What are you listening 2 now?

[Sergeant Rock]

Haydn Te Deum, Pinnock conducting the English Concert and Choir




Sarge

[Biffo]

Vaguely planning to listen... sadly the libretto in English doesn't seem to be available anywhere (short of Google translating the Czech)

My copy of the Supraphon disc you show has an accompanying booklet with the libretto in Czech with English, German and French translation. It is a single disc and booklet inside a cardboard sleeve.

[Mirror Image]

Love these Supraphon covers in the Suk series!
Honestly, I bought them for the cover!

Yeah, they're cool. This is one only one I have in this series with this kind of artwork. I never bought the rest individually, because I own this set:

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Paul Creston: Symphony No. 1.
Theodore Kuchar/Ukraine.

[Mirror Image]

Before heading into work:

Kabalevsky
Colas Breugnon Suite, Op. 24a
NDR Radiophilharmonie
Adrian Prabava



Such a fun romp!

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Yeah, they're cool. This is one only one I have in this series with this kind of artwork. I never bought the rest individually, because I own this set:

Nice music!

[Florestan]

Before heading into work:

Kabalevsky
Colas Breugnon Suite, Op. 24a
NDR Radiophilharmonie
Adrian Prabava



Such a fun romp!

Do you work on Saturday? 

[Roasted Swan]

As I said. Saint-Saens composed 12 and only Samson and Delilah is popular. 

With the exception of the likes of Wagner/Puccini/Verdi/Mozart really MOST well-known composers who wrote a lot of operas are well known for just one or two.... think Tchaikovsky/Massenet/Smetana/Mascagni/ even Donizetti - perhaps Rossini sneaks in with about 3 'known' out of LOADS!  Then the likes of Prokofiev/Rimsky-Korsakov are "known" as opera composers but how many folk really KNOW any of their works complete (not just orchestral excerpts....)

[Florestan]

With the exception of the likes of Wagner/Puccini/Verdi/Mozart really MOST well-known composers who wrote a lot of operas are well known for just one or two.... think Tchaikovsky/Massenet/Smetana/Mascagni/ even Donizetti - perhaps Rossini sneaks in with about 3 'known' out of LOADS!  Then the likes of Prokofiev/Rimsky-Korsakov are "known" as opera composers but how many folk really KNOW any of their works complete (not just orchestral excerpts....)

Good point.

[steve ridgway]

Stravinsky - Three Pieces for Solo Clarinet.

[Todd]

[Florestan]

[Mirror Image]

Do you work on Saturday? 

I work Thursday through Sunday, Andrei. I'm off three in a row (Monday - Wednesday).

[steve ridgway]

Ives - Second Orchestral Set.

[Florestan]

I work Thursday through Sunday, Andrei. I'm off three in a row (Monday - Wednesday).

I see, John. Not bad overall.

[Mirror Image]

I see, John. Not bad overall.

Yeah, it's a good gig. Those three in a row off, if something doesn't come up, I have plenty of time for music.

[Florestan]

Yeah, it's a good gig. Those three in a row off, if something doesn't come up, I have plenty of time for music.

What would we all GMGers do without music, I wonder? I can't even imagine a life without music.

[Mirror Image]

What would we all GMGers do without music, I wonder? I can't even imagine a life without music.

Same here. You might as well put a bullet in my head. Aside from my parents, it's the one constant in this life that has given me everything. One thing it hasn't done much for me is my insanity.

[Harry]

Arnold Bax.

Piano works.
Volume III.

Ashley Wass, Piano.

With every CD I play containing Bax piano music, I fall deeper in appreciation for the way he handles music for that Instrument. Intimate small scale, but at the same time the music has the wide and depth of an orchestral composition. One of the pieces " Lullaby" makes your heart leap, with all the different moods and the microkosmos it creates. But in the broader sense "Two Russian Tone Poems" are of a far more grander scale. Wass feels the music and plays accordingly. The sound is very good!

[Mirror Image]

Nice music!

Indeed. A fascinating composer.