What are you listening 2 now?

[Que]

The young Rousset was my 1st love in the Goldbergs, and still a winner IMO. I cannot stand Hantaï - in anything - so the choice be those two would be easy for me....

[vandermolen]

I must look out for that one, Jeffrey. Butterworth an excellent song composer. Wonder if Richmond Yorkshire or Surrey? Guess the former.

Yes, because it's 'coming up from Richmond to Kew' which would not be too far. However, visiting Rishi Sunak's constituency in the Yorkshire Dales would be a bit of a trek!

[vandermolen]

Ralph Vaughan Williams
Dona Nobis Pacem
Five Mystical Songs

Edith Wiens, soprano
Brian Rayner Cook, baritone
London PO & Choir - Bryden Thomson

I readily consider DNP one of VW's greatest works, regardless of genre. It easily fits as a favorite 20th Century Requiem too, amongst Britten and Hindemith, even though it is not labelled as such.

Having recently gone through Thomson's RVW symphony cycle with the LSO, his vision of VW sits side by side the cathedral acoustic. A grand, broad, sometimes apocalyptic journey. So it is here with DNP, and Wiens' soprano sounds beautiful.

I doubt anyone is beating down the door to hear Brian Rayner Cook's FMS, but it is OK.
VS


Minerva protects Pax from Mars 'Peace and War' (1630), P.P. Rubens

It's a fine CD but, them again, I don't know of a dud recording of DNP.

[vandermolen]

That it is...'on the way to Kew'. I love Butterworth's gentle orchestral scoring too.

My wife chuckled at the title Love Blows as the Wind Blows. Modern verbiage does the past no favors.
VS

Like the line 'up your pathway strays' from A E Houseman quoted in VW's 'An Oxford Elegy'

[vandermolen]

Here's the Butterworth song cycle. 'Coming up from Richmond' begins at about 5.30 mins
https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?&q=love+blows+as+the+wind+blows&&mid=C1DDC5664D5B5C2AAF07C1DDC5664D5B5C2AAF07&&FORM=VRDGAR

[Roasted Swan]

Like the line 'up your pathway strays' from A E Houseman quoted in VW's 'An Oxford Elegy'

Tsk Tsk

[SimonNZ]

Booth is impressive on a harpsichord he built

These overachievers...I can't even imagine in a fantasy being That Guy.

[vandermolen]

Tsk Tsk

Titter ye not 

[VonStupp]

Testify!

To the Skies, Brother!
VS

[Symphonic Addict]

Not the most appropriate title for a recording in case the buyer in question is only Spanish-speaking.

[Symphonic Addict]

Nielsen: Violin Sonata No. 2

[Symphonic Addict]

Boccherini: String Quintet in D major, op. 39-1

Delighted to hear this wondrous music, it makes me feel so good. The 2nd mov. Pastorale can't be more placid and lovely.

[Karl Henning]

Probably only my second listening
Myaskovsky
Divertissement, Op. 80

[SimonNZ]

[Symphonic Addict]

Riisager: Divertimento for string quartet and wind quintet

[Mapman]

It's John Rutter's birthday, so I listened to his Requiem. Before I met her, my girlfriend sang part of it.

[Karl Henning]

It's John Rutter's birthday, so I listened to his Requiem. Before I met her, my girlfriend sang part of it.

I've heard some good things about the Requiem, but not enough to overcome my musical reservations about Rutter and set to listening to it, myself. What I've heard of a saccharine Pie Jesu ain't helping, there.

TD: I've started dipping into this. Tomorrow I'll have a full report for @Pohjolas Daughter

One of the most curious things about this disc  (recorded in 1991) is the blurb on the back informing us that "Virko Baley is the Music Director and Conductor of the Las Vegas Symphony Orchestra."

[Wanderer]

[Que]

Morning listening:



From the shelves. Absolutely great recording. This and the recordings of the Binchois Consort (Hyperion) are my favourites in music by early English Renaissance composer Walter Frye (died 1475).

[Irons]

Yes, because it's 'coming up from Richmond to Kew' which would not be too far. However, visiting Rishi Sunak's constituency in the Yorkshire Dales would be a bit of a trek!

Thanks. Butterworth spent his childhood "up North". Indeed, honoured with a blue plaque in York.