What are you listening 2 now?

[kyjo]

First listen to chamber works by Olli Mustonen. I liked this a LOT. More thoughts in the "New Music Log" thread, but TLDR if you like works for these ensembles by people like Shostakovich, Bartok, Barber, and even more conservative figures like Taneyev, you should absolutely try this.

Sounds right up my alley, Brian! Thanks for bringing this to our attention. I've queued it up on Spotify.

[VonStupp]

l'Impératrice aux rochers got a  recording on Timpani. But I haven't listened to it in ages. Possibly the performance isn't that good/exiting...? I'll check later.



I'll try to find that russian cd.

It sounds more traditionally Romantic comparative to the symphonies say, or even Phaedre; perhaps an early work?

The entire Melodiya Rozhdestvensky Honegger set can be found on YouTube as well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rocZ_0CayFo&list=OLAK5uy_mNLt8iIKAEwAtxm79xl2QoYUgIRIkdKRk&index=1

[Madiel]

For you, perhaps. For any competent website owner, bearing in mind that a hard drives lasts 5 years or more, it's one of the lesser costs to keep in mind.
If money really was tight, in any case, 2x4TB pro drives cost £180. Or about £35 per year. That's still enough to allow each user to upload 4 million 500KB images.
I'm assuming you'd regard A$62 per year, to run something you love, to be affordable?

So, so bored with you missing the point, and now moving the goalposts by cutting the figures by over 75%. I'm done.

[Que]

Morning listening:



played by Menno van Delft.

[Mookalafalas]

Coincidentally, I'm listening to AOF too...

[vandermolen]

It sounds more traditionally Romantic comparative to the symphonies say, or even Phaedre; perhaps an early work?

The entire Melodiya Rozhdestvensky Honegger set can be found on YouTube as well:

https://www.youtube.com/v/rocZ_0CayFo&ab_channel=GennadyRozhdestvensky-Topic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rocZ_0CayFo&list=OLAK5uy_mNLt8iIKAEwAtxm79xl2QoYUgIRIkdKRk&index=1

Is the Melodiya Honegger set available on CD?

[Irons]

McEwen: Solway Symphony (listened on YouTube).

Enjoyed a selection of McEwen string quartets from a Chandos recording very much so thought to explore some orchestral music worthwhile. Nearly pulled the trigger, and probably will eventually do so, but not convinced. A bit rich for my taste.

[Mookalafalas]

I'm listening to Book I (pic is for Book II, but it's otherwise the same...)

[Mandryka]

Coincidentally, I'm listening to AOF too...

My word, that's quite a an imaginative and poetic interpretation. Thanks for pointing it out.

[Harry]

Johann Sebastian Bach.
Complete Cantatas.
Volume 46.
Here, deine Augen sehen nach dem Glauben.
Es ist dir gesagt, Mensch, was gut ist.
Wer Dank offert, der preiset mich.
Es erhub sich ein Streit.
Appendix: Herr, deine Augen sehen nach dem Glauben.
Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki.
Blazikova, Blaze, Turk, Kooij.

[Papy Oli]

Good morning all.

JS Bach
Partita for harpsichord BWV 825
(Suzuki)

[Madiel]

I'm listening to Book I (pic is for Book II, but it's otherwise the same...)

I don't think I've ever heard it on an organ. Trying to imagine...

[SimonNZ]

on the radio: PC4

[Mookalafalas]

My word, that's quite a an imaginative and poetic interpretation. Thanks for pointing it out.

  Certainly

[Mookalafalas]

I don't think I've ever heard it on an organ. Trying to imagine...

Naturally it's a very quiet organ...
   This is my second time through, and it's growing on me.

  Played this earlier (also for second time).


Oddly, to find it at Amazon, you have to misspell his name. [Oh, it's not written on the cover. Bach Cello Suites. Played very slowly and thoughtfully]

[Operafreak]

Britten: Symphony for Cello and Orchestra-Paul Watkins (cello), Robert Murray (tenor)

BBC Philharmonic, Edward Gardner

[Harry]

Georg Bohm.
Organ Works of the North German Baroque VIII.
Complete Organ works.
CD I.
Friedhelm Flamme plays on a Creutzburg organ 1731.
Propsteikirche, St. Cyriakus zu Duderstadt.
Pitch: A= 471 Hz at 15 degrees celsius.
Temperament: Neidhardt II, 1724.

Despite the beautiful music, and the equally fine organ, it is nevertheless not the right instrument for Bohm's music. And since this is a very difficult organ to record, due to the acoustics of the church, is sounds a bit muffled, and to be honest, Flamme is not really up to the challenge Bohm's music throws at him. But that is an aspect of all his recordings that comes up in some form or another. Of course Flamme has skills and lets say 50% of his recordings I heard, made some impression, but all things considered, I rather choose other organists better equipped with the right organs. I have listened to the complete series of North German baroque, apart from the Schildt which is OOP, so I had a chance to form an opinion. And apart from this, since the whole series was gifted to me by a friend, I felt inclined to listen to it all.

[pjme]

Benjamin Britten's
Cantata Academica

George Malcolm, London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra

Happy Benjamin Britten day!

Great & happy Britten day! I really like this joyful work in this recording. The soloists (Jennifer Vyvyan, Helen watts, Owen Brannigan and Peter Pears) are all in youthfull voice , the trumpets blaze and the bells peal out!

"Benjamin Britten's "Cantata Academica: Carmen Basiliense" was composed and didicated to the university of Basle for the celebration of its 500th anniversary. The Latin text was compiled from the charter of the university and from older orations in praise of Basle."

[vandermolen]

McEwen: Solway Symphony (listened on YouTube).

Enjoyed a selection of McEwen string quartets from a Chandos recording very much so thought to explore some orchestral music worthwhile. Nearly pulled the trigger, and probably will eventually do so, but not convinced. A bit rich for my taste.

I really like 'Where the Wild Thyme Blows' on that CD. I find it very moving, a bit like Holst's 'Egdon Heath'. Do you know 'Grey Galloway' from the Three Border Ballads Lol? That is an excellent piece.

[pjme]

It sounds more traditionally Romantic comparative to the symphonies say, or even Phaedre; perhaps an early work?

L'impératrice aux rochers is one of several large works commisioned by and written for the formidable Ida Rubinstein. In Harry halbreich's book on Honegger, I read that it is Honegger's largest "musique de scène" at 65 minutes, written for large orchestra, chorus, soprano solo and several spoken roles. First performed at the Opéra in februari 1927.
If the play (un miracle de Notre Dame) by Saint Georges de Bouhélier is now forgotten; Halbreich praises the Fauré-like quality of the music !

I found an interesting text by Claire Paolacci on this wortk - alas only French.

https://books.openedition.org/pur/79116

In short:
In spite of extremely lavish decorations, live animals, a large chorus, 200 extras, costumes designed by Worth...L'impératrice ...was only performed 5 times. Rubinstein apparently spent more than a million Francs (she was Bryan Walter Guinness's lover), but the spectacle (not an opera, nor an oratorio)  took about 5 hours to perform and many spectators dozed off...Honeggers music was considered too modern, ugly and brutal, even cacophonous and madame Rubinstein herself was considered by some as " « médiocre » ....frise souvent la vulgarité sans atteindre jamais l'émotion" .
Honegger saved the best parts of the score and formed a purely orchestral suite.
Still, I'd love to hear more music from this luxurious debacle!

Unfortunately, I cannot find photographs of the production. Only this sketch (a courtesan, for l'Impératrice...) by  Benois:




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fragments from Alexandre Benois "carnets" - working for Bouhélier, Rubinstein ... with real horses, and awful chandeliers!