What are you listening 2 now?

[Mirror Image]

NP: Chávez Suite for Double Quartet (Southwest Chamber Music)

[André]

The music of Arnold is a new venture for me and I have been previously exposed to very little of it. It is a planned project for 2022.

[Karl Henning]

This one has always felt to me like something of a presage to the Clarinet Concerto:

"Wolferl"
Pf Cto in A, K. 488
Volodya Ashkenazy

[André]

Quite interesting and worth investigating.

[VonStupp]

PI Tchaikovsky
Orchestral Suite 2 in C major, Op. 53
New Philharmonia Orchestra - Antal Doráti

Love the accordions!
VS

[foxandpeng]

Quite interesting and worth investigating.

Agreed! I am a huge fan of these releases from the Milken Archive. Exposure for Jewish composers has always been an area of interest for me, and there are some gems in there.

Thanks for sharing!

[vandermolen]

You might try the Chandos recording Jeffrey, with Järvi at the helm. It is in my opinion superior to the Naxos disc, albeit more expensive, but well worth the investment.

Sorry I missed this message Harry. I'll look out for the Jarvi. Coincidentally I just received this today:

[vandermolen]

Not by me, he is one of my favourite composers, and I admire and love his music very much.

Pleased to hear it Harry! I was thinking about Bax today. I think very highly of all of his symphonies, which have meant a lot to me since my late teenage years.

[foxandpeng]

Jewish String Quartets
Darius Milhaud 'Etudes'
Ruth Schonthal SQ 3
Juilliard String Quartet
Bingham Quartet
Milken Archive
Naxos American Classics

[Karl Henning]

Starting an Hindemith exploration :

Last night :

Kammermusik No.1 Op.24/1
5 Stücke Op.44/4



Now:

Konzertmusik for Piano, Brass and 2 Harps Op.49
The Four Temperaments



Colour me intrigued.

Love the Op. 49, especially.

[Karl Henning]

Starting an Hindemith exploration :

Last night :

Kammermusik No.1 Op.24/1
5 Stücke Op.44/4



Now:

Konzertmusik for Piano, Brass and 2 Harps Op.49
The Four Temperaments



Colour me intrigued.

Love the Op. 49, especially.

[foxandpeng]

Pleased to hear it Harry! I was thinking about Bax today. I think very highly of all of his symphonies, which have meant a lot to me since my late teenage years.

I have had a real love for Bax, ever since being exposed to a clarinettist friend of mine sat up late with me on a young people's camp, while he practised his Grade 8 performance pieces after everyone else had gone to bed. I remember the lyricism and passion with which he played, and the evangelical zeal with which he spoke of Bax's music. He's held a special place ever since.

[vandermolen]

I have had a real love for Bax, ever since being exposed to a clarinettist friend of mine sat up late with me on a young people's camp, while he practised his Grade 8 performance pieces after everyone else had gone to bed. I remember the lyricism and passion with which he played, and the evangelical zeal with which he spoke of Bax's music. He's held a special place ever since.

Most interesting Danny. I owe many of my early musical discoveries to the High Street Kensington Record Library near to my home in London when I was growing up. However I think that I came across Bax's 3rd Symphony (RCA LP, LSO/Edward Downes) in the record library at Lancaster University where I was a student. They had a 'Listening Room' with a turntable and headphones and I listened to that LP over and over and over again. I never looked back with Bax.

[Mirror Image]

NP: Saint-Saëns Oboe Sonata in D major, Op. 166 (Nicholas Daniel/Julian Drake)

[André]

Agreed! I am a huge fan of these releases from the Milken Archive. Exposure for Jewish composers has always been an area of interest for me, and there are some gems in there.

Thanks for sharing!

Giving the violin concerto another spin as I write 

[foxandpeng]

Most interesting Danny. I owe many of my early musical discoveries to the High Street Kensington Record Library near to my home in London when I was growing up. However I think that I came across Bax's 3rd Symphony (RCA LP, LSO/Edward Downes) in the record library at Lancaster University where I was a student. They had a 'Listening Room' with a turntable and headphones and I listened to that LP over and over and over again. I never looked back with Bax.

I wish I'd had something like this. Your knowledge is always something that prompts me to stretch my listening. For a variety of tedious reasons, uniiversity didn't land with me until my early 30's, by which time CDs had popped into existence. I spent many hours borrowing CDs from a friend and listening on my CD Walkman in the theological library of my college while battling an MTh. I heard a great many dubiously recorded Vienna Masters releases from Pilz in those years!

[foxandpeng]

Giving the violin concerto another spin as I write 

It's on my list for the morning, André!

Time & Eternity
Kol Nidre
John Zorn
Patricia Kopatchinskaja
Camerata Bern

[Symphonic Addict]

T O P N O TCH !!!

[foxandpeng]

Final post tonight. Honest. Sleep well, GMGers.

Einojuhani Rautavaara
Vigilia
Helsinki Chamber Choir
Nils Schweckendiek
BIS

[VonStupp]

In band transcription, it was probably the first Tchaikovsky work I heard live!

Nice! Was it decent?

VS