What are you listening 2 now?

[hopefullytrusting]

[Karl Henning]

Started the morning with some Mozart!

Sweet!

[Cato]

I just came across Karl's update on YouTube:

Be there or be a trapezoid!   

[Todd]

[brewski]

Kati Agócs: Rapprochement (2025). At Banff, all nine quartets are playing this new 9-minute score, which is appealing on first hearing. Shimmering textures alternate with more rhythmic, folk-inspired sections, and there are plenty of elements to challenge the players, e.g., exposed glissandos and passages in the instruments' highest registers.

[hopefullytrusting]

Best composer name ever: Santa Ratniece

Where the Insects Cry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVCfWCiGN_k
Alveoles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkX6tC_LW6Y

Esenvalds's Translation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5cfT6qgW2o
Esenvalds's Only in Sleep: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kx0vcpYeF30
Esenvalds's Spring, the Sweet Spring: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SY23qIvaNnI

[DavidW]

For those experiencing the blank post bug, this is Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time performed by Frost, Debargue, Jansen, and Thedeen. The title suggests that this will be some kind of Gorecki-esque lamentation, but instead, it is a nuanced, colorful, challenging, and rigorous chamber work.

[Mister Sharpe]

It's all Reynaldo Hahn's fault. Seriously, if I hadn't fallen in love with Ciboulette, the operetta and the character, I can tell you I would not be listening to this right now. It'd probably be Bruckner's 4th this afternoon or maybe Messiaen's Quatuor pour la fin du temps. Anyway, he gets the blame for my having a serious boatload of fun! And I'm going to get myself to the White Horse Inn someday, I swear.  Has anyone bested me and gotten there first? 

[AnotherSpin]

[Elgarian Redux]

It's all Reynaldo Hahn's fault.

Oh yes, it is. After I heard Mon Bel Inconnu, my sensibilities always seemed just that much more fragile, that much closer to heartache, every time I listened to it. Try it at your peril.

[Elgarian Redux]

And if your heart isn't in fragments yet, try Hahn's Tyndaris.

I can't listen to these two songs with dry eyes. I'm playing them both over and over, with a sort of delicious fin-de-siecle melancholy.

[Pass the Kleenex, somebody ...]

[Linz]

Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 5 in B Flat Major, 1878 Version Ed. Leopold Nowak
Staatskapelle Dresden, Eugen Jochum

[Lisztianwagner]

Sergei Rachmaninov
Preludes Op.23

Pianist: Sergio Fiorentino

[André]

Professor Google seems to think it's "Tee-oh-teem" but using the pronounciation of a Parisian boulebardier is a necessity.
This is probably the least interesting of his recordings: most of them are either concept driven (he participated in the Evening at Proust CD, for example) or compositions that are not nearly as well-known as the Four Seasons.

TD
Completing my run-through of Furtwangler-the-composer

What about the Furtwängler symphony ?

[André]

Professor Google seems to think it's "Tee-oh-teem" but using the pronounciation of a Parisian boulebardier is a necessity.
This is probably the least interesting of his recordings: most of them are either concept driven (he participated in the Evening at Proust CD, for example) or compositions that are not nearly as well-known as the Four Seasons.

Pronunciation of Théotime by a parisian boulevardier: both 't' should be fired off quickly (as in 'tank', 'honky-tonk, tik-tok etc). The i vowel is a clipped, not dragged 'ee' sound. And Prof Google has it right: hold that last vowel (e): it's silent. 😝

[Linz]

Joseph Haydn Symphonies Vol. 7  CD 3
Symphony No. 52 in C minor
Symphony No. 64 in A major, 'Tempora mutantur'
The Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher  Hogwood

[Linz]

Antonín Dvorák Cello Concerto in B minor, Op.104
Rondo in G minor, Op.94
Silent Woods, Op. 68 No. 5; Silent Woods, Op. 68 No. 5, B.173
Slavonic Dances, Op.46 - 8. No. 8 in G minor
Heinrich Schiff, cello
André Previn, Piano
Wiener Philharmoniker, André Previn

[JBS]

What about the Furtwängler symphony ?

Furtwängler the composer doesn't enthuse me; grand and sweeping but nothing seemed to gel. The Second Symphony I disliked (in a tepid way) because of its extra length, the First and Third were somewhat better.

[Mister Sharpe]

And if your heart isn't in fragments yet, try Hahn's Tyndaris.

I can't listen to these two songs with dry eyes. I'm playing them both over and over, with a sort of delicious fin-de-siecle melancholy.

[Pass the Kleenex, somebody ...]

Mille mercis. Good to know I'm not the only âme sensible.  I have and love the Belle Époque CD but lack Susan Graham's French Operetta Arias, a grievous situation soon to be remedied.  Appreciate ya'!

[JBS]

The Haydn Brothers tonight

Symphonies 7 through 10
Slovak CO Bohdan Warchal conductor


Early Johann Michael with late Franz Joseph and symphonies with string quartets might not be a fair comparison, but the difference is perceptible, and might be summarized as FJH requires much more active listening than JMH.