What are you listening 2 now?

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prémont

Quote from: Karl Henning on July 23, 2025, 09:11:44 AMWe none of us get it right all the time.

We can't be right
in every case.
We are left the right
to be wrong some days.
Reality trumps our fantasy far beyond imagination.

Henk

'The 'I' is not prior to the 'we'.' (Jean-Luc Nancy)

Mister Sharpe

Quote from: Karl Henning on July 23, 2025, 09:11:44 AMWe none of us get it right all the time.

Hey, I represent that remark. 
"There are no wrong reasons for liking a work of art, only for disliking one."  E.H. Gombrich

Cato

This morning on Dayton Public Radio...

The First Movement is particularly delightful:







"Meet Miss Ruth Sherwood, from Columbus, Ohio, the Middle of the Universe!"

- Brian Aherne introducing Rosalind Russell in  My Sister Eileen (1942)

Linz

Charles Hubert Parry Symphony No. 5 in B minor
Ernest John Moeran  Symphony in G minor
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Vassily Sinaisky

Henk

Quote from: Henk on July 23, 2025, 10:41:37 AM

Evaluation: very good, serene, uplifting, covers a range of deep emotions.
'The 'I' is not prior to the 'we'.' (Jean-Luc Nancy)

Henk

'The 'I' is not prior to the 'we'.' (Jean-Luc Nancy)

Lisztianwagner

Witold Lutoslawski
Concerto for Orchestra
Chain 3

Edward Gardner & BBC Symphony Orchestra


"You cannot expect the Form before the Idea, for they will come into being together." - Arnold Schönberg

Que

#133128


Fauré's string quartet by Quatuor Strada.

VonStupp

#133129
Malcolm Arnold
Return of Odysseus, op. 119

Darius Milhaud
Suite Française, op. 254

Ralph Vaughan Williams
Toward the Unknown Region

City of Glasgow Chorus
Scottish Opera Orchestra - Graham Taylor

A most curious cantata from Malcolm Arnold; I am not quite sure what to make of it. The recording itself almost sounds like it comes from a 60s/70s film soundtrack, but it was actually set down in 2005. Maybe the combination of Arnold's music with the sound engineering of the chorus and orchestra?

I never took to RVW's Toward an Unknown Region, even though I very much enjoy its sister composition A Sea Symphony. Nothing different here; I probably should have passed.

I actually thought this was Milhaud's Suite Provençale, but no, it was his Suite Française. Both are fun orchestral works either way.
VS

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff. - Frank Zappa

My Musical Musings

Linz

Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 2 in C Minor, 1877 Version. Ed. William Carragan - Removes remaining Haas anomalies
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Marek Janowski

Henk

'The 'I' is not prior to the 'we'.' (Jean-Luc Nancy)

DavidW


Linz

Sergei Lyapunov Symphony No. 2 in B Flat Minor
Solemn Overture on Russian Themes
The State Academic Symphony Orchestra, Evgeny Svetlanov

Dry Brett Kavanaugh

The Best of Enrique Bátiz, Vol. 3: Galindo - Revueltas - Moncayo.






Symphonic Addict

Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on July 23, 2025, 02:16:29 PMThe Best of Enrique Bátiz, Vol. 3: Galindo - Revueltas - Moncayo.







Looks like a fun disc.
The current annihilation of a people on this planet (you know which one it is) is the most documented and at the same time the most preposterously denied.

Symphonic Addict

Busoni: The six piano sonatinas

Very good music. Each sonatina has its own personality and character. The Sonatina BV 257, Sonatina ad usum infantis and Sonatina super Carmen were the highlights.

The current annihilation of a people on this planet (you know which one it is) is the most documented and at the same time the most preposterously denied.

Daverz


I think Carlo Vistoli must be a very good countertenor.  There may be cultural reasons I find him too tiring to listen to for a whole CD, but if so I haven't managed to escape them yet.

Symphonic Addict

Are the six quartets on this recording the only ones that have survived by Michael Haydn? There's another recording with the same six on Claves. In any case, I'm favourably impressed. Quite charming compositions.

The current annihilation of a people on this planet (you know which one it is) is the most documented and at the same time the most preposterously denied.

JBS

Another dip into the Haydn file


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