What are you listening 2 now?

[aligreto]

I have just listened to the following music by Desprez from the Richafort CD:






Nymphes, nappés , Circumdederunt me: This is a short but very engaging work. It is well sung here.
Faulte d'argent: This is a short but very engaging work. Sibilance predominates in this recording.
Nymphes des bois , Requiem aeternam: This is a short work but I find it to be particularly emotionally powerful and engaging. The writing and the harmonies are particularly engaging in this work.
Miserere mei, Deus: This is a more substantial and a particularly absorbing work. Both the harmonies and the counterpoint are particularly engaging.

[aligreto]

I see. It's fine anyway, the world of classical music is so wide that inevitably there can be a type of composition less captivating than others to someone's ear. About myself, I have still had some problems with Italian Opera.

Yes I can understand that issue also.
It is all a matter of personal taste and these things are very subjective.
Either way, continue to enjoy your music.

[aligreto]

Don't spoil the poor man....

Jeffrey is one of the good guys here. 

[Karl Henning]

Jeffrey is one of the good guys here. 

'struth!

[Mandryka]

I've posted the back because otherwise you wouldn't believe me. Look at the timing for the Chopin Barcarolle by Michel Block.

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony No. 5 with Franz Konwitschny and the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig

[foxandpeng]

I am somewhat of an aberration in that regard as far as classical music listeners are concerned. I have been struggling with the sound of solo piano music for approximately fifty years now. It is not for the want of trying, I assure you.

You are not alone. As with every generalisation I do have occasional exceptions, but I am in the same boat.

[Lisztianwagner]

Yes I can understand that issue also.
It is all a matter of personal taste and these things are very subjective.
Either way, continue to enjoy your music.

Absolutely. You too, Fergus!

[Lisztianwagner]

Gustav Mahler
Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen

Alexander Zemlinsky
6 Songs to poems by Maurice Maeterlinck

[vers la flamme]

Edward Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius, op.38. John Barbirolli, Hallé Orchestra & Choir, Ambrosian Singers, Sheffield Philharmonic Choir, Janet Baker, Richard Lewis, Kim Borg (if you sang on this recording and I forgot to list your name here—I'm sorry.)

I know my contributions to this thread tend to be repetitive, because I get really obsessed with a composer, a work, or a handful of composers and/or works at a time and listen to them over and over. But I'll be damned if this isn't a GREAT piece!

[Karl Henning]

Edward Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius, op.38. John Barbirolli, Hallé Orchestra & Choir, Ambrosian Singers, Sheffield Philharmonic Choir, Janet Baker, Richard Lewis, Kim Borg (if you sang on this recording and I forgot to list your name here—I'm sorry.)

I know my contributions to this thread tend to be repetitive, because I get really obsessed with a composer, a work, or a handful of composers and/or works at a time and listen to them over and over. But I'll be damned if this isn't a GREAT piece!

You're right!

[foxandpeng]

Michael Hersch
Symphonies 1 & 2
Marin Alsop
Bournemouth SO
Naxos

Fine symphonies worth hearing. Moody and atmospheric, suitable for a pensive Sunday evening.

[Todd]

[vandermolen]

Jeffrey's recommendations are always worth consideration.

Haha - kind of you Fergus.
Not everyone would agree - my own brother, in his speech at my wedding, said that my new wife was 'doomed to years of listening to music by deservedly neglected composers' - someone else commented that he could simply have stopped after the word doomed

[vandermolen]

Michael Hersch
Symphonies 1 & 2
Marin Alsop
Bournemouth SO
Naxos

Fine symphonies worth hearing. Moody and atmospheric, suitable for a pensive Sunday evening.

Interesting.
What are they like Danny?
PS Not to worry - just found Symphony No.1 on You Tube - sounds terrific (that bell at the start!)

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Bach


Suite in E flat major


Never have I heard the cello suite BWV 1010 in a more convincing performance than here in an arrangement by Leonhardt on cembalo. The Prélude begins, to put it freely, in a dancing cadence of church bells that drags you along in a driving but fluid movement, this as far as the part with which the suite opens. It's an arrangement by Leonhardt that I always enjoy listening to.

Great box set! I am so happy that I own it!

[foxandpeng]

Interesting.
What are they like Danny?
PS Not to worry - just found Symphony No.1 on You Tube - sounds terrific (that bell at the start!)

Big fan of Michael Hersch. Glad you found it!

Thread:

In Passione et Morte Domini
(Gregorian Chant for Good Friday)
Nova Schola Gregoriana
Alberto Turvo, Director
Naxos

Early Music for the late watches!

[aligreto]

Poulenc: Piano Music played by Eric Le Sage





From CD 3:

Nocturnes Nos. 1-8

[aligreto]

You are not alone. As with every generalisation I do have occasional exceptions, but I am in the same boat.

It is reassuring to know that one is not the total exception even though I am quite comfortable with that tag. Continued enjoyment in your preferred listening field of choice. 

[aligreto]

Haha - kind of you Fergus.
Not everyone would agree - my own brother, in his speech at my wedding, said that my new wife was 'doomed to years of listening to music by deservedly neglected composers' - someone else commented that he could simply have stopped after the word doomed

Do not believe the naysayers Jeffrey.