What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Antoine Marchand]

BTW, you can hear that work here.

I will try later because the link doesn't work out. 

[Opus106]

I may accept a commission for a companion piece 

ChamberNut's comission: Composition for Cookie and Clarinet.

[ChamberNut]

ChamberNut's comission: Composition for Cookie and Clarinet.

Cookie Monster as soloist.  0:)

[karlhenning]

Hrmph.  Link fixed now, AM:

BTW, you can hear that work here.

[offbeat]

Hi Lethe - this Stravinsky disc looks tempting - is it any good -have symphony of psalms also from craft which is excellent 

[Antoine Marchand]

Hrmph.  Link fixed now, AM:

Thanks!

[karlhenning]

Thread duty:

Игорь Фëдорович [Igor Fyodorovich]
Canticum Sacrum ad Honorem Sancti Marci Nominis

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[karlhenning]

Игорь Фëдорович [Igor Fyodorovich]
Threni, id est Lamentationes Jeremiae prophetae

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[MN Dave]

Lovely Bach piano concertos.

[Opus106]

Lovely Bach piano concertos.

Ahem. 

[Lethevich]

Hi Lethe - this Stravinsky disc looks tempting - is it any good -have symphony of psalms also from craft which is excellent  

It's pretty good, and I particularly like the mix of forms, but do have some reservations with how slightly dry and unemotional it sounds (I have these problems with both Craft in general and also Stravinsky's own recordings of his music). Nicely recorded, despite being noticably a bit old (in fact, I guessed the recordings were a good 10 years older than they actually were - early 90s). At its price it's good, but I don't find it to be much of an upgrade on the extremely cheap "complete" Stravinsky box.

The Second concerto, a highly ambitious work on an almost Brahmsian scale. I'm not aware of any other CD recording of this, which is a pity, as the performances can really only be described as serviceable (compare Tarrago and Batiz on ASV with the recording of the First on here, and you'll see how much more can be made of the music).

Come to think of it, all of the Ginestera PC recordings I have heard have been of the 1st - how odd It's certainly not that good enough to warrant the exposure over the second.

Edit: That said, the answer to the unasked question is obvious: disc programmers are lazy SOBs. I will be happy if I don't hear the Variaciones Concertantes for a long time. They're on almost every Ginestera CD...

[MN Dave]

Ahem. 

[karlhenning]

disc programmers are lazy SOBs

QFT

[karlhenning]

Игорь Фëдорович [Igor Fyodorovich]
Agon

[Wanderer]

Messiaen: Visions de l' Amen (Osborne/Roscoe).

[ChamberNut]

Lovely Bach piano modern piano concertos.

There, better! 

[not edward]

Come to think of it, all of the Ginestera PC recordings I have heard have been of the 1st - how odd It's certainly not that good enough to warrant the exposure over the second.

Edit: That said, the answer to the unasked question is obvious: disc programmers are lazy SOBs. I will be happy if I don't hear the Variaciones Concertantes for a long time. They're on almost every Ginestera CD...

Yes, I think the 2nd PC is the finer work (though the 1st is certainly fun, it's not very "deep").

And believe it or not, I have never even heard the Variaciones Concertantes!

[karlhenning]

And believe it or not, I have never even heard the Variaciones Concertantes!

Yow!

Of course, I still need to hear the piano concerti . . . .

[Brian]

And believe it or not, I have never even heard the Variaciones Concertantes!

They are certainly lovely! However, I only heard them for the first time a couple weeks ago, so the charm has not worn off. 

[Brian]

SHOSTAKOVICH | Symphony No 5
Russian National Orchestra
Yakov Kreizberg

RACHMANINOV | Isle of the Dead
St. Petersburg Philharmonic
Mariss Jansons

A very Russki playlist.