What are you listening 2 now?

[Mandryka]

Pretty well everyone in the 16th century wrote a version of the melody of Dowland's Lachrimae. But listen to this! Astonishing imagination!

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

[aligreto]

Reich: Six Pianos






This is my first time to hear this work. I knew from very early on that it simply was not for me. But I stuck with it and heard it out. However, I will never get those twenty five minutes back! The next time that I listen to this work is when I am, or someone else in the house [within one meter of me] is using our very loud vacuum cleaner! 

[Karl Henning]

About time 

Clearly!

[North Star]

Clearly!

You can also hear Enescu playing the piano part to the work here
https://www.youtube.com/v/oadbbLz-5lY


Thread-duty

Mr De Sainte Colombe
Les Six Suittes pour basse de Viole seule
Savall

[Symphonic Addict]

Reich: Six Pianos






This is my first time to hear this work. I knew from very early on that it simply was not for me. But I stuck with it and heard it out. However, I will never get those twenty five minutes back! The next time that I listen to this work is when I am, or someone else in the house [within one meter of me] is using our very loud vacuum cleaner! 

That was my experience with Music for 18 Musicians. It was passable till the first few minutes, but as it progressed it became tiresome and repetitive. I think I prefer Glass to him.

[Mandryka]

I'll give it a listen.

I like the ordinaries very much. I will listen to the whole thing tomorrow with more attention.

[aligreto]

That was my experience with Music for 18 Musicians. It was passable till the first few minutes, but as it progressed it became tiresome and repetitive. I think I prefer Glass to him.

Yes, I would most definitely agree with you there.

[Symphonic Addict]

Bax: The Tale the Pine-Trees Knew
Balakirev: Overture on Three Russian Themes

[Artem]

[Carlo Gesualdo]

OK let's be serious for a moment  shawl we, there a time for everything and now I am serious I neglected the French renaissance composer shame on me, because I had problem whit some french a couple of year ago, when I heard a Français talk I was like grrr French do you won't grey poupon mustard, just kidding, and later on discover the music of Lalande ''Les Grand Motets'' which I like to death, and the 3 volume of Lully grand motets, which I adore, please I need more info on french renaissance composers, since the French are cousin of us in a way in a strange way,and it's not true all french are means I was wrong , so there you have it, I really like Jean Guyot and his Jacques Arcadelt a Belgium Walloon or a french, perhaps a french , what about good old French protestant we all love Claude Goudimel, I will listen to this tonight, what about the fabulous work of Le Jeune or L'estocart, whit awesome ensemble Ludus modalis, or Costeley Microtonal  music, I was wrong French deserve a chance ,forgive me  France. 

I searching for something that most existed a french madrigalist, everything exist before and after so I want to know very obscure composer of renaissance France, no one know outside  few's french musicologists, those no one heard about.

[Karl Henning]

You can also hear Enescu playing the piano part to the work here
https://www.youtube.com/v/oadbbLz-5lY

Nice, will listen soon!

Now, though: listening to this again

Theo Leovendie
Cto for Pf & Orch
Ronald Brautigam, pf
Riccardo Chailly

Ine of my favorites in the box of those pieces previously unknown to me.

[vers la flamme]

Ralph Vaughan Williams: Sancta Civitas. Richard Hickox, London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus

Round two with this, having last heard it Wednesday morning. For a curmudgeonly atheist, RVW sure was a brilliant, convincing composer of sacred music, no? It's a fine piece from a composer I often admire more than enjoy, and the work is quite highly regarded by some GMGers, if I'm not mistaken.

[vers la flamme]

Charles Villiers Stanford: Songs of the Sea, op.91. Benjamin Luxon, Norman Del Mar, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra & Chorus

[bhodges]

Scriabin: Symphony No. 1 (Yevgeny Svetlanov / Larisa Avdeyeva / Anton Grigoriev / Yurlov Russian Choir / USSR State Symphony Orchestra) - The recording with Muti and Philadelphia has enthralled me for years. Am happy to report an equally enthralling experience here.

At first listen, Svetlanov and the orchestra conjure up a great deal of Hollywood glamour, slightly less sensual than Muti, with more "look at me, I'm Scriabin" brashness. Love the unique sound of the ensemble, and the 1963 (?) sound quality is not bad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKdT3eR1trM

--Bruce

[SimonNZ]

[Mirror Image]

NP:

Bernstein
Chichester Psalms
The Camerata Singers
New York Philharmonic Orchestra
Bernstein



Such a fantastic work.

[Symphonic Addict]

Scriabin: Symphony No. 1 (Yevgeny Svetlanov / Larisa Avdeyeva / Anton Grigoriev / Yurlov Russian Choir / USSR State Symphony Orchestra) - The recording with Muti and Philadelphia has enthralled me for years. Am happy to report an equally enthralling experience here.

At first listen, Svetlanov and the orchestra conjure up a great deal of Hollywood glamour, slightly less sensual than Muti, with more "look at me, I'm Scriabin" brashness. Love the unique sound of the ensemble, and the 1963 (?) sound quality is not bad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKdT3eR1trM

--Bruce

I think that was the recording I heard the other day. Absolutely glorious work.

[Symphonic Addict]

Brahms: Clarinet Quintet

I felt the need to hear a work that suited my mood at this moment. Nothing better than Brahms's incredibly poetic and melancholy masterpiece. The recording and performance are outstanding as well.

[SimonNZ]

[Que]

Morning listening:



A lot is going on this recording:

On this record, the talented Italian ensemble Delitiæ Musicæ has posited a context--a festal Mass in 16th-century Italy--where different scoring options can be sampled side by side. The Mass ordinary (setting by Philippe Verdelot) is sung by four soloists; the propers are replaced by motets (common practice in Renaissance Italy) performed by sackbuts and singers in various combinations; the plainchant is sung by a distant choir. [Not mentioned is the organ]

French Philippe Verdelot lived and worked in Italy, so a performance in Italian style is quite appropriate. But this seems a bit much.... There are some wonderful things in this recording, but have mixed feelings like Mandryka. A qualified succes.

A further thought: the performance sounds anachronistic . It sounds like a remake by Giovanni Gabrieli (born 1557). Which is a whole generation off, since Philppe Verdelot was born in 1475 and died in 1552 (he lived to an extraordinary old age!)