What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Kullervo]

Honegger - Symphonies 2 and 5, etc. (Dutoit/BRSO)
Nørgård - Frostsalme, Wie ein Kind, other choral works (Parkman/Danish National Radio Choir)

[SonicMan46]

Boy, just getting home for the night - long clinical day @ work!  And, a PILE of recently arrived CDs - OH, the torture! 

Joly Braga Santos - Symphony No. 4 & Variations w/ Cassuto & NSO of Ireland on Marco Polo (received 10/10 5* ratings on Amazon!) - this music is just fabulous - I will need a re-listening while reading the liner notes - trying to eat dinner @ the same time! 

Arnold Bax - Tone Poems comin' up next w/ Handley & BBC Philharmonic (in respect for our recent thread) - I expect to love these pieces (have so much more by Bax, much w/ Handley) - I suspect that more of his TPs are in my future! 

BTW - the cover art on the Bax CD was fascinating (and quite stimulating after a 'hard day' @ work!) - found a pic on the web - work called Autumn by Atkinson Grimshaw (1836-1893) - have not explored this artist?  (but he obviously had a beautiful model -  )


 

[Kullervo]

Does anyone else hear "Nowhere Man" in the 3rd movement of Honneger's 2nd?

[mahler10th]

Boy, just getting home for the night - long clinical day @ work! 
BTW - the cover art on the Bax CD was fascinating (and quite stimulating after a 'hard day' @ work!) - found a pic on the web - work called Autumn by Atkinson Grimshaw (1836-1893) - have not explored this artist?  (but he obviously had a beautiful model -  )

John Atkinson Grimshaw is my favourite artist.  I have a collection of his prints, and have seen his works in galleries in both Leeds and Scarborough (where I stayed for 10 years).  I even walked past one of his houses up near Scarborough Castle many, many times.  There is someone on this forum (graziozo) who uses one of his pics as an avatar.  Thanks for bringing him up there and investigating that SonicMan - there are many more fabulous pictures by Grimshaw out there if you have a look around.
This is how I found him at Scarborough Art Gallery...this painting of a boat on fire off Scarborough or Whitby harbour is absoloutley breathtaking in real life, and was the one that got me into Grimshaw in the first place.

[Lilas Pastia]

Many listenings to the music Philip Glass wrote for the film Mishima. Either the orchestral suite or the third string quartet. It's fascinating to compare the two. I don't think it makes a good string quartet, but it's interesting nonetheless.

My in-car listening of the week currently features the other Glass string quartets.

[Catison]

Does anyone else hear "Nowhere Man" in the 3rd movement of Honneger's 2nd?

I can't say I do.  You have a timing where you hear it?

Are you thinking of the random trumpet melody at the end?

[SonicMan46]

John Atkinson Grimshaw is my favourite artist.  I have a collection of his prints, and have seen his works in galleries in both Leeds and Scarborough (where I stayed for 10 years).................

Hey, thanks for the additional info in your post - I must explore; I'm pretty savy relative to art but had never heard of this artist - must pay more attention!

What has amazed me over the years in buying CDs w/ wonderful 'cover art' is that many of the artists in these works are pretty much forgotten, esp. from the 19th century - I love to pay attention to the art work on these covers & will continue to do so!  Dave 

[Lilas Pastia]

I can't say I do.  You have a timing where you hear it?

Are you thinking of the random trumpet melody at the end?

Brett, it's not "random" by any means, it's ad libitum. Normally it means "optional". In theory, the trumpet part may be omitted. But for some reason I've never come across a trumpetless version. But there can be other meanings for the term. So maybe there's another explanation.

[Kullervo]

Are you thinking of the random trumpet melody at the end?

Yes, exactly — well, I guess it's only the first five notes. It's still fun to find unintentional quotations like that.

[Subotnick]

Morning!

Heard the 25th yesterday. Now it's the turn of the 6th and Prayer Of St. Gregory.



TTFN.
Me.

[Wanderer]

BTW - the cover art on the Bax CD was fascinating (and quite stimulating after a 'hard day' @ work!) - found a pic on the web - work called Autumn by Atkinson Grimshaw (1836-1893) - have not explored this artist?  (but he obviously had a beautiful model -  )

John Atkinson Grimshaw is my favourite artist.  I have a collection of his prints, and have seen his works in galleries in both Leeds and Scarborough (where I stayed for 10 years).  I even walked past one of his houses up near Scarborough Castle many, many times.  There is someone on this forum (graziozo) who uses one of his pics as an avatar.  Thanks for bringing him up there and investigating that SonicMan - there are many more fabulous pictures by Grimshaw out there if you have a look around.
This is how I found him at Scarborough Art Gallery...this painting of a boat on fire off Scarborough or Whitby harbour is absoloutley breathtaking in real life, and was the one that got me into Grimshaw in the first place.

