What are you listening 2 now?

[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]

[Iota]

Granados: Escenas Románticas
Alicia de Larrocha (piano)

Lovely pieces. Larrocha is like a mermaid swimming in her sea.

[Traverso]

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

NP: Debussy Suite bergamasque

From this set -

[Mandryka]

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.

What I appreciate most about MCA at Poitiers is the sweetness and melodiousness of her vision. I think it was her final recording of anything.

[AnotherSpin]

What I appreciate most about MCA at Poitiers is the sweetness and melodiousness of her vision. I think it was her final recording of anything.

Yes, exactly, thank you. And at some point, it seemed to me that the voices blended with the sound of the organ, or perhaps the other way around: the organ was singing as if with human voices.

[Spotted Horses]

I'm glad I didn't let my experience with Melartin's 4th discourage me from moving on to the 5th symphony. I think this is my favorite (not having heard the 6th yet). Strife, interesting harmonies and dramatic orchestration have returned. The final is particularly notable, with a texture that is largely fugal, and extremely effective e use of the low brass.

[Mandryka]

I'm glad I didn't let my experience with Melartin's 4th discourage me from moving on to the 5th symphony. I think this is my favorite (not having heard the 6th yet). Strife, interesting harmonies and dramatic orchestration have returned. The final is particularly notable, with a texture that is largely fugal, and extremely effective e use of the low brass.

Have you heard the quartets? The 4th is especially fine, in a Brahmsy, Dvoraky, Ye Olde Fashionedy Czechy way. (I can let you have the Meta4 set if you want.)

[prémont]

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.

Listening to an organ mass at home can never recreate the authentic context. So I seldom listen to Grigny's entire organ messe in one sitting, and also for that reason the chant has less importance for me, and I often skip it.

[prémont]

What I appreciate most about MCA at Poitiers is the sweetness and melodiousness of her vision. I think it was her final recording of anything.

I agree with this which also explains why I prefer Alain's first recording to the one from Poitiers. To me the sweetness feels a bit like a foreign element because the music demands more balls.

[prémont]

I think it was her final recording of anything.

The messe was recorded in Poitiers 1996 and the Hymns 1998.
Discogs lists some recordings made by her between 2004 and 2008.

[ritter]

Respighi: Antiche danze ed arie per liuto (suites 1, 2 & 3), and Rossiniana. Francesco La Vecchia conducts the Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma.

CD 7 of this set:

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Bach: Suite in E minor BWV 996, Suite in C minor BWV 997, et al..

[Linz]

Carl Nielsen Symphony No. 1, Opus 7a: in G minor
Symphony No. 2 Opus 16b: "The Four Temperaments"
Royal Danish Orcchestra, |Paavo Bergllund

[VonStupp]

Jean Sibelius
Symphony 5 in E-flat Major, op. 82
Pohjola's Daughter, op. 49
NYPO - Leonard Bernstein

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From this set:

[Lisztianwagner]

Ralph Vaughan Williams
Sinfonia antartica

Margaret Ritchie (soprano)
John Barbirolli & Hallé Orchestra

[Linz]

Hugo Alfven Bergakungen / The Mountain King
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra; Yevgeny Svetlanov