What are you listening 2 now?

[Que]

Morning listening is part IV of this Lassus series on Musique en Wallonie, with music from his old age including the complete mass Missa super Dixit Joseph.

[Harry]

Morning listening is part IV of this Lassus series on Musique en Wallonie, with music from his old age including the complete mass Missa super Dixit Joseph

Good morning Que!

A few days ago I sampled through the enormous amount of Renaissance music on Qubuz, amongst them was this recording. What I heard of it was quite good. I have already a very large collection in this genre, but still find things of interest.

[Harry]

A golden oldie, still the benchmark for all other performances. Emma Kirkby in full prime'!

[Que]

Good morning Que!

A few days ago I sampled through the enormous amount of Renaissance music on Qubuz, amongst them was this recording. What I heard of it was quite good. I have already a very large collection in this genre, but still find things of interest.

Morning, Harry. 
Odhecaton does a great job, even if its forces are a bit larger than ideal. I highly recommend giving the other volumes in this series by Ludus Modalis, Singer Pur,  Egidius Kwartet & College and Vox Luminis a listen. Absolutely brilliant recordings.

[Operafreak]

Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 in D Minor- Wiener Philharmoniker, Carlo Maria Giulini

[Tsaraslondon]

Recorded live in Amsterdam in 1994, this is a fabulous disc of Schumann chamber works, with Argerich on the piano for all four works. An absolute corker of a disc.

[vandermolen]

Miaskovsky: Sinfonietta in A Minor Op.68
USSR Academic SO, Verbitzky:

[Mandryka]

Lyrical, sensual, long sensual phrases, typical Reverdie sound. Like it. It helps that it's such cool music. I'm even finding myself enjoying the instrumental pieces, which normally I'm not much interested in with Reverdie.

Interesting how the cover talks about Marian music in Ferrara but the CD has so much English music.

[Operafreak]

Purcell: Fantazias- Chelys Consort of Viols

[Papy Oli]

Good morning all.

[foxandpeng]

Alfred Schnittke
Symphony 1
USSR Ministry of Culture SO
Gennady Rozhdestvensky


Schnittke Sunday. I'm hoping to explore Schnittke's works over the next however long, and have been recommended some useful starting points. Even though this isn't one of them, I thought I'd prod #1.

My initial reaction is that nobody who likes this can ever again question my appreciation of Peter Maxwell Davies or Robert Simpson. My wife rarely objects to the music I play, but this afternoon has basically said:

'No. Nope. Nooo. No more dreadful, tuneless crap. This is the worst, ridiculously chaotic nonsense even for you. Put your headphones on'.

Thankfully, even in my amateurish understanding and knowledge, I have more patience, but compared to the excellent cello concertos and SQ 3 from yesterday, this is challenging. I will persevere, but wtf?

[Todd]

[Lisztianwagner]

On Spotify:
Alexander Zemlinsky
Eine florentinische Tragödie

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Havergal Brian: Symphonies Nos. 15.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

I don't know why Naxos is using multiple pianists.  You would have to contact the company for a definitive answer.

Like the pianists on the other two single discs that I've heard from the series, Soo-Jung Ann has the ability to dispatch the works without any issues, and she plays them quite nicely.  One must turn to people who select and record specific works for better performances.  Larrocha typically comes up, but her Soler is not especially distinguished to my ears.  Luiz Fernando Perez is much more to my liking, but even better are Marie-Luise Hinrichs and Frederick Marvin, though the latter's disc is in horrid sound.  That makes Hinrichs my default go-to.

Thank you, Todd! This is very helpful. I will check out these artists as well as the Naxos issues!

[Mirror Image]

NP:

Atterberg
Älven (The River) – från fjällen till havet, Op. 33
NDR Radiophilharmonie
Ari Rasilainen

From this set -

[Mapman]

Last night:
Goetz: Der Widerspenstigen Zähmung, Act 1
Keilberth: Frick, et al., Chor und Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks

I listened without reading anything about it first. It's a very enjoyable opera with good tunes and lots of woodwind solos. I'm not sure why the overture isn't better known. The final aria of act 1 has what has the potential to be one of the great opera melodies, unfortunately the overall structure doesn't work as well. Here is a link to the best moment: https://youtu.be/6jxR0J_OloY?t=252.

[DavidW]

I will persevere, but wtf?

That was my reaction as well upon my recent relisten.  I love the string quartets though!  Perhaps now I should listen to the cello concertos since you liked them.

Thread duty:
Last night I listened to an exceptional RVW 2, one of the finest I've heard.  And this morning some very good Mozart.

[Mirror Image]

Alfred Schnittke
Symphony 1
USSR Ministry of Culture SO
Gennady Rozhdestvensky


Schnittke Sunday. I'm hoping to explore Schnittke's works over the next however long, and have been recommended some useful starting points. Even though this isn't one of them, I thought I'd prod #1.

My initial reaction is that nobody who likes this can ever again question my appreciation of Peter Maxwell Davies or Robert Simpson. My wife rarely objects to the music I play, but this afternoon has basically said:

'No. Nope. Nooo. No more dreadful, tuneless crap. This is the worst, ridiculously chaotic nonsense even for you. Put your headphones on'.

Thankfully, even in my amateurish understanding and knowledge, I have more patience, but compared to the excellent cello concertos and SQ 3 from yesterday, this is challenging. I will persevere, but wtf?

I've this before and I'll say it again, Schnittke's first symphony is a gimmicky piece that fails on many levels for me: the main one being it doesn't have some kind of narrative or access point. This is just noise for its own sake --- kind of like Xenakis, but less controlled and organized. The jazz improvisation section is good, though. Anyway, don't let this deter you away from exploring the rest of the symphonies. They do get better with my favorites being the 3rd, 4th, 5th and 8th. The 8th in particular is a devastating piece, especially in the Lento movement (the longest movement of the symphony). It has this haunting, nocturnal sound-world and it sounds as if someone has lost complete hope in not only their own life, but the world around them.

[VonStupp]

Sergei Prokofiev
Tale of the Stone Flower, op. 118

BBC Philharmonic
Gianandrea Noseda

Karl and others urged me to look beyond the few concert suites I had from Järvi, and delve into the entire ballet.

For this morning: Disc 1 - Act 1 & 2.

VS