What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[SonicMan46]

Sweelinck, Jan - Secular Vocal Works (3discs) & Bach, JS - WTC II (3 discs) - enjoying both! 

 

[jlaurson]

And where is that my friend??

Hass-street,
Ruckersdorf-upon-Kirkman
in New-South Zellania.

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[Lethevich]

This guy's style really hits the spot for me - a shame how unpopular it is nowadays

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The two symphonies sounded okay but nothing really stood out tbh.

listening:



This is more like it.

[Marc]

Hass-street,
Ruckersdorf-upon-Kirkman
in New-South Zellania.

No kidding!
That's nearby where I live!

[karlhenning]

Well you're an exception  , but for most people it's absolutely true

No, it's not absolutely true.  It is just the case that most people have first heard the music played on piano.  The question remains.

[Drasko]

[Lethevich]

The two symphonies sounded okay but nothing really stood out tbh.

If you can, try something of his chamber music if you run across it.

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If you can, try something of his chamber music if you run across it.

Will do!

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Ernst Toch - Symphonies 5, 6 and 7 (Francis/Berlin RSO)

[greg]

Mahler: Das Klagende Lied/Boulez

This does sound better each time I listen. You can hear blatantly obvious Wagner influences mixed with passages that sound just like altered versions of themes from the 1st and 2nd symphonies.

[karlhenning]

...and fall in love with it that way. Please get real.

James, are naturally fatuous, or were you a late-bloomer?  People fall in love with Bach's music played on harpsichord, too.  Some even prefer it that way.

[karlhenning]

Thread duty:

Rakhmaninov
Trio éliagique, Opus 9
Members of the Budapest String Quartet w/ Artur Balsam, pf

[Conor71]

Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 2 In E Minor, Op. 27

[Lilas Pastia]

Some quick notes I jotted down (Not very insightful, I'm afraid!):

Lepo Sumera - Symphonies 1-3 (too movie-ish for me)

Henryk Górecki - Symphony No. 3 (a nice first movement but mostly boring)

Alois Hába - Nonets, string quartets, etc. (somewhat interesting but was expecting something a little wilder)

Vagn Holmboe - Symphonies 8 and 9 (really great, even on first listen. Will have to devote some time to this composer)

Eduard Tubin - Symphonies 4 and 7 (The 4th is one of the few things that I've absolutely fallen in love with on first hearing. Incredibly lyrical and has a Sibelian sense of logic and drive. The 7th was impressive also.)

Kalevi Aho - Symphonies 2 and 7 (mostly forgettable)

Ib Nørholm - Symphonies 6 and 8 (very impressive, will have to hear more)

Poul Ruders - Solar Trilogy (Huuugely orchestrated pieces — reminds me of Nørgård's wilder works from the 80s and 90s. Will have to hear more)

Robert Simpson - Symphonies 3 and 5 (The fifth was especially exciting. Reminds me of a more modernist Nielsen)

Valentin Silvestrov - Symphony No. 5 (Shamelessly pretty, but definitely kept my attention unlike Górecki's 3rd. This is one of the few things I would feel comfortable recommending to someone who thinks they don't like classical music that I myself would also enjoy.)

Alun Hoddinott - Symphonies 2, 3 and 5 (seemed kind of note-spinny, don't have any real recollection. Probably won't investigate further unless someone recommends otherwise.)

Aulis Sallinen - Symphonies 4 and 5 (I didn't really notice the 4th but the 5th is very dramatic. Will have to listen again.)

I thought the Englund symphonies were gorgeous. The Nordgren were also very interesting — dark and brooding.

Give them all more air time. I was listening to Holmboe's Symphonic Metamorphosis this week, 4 pieces written independently of each other at different times. As nielsenian as could be, and all the better for it. I think Holmboe picks up where Nielsen left and has held up the master's aesthetic on the same level.

Norholm is a tough nut to crack, but you 'know' there's something important underneath. Let me know if you can't find his other works. try Sallinen's 6th symphony next, and Englund's 3rd. I find good things in Aho, but his music does sound 'diluted' to my ears. Unless I'm unable to penetrate beneath its surface. Have you heard Kancheli?

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Have you heard Kancheli?

No — what do you recommend?

[MN Dave]

Mozart Sym #39 - Karajan

[MN Dave]

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Consistently great, all the way through.