What are you listening 2 now?

[Karl Henning]

Postcards From Ukraine Vol. 2 - Chamber Music.


A worthy follow up. The first volume made quite an impression on me. Known and unknown composers, they deserve to be played and recorded. Well recorded and performed. Toccata does a great service with these series.

Nice!

[Karl Henning]

Haydn Symphony No. 31 "Hornsignal"
Il Giardino Armonico | Giovanni Antonini
(Haydn2032, Vol. 13)

For my money, the Haydn 2032 Project is (along with All of Bach) a godsend.

Amen!

[Kalevala]

A beauty!

@steve ridgway  and @Karl Henning I do really enjoy that Ligeti work [Lontano].  That was one of a number of works which I found to be effectively and brilliantly used by Robbie Robertson in the movie Shutter Island.

K

[Karl Henning]

Antidote to Wagner*



*I realized tonight I like Dutchman/Tannhauser/Lohengrin a lot less than I like the Ring/Tristan/Meistersinger/Parsifal.  Wagner's earlier musical language doesn't really work for me.

I enjoyed the concert performance of Dutchman at Symphony well enow,  but I've never felt any need to return to it.

[Karl Henning]

@steve ridgway  and @Karl Henning I do really enjoy that Ligeti work [Lontano].  That was one of a number of works which I found to be effectively and brilliantly used by Robbie Robertson in the movie Shutter Island.

K

Very good environment for the piece!

[Todd]

K330.

[Madiel]

Poulenc: Fiançailles pour rire

[Harry]

Mieczyslaw Weinberg (1919-1996)
Violinsonaten Nr.1-5.
CD I.
Linus Roth, Jose Gallardo.

(World premiere recording of the Sonatas No. 2 & 6
Only available recording of the "Rhapsody on Moldavian Themes)

"I am a student of Shostakovich. Even if I never took lessons from him, I still see myself as his pupil, with skin and hair," the composer Mieczysław Weinberg said about himself".

The relationship between the two composers was close and characterized by mutual respect. In contrast to Shostakovich, Weinberg's critical viewpoint, which comes to the fore in his music, also contains a dose of humor. In his first violin sonatas, he also intones cheerful tones and in these and above all in the Rhapsody on Moldavian Themes, Weinberg lets good humor run its course. Behind the title "Moldavian", the composer, who had long been politically persecuted, hid Yiddish themes, which are also repeatedly incorporated into other of his works. Not to exaggerate, but for me this comed close to perfection, in sound and interpretation. wonderful performances.

[Que]

Wonderful! 

[Todd]

K331.

[San Antone]

Caroline Shaw - and the swallow (Psalm 84)
Voces8

Voces8:
Andrea Haines, soprano
Eleonora Poignant, soprano
Katie Jeffries-Harris, alto
Barnaby Smith, alto & artistic director
Blake Morgan, tenor
Euan Williamson, tenor
Christopher Moore, baritone
Dominic Carver, bass

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Contemporary music that no one can complain about.

[steve ridgway]

@steve ridgway  and @Karl Henning I do really enjoy that Ligeti work [Lontano].  That was one of a number of works which I found to be effectively and brilliantly used by Robbie Robertson in the movie Shutter Island.

K

Be careful, there is a lot of dangerous modern music in that movie ⚠️.

[Harry]

CD II of this set, because I am mightily impressed. CD I was a revelation, CD II a epiphany.

[SonicMan46]

Telemann, GP (1681-1767) - Paris Quartets w/ Jed Wentz & Tafelmusik (Freiburger Barockorchester) - long lived prolific German Baroque composer (considered "The most prolific composer, who is credited by the Guinness Book of World Records with writing over 3,000 compositions.") - his impressive TWV HERE - I own nearly 60 CDs of his instrumental works (see attachment if looking for ideas?), including the 8 volumes of 'Violin Concertos' w/ Elizabeth Wallfisch - just noticed a Vol. 9 about to be released (third pic) on the same label (CPO) but with completely different performers - thought that she would be continuing the series - anyone know?  Dave

   

[hopefullytrusting]

Going to be listening to Op. 1s - today is R. Strauss with his Festmarsch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUJAsHqYKMM

First and foremost, I am not the hugest march fan, as I used to live at a place which would blare Sousa between 6-7 AM to wake everyone up, so I sort of have quasi-ptsd from living that experience for approximately 2-3 years, but, thankfully this is not a Sousa march - in fact - this feels almost like a mini tone poem - you can already tell this is R. Strauss merely by the orchestration, which is already lush and thick.

It is clear that he is eking out all of his current talent to bring this work to fruition, and it is beautiful, and, again, this is his Op. 1, composed by a teenager - I cannot imagine having that amount of moxie, that amount of talent - blows the mind - there is something different about them when compared to the rest of us - I hope it always remains undefinable because if we could define it - bless it, we would seek to destroy it by making it mediocre and mundane.

I would place this piece well within the romantic nationalistic trend that was popular from the 19th to 20th century, especially about the Scandinavians - understood broadly, and it easily matches most of them.

To be this good this early should be a crime, lol.

High recommendation.

[Kalevala]

Caroline Shaw - and the swallow (Psalm 84)
Voces8

Voces8:
Andrea Haines, soprano
Eleonora Poignant, soprano
Katie Jeffries-Harris, alto
Barnaby Smith, alto & artistic director
Blake Morgan, tenor
Euan Williamson, tenor
Christopher Moore, baritone
Dominic Carver, bass

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Contemporary music that no one can complain about.

I'll have to listen to that; a friend of mine has bought several of her albums which he enjoys.

Be careful, there is a lot of dangerous modern music in that movie ⚠️.

I know, and I like it! 

K

[Todd]

K332.

[71 dB]

Anton Bruckner - Symphony No. 4 'Romantic'
Royal Flanders Philharmonic
Guenter Neuhold
Naxos 8.550154

[Wanderer]

[Iota]

Ravel: Gaspard de la Nuit
Ivo Pogorelich (piano)

A dazzlingly brilliant recording, Scarbo has to be heard to be believed (and even then you might not believe it, and I imagine some might not approve). Only someone of Pogorelich's talents could possibly pull it off. Ondine has an extraordinary transparent sensuality to it, reality just seems to melt, and rarely have I heard Le Gibet quite so oppressively bleak. At the mountaintop of piano recordings imo.

I remember hearing Pogorelich play this live in the early 80's, shortly after the Chopin Competition drama, and I had the strong impression he was playing without using any sustain pedal at all, such was the clarity he achieved with everything (of course he must have used it, though far less than any other performance I'd ever heard). His somewhat glamorous aura at that time radiated such self-belief and confidence too, I was very struck, so tangible was it.