What are you listening 2 now?

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Pohjolas Daughter

Quote from: OrchestralNut on September 23, 2021, 09:28:49 AM
Well, for much of the earlier avant-garde Penderecki or pre 1973, I do have to be in the right mood or frame of mind to listen. Not alone in the dark at night with the lights off.  :D

However, I find this era of his music truly unique and fascinating. Like the first String quartet as an example, the more I listen to it, the more I can actually follow it in a logical fashion. I think Threnody is truly a marvelous piece!

Sorry to hear about the botched CD.  :'(

Well, I'll see if I can either find a recording to listen to online and/or see if there might be another copy available through the library.  I might also try listening to it on another setup; don't know why, but sometimes things will either get stuck (or in this case repeat a certain section!) on my better/more expensive player whilst not doing that on my cheap under-the-cabinet player!  Don't know why!   ::)

And I can certainly understand what you mean about being in the right mood plus also not wanting to listen to it in the dark ["Creak, creak...Anyone there?!"].   :D
PD

Pohjolas Daughter

Traverso


Karl Henning

Quote from: Spotted Horses on September 23, 2021, 07:00:06 AM
Backtracking to the first Chamber symphony, this time in the Chamber Orchestra Kremlin recording. A very engaging and interesting piece. In this case both this recording and the Naxos recording were pleasing.




Anyone heard the Kremer recordings of this music on ECM?


Yes, and I for one love 'em.
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

Karl Henning

"Wolferl"
Symphony № 33 in Bb, K. 319
Mozart Akademie Amsterdam
Jaap ter Linden


as well as, again:

Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on September 22, 2021, 01:48:49 PM
CD 32:

"Wolferl"

Sinfonia concertante in Eb, K. 364 (320d)
Sinfonia concertante in Eb, K. Anh. 14.01 (297b)




Not at all surprisingly, the key to finding Mozart's music fresh (as it deserves) is simply to listen to it less frequently than WCRB offers.
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

Traverso

Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on September 23, 2021, 10:00:25 AM
"Wolferl"
Symphony № 33 in Bb, K. 319
Mozart Akademie Amsterdam
Jaap ter Linden


as well as, again:





Not at all surprisingly, the key to finding Mozart's music fresh (as it deserves) is simply to listen to it less frequently than WCRB offers.

fine recordings  :)

Bachtoven

Wonderful transcriptions, playing, and sound.


Karl Henning

CD 27:

L'oiseau de feu (1910)
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

Dry Brett Kavanaugh

Quote from: Bachtoven on September 23, 2021, 12:10:43 PM
Wonderful transcriptions, playing, and sound.



Interesting. I will check it out!

André


VonStupp

Felix Mendelssohn
Octet in E-flat, III. Scherzo, op. 20

Boston SO - Charles Munch
(rec. 1960)

"All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff."

VonStupp

#50050
Felix Mendelssohn
Symphony 4 in A Major 'Italian' (1834 revised version)

Vienna Philharmonic - John Eliot Gardiner
(rec. 1998)

I don't think this revised version is essential, but interesting nonetheless. Gardiner is Gardiner here, although I thought his time with Vienna was decent.

"All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff."

SonicMan46

This afternoon, continuing w/ my early music compilations - the three below will take us into dinner time - Dave :)

   

André



No 4. To be followed by no 5 (original and revised versions) after dinner.

Mandryka

Quote from: Que on September 23, 2021, 02:03:39 AM


Binchois by high pitched female voices, with bells in the background.

I guess after listening to this for a while I might start to  levitate!  :D

I'll raise the stakes with this

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classicalgeek

More Poulenc! The Piano Concerto and Concerto for Two Pianos again on Spotify, plus some of the other music for two pianos. The Naxos disc I heard a couple of days ago was fine, but I much prefer Lortie and Mercier (in the two-piano works):



I'm so delighted to be re-acquainting myself with Poulenc's music! Charming and witty and fresh and melodic... and the slow movement to the Piano Concerto, with its melody in the strings over pulsating horns (the piano later takes it up) is achingly lovely.
So much great music, so little time...

Original compositions and orchestrations: https://www.youtube.com/@jmbrannigan

premont

γνῶθι σεαυτόν

classicalgeek

Just heard, for the first time:

Koechlin
Seven Stars Symphony
Deustches Sinfonie-Orchester Berlin
James Judd


From this collection on Spotify:



What a neat piece! I've never heard anything quite like it. There are hints of Ravel and Roussel; sometimes it looks ahead to Messiaen; sometimes it sounds, appropriately enough, like a film score. But it isn't derivative, of course - Koechlin is a very unique composer. I think I'll be exploring more of his music!
So much great music, so little time...

Original compositions and orchestrations: https://www.youtube.com/@jmbrannigan

Symphonic Addict

Quote from: Traverso on September 23, 2021, 09:50:16 AM
Bax

Symphony 5 & 4



The 5th has terrific music. The 4th is also good, but it's not as cohesive as the others.
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Symphonic Addict

Quote from: André on September 23, 2021, 01:14:41 PM


No 4. To be followed by no 5 (original and revised versions) after dinner.

Two pretty good works there, André. The original version of the 5th has the best music IMO, especially because of those "peculiar" last minutes.
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Mandryka

#50059
Quote from: (: premont :) on September 23, 2021, 03:15:40 PM
Have you heard it?

Yes. That and the Discantus CD must be the only recordings of a mass by Binchois. I appreciate it because it is so vigorous and iconoclastic by today's standards - the percussion in the Sanctus for example. Not the slightest hint of solemnity or reverence anywhere.

Listening to this - beautiful Kyrie, maybe the most beautiful performance of a Dufay Kyrie I can remember

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