What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Coopmv]

Now playing this CD, which arrived from MDT yesterday ...

[Coopmv]

Absolutely! I'm generally not a fan of big "mixed" boxes, but this one is ideal: amazing music with previous issues in their entirety and in superb performances. Incredible value!

This morning CD10: Music from the Court of Charles V with sacred music by Nicolas Gombert (c.1500-1557), another composer of the Franco-Flemish School.



Q

The same here.  I only make exceptions for "mixed" boxes once in a while.  This box has been great ...

[Keemun]

Just finished:

Messiaen
Oiseaux exotiques ("Exotic birds")
Benjamin, George
Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
Pierre Laurent Aimard, piano
Festival d'Automne, Salle Pleyel, Paris, France
December 5, 2008

Now:

Messiaen
Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum ("And I look forward to the resurrection of the dead")
Myung-Whun Chung
Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
Olivier Latry, organ
Royal Albert Hall, London, UK
July 21, 2008

This is my first time listening to Messiaen.  I am enjoying these works, but I don't think Messiaen is a composer I will listen to often. 

[Bulldog]

Rimsky-Korsakov  String Quartets
Adolphe Adam: Le Toréador    with Sumi Jo and John Aler     where you find the variations on "Ah, vous dirai-je maman"

Very interesting - I had no idea that Rimsky wrote any string quartets.

[Novi]

Just finished:

Messiaen
Oiseaux exotiques ("Exotic birds")
Benjamin, George
Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
Pierre Laurent Aimard, piano
Festival d'Automne, Salle Pleyel, Paris, France
December 5, 2008

Now:

Messiaen
Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum ("And I look forward to the resurrection of the dead")
Myung-Whun Chung
Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
Olivier Latry, organ
Royal Albert Hall, London, UK
July 21, 2008

This is my first time listening to Messiaen.  I am enjoying these works, but I don't think Messiaen is a composer I will listen to often. 

For me, Messiaen is a concert hall composer: I hardly listen to his orchestral works at home, but have really liked the live performances I've been to. I also enjoy his solo piano in small doses.

[listener]

Very interesting - I had no idea that Rimsky wrote any string quartets.

One complete quartet (in F, op.12), a fugue "In the Monastery" that was the 4th mvt of an abandoned or lost one,  a Choral and Variations - a pedagogical piece, and the opening mvt of the Quartet on B-la-F , a collaborative work with Liadov, Borodin and Glazunov written for Belliaev's birthday in 1886.    Total  time for the disc is 61:27

[The new erato]

Thanks to a discussion in Haydn's Haus, I'm listening to AAM/Simon Prerston's performance of Haydn's Missa Cellensis, and what a wonderful vital and lifeaffirming work it is!

[Coopmv]

Now playing this CD, which arrived yesterday ...

[karlhenning]

. . . Now:

Messiaen
Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum ("And I look forward to the resurrection of the dead")
Myung-Whun Chung
Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
Olivier Latry, organ
Royal Albert Hall, London, UK
July 21, 2008

This is my first time listening to Messiaen.  I am enjoying these works, but I don't think Messiaen is a composer I will listen to often. 

Fascinating timing!  Today's blog post.

[Marc]

Before going to bed, listening to Maurice André et al playing Tomasi's Trumpet Concerto, from this disc:



It's a nice disc to have, even though I more or less forgot that I owned it!

[jlaurson]

Fornerord, Mettraux, Balissat, Maffei
"Swiss Symphonic Composers v.2
Gallo

I can't get enough of Maffei's "Little Prince". What a stunningly beautiful, totally entertaining work that is. Man-o-man, have I not heard a truly 'new' discovery in a long time that I've so immediately, so wholly taken to.

[Conor71]

Schoenberg: Verklarte Nacht, Op. 4

[Coopmv]

Now playing this CD, the continuation of the last CD ...

[DarkAngel]

Q you read my mind, just ordered that a few days ago and thought I had a scoop on the forum 
Anything by Staier I must own...........and to have Schornsheim included is icing on the cake

Look at all those beautiful forte pianos lined up...........

[Keemun]

Fascinating timing!  Today's blog post.

Indeed. 

[Conor71]

Webern; Berg; Schoenberg: Orchestral Works

[Lethevich]

some great Part cds there - In particular the De Profundis with the Theatre of Voices has some really yummy singing particularly in the Seven Magnificat Antiphons- Just wonder though what yr opinion is of In Principio ?  Its a recent purchase for me and i cant make up my mind - some of it is mind blowingly beautiful whereas some bits seem like a rehash of previous cds - have to admit was rather disappointed with his previous cd Lamentate - maybe i have too high an expectation 

I thoroughly disliked Lamentate when it first came out. My opinion has softened somewhat, but it still seems something of a pointless piece for me and could almost have been composed by someone other than Pärt (which his best music never could). I was surprised with In Principo, as I liked it right away. I don't treat Pärt's newer music as essential like the music composed up to around 1993, but it is always very enjoyable, and on that level it's a successful piece. Not sure that it's worth paying for a full-priced ECM CD to own, but fortunately the rest of the CD is filled out with equally appealing and unrecorded music.

I agree with your opinion on the De Profundis disc - that is also one of my favourite pieces by Pärt, and every recording seems to do it justice.

[greg]

Scelsi- Anahit

Looking at the score as well... like many of his orchestral pieces, the style of similar to Ligeti's micopolyphonic style. Although pieces that are slow and quiet the whole time don't tend to interest me much, this is really great anyways. He simply builds a world of sound that you just have to hear to understand (and a lot of the time, you'll be wondering how these sounds are even coming from a traditional orcestra). Really great stuff.

[listener]

Karl Höller  Symphonic Fantasy on a theme by Frescobaldi
         and Sweelinck-Variations for Orchestra  (Mein junges Leben..)
DGG mono recoding from 1958

and two 18th-century Swiss  (Geneva, to be precise) composers: Nicholas Scherrer Symphony no.5 and  Gaspard Fritz  Symphony no.1 and Violin Concerto in E

[Lilas Pastia]

Advertising  . I'll post my views on some recent Bruckner 8 listenings in the Abbey - in a couple of days probably. On the listings will be Barenboim Chicago, Eichhorn and a couple others.

Meanwhile, listening to the wonderful Alan Hacker set of Haydn's 8 notturni (inimitable in its sheer intoxicating rustic beauty),  and a very interesting disc of belgian (flemish) orchestral music ca. 1875 titled Salve Antverpia . Music by Sternefeld, Mortelmans, van t' Hoof, etc. I've had that for some years now and every once in a while I like to bask in its heady mix of highly cultured post-franckian tone painting and earthy folklore-based melodies. Splendid !