What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[karlhenning]

I find a lot of the Russian art songs (or Romances) readily amiable.

[karlhenning]

Mozart
Pf Cto No. 24 in C Minor, K.491

[Que]

Q - just added the Koopman-Savall performance of these works (pic put in above) to my collection - I believe that you've commented on that one, also - how do these two recordings differ, e.g. instruments used?  Thanks, as usual - Dave 

Dave, took your question HERE!

Q

[Peregrine]

Mendelssohn - Octet

Smetana/Janacek quartets

Sublime...

[Mark]

About to listen to Birtwistle's Panic! and Earth Dances (Argo).

Picked it up today from a charity shop. Wanted to find out what made Panic! cause such a storm when it debuted at the ... 1996 Proms, was it?

Will then probably move onto some Renaissance polyphony - it's been a tough day.

[Peregrine]

Will then probably move onto some Renaissance polyphony - it's been a tough day.

Tell me about it...

[karlhenning]

YMMV, but I find that Birtwistle's is not music for a tough day; I'd go straight for the Renaissance and save Birt for a more centered day  0:)

[karlhenning]

John Adams
Shaker Loops
The Ridge Quartet plus

[Maciek]

I've edited my post about the Bamberg SO from two days ago (on this thread), removing some of the, uhm... inaccuracies... 0:)

[karlhenning]

Most discreet, Maciek 

[Maciek]

 

[Brian]

Wieniawski's Violin Concerto No. 2
Marat Bisangeliev
Antoni Wit / Polish National Radio Symphony

I seem to have misplaced my Heifetz recording of this masterpiece!      Not to fear, Bisangeliev is here with an impressive performance, if not ... well, you know...

[Mark]

YMMV, but I find that Birtwistle's is not music for a tough day; I'd go straight for the Renaissance and save Birt for a more centered day  0:)

Quite so ... yet it was strangely cathartic.

So, having had my own debut of Panic! (I didn't leave my living room in disgust; though some Promenaders apparently upped and left the Albert Hall when this work was premiered), all I can say is that it was clearly a storm in a teacup, and good on Nicholas Kenyon for commissioning a piece which so obviously has the sense of humour that was lacking in some members of its first audience. At best, it's a chaotic-sounding yet well-structured piece of ultra-modern jazz/classical fusion. At worst, it's a concerto for saxophone and instruments falling over in a music room cupboard.

As for Earth Dances, my first hearing of a second interpretation has done little to unseat my view that, as good and interesting as this work is, it's basically just the Rite of Spring with all the best tunes taken out.

[rubio]

Haydn symphonies no. 82, 83 and 84 by Kuijken/Orchestra of the Age of Enlightment. These Paris symphonies are really delightful music!

[Brian]

Tchaikovsky's First
Winter Daydreams
Adrian Leaper
And His Lovely Poles

[pjme]

Philippe Hersant ( *1948) : Missa brevis etc

Paysage avec ruines – Im fremden Land – Chants du Sud – Missa brevis
Luisa Islam Ali Zade et l'Orchestre Philharmonique, direction : Ernest Martinez-Izquierdo :
(Densité 21 – Radio France DE 00)

Hersant has a website http://www.philippehersant.com/html/fr/discographie.html

Very interesting composer. Dare I call him a neo tonalist?

From his website : "...that what is not slightly deformed, looks insensible :so, iregularity, the unexpected, the surprise, the amazement are an essential part and the characterization of beauty. On the other hand, dodecaphony is, for me, a form of classicism. Surely, a "weird kind "of classicism, for it does not rely on a law of Nature - as Schoenberg himself admits. But he installed ,nevertheless, a rigorous order, so that the void, anarchy and subjectivity may be prevented. I think that Schoenberg invented serialism to avoid tonal nostalgia. It is some kind of resistance against nostalgia....

Music of beautiful invention, clouds of the very old and the very new pass by - echoes of exotic countries....

He has a quite extended discography, very good performers. I look forward to discover more.

[hildegard]

Lovely avatar.........................

I am glad you like the avatar, Harry, and I'm glad to see that so many members have clicked on it and are enjoying it too! 

Hilde

[greg]

seriously listening to this one again:


all I can say is, i don't regret putting him 7th on my list of top 50 favorite composers... what i love most about this disc, possibly, is listening to the last few minutes of Choros I and then listening to the opening of the 3 Pieces in Old Style. It's an odd effect to hear clusters (that honestly gave me chills, not of terror like in Penderecki but more of a pathos? like in Mahler) and then something so traditional right after that. And the First symphony is just odd!  I mean, is that good or not? I don't know, i like it, but it's hard to say whether it's "great" or not. anyways......

I love Gorecki's music so much...  0:) 0:) 0:) 0:)

[SonicMan46]

Dave, took your question HERE!

Q - thanks, responded in the linked thread - Dave 

[Lady Chatterley]

Handel HWV 435