What are you listening 2 now?

[Mirror Image]

NP:

Milhaud
Danses de Jacaremirim, Op. 256
Mauro Tortorelli (violin), Angela Meluso (piano)

[Mirror Image]

Last work of the night: Milhaud: La Création du monde, Op. 81a (Munch/BSO)

[Madiel]

Chopin, 24 Preludes.

One of the masterpieces of the piano literature in my opinion.

[Undersea]

Alan Hovhaness
Symphony 2 'Mysterious Mountain'
Prayer of St Gregory
And God Made Great Whales
Gerald Schwarz
Seattle Symphony Orchestra

Night music for the wee, small hours before sleep...

I own this recording and played it after reading you post - very enjoyable!

[Undersea]

Currently:




Hovhaness: Symphony #21, Op. 234, "Etchmiadzin"

[The new erato]

As a composer who is not getting any press during my life, I see this as rather subtler, as belated attention. And maybe the orchestral music is not of the first rank, okay. But there is value in letting the music sound.  The string quartet music I've heard is good, and worth programming, for instance.

Yes, there's definite value in letting it be heard and we should be thankful for the opportunity and also understand the circumstaances of its composition. A fine achievement consideribg the circumstaances I guess. Kudos for not cranking out another Beethoven cycle.

But streaming is a godsend, instrad of expensive CDs filling up space which I'm running out of.

[The new erato]

A very fine recording. Regarding his concertos, I have few complaints about them. I still struggle with most of the symphonies, though.

I couldn't have put it better myself!

[The new erato]

The record labels only hype these black female composers.  I'm sorry you guys lost important listening time with her music.  Your bitterness is very understandable.

You didn't get it. In fact none of your 3 sentences are true.

I won't comment on your first sentences, it speaks for itself. Madiel puts it quite well in his post.

Re the 2nd, it's always worthwhile to expand ones horizons. Re the 3rd:,I'm happy to have heard it once without having gone to the expense of aquiring the CD. I'm  finished with filling up my walls with stuff I will only listen to once.

And that goes for quite some white, male favorites here as well....

[Que]

But streaming is a godsend, instrad of expensive CDs filling up space which I'm running out of.

Glad you like it!  I have the same experience.
Streaming saves me from a lot of curiosity or impluse buying, plus there the stuff I'm happy to hear once (or twice) and then move on. It also improves my success rate by sampling and being able make comparisons before purchasing.

[Que]

Morning listening:



This is quite pretty and very well sung, but inauthentic and unidiomatic in various ways.

[Madiel]

Streaming is absolutely all about sampling for me as well. Once upon a time I relied on the Penguin Guide and/or agonised forever on the shop floor because I've never liked buying things and then discovering I don't love them.

I still find reviews helpful in narrowing down the field, but the ability to try things out or just to explore is a great benefit while still holding the view that I want a library of things that are mine.

For one thing, streaming is what allows me to do the great big chronological explorations of composers that I'm rather fond of. And I do heaps of similar things for pop music as well: for reasons too obscure to go into, I'm currently going through a list of the top 50 albums of 2007. Some of which are very interesting, some of which are utterly boring to me.

Thread duty: Haydn, piano trios - nos. 15 and 16 in Hob numbering, nos. 29 and 28 in more modern numbering, or op.67 in the publication numbering that no-one uses anymore. Written around 1790.



These are the violin versions. Hearing the original flute versions is definitely on my to-do list.  But the 1st movement of no.15/29 in G is a delight in this form.

[foxandpeng]

Currently:




Hovhaness: Symphony #21, Op. 234, "Etchmiadzin"

This is also excellent, but only available to me via YouTube. Starting my day here, all the same 🙂

[Tsaraslondon]

These performances are not to everyone's taste, I know, but I love them all. Others may prefer a less interventionist approach, I suppose, but I don't hold with the opinion that Mozart gets lost in Mutter and nobody will deny the playing is absolutely superb.

[Daverz]

You didn't get it. In fact none of your 3 sentences are true.

Should have marked it as sarcasm. 

My post was not just a reaction to GMG, but to some of the other comments I've seen on other forums, e.g. MusicWeb.  I find the comments on the MusicWeb forum particularly rich given the mediocre white male composers they constantly hype.

[The new erato]

Half of the discs in my presto shopping basket always disappear after checkin them on Qobuz. I

[foxandpeng]

Streaming is absolutely all about sampling for me as well. Once upon a time I relied on the Penguin Guide and/or agonised forever on the shop floor because I've never liked buying things and then discovering I don't love them.

I still find reviews helpful in narrowing down the field, but the ability to try things out or just to explore is a great benefit while still holding the view that I want a library of things that are mine.

For one thing, streaming is what allows me to do the great big chronological explorations of composers that I'm rather fond of. And I do heaps of similar things for pop music as well: for reasons too obscure to go into, I'm currently going through a list of the top 50 albums of 2007. Some of which are very interesting, some of which are utterly boring to me.

Thread duty: Haydn, piano trios - nos. 15 and 16 in Hob numbering, nos. 29 and 28 in more modern numbering, or op.67 in the publication numbering that no-one uses anymore.



These are the violin versions. Hearing the original flute versions is definitely on my to-do list.  But the 1st movement of no.15/29 in G is a delight in this form.

For me, streaming is also king. The low cost of streamed music at 320kbps for me and my wife, is significantly less than we would have spent either on downloads or physical media. I browse the Purchases Today thread, and estimate that some members have spent more already this month than my yearly subscription. Each to their own, of course, but the power of sampling, variety and volume of material, storage saving and relative cost, make streaming a no brainer in our case. I alone spent 78 000 minutes streaming music in 2021 - cheap as chips, as they say. It would be only fair to cough to having a core of about 5TB of music on HDs also, in case of the Internet apocalypse.

I have concerns about payments to living artists per unit streamed, of course, but that's why merchandise and live events have become so important to non-classical artists.The world has changed in challenging ways, I guess.

Off to see Messiah performed in Liverpool this evening with Andrew Manze, which should be good.

[The new erato]

I leave the streaming on on mute to generate payment to artists. I listen on a fiber connection with fixed cost. On the move I listen to stored music.

[Madiel]

For me, streaming is also king.

Well I didn't say streaming is king. For me, having a collection is king. But I curate my collection a lot more slowly than many people on GMG.

My last classical music purchases were in the last days of 2020. I'm still going through those purchases, in between streaming for exploration and all the pop music. The Haydn piano trios was one of those purchases.

[The new erato]

Should have marked it as sarcasm. 

My post was not just a reaction to GMG, but to some of the other comments I've seen on other forums, e.g. MusicWeb.  I find the comments on the MusicWeb forum particularly rich given the mediocre white male composers they constantly hype.

Sorry I didn't get it. As you said, it unfortunately sounded all too true.

[vandermolen]

VW 'Phantasy Quintet'
Following Elgarian Redux's enthusiasm for this work I thought that I should hear it again.
It's a lovely score, although not my favourite VW chamber work. I prefer the late Violin Sonata, the SQ No.2 and the early, subsequently withdrawn, Piano Quintet.