What are you listening 2 now?

[prémont]

If the two of you have all the solutions for the problems on this forum, you'd better get started! 

Of course I don't have the solutions. But the point is, that we shall never find any solutions when we don't talk about the problems.

[aligreto]

JS Bach: Italian Concerto BWV 971 [Leonhardt]





I find this to be a clean, crisp, free flowing and vibrant presentation. The performance of the final movement, in particular, was magnificent.

[aligreto]

My favorite part is by far the second movement from the cello sonata in A minor. Absolutely love that allegro!

And since the Missing Members thread was locked before I had a chance to reply, I will do it here: thank you for all the words of encouragement, everyone - they mean a lot. I also wanted to add that my embarrassment was not caused by any gatekeeping aura coming off other members, but rather it's me who gatekept myself out of self-consciousness. So please don't worry about that.

It is great that you have decided to post again.
I do not know that CD but I like all of Vivaldi's music and I particularly like Vivaldi's Sacred Music.

[aligreto]

Don't be insulting. Bitterness doesn't become you.

I did not mean to be insulting, Que, and neither am I bitter. You are simply or deliberately misconstruing my intentions. I am simply dumbfounded at the approach taken here.

If the two of you have all the solutions for the problems on this forum, you'd better get started! 

Instead of censoring peoples' indiscretions, moderators just locking a thread hoping that that will solve the problem and it will just go away simply does not make any sense. How many more threads will have to be locked?


Just for the record surely the membership should know if locking that thread was the consensus approach by all of the moderators.



Anyway, I have aired my thoughts and will not do so again on this particular matter.

[vandermolen]

Raff: Symphony No.5 'Lenore'. I've become a bit obsessed with this work at the moment. The conductor is actually Matthias Bamert and not Albrecht as suggested on the front cover. Fine performance.

I thought that I'd get this one in before the thread is closed down! 

[aligreto]

Schubert: Sonatine pour piano et violon op.posth.137 D.384 [Queyras/Tharaud]





The inherent singing lines of Schubert's music are very evident here and they are well presented by both Queyras and Tharaud.

[Que]

Of course I don't have the solutions. But the point is, that we shall never find any solutions when we don't talk about the problems.

And neither have I, just to state the obvious. And despite your best efforts, I haven't seen any talking focused on resolving problems - rather the opposite. I guess commenting on a moderating measure is much easier, as usual.

[vandermolen]

Finzi: Requiem da Camera - a most beautiful and largely unknown work:

[Operafreak]

Schubert: String Quartets Nos. 13 & 14

Quartetto Italiano

[Spotted Horses]

FWIW I don't always agree with moderating decisions, but I too thought this one showed good judgement.  The thread in question is supposed to be about Missing Members, not a place for two valued and very much present members to scrap about the Beatles - which if allowed to continue unchecked might well result in one or both going missing, to the detriment of the rest of us.  No doubt when the steam has gone out of this particular (non-)issue the thread will be unlocked and normal service can resume.

If you are referring to me, my intention was not to "scrap about the Beatles." I have no objection to any member disagreeing with my opinion on Beatles remasters or any other subject. I though it was ironic that a certain member, after decrying negative treatment on the board, claiming among other things that "some members have chosen to not think about what they write and, more importantly, not acknowledge that they're a part of the problem and not a part of the solution" and "if I succumbed to this type of attitude, I would be stooping down to the level of many members here who I wish to not engage with again," replied to an innocuous post of mine by telling me that my opinion is bullshit. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black.

[vandermolen]

Britten: Cantata Misericordium (from the above CD)

[aligreto]

Poulenc: Eric Le Sage Plays Poulenc





From CD 5:

Sonata for Violin and Piano [Blacher/Le Sage]

The music in the opening movement is thrilling and exciting. The slow movement is a great contrast with its gentle intensity, its wonderful melodic lines and dissonant harmonies. The energetic and animated music of the opening movement returns in the final movement. The violin line has many very technically difficult passages to play and it all sounds wonderful.

[Spotted Horses]

Also doing some Poulenc,



A little piece called Homage a Albert Roussel. A charming miniature, and an effective palate cleanser after listening to a Pettersson symphony!

[Todd]

[foxandpeng]

Good to know Danny - I've been enjoying the St Vartan Symphony again this morning. Arnell was a great discovery of recent years. I like all his symphonies but especially Nos 3 (a wartime epic) and No.5. I sent him a fan letter and received a couple of lovely cards from the Musician's Benevolent Home, where he spent his last few years (I think he was married about seven times!)

He probably needed the refuge of the Benevolent Home.

Thread:

Richard Arnell
Symphonies 1 and 6 'The Anvil'
Martin Yates
RSNO
Dutton

These fine symphonies continue to be a real pleasure. The memorable melody from the final movement of The Anvil prompted my wife to tell me, 'this is what classical music is supposed to sound like, not like that nonsense from the other day' (Pettersson).

I take the win, such as it is.

[foxandpeng]

Richard Arnell
The Angels
Martin Yates
BBC Concert Orchestra
Dutton

[Biffo]

Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 6 in E minor - BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Martyn Brabbins - fine performance, excellent sound

[vers la flamme]

Johannes Brahms: Piano Concerto No.2 in B-flat major, op.83. Sviatoslav Richter, Erich Leinsdorf, Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Was reminded of this recording in one of the threads in the recordings forum.

[Todd]

[VonStupp]

George Dyson
Quo Vadis

Cheryl Barker, soprano / Jean Rigby, mezzo
Philip Langridge, tenor / Roderick Williams, baritone
Royal Welsh College Chamber Choir
BBC National Orchestra & Chorus of Wales
Sir Richard Hickox

For today:

VS