What are you listening 2 now?

[Mirror Image]

Definitely in the mood for some Late-Romantic Russian music tonight...

NP:

Glazunov
From the Middle Ages, Op. 79
Scottish National Orchestra
Järvi



Next:

Tchaikovsky
Suite from "Swan Lake"
New York Philharmonic
Bernstein

[Operafreak]

[Madiel]

I doubt it's ethnically more correct than anything else. There are thousands of Aboriginal languages, after all. It's merely an accepted variant.

There are many Aboriginal languages, none of which were written in the Latin alphabet until recently. And none of which include the word "didgeridoo".

Opinions about the best way to write Aboriginal languages in our alphabet have varied and developed over time, just as approaches to writing Chinese or Russian in our alphabet have changed.

But that's only one point. The more pertinent point is that if "didgeridoo" were a word from an Aboriginal language, it would obviously not be a word across all the thousands of language that you refer to. And the even more pertinent point is that there isn't any evidence that the word comes from any Aboriginal language at all, rather it appears to have been made up by Europeans. It doesn't resemble the name in any of the native languages in the regions of Australia where the instrument was played.

Perhaps the "didjeridu" spelling is meant to make the word look more Aboriginal, ie more in keeping with modern approaches to writing indigenous languages in our alphabet.

[Operafreak]

 

[Que]

Morning listening:

[steve ridgway]

Schoenberg Five Pieces For Orchestra, 1909.

[Mandryka]

I was going to say no, because I tend not to take my music lessons from Youtube, but then I think you mean Herr Hurwitz and I will happily acknowledge that I hadn't even heard about Skalkottas until he mentioned him in the context of 'driving music' (I think that was his Greek Dances, which I actually found a bit so-so). So yeah, without him, I wouldn't have known of the composer in question. I think that's also true of Geirr Tveitt and Benjamin Frankel. I don't think it's true of any of the other 577 composers in my collection, though I'd be happy to acknowledge it, were it so. I don't have an issue praising Hurwitz to the skies for the way he makes music accessible.

Anyway:

Johann Wenzel Kalliwoda's Symphony No. 5 
    Frieder Bernius, Hofkapelle Stuttgart

If you enjoy Schoenberg's last two quartets you may be interested in Skalkottas's quartet cycle. To me they sound almost like Schoenberg parodies, though that's not a bad thing IMO. I wish there were more performances on record, but the New Hellenic Quartet are obviously passionate and able.

[vandermolen]

Some charming, gentle, poetic and lyrical early morning listening - Robert Ward's Piano Concerto - rather in the spirit of Howard Hanson's PC:

[vandermolen]

Pounds the table!!! Magnificent stuff!

+1 (Respighi Metamorphoseon).

[Irons]

Most definitely. I also like the Neville Dilkes recording.

+1

[Irons]

Bax: Nocturne "May Night in the Ukraine" for piano.

Courtesy of  https://youtu.be/yY6nP2wr2xU

[vandermolen]

Some charming, gentle, poetic and lyrical early morning listening - Robert Ward's Piano Concerto - rather in the spirit of Howard Hanson's PC:

Now on to the equally engaging Symphony No.2

[foxandpeng]

Oh cool! I love Penderecki! I recall one reviewer called him a "one tone" composer meaning that the prevailing feeling in his music is always dourness, but I strongly disagree in that once you start exploring his oeuvre, you notice a change as the composer gets older. Like, for example, the 6th ("Chinese Songs") sounds like something Mahler could've wrote. And the Horn Concerto, "Wintereisse" is downright Impressionistic in some places. Anyway, let the naysayers continue to run their mouth (I used to be one for this composer), but I have "seen the light" so to speak.

I look forward to further discoveries and a growing grasp of his work. I watched your odyssey with his music with interest, and the wider discussions emerging from that, so I definitely have food for thought as I listen.

[Operafreak]

[vandermolen]

Daniel Sternefeld: Symphony No.1
A turbulent, powerful and brooding work written, in 1943, when the composer was in hiding in Nazi-occupied Belgium (he briefly and bravely came out of hiding to attend the funeral of his teacher Paul Gilson in Brussels). Stravinsky is clearly an influence (especially 'The Firebird' I think). Overall, this is a great example of the 'despair into defiance' type of work.

[Operafreak]

[André]

Daniel Sternefeld: Symphony No.1
A turbulent, powerful and brooding work written, in 1943, when the composer was in hiding in Nazi-occupied Belgium (he briefly and bravely came out of hiding to attend the funeral of his teacher Paul Gilson in Brussels). Stravinsky is clearly an influence (especially 'The Firebird' I think). Overall, this is a great example of the 'despair into defiance' type of work.

A fine symphony indeed. His opera Mater Dolorosa (of which there's a suite in this recording) is a very moving work.

[steve ridgway]

Schoenberg Erwartung, 1909. Super dramatic and dissonant.

[Biffo]

Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius - Staatskapelle Dresden & Staatsopernchor Dresden conducted by Sir Colin Davis with Paul Groves tenor, Sarah Connolly mezzo-soprano and John Kelyea bass - beautifully played and sung

[Harry]

Johann Christian Bach.
Symphonies, opus 8, opus 6.

The Hanover Band, Anthony Halstead.
Recorded 1995.