What are you listening 2 now?

[prémont]

Shocking! I stand amazed. Left you cold?, such full blooded emotional time capsules.

Interesting. While doing my doctoral work, I took a Monteverdi course. I really did find that I loved everything I heard.

Italian Madrigals leaves me cold in general. I think it's the theatrical elements I find un-engaging. Nor am I a great opera fan. My disengagement with romantic music may be related to this. Each to his own. But there is also the fact that my intensive engagement in other kinds of music leaves me too little time for trying to get to like things I don't feel attracted to relatively fast.

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It would have to be Enter Spring - just so original and moving (great performance here from Groves....)

That makes two votes for Enter Spring (you and @Symphonic Addict).

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Here's one for @Karl Henning --- now playing Hindemith Violin Concerto

[AnotherSpin]

[Christo]

If you could only choose one work from Bridge, which one would it be?

Oration, concerto elegiaco, here. 

[Spotted Horses]

Maconchy Clarinet Concerto No 2, Arnold Clarinet Concerto No 2



Both are very attractive work, particularly the Maconchy. Wonderfully melodic in an angular way.

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Oration, concerto elegiaco, here. 

Oh...nice choice! Haunting piece.

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Now playing Bridge Phantasy Quartet

[Linz]

Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 9 in D
Ludwig von Beethoven,.  Grosse Fuge in B flat Op 133
The Symphonica of London, Wyn Morris

[71 dB]

On TV (Yle Teema & Fem): Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra Concert, Musiikkitalo

Maurice Duruflé: Requiem
Kaija Saariaho: Asteroid 4179: Toutatis
Gustav Holst: The Planets

Jenny Carlstedt, mezzo-soprano
Gabriel Kivivuori, baritone
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Nicholas Collon

[nico1616]

Rameau: Pigmalion

As usual when listening to Rameau, I feel like I'm bathing in the glow of music lit from within. So warm and innately joyful. That warmth permeates the centuries too I think, emerging in the music of Faure, Debussy, Ravel and a number of 20th century French composers e.g.
I can never quite get over the divide between Rameau the man and his music. Is there any wider division in the classical canon I wonder?

This from Wiki:

"His heart and soul were in his harpsichord; once he had shut its lid, there was no one home." Physically, Rameau was tall and exceptionally thin,[29] as can be seen by the sketches we have of him, including a famous portrait by Carmontelle. He had a "loud voice". His speech was difficult to understand, just like his handwriting, which was never fluent. As a man, he was secretive, solitary, irritable, proud of his own achievements (more as a theorist than as a composer), brusque with those who contradicted him, and quick to anger. It is difficult to imagine him among the leading wits, including Voltaire (to whom he bears more than a passing physical resemblance[29]), who frequented La Poupelinière's salon; his music was his passport, and it made up for his lack of social graces.

I also bought this recording and love it. And Lully's 'récit de la beauté', as a bonus, is the icing on the cake.

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Now playing Penderecki Viola Concerto




This entire recording is darkly seductive and alluring. Wonderful program of works.

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Now playing Gubaidulina Viola Concerto

[Lisztianwagner]

William Alwyn
Symphony No.2
The Magic Island
Overture to Derby Day

Richard Hickox & London Symphony Orchestra

[Madiel]

Disc 27

Well, here's one I didn't enjoy. I couldn't actually finish the disc. This is just not music to my taste.

And this just days after someone else made me think I really should check out the Monteverdi madrigals and the style change through the different books.

[Madiel]

Now playing Gubaidulina Viola Concerto

Psst, your Viola Concerto run could extend to Holmboe. I love the Holmboe. 

[Linz]

Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 9 in D Major, 1894 Original Version. Ed. Alfred Orel
Weiner Philharmoniker, Wilhem Furtwängler

[Karl Henning]

And this just days after someone else made me think I really should check out the Monteverdi madrigals and the style change through the different books.

I did, and enjoyed it.

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Psst, your Viola Concerto run could extend to Holmboe. I love the Holmboe. 

I wish I shared the same sentiment.

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Now playing Arnold Guitar Concerto, Op. 88