What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Coopmv]

Now playing the last of the 11 volumes of Schnabel Beethoven Piano Works ...

[Dr. Dread]

[Coopmv]

Robert Hill is a pretty good harpsichordist.  I have quite a few of his Bach's CD's on Hanssler ...

[Lilas Pastia]

Alan Hovhaness:

• Alleluia and Fugue
• Anahid

Two pieces embued with Hovhaness' simple, graceful beauty and soul-liberating serenity.

Just feeling contrarian : few disc covers have ever looked more graceful and 'libertarian' as this one.

Beauuuutiful music.

[Daverz]

Just feeling contrarian : few disc covers have ever looked more graceful and 'libertarian' as this one.

First tight virgin veejayjays and now libertarian whales?

I'm listening to Gade, Symphony No. 1.  Järvi/Gothenburg on Bis.  Neeme seems really "on" for this one.

[Diletante]

Just finished watching:

MAHLER
Symphony No. 6
Bernstein/Wiener Philarmoniker
(DG DVD)

I like a slower tempo on the first movement better, but it was very cool seeing those *three* hammer blows.

[Antoine Marchand]

Hi Antoine - yep, I've been on a Clementi BINGE recently - kind of alternating purchases of the Piano Sonatas played on a 'modern' piano w/ Howard vs. a fortepiano - now have two volumes of the latter (3 CDs per volume) and 6 discs w/ Shelley - can't decide which I like better, but nice to have the option - Dave 

I have been in a similar situation, Dave.

Below my current Clementi's recordings, although during the last months I have been considering another discs, this time by Richard Burnett and Jos Van Immerseel, both of them played on fortepiano. I have the second volume by Mastroprimiano too.

I especially would recommend the Gradus ad Parnassum collection on Arts (4 CDs) and the John Khouri's disc.

[Que]

Morning!

Just finished:


Wo soll ich fliehen hin?, BWV 5
Bleib bei uns, denn es will Abend werden, BWV 6


Now:



Q

[FideLeo]

More Clementi piano music:



Edoardo Torbianelli (pan classics)

and of course Andreas Staier's recording on Teldec

[Valentino]

Good morning! Beautiful weather, doors and windows open, some damn good coffee, and:

[The new erato]

Big scale music. Occasionally suprisingly sensitive (considering Schmitts reputation). OK but not great production. Well worth it.

[RussellG]

No. 10 (1975)

[Christo]

Back home, after a week in the Belgian and French Ardennes. Listened repeatedly to one piece mostly: Norwegian composer Ludvig Irgens Jensen's Symphony (Sinfonia in Re, 1941).

                             

A marvelous piece from a composer who is something of an enigma to me. Hard to believe that his main sources of inspiration should have been "Brahms, Reger, Bruckner and Mahler" as the booklet states, because I hear a lot of French impressionism, and generally a resemblance to some British composers as well. I'm also reminded of David Diamond's meandering Second and Third Symphonies.

The piece is sunny overall, hardly `Northern' in this respect (but the same might be said about other composers from the North, e.g. Madetoja). At the same time, it is yet another wartime symphony - the 1940s might be, with hindsight, regarded the pinnacle of Western symphonic music.

Have to order for one of the two available recordings of his famous Passacaglia (1927) now.

[Subotnick]

Morning!

Perhaps listening to Allan Pettersson for the first time (symphonies 6 and 14) was not the best way to ease myself gently into the day!  But I'm sure this will do the trick! 

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Back home, after a week in the Belgian and French Ardennes. Listened repeatedly to one piece mostly: Norwegian composer Ludvig Irgens Jensen's Symphony (Sinfonia in Re, 1941).

                             

A marvelous piece from a composer who is something of an enigma to me. Hard to believe that his main sources of inspiration should have been "Brahms, Reger, Bruckner and Mahler" as the booklet states, because I hear a lot of French impressionism, and generally a resemblance to some British composers as well. I'm also reminded of David Diamond's meandering Second and Third Symphonies.

The piece is sunny overall, hardly `Northern' in this respect (but the same might be said about other composers from the North, e.g. Madetoja). At the same time, it is yet another wartime symphony - the 1940s might be, with hindsight, regarded the pinnacle of Western symphonic music.

Have to order for one of the two available recordings of his famous Passacaglia (1927) now.

An interesting claim in an interesting post. Which symphonists are you thinking of? I can think of Honegger, Orthel, RVW, Brian, Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Martinu, Tubin... But I don't know whether there aren't other decades that were as fruitful...

[Christo]

An interesting claim in an interesting post. Which symphonists are you thinking of? I can think of Honegger, Orthel, RVW, Brian, Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Martinu, Tubin... But I don't know whether there aren't other decades that were as fruitful...

Possibly, yes. But. I do observe a remarkable vitality of the form around the 1940s, especially regarding British, American, Soviet and Northern composers. Think of the best symphonies of  Vaughan Williams (5, 6), Havergal Brian (6-11), Honegger, Tubin, all of Martinu's indeed, and yes Orthel, Arnell, Englund, Diamond, Harris, Barber and so many others.

I think there's a recent overview of all 20th Century British symphonies showing a remarkable concentration especially around the 1940s. Dundonnell and Vandermolen will know the details ... 

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Havergal Brian, Symphony No. 19 in E minor (1961). Performed by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by John Canarina, on 17 June 1976.

One of the most beautiful and most appealing of Brian's late symphonies.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/wxmgzddiiby/Brian 19.mp3

[George]

Looks very cool!

Morning all! 

[Subotnick]

Looks very cool!

Morning all! 

So good, I played it twice! 

[Dundonnell]

Possibly, yes. But. I do observe a remarkable vitality of the form around the 1940s, especially regarding British, American, Soviet and Northern composers. Think of the best symphonies of  Vaughan Williams (5, 6), Havergal Brian (6-11), Honegger, Tubin, all of Martinu's indeed, and yes Orthel, Arnell, Englund, Diamond, Harris, Barber and so many others.

I think there's a recent overview of all 20th Century British symphonies showing a remarkable concentration especially around the 1940s. Dundonnell and Vandermolen will know the details ... 

I wonder if this is what you are referring to-

http://www.musicweb-international.com/British_Symphonies_on_CD/index.htm