What are you listening 2 now?

[AnotherSpin]

Fifth rerun.

If this music does not blow your brains to smithereens, what in heaven will? I am again and again captivated and led into admiration, for this very talented composer. Do try if you dare  

It's impossible to pass up a recommendation like that.

But here's the question: what are those supposed to do whose brains were already blown to smithereens before this?

[Harry]

It's impossible to pass up a recommendation like that.

But here's the question: what are those supposed to do whose brains were already blown to smithereens before this?

That is actually a good question, one I cannot presently answer, for I been listening to the recording I mentioned. It will take a while, but after a wee dram of some malt, I will have clear thinking again, or so I hope!  

[Harry]

Béla Bartók (1881 – 1945).

Violin Concerto No.1,BB 48a.
Violin Concerto No.2,BB 117.
Viola Concerto, Sz 120,BB 128.

James Ehnes, Violin and Viola.
BBC Philharmonic, Gianandrea Noseda.
Recording venue Studio 7, New Broadcasting House, Manchester on 8 November 2009 (Violin Concerto
No. 2), 1 November 2010 (Violin Concerto No. 1) and 27 February 2011 (Viola Concerto).

Third rerun.

[pjme]

[Spotted Horses]

I had forgotten about this marvelous release from Thea King and the English Chamber Orchestra.



Listened today to Maconchy Clarinet Concertino No 1, and Arnold Clarinet Concerto No 1. I discovered Maconchy through this recording and Thea King's recording of the Maconchy Clarinet Quintet. Marvelously inventive, melodic, thorny music. The Arnold concerto takes a similar approach. Audio from the early years of digital recording, when limitations of the equipment are assumed to be problematic, but Hyperion's engineers somehow manage to avoid the pitfalls and produce very satisfying sound. It is very satisfying to rediscover an old favorite like this.

[Karl Henning]

I had forgotten about this marvelous release from Thea King and the English Chamber Orchestra.



Listened today to Maconchy Clarinet Concertino No 1, and Arnold Clarinet Concerto No 1. I discovered Maconchy through this recording and Thea King's recording of the Maconchy Clarinet Quintet. Marvelously inventive, melodic, thorny music. The Arnold concerto takes a similar approach. Audio from the early years of digital recording, when limitations of the equipment are assumed to be problematic, but Hyperion's engineers somehow manage to avoid the pitfalls and produce very satisfying sound. It is very satisfying to rediscover an old favorite like this.

Nice!

[Traverso]

Toru Takemitsu

 

[Iota]

Bach The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II
Philip Lasser: 12 Preludes for Solo Piano "The Art of Memory"
Anton Mejias (piano)

I enjoyed these immensely, the Bach lives and breathes in Mejias' hands, only 24 years old and sounding like he absolutely belongs in this music. The twelve Lasser preludes feel perfectly judged as interleaving contrasts to the Bach, each one arriving at the conclusion of the two sets of preludes and fugues of each step of the chromatic scale. The only name I knew beforehand of the three involved was Bach's, but the newcomers have now registered strongly on my radar.

[Lisztianwagner]

Arnold Schönberg
Lied der Waldtaube
Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte

Jessye Norman, David Wilson-Johnson
Pierre Boulez & Ensemble Intercontemporain

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

Continuing on with the Villa-Lobos symphonies --- now playing Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Peter Mennin Symphony No. 5, etc.. Howard Hanson/Eastman-Rochester Orchestra.

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

Now playing Guarnieri Choro for violin and orchestra

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

Now playing Guarnieri Choro for Clarinet and Orchestra



Since you're a clarinetist, I'd definitely give this work a listen @Karl Henning. Also, @Spotted Horses since you've been listening to a lot of clarinet works as of late, do check out this work as well.

[Linz]

Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, 1894 Original Version. Ed. Leopold Nowak, Finale by Nicola Samale, John A. Phillips, Benjamin Gunnar Cohrs and Giuseppe Mazzuca, Revision by John A. Phillips, 2021-22
Hallé orchestra, Kahchun Wong

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

Now playing Hindemith Clarinet Quintet, Op. 30

[Symphonic Addict]

Krenek: Symphony No. 2

Wow, I had thought that his first symphony was a solid musical edifice, but this one is even more mighty, monolithic, heavy, granitic and very contrapuntal. I'm seeing myself enjoying these symphonies more than expected.

[ritter]

Krenek: Symphony No. 2

Wow, I had thought that his first symphony was a solid musical edifice, but this one is even more mighty, monolithic, heavy, granitic and very contrapuntal. I'm seeing myself enjoying these symphonies more than expected.

Yes, a superb work! I haven't listened to it for quite some time now, but remember that when I first encountered it (when the Zagrosek recording was released almost 30 years ago), a connection to Bruckner sprang to mind...

I should listen to it again soon...

[ritter]

As I'm reading George D. Painter's biography of Proust, and I'm at the point where Marcel is about to start his liaison with Reynaldo Hahn, and Count Robert de Montesquiou's promotion of Léon Delafosse is also being discussed, this CD seemed a natural choice tonight:




The CD offers Hahn's wonderful and precocious Chansons grises (Verlaine) and Feuilles blessées (Moréas), plus Watteau from Portraits de peintres as a piano piece (i.e. sans the recitation of Proust's text). Delafosse was very celebrated in his day as a pianist (and also for his looks), but now has lapsed into almost complete oblivion. Of him we get a couple of solo piano pieces, plus several mélodies (including a cycle of five songs on his protector Montesquiou's poems, and one to a text by Proust lui-même).

The Duo Dix Vagues is made up of soprano Clémentine Decouture and pianist Nicolas Chevereau, and they perform splendidly.


Delafosse's portrait by none other than John Singer Sargent:

[JBS]

[Linz]

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart CD 10
Missa in C major KV 317 "Coronation Mass"
Vesperae solostimmen, solennes de confessore KV 339,  Chor, 2 Clarintrompeten, |Pauken, 3 Posaunen, Fagott, 2 Violenen, Bass und  Orgel,
Litaniae Laurentanae KV 109
Hans Buchhierl soprano (KV 317, 339), Ursala Buckel, soprano(KV 109) Andreas Lehane, Alto, Theo Altmeyer, Tenor (KV 109), Richard van Vrooman, Tenor, (KV 109). Michael Schopper, Bass (KV 317, 339), Eduard Wollitz, Bass (KV 109)
Tölzer Kabenchor, Collegium Aureum, Rolf Reinhardt