What are you listening 2 now?

[Spotted Horses]

Ouch!

I liked 1, 2 and 3 just fine.

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

Now playing Act II from Weill's Aufstieg Und Fall Der Stadt Mahagonny from this recording:

[AnotherSpin]

The album of compositions by Johann Kaspar Kerll, performed by Adriano Falcioni, was released in September 2009. The organ of the Basilica of Santa Maria di Collemaggio in L'Aquila, featured in the recording, was destroyed in the collapses caused by the earthquake earlier that year. While the choir and the organ case were later restored, the instrument itself was not rebuilt. It is difficult to say how long before the earthquake the recording was made.

[steve ridgway]

Webern - Slow Movement For String Quartet

A pleasant enough piece in the Romantic style.

[AnotherSpin]

Thanks, @Mandryka, for the recommendation. I didn't know de Grigny's music, and it's rather intriguing. That said, I'm not quite sure what to make of the chants. Feels a bit like two separate recordings have been spliced together.

[Que]

This may be of interest

Much obliged!    You either discovered a way to make the forum's serach engine actually work, or, more likely, found a way around it...

Morning listening:



My hopes are for a new big Palestrina edition.
Which seems ungrateful, considering the extensive series by the Sixteen (CORO) and by Sergio Vartolo (Naxos). But there it is... I'm picky... 

[Iota]

Granados: Goyescas Book 2
Alicia de Larrocha (piano)

Magnificent. Both Granados and Larrocha reaching the skies in expressive intensity.

[Mandryka]

Thanks, @Mandryka, for the recommendation. I didn't know de Grigny's music, and it's rather intriguing. That said, I'm not quite sure what to make of the chants. Feels a bit like two separate recordings have been spliced together.

Well that's what an organ mass is. But it's easy to cut the tracks with the chanting if you feel like.

[Que]

None of the music is new to me, though this selection of French pre-revolutionary harpsichord music might have surprises for many.
Good performances. I love the instrument. Recording sounds good but doesn't strike me as optimal - in the way many other recordings on this label do.

[Mandryka]

@Que @AnotherSpin This is specially interesting from the point of view of chant


https://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php?msg=1127306

[Traverso]

Dvořák & Grieg



part of this box

[prémont]

Well that's what an organ mass is. But it's easy to cut the tracks with the chanting if you feel like.

You wrote somewhere that you have another recording made on the Garnier organ of l'Eglise de la Chaise-Dieu.

Marie-Claire Alain's second Grigny set (which I had on LP but stupidly culled long ago, and it has not been rereleased on CD) was made on this organ and there is a Nivers recording with  Francois Clement. Is it one of these?

[Mandryka]

You wrote somewhere that you have another recording made on the Garnier organ of l'Eglise de la Chaise-Dieu.

Marie-Claire Alain's second Grigny set (which I had on LP but stupidly culled long ago, and it has not been rereleased on CD) was made on this organ and there is a Nivers recording with  Francois Clement. Is it one of these?

It's the Nivers with François Clement. You are welcome to have it if you want. It's a wonderful organ.

[AnotherSpin]

[AnotherSpin]

À l'orgue de la cathédrale Saint-Pierre de Poitiers

[prémont]

À l'orgue de la cathédrale Saint-Pierre de Poitiers

I prefer Houette's set to Alain's (third) set on the same organ. Houette's set is better recorded and he feels more inspired than Alain.

[pjme]

Returned for the 3rd and 4th movements of the 4th symphony. I have to make a note never to listen to this again.

Des goûts et des couleurs ....
I find the inclusion of three female voices (vocalising) just wonderful. Quite late Finnish Art Nouveau.Beautiful.

" Symphony No. 4 was a piece of work that Melartin was particularly focusing on during the end of 1912. The composer himself thought that it was peculiar to compose a work to praise summer and the joy of life during the darkest time of the winter – and end it with the theme of a traditional Finnish summer hymn. "But is it not the same way as in life", he wrote to his mother, "that in the darkest moment you have to cherish the joys of summer in your heart". This hymn, originally Swedish Den blomstertid du kommer, is number 571 in the Finnish Evangelical Lutheran hymn book. It has been traditionally sung at the end of the school year and therefore it is much beloved by the Finns. "
https://erkkimelartin.fi/em/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Symphony-4-preface.pdf

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Bach organ works.

[AnotherSpin]

I prefer Houette's set to Alain's (third) set on the same organ. Houette's set is better recorded and he feels more inspired than Alain.

Your opinion is always interesting, thank you. I liked both. I especially appreciated Marie-Claire Alain's recording because the chants seemed to blend organically with the organ parts.

[AnotherSpin]