What are you listening 2 now?

[Karl Henning]

The pitch sensitive listener usually gets problems with other tunings than the equal tuning. I recall a collegue who complained that there was the problem with HIP that the music sounded so badly out of tune.

Aye.

[Symphonic Addict]

Krenek: Symphonies 3 and 4

Rather approachable, if a bit more thorny and less concentrated than the 2nd one.

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

A programme of short pieces by three favourite composers:

Cristóbal Halffter: Halffbéniz. Orquesta Filarmónica de Malaga, led by the composer.



Olivier Messiaen: Les Offrandes oubliées. Roger Désormière conducts the Orchestre de l'Association des Concerts Pierné.



Marc-André Dalbavie: Trois chansons populaires. Yuriy Mynenko (counter-tenor) and the Orquesta Gulbenkian under the composer.

Messiaen is one of your favorite composers? Hmmm...I thought you weren't too fond of his music?

[Madiel]

Most of the performances of the Goldberg Variations I have heard certainly kept me awake. With a few exceptions: Egarr and Kempff. I heard Kempff's GV at a recital, where I couldn't lie down and sleep - certainly uncomfortable circumstances.

Inducing sleep is perhaps a combination of the music and the "skill" of the performer. Clearly, a CD designed for home listening is a better environment to display this skill.

Though these days I've got an app with rain or river sounds to do the job.

[prémont]

Inducing sleep is perhaps a combination of the music and the "skill" of the performer. Clearly, a CD designed for home listening is a better environment to display this skill.

Rating the GV highly I think the "skill" of the performer is the decisive factor.

Though these days I've got an app with rain or river sounds to do the job.

I have a CD with the sounds of ocean waves for the same.

[Symphonic Addict]

The 7th is cast in 7 severe, gloomy slow movements, and to my surprise I did like it. The 8th was dedicated to the Queen Elizabeth II and it is in the same mood. I was expecting something more sunny given the dedication, but Davies didn't show any trace of light in the work whatsoever. Could it perhaps be a musical portrait of the queen's personality?

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

Now playing this digital download --- Walton Symphonic Suite: Troilus & Cressida (Arr. Palmer)

[brewski]

From 1967, Ormandy and Philadelphia in this menu, a fascinating glimpse into a time when there weren't many recordings of any of these.

Berg: Lulu Suite
Schoenberg: Theme and Variations
Webern: Im Sommerwind
Webern: Three Pieces for Orchestra

[Symphonic Addict]

Too much narration. I can't stand it when it is too intrusive as in this work. Alas.

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

Too much narration. I can't stand it when it is too intrusive as in this work. Alas.

This is my problem with so much of Weill's music, too. I mean it would've been nice if there was a way to bypass the narration or if the record labels would include the narrated text only in the booklets and leave it out of the performance. This was my main issue with the new recording of Delius' Hassan on Chandos. I mean the narration is separately tracked, but it is still a pain in the you know what to listen to and find pleasure in it. Thank goodness for the Handley performance!

[JBS]

CD 3

K311/284c in D major
K330/300h in C major
K331/300i in A major

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Now playing Bridge Three Idylls



Followed by Britten Three Divertimenti

[Symphonic Addict]

This is my problem with so much of Weill's music, too. I mean it would've been nice if there was a way to bypass the narration or if the record labels would include the narrated text only in the booklets and leave it out of the performance. This was my main issue with the new recording of Delius' Hassan on Chandos. I mean the narration is separately tracked, but it is still a pain in the you know what to listen to and find pleasure in it. Thank goodness for the Handley performance!

I wholeheartedly concur (the composer in question is Henze, though). When the narration makes brief and few interventions in the work, it's passable, but when it goes on for too long, I lose patience and interest in the music.

Thanks for the advice on that Hassan recording. One to skip.

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

I wholeheartedly concur (the composer in question is Henze, though). When the narration makes brief and few interventions in the work, it's passable, but when it goes on for too long, I lose patience and interest in the music.

Thanks for the advice on that Hassan recording. One to skip.

Oh yes, I knew you were listening to Henze. I just mentioned Weill as someone who wrote a lot of works with narration that I could easily do without.

[Symphonic Addict]

Oh yes, I knew you were listening to Henze. I just mentioned Weill as someone who wrote a lot of works with narration that I could easily do without.

Sorry, my bad. I've taken a look at several of Weill's pieces and their forces and yes, they suffer from the same problem, sadly.

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

Now playing Alwyn Three Winter Poems

[steve ridgway]

R. Strauss - Metamorphosen

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R. Strauss - Metamorphosen

Lovely! Such an exquisite piece and great seeing you listen to Strauss.

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

I forgot to ask you, @Symphonic Addict, how are you enjoying your traversal of Henze's music? He's a composer I need to circle back around to at some juncture.

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Now playing Enescu String Quartet No. 2