What are you listening 2 now?

[Mandryka]

A set that warrants an occasional dip into it. 

Are you a diplomat by any chance?

[Mandryka]

You can download a free track from the Hyperion website.  So I did, and I'm dithering about whether to take a punt on the whole thing.

[Traverso]

Xenakis


Antikhthon 
New Philharmonia Orchestra 
Elgar Howarth.

It often happens to me that music, which at first was an incoherent bundle of sounds, suddenly reveals something of its meaning after listening to it a few times. Anyway, I must maintain my innocence and listen as a (sensible) child would do.

[Biffo]

Christopher Wilson: Suite for String Orchestra - Südwestdeutsches Kammerorchester Pforzheim conducted by Douglas Bostock - a pleasant piece dating from 1901 by a composer I haven't previously heard of. From the CPO album of English String Music featured above.

[aligreto]

German Consort Music [Parley of Instruments]





This is an absolutely wonderful CD. This music is always very appealing, exciting, engaging as are all of the performances; the playing throughout is really superb. I really like their presentations here. The ensemble is very full sounding and is also well recorded. There is also a great sense of presence in the recording.

[vers la flamme]

German Consort Music [Parley of Instruments]





This is an absolutely wonderful CD. This music is always very appealing, exciting, engaging as are all of the performances; the playing throughout is really superb. I really like their presentations here. The ensemble is very full sounding and is also well recorded. There is also a great sense of presence in the recording.

That looks badass. I just got a Parley of Instruments CD yesterday, John Dowland's Lachrimae. I was so excited to find it at Half Price Books. Haven't listened to it yet.

[Traverso]

Telemann

Well, that was very enjoyable considering the initially inaccessible idiom of Xenakis' music.

Telemann is a bit more accessible   I love particular the Suite in A

[Traverso]

German Consort Music [Parley of Instruments]





This is an absolutely wonderful CD. This music is always very appealing, exciting, engaging as are all of the performances; the playing throughout is really superb. I really like their presentations here. The ensemble is very full sounding and is also well recorded. There is also a great sense of presence in the recording.

A fine recording it is Fergus !

[Traverso]

That looks badass. I just got a Parley of Instruments CD yesterday, John Dowland's Lachrimae. I was so excited to find it at Half Price Books. Haven't listened to it yet.

There is also an atractive set with the music of Purcell,not too expensive.

[vers la flamme]

John Dowland: Lachrimae, or Seaven Teares. Peter Holman, The Parley of Instruments

Brilliant... this music is just as beautiful on violins as it is on viols.

[Mirror Image]

Xenakis


Antikhthon 
New Philharmonia Orchestra 
Elgar Howarth.

It often happens to me that music, which at first was an incoherent bundle of sounds, suddenly reveals something of its meaning after listening to it a few times. Anyway, I must maintain my innocence and listen as a (sensible) child would do.

That's a great box, Jan. As is the Timpani set, which is incredibly rare nowadays.

First-Listen Sunday -

Gubaidulina
Introitus: Concerto for Piano and Chamber Orchestra
Andreas Haefliger, piano
Radio-Philharmonie Hannover des NDR
Bernhard Klee

[Mirror Image]

NP:

Janáček
Sonate 1.X.1905
András Schiff

[Iota]

Xenakis


Antikhthon 
New Philharmonia Orchestra 
Elgar Howarth.

It often happens to me that music, which at first was an incoherent bundle of sounds, suddenly reveals something of its meaning after listening to it a few times. Anyway, I must maintain my innocence and listen as a (sensible) child would do.

I applaud the above nicely expressed sentiment. 

I've had many good goes along the runway with Xenakis over the years without ever really fully taking off, though I feel that moment may still come.

...

While I'm here, if there are any Víkingur Ólafsson fans here with access to the BBC iPlayer, he was plying his trade last Sun at the Proms, in Bach's F minor concerto and Mozart's K.491 C minor concerto, and it was recorded for TV (link below).

Neeme Jarvi and the Philharmonia were also doing Prokofiev's Classical Symphony and Shostakovich's Ninth

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000yw7t/bbc-proms-2021-vikingur-olafsson-and-the-philharmonia

[VonStupp]

Max Bruch
VC 1 in g minor, op. 26

Édouard Lalo
Symphonie espagnole in D minor, op. 21

Isaac Stern
Philadelphia O - Eugene Ormandy

[Traverso]

That's a great box, Jan. As is the Timpani set, which is incredibly rare nowadays.

First-Listen Sunday -

Gubaidulina
Introitus: Concerto for Piano and Chamber Orchestra
Andreas Haefliger, piano
Radio-Philharmonie Hannover des NDR
Bernhard Klee

I really enyoyed it,I wrote that it was recommedable to listen as a child,I got this reaction on another forum.

I recall when my son was about two years old he went through a phase (in early 80s) when spending the day with his Grandma he would move the radio dial between stations so the broadcast was intermittent, garbled with heavy static. He would spend hours just playing and reading his books with the background "music" while his Gran went up the walls! When she couldn't stand it anymore and tried to re-tune the radio he let her know he wasn't well pleased! Funny!

The Timpani set I do have as a download,I would like to have It as a CD box but the downloads were not cheap.

[Mirror Image]

I really enyoyed it,I wrote that it was recommedable to listen as a child,I got this reaction on another forum.

I recall when my son was about two years old he went through a phase (in early 80s) when spending the day with his Grandma he would move the radio dial between stations so the broadcast was intermittent, garbled with heavy static. He would spend hours just playing and reading his books with the background "music" while his Gran went up the walls! When she couldn't stand it anymore and tried to re-tune the radio he let her know he wasn't well pleased! Funny!

The Timpani set I do have as a download,I would like to have It as a CD box but the downloads were not cheap.

Hah! I'd also recommend many of those Mode recordings, which they have a whole Xenakis, which I'm sure you've seen before. I don't own all of them, but what I do have has been excellent.

[Que]

More from Joseph Wölfl performed by Laure Colladant:

   

[Traverso]

I applaud the above nicely expressed sentiment. 

I've had many good goes along the runway with Xenakis over the years without ever really fully taking off, though I feel that moment may still come.

...

 
 

Listen with confidence 

[Traverso]

Hah! I'd also recommend many of those Mode recordings, which they have a whole Xenakis, which I'm sure you've seen before. I don't own all of them, but what I do have has been excellent.

I just purchased this recording 

[Traverso]

Leoš Janáček

Kačena Divoká   
Holubička   
Což Ta Naše Břiza   
Elegie Na Smrt Dcery Olgy   
Kantor Halfar   
Viči Stopa   
Hradčanskeé Písnički   

Zlatá Ulička   
Plačici Fontána   
Belveder   

Potulný Šílenec    
Říkadla   

   

Recorded at Maria Minor Church, Utrecht (Netherlands), september 1993