Thanks, SonicMan & mahler10th, for the info on Grimshaw. 

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I've been listening to the whole cycle again lately and these interpretations seem to grow on me. There's some gravitas and impetus lacking in (sometimes crucial) places, but otherwise many qualities are on offer, not least an always beguiling tone and sensitive phrasing. Lewis' approach works wonders in the slow movements.

[Tapio Dmitriyevich]

Joly Braga Santos - Symphony No. 4 & Variations w/ Cassuto & NSO of Ireland on Marco Polo (received 10/10 5* ratings on Amazon!) - this music is just fabulous - I will need a re-listening while reading the liner notes - trying to eat dinner @ the same time! 

Arnold Bax - Tone Poems comin' up next w/ Handley & BBC Philharmonic (in respect for our recent thread) - I expect to love these pieces (have so much more by Bax, much w/ Handley) - I suspect that more of his TPs are in my future! 

We're exactly listening to the same stuff. I bought the two Chandos/Handley Tone Poems discs on Chandos the other day, but not yet listened properly to them... But I will.
When I'm in my car, the Braga Sontos' 4/2 Andante is running all the time. It's such a powerful movement. I especially love how the change was done, from peace to war and drama, starting at 7:50. I guess this would also work well as film music.

[The new erato]

The first disc from the Erato/Warner 4 CD set of Jolivet. The Isabelle Faust/HM disc of the Violin Concerto really caught my interest - this is a superb concerto - so I just bought this set. Now Cello Concert nr 1. The opening certainly is fine - intense and captivating.

[mahler10th]

This again.
Hard to believe that this was composed by a teenager.
Lots of feeling, great detail, worth a thunderous appplause.

[The new erato]

This again.
Hard to believe that this was composed by a teenager.
Lots of feeling, great detail, worth a thunderous appplause.

I've just bought - and listened to - the 1st symphony in the recording by Dausgaard on Dacapo, an absolute amazing sonic spectacular!

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

This again.
Hard to believe that this was composed by a teenager.
Lots of feeling, great detail, worth a thunderous appplause.

And that choral piece, Fra Dybet, isn't bad either!

Re Atkinson Grimshaw - I always liked his work without knowing his name: one of his paintings was used as a cover for a Penguin Modern Classics paperback (Henry James, The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories).

[Harry]

Good morning all.

I have started this morning with the last disc of a piano cycle from a man of which you hardly expect this. He is seen mainly as a opera composer, and not as one who also composed instrumental music, without a voice. Rossini composed enough piano music to fill 8 discs, and that is what MDG did, by the nimble hands of Stefan Irmer. I cannot stress enough how important this musician is to the success of this series, for he is truly a man of fine interpretations, with a deep insight into the intrinsic value of the music. For I am not afraid to say, that I perceive Rossini in this to be equal master to Chopin, albeit in a very different way.
The melodic inventions, and the expert understanding Rossini had of the piano, is in my ears phenomenal. Its uplifting music, and covers the whole emotional spectrum of humans, and beyond.
The recordings throughout are exemplary, and a great artistic tribute it is to Rossini.

[The new erato]

Good morning Harry.

Yet another alert to a corner of the repertory I haven't really explored.

[Harry]

Good morning Harry.

Yet another alert to a corner of the repertory I haven't really explored.

Good morning Erato.
A friend gave me the first volume, and I must admit, I was very skeptical about it.
To my utter surprise, it was much more as I expected. It prompted me, to buy 7 discs at full price.
Which is something I tend to avoid, if possible. In this case the choice was not mine.

[Harry]

A year or so ago, I purchased about 80% of the MDG catalog, and amongst many composers was Max Reger's complete chamber music. Somewhat skeptical about whether to purchase it, or not, I nevertheless went ahead, on the basis of his Orchestral music. And I did not regret it I am happy to report, being now in the fourth volume, with the Quartet opus 133, for Violin, Viola, Cello and piano, and Three Duos opus 13b, for two Violins, excellently played by the Mannheimer Streichquartett, and Claudius Tanski on piano. Well written, passionate to the letter. It goes on where Brahms stopped. A composer with a romantic heart, and a inner ear for perfect harmonies.