocturne
Scherzo
Pièce sur le nom de Fauré

Sweet! Love Enescu's solo piano works, Jan.

[Carlo Gesualdo]

Got tone of shore to do today, back/spine or not they will be done, therefore get to work deprofundis, and I will listen in fews moment to the excellent Brilliant Classics Released of 15 CD's The complete Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, all day.

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NP:

Lutosławski
Dance Preludes
Double Concerto For Oboe, Harp & Chamber Orchestra
Grave: Metamorphoses for cello and string orchestra
Chain 1
2 Children's Songs
6 Children's Songs
Zbigniew Kaleta, clarinet
Arkadiusz Krupa - oboe, Nicolas Tulliez - harp
Rafal Kwiatkowski, cello
Urszula Kryger, soprano
Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Wit

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Bernard Herrmann Moby Dick, the composer conducting the LPO




Sarge

Great stuff! Also + 1 for 'For the Fallen' which I regard as far superior to the cloying and sentimental 'Hymn to the Fallen' from John Williams's score for 'Saving Private Ryan', which otherwise has an excellent soundtrack and is a fine film.

[Karl Henning]

Great stuff! Also + 1 for 'For the Fallen' which I regard as far superior to the cloying and sentimental 'Hymn to the Fallen' from John Williams's score for 'Saving Private Ryan', which otherwise has an excellent soundtrack and is a fine film.

In John Williams' defense (and I'm on record as not being his greatest fan, shall we say) "cloying and sentimental" was probably what Spielberg asked for.

[foxandpeng]

Easley Blackwood: Symphony No.1 (1954/55)
Saw this was included in the Charles Munch Edition 80+ CD box set and was curious - thought it was terrific and, hey presto, I found a single CD release featuring the work:

Easley Blackwood
Symphony 5
Chicago SO

Now listening to Symphony #5, which as a foil to the emotionally stretching Shostakovich SQs I've been hearing today, has been a welcome rest. It is a broadly peaceful and accessible work (with a bit of oomph in the third and final movement) that I like very much. Blackwood was interviewed by Bruce Duffie back in 1993, and as well as acknowledging the influence of ballet music on the work, said:

"What I was trying to do in that piece was come up with an idiom that I think Sibelius or Vaughan Williams might have discovered if they had experimented with modernism in 1915.  I find it much more stimulating and amusing to write in an old-fashioned idiom — a tonal idiom — than a non-tonal idiom."

Haven't heard the #1 that is coupled with it yet, which I understand is more challenging, but this isn't bad at all 🙂

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Gliere, Joseph Jongen, Harp Concertos. Anneleen Lenaerts

[Karl Henning]

First-Listen Friday! (Paging DBK)

Mennin
Sonata concertante (1956)
Paul Zukowsky & Gilbert Kalish

https://www.youtube.com/v/GomUll594QQ

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NP:

Martinů
Piano Quintet No. 2, H. 298
Kocian Quartet & Ivan Klansky

[Traverso]

Sweet! Love Enescu's solo piano works, Jan.

It is really fine music.I loved the scherzo .Strange so little comment about this Romanian composer and pianist.I really am curious about Oedipe,I think and hope that I  purchased  an edition with libretto.

[foxandpeng]

Dmitri Shostakovich
The Complete Symphonies
Symphony #5
Petrenko
Naxos

Because Hurwitz says so. Good a place to start as any.

Also? This photograph looks uncannily like my late father some years before his death in the early 2000's, other than the fact that DSCH maintained darker hair. He was also somewhat dour looking, unlike me, of course.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

First-Listen Friday! (Paging DBK)

Mennin
Sonata concertante (1956)
Paul Zukowsky & Gilbert Kalish

https://www.youtube.com/v/GomUll594QQ

Cool and sharp! I like the artworks as well!

[Traverso]

Debussy


La Mer

Nocturnes

Ibéria ( images pour orchestre)

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It is really fine music.I loved the scherzo .Strange so little comment about this Romanian composer and pianist.I really am curious about Oedipe,I think and hope that I  purchased  an edition with libretto.

Well, Enescu is a bit difficult to get into for many I imagine --- his more 'Nationalist' works like the Romanian Rhapsodies are, for me, not really representative of who the composer became or where he ended up stylistically. Yes, that recording you bought of Oedipe should have the libretto. The version I bought, which was a reissue, didn't contain one, but that's no matter. It's a glorious work and I urge you to investigate his mature chamber works. They are incredible and powerfully seductive.

[Spotted Horses]

Debussy


La Mer

Nocturnes

Ibéria ( images pour orchestre)

I enjoyed that recording of the Nocturns (I treasure the entire set). I seem to remember thinking Maazel's recording of the same music with the WPO on RCA was a bit more spirited.

[Spotted Horses]

I've been listening to the Faure Nocturnes from this set, up to the fifth so far. They are poetic and technically impressive. Beautiful recordings.

[Traverso]

I enjoyed that recording of the Nocturns (I treasure the entire set). I seem to remember thinking Maazel's recording of the same music with the WPO on RCA was a bit more spirited.

They are idiosyncratic performances that do not fail to charm me. 

[SonicMan46]

Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826) - Clarinet Quintet & Concertos performed on both modern and period instruments from those on the cover art - re-did my collection of these Weber works earlier in the year and am happy w/ these recordings.  Dave