What are you listening 2 now?

[Iota]

I've seen in films that people use something called Tinder. It's for casual copulation without obligations, I suppose? Must be a fine thing.

I don't use it, it was just a little joke ..

[Number Six]

Haydn: Symphony No. 93
Norrington, Stuttgart Radio Symphony

[brewski]

Disc 8 ("France I") from the set below, and pretty much luscious all around. Hadn't previously listened to the first Debussy, which is gorgeous. Amazed at the sound quality from 1968 for Jeux.

Debussy: Six Épigraphes Antiques (orch. Escher) (recorded 1993)
Debussy: Jeux — Poème Dansé (1968)
Ravel: Shéhérazade, Heather Harper, soprano (1972)
Ravel: Don Quichotte À Dulcinée, John Shirley-Quirk, baritone (1972)

[SonicMan46]

Giuliani, Mauro (1781-1829) - yesterday and today finishing up my collection of a dozen discs or so - added a download purchase of the guitar duets (WAV - last pic) from Prestomusic - Dave

P.S. must say the 1970s Pepe Romero recordings still impress - added the other concerto set because period instruments are used and the sound is different (reviews attached, if interested).

 

   

[Spotted Horses]

Respighi, Feste Romane, La Vecchia



Wonderfully colorful work. Some attractive Italian folk music incorporated into a complex orchestral texture with brilliant orchestration.

Also listened to the first number from the Suite for Strings, Ciaccone. Very attractive, richly imagined Neo-baroque music.

[Mandryka]

I thought I'd give this recording another chance...

But I'm not feeling it..

I also listened to some of this today -- is that a coincidence?

[Que]

I also listened to some of this today -- is that a coincidence?

The stars aligned! 

[AnotherSpin]

I also listened to some of this today -- is that a coincidence?

I was going to find this album, and now I simply must

[Mandryka]

I was going to find this album, and now I simply must

It's not very good/

[Florestan]

I like Schubert's earlier symphonies more than many folk do.

This makes two of us. 

[AnotherSpin]

It's not very good/

That is probably the case. Yet, two forum members whose opinions I always value expressed interest simultaneously, which suggests there may be something here for me as well.

[Mandryka]

That is probably the case. Yet, two forum members whose opinions I always value expressed interest simultaneously, which suggests there may be something here for me as well.

The music can be good, excellent -- here for example

But that's only one small part of it.

[AnotherSpin]

I have just finished listening to a splendid Tacet album. The sense of presence it imparts is extraordinary, as though no barrier exists between the music and the listener. It is pure enchantment, where listener, act of listening and music itself coalesce into one seamless whole.

But is high SQ reproduction truly essential? Undoubtedly. Our minds are adept conjurers, inventing missing frequencies and smoothing over flaws when a weak sound system falters. Yet this mental legerdemain is but an illusion. Only pristine playback banishes such self-deception, allowing us to encounter music in its most authentic form.

Meanwhile, my grandnephews, aged nine and twelve, are careering about the house, loudly humming the Allegro theme from the Violin Concerto.

[JBS]

ETA: the "Preludio" to the final scene of Act Three (Oronte's baptism and death) is a nice four minute concertante number for solo violin and orchestra that would work well in a program of short works for that combination. (The melody and solo violin are put to use in the Terzett that follows.)

[Que]

It's not very good/

Seconded. The performance, not the music.

@Anotherspin please do try Brumel performed by the Huelgas Ensemble.

[Que]

As has become my experience with Bertrand Chamayou: ingenuitive programming and spellbinding performances.

[ritter]

First listen to the music of Éric Montalbetti (b. 1968)...



Flute Concerto "Memento vivere" (with Emmanuel Pahud and the Suisse Romande Orchestra conducted by Jonathan Nott), Ouverture Philharmonique (Cologne Gürzenich Orchestra under Duncan Ward), and Éclat physionomique, Symphonic Phantasy after Paul Klee (Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra under Kazuki Yamada).

The booklet note mention Debussy, Messiaen, Boulez and the spectralists as influences, and they are spot on. The music is atmospheric and offers wonderful orchestral textures, which makes me want to revisit it to see whether this initial attraction can be sustained.

[JBS]

Found the Verdi Preludio (which is really an intermezzo, since it precedes Act 3 Scene 3) on Youtube

[Linz]

Dimitri Shostakovitch Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47
Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 54
Dresdner Philharmonie, Michael Sanderling

[Brian]

Two reminders:
1. Moving a flame war from one thread to another does not trick anybody.
2. Insults are against the rules. This is the case whether the insults are false or true.

That's all, carry on.