What are you listening 2 now?

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NP:

Nono
"Caminantes... Ayacucho"
WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln
Experimentalstudio des SWR
Emilio Pomàrico

[Karl Henning]

I have a nice CD which features the piano quintets by Weinberg and Schnittke, both of which I rate very highly.

Nice!

[foxandpeng]

Henryk Górecki
Symphony #3
London Sinfonietta
David Zinman

I've always actually preferred #2 to #3, but after some time and distance, this has been an enjoyable listen. A bit heavy on the 'agonised wailing' for my long-suffering wife, but I find its simplicity and Glass-like repetition pretty soothing.

[SonicMan46]

How do you feel about clavichord?



Or a nice mix of instruments by a performer with a strong personality, who happens to be the best clavichord player since J S Bach



Or maybe this



Or if you really want just harpsichord then this is specially interesting, for the instrument and for the selection



The instrument, which is based on one which Sweelinck owned, has a beautiful lute register.

Hi Mandryka - sorry, but the first image is not appearing?  All of the others look interesting and I am a clavichord fan although my collection is small for that keyboard.  A number of these are not showing up on Amazon USA, are not available, or can only be streamed - I'll take a look on Spotify to see what is there and make a playlist.  Thanks.  Dave

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Henryk Górecki
Symphony #3
London Sinfonietta
David Zinman

I've always actually preferred #2 to #3, but after some time and distance, this has been an enjoyable listen. A bit heavy on the 'agonised wailing' for my long-suffering wife, but I find its simplicity and Glass-like repetition pretty soothing.

I think it's a stunning piece, foxandpeng. Far better than anything Glass has composed! But it's the intent and message within the music that is so compelling. Górecki has written many great works. I love his SQs for example and highly recommend those if you haven't heard them already. His early style is more avant-garde and no less interesting, but what I find fascinating is how these composers within the Soviet Bloc countries changed their styles after their forays in avant-garde landed them in hot water (perhaps I'm exaggerating here a bit). Anyway, I love his music and the same goes for Kancheli, Silvestrov, Penderecki et. al. Schnittke and Gubaidulina seemed like they were a little bit more resistant to the Soviet musical denunciations, but the fact that their work was largely ignored also helped them in a way. The downside is many of them had to write film music to pay the bills, but, thankfully, for the listener a lot of these composers' film music was quite good.

[Artem]

[André]

I think it's a stunning piece, foxandpeng. Far better than anything Glass has composed! But it's the intent and message within the music that is so compelling. Górecki has written many great works. I love his SQs for example and highly recommend those if you haven't heard them already. His early style is more avant-garde and no less interesting, but what I find fascinating is how these composers within the Soviet Bloc countries changed their styles after their forays in avant-garde landed them in hot water (perhaps I'm exaggerating here a bit). Anyway, I love his music and the same goes for Kancheli, Silvestrov, Penderecki et. al. Schnittke and Gubaidulina seemed like they were a little bit more resistant to the Soviet musical denunciations, but the fact that their work was largely ignored also helped them in a way. The downside is many of them had to write film music to pay the bills, but, thankfully, for the listener a lot of these composers' film music was quite good.

Very true. In Beethoven's and Schubert's day it was minuets, contredanses, and sundry salon or beer hall pieces. Some things never change 

[Karl Henning]

Cd 1 of 55

My box just landed, so I'm in!

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Very true. In Beethoven's and Schubert's day it was minuets, contredanses, and sundry salon or beer hall pieces. Some things never change 

Yes, indeed. On the upside, there is some clever music to be found in these more 'public' pieces.

[foxandpeng]

I think it's a stunning piece, foxandpeng. Far better than anything Glass has composed! But it's the intent and message within the music that is so compelling. Górecki has written many great works. I love his SQs for example and highly recommend those if you haven't heard them already. His early style is more avant-garde and no less interesting, but what I find fascinating is how these composers within the Soviet Bloc countries changed their styles after their forays in avant-garde landed them in hot water (perhaps I'm exaggerating here a bit). Anyway, I love his music and the same goes for Kancheli, Silvestrov, Penderecki et. al. Schnittke and Gubaidulina seemed like they were a little bit more resistant to the Soviet musical denunciations, but the fact that their work was largely ignored also helped them in a way. The downside is many of them had to write film music to pay the bills, but, thankfully, for the listener a lot of these composers' film music was quite good.

I only really know the first 3 symphonies, to be honest.I have the SQs on my list, along with the Schnittke strangely enough, following your recent recommendation of those and the Villa-lobos in another post. Tracking the DSCH SQs and the Holmboe set has rekindled my interest in the genre. Some Britten, Mansurian, and Prokofiev in the last couple of days. The Górecki will fit that trajectory 🙂

[Mandryka]

Hi Mandryka - sorry, but the first image is not appearing?  All of the others look interesting and I am a clavichord fan although my collection is small for that keyboard.  A number of these are not showing up on Amazon USA, are not available, or can only be streamed - I'll take a look on Spotify to see what is there and make a playlist.  Thanks.  Dave

The first image is Peter Ella's Cd, this

https://www.amazon.com/Sweelinck-Fantasias-Variations-P%C3%A9ter-Ella/dp/B00LVG27WQ

Another one, a great harpsichordist in Sweelinck and others, is Noelle Spieth.

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I only really know the first 3 symphonies, to be honest.I have the SQs on my list, along with the Schnittke strangely enough, following your recent recommendation of those and the Villa-lobos in another post. Tracking the DSCH SQs and the Holmboe set has rekindled my interest in the genre. Some Britten, Mansurian, and Prokofiev in the last couple of days. The Górecki will fit that trajectory 🙂

Excellent. May I also suggest checking out Gubaidulina's and Silvestrov's SQs. They're excellent.

NP:

Silvestrov
String Quartet No. 2
The Lysenko String Quartet

[SonicMan46]

The first image is Peter Ella's Cd, this

https://www.amazon.com/Sweelinck-Fantasias-Variations-P%C3%A9ter-Ella/dp/B00LVG27WQ

Another one, a great harpsichordist in Sweelinck and others, is Noelle Spieth.

Thanks again - have seen some Spieth offerings - going to visit Spotify and see what is there that you've suggested.  Dave

[foxandpeng]

Excellent. May I also suggest checking out Gubaidulina's and Silvestrov's SQs. They're excellent.

NP:

Silvestrov
String Quartet No. 2
The Lysenko String Quartet

Noted and playlisted 🙂. Thank you.

Now playing...

Pēteris Vasks
Summer Dances
Finnish RSO
BIS


I find Vasks endlessly interesting...

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Noted and playlisted 🙂. Thank you.

Now playing...

Pēteris Vasks
Summer Dances
Finnish RSO
BIS


I find Vasks endlessly interesting...

You're welcome. Speaking of Vasks, do you know his SQs?

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NP:

Xenakis
Hiketides
Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra
Arturo Tamayo

[SonicMan46]

Sweelinck, JP decisions today!

First, concerning the KB works, I reviewed many of the recordings I found and/or were recommended and compared the contents - there was a decent amount of overlap making purchase decisions indefinite - SO, I decided just to go w/ the 6-disc box below in the top row - with some Amazon credit, a $40 USD purchase (Prime shipping); I'll likely keep my other 2 CDs for variety.

Second, now listening to my vocal JPS (bottom row) - total of 5 discs of sacred and secular works - wife use to sing some of this stuff in college.  Finally, thanks to all who contributed to recommendations - also, setup up a 5 hr Spotify playlist which includes 2 of the recordings recommended by Mandryka, so another listening project!  Did not think that Sweelinck would occupy this much of my time - the guy is at the transition of the Renaissance-Baroque periods, but that's what GMG is about, yes?     Dave

 

 

[Carlo Gesualdo]

Lady & Gentelmen it's an honors to present to you Alfonso Ferrabosco Il Padre Psaume 103 - Motets & Madrigaux Huelgas-Ensemble, direction Paul Van Nevel, great listen folks that it, on eagle for Huelgas Ensemble Whit Italia Mia that I don't have.

[foxandpeng]

You're welcome. Speaking of Vasks, do you know his SQs?

I've been listening to 1, 3 and 4 with the Spiķeru String Quartet in the last week. They have the same sound world as the rest of Vasks' output, shooting for beauty and cohesion rather than dissonance and fracture, and a level of accessibility rather than requiring repeat listens to crack them. It's fair to say that #1 is some distance of travel from #4, but you would expect that, I think, considering not only personal growth, but also the times in which each was written. #1 seems to express far more turbulence, no doubt because of harder political and religious atmosphere. But then, you're probably ahead of the game on these 🙂. Highly recommended, in any case.

[vers la flamme]

Antonio Vivaldi: Violin Concerto in E major, op.8 no.1, "La primavera". Alice & Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Concentus Musicus Wien

Hmm, not crazy about the sound here; seems kind of murky/lower-end heavy. Interesting, though, interpretively. My first period instrument recording of this work. Vivaldi's Le quattro stagioni is one of the "warhorses" that is actually quite close to my heart, though I'm not entirely sure why.