What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[MN Dave]

I've been listening to him too.

[George]

Beethoven
Elly Ney
Biddulph

[Lethevich]

Holmboe - Symphony Nos.11-13


I may be excessively influenced by the way BIS organises the symphonies on disc, but I find these last three in particular to have such an amazing condensing of the composer's language. Beautifully balanced and polyphonic writing, a light touch, and a certain refinement but not leaving the music cold.

Edit: Hehe, I am such a wimp. Holmboe's style has a way of getting to me, especially in these later works. The beautiful interplay of string and brass is wonderful to experience - such strict, glowing music.

Oooh, me likey already. :3

[karlhenning]

Holmboe - Symphony Nos.11-13

I may be excessively influenced by the way BIS organises the symphonies on disc, but I find these last three in particular to have such an amazing condensing of the composer's language. Beautifully balanced and polyphonic writing, a light touch, and a certain refinement but not leaving the music cold.

Yes, wonderful, beautiful music.

[CD]

[Christo]

Before returning to Holmboe - great to see Lethe, Karl and Kentel among his fan club - I have to give this a first spin first.

I have to thank Brian's mother especially  but also Harry for urging us to jump on Jordi Savall's latest Orient Express. Brian's mother is absolutely right: refined and inspiriting music from the lenght and breadth of the Ottoman empire, sampled by that highly remarkable man, Prince of Moldavia, Dimitrie Cantemir (1673–1723), man of letters, linguist, ethnographer, philosopher, historian, composer and musicologist (according to Wikipedia  )

As St. Augustine would put it: tolle audite.

                                         

[mahler10th]

Who write the covernotes for that?    I have a disk from the same collection whose covernotes were written by vandermolen (Jeffrey).
I have been looking through the threads and see COREY is listening to the same kind of stuff as me recently.  Anyway, here's what's on now:

Kancheli.  I am wearing ear peotectors and anti-decibel devices for those moments in the works which cause massive shifts in the dynamic range.
WHOPPING.

[CD]

Who write the covernotes for that?    I have a disk from the same collection whose covernotes were written by vandermolen (Jeffrey).

Dunno, it's a download. :X

I have been looking through the threads and see COREY is listening to the same kind of stuff as me recently.

Hehe yes. I've been listening to a lot of stuff in which I've been interested in for some time but haven't had the time/money to hear it all, so I'm going through and listening to something by each composer to decide if I want more. So far most of them are keepers, so I'm certainly not saving myself any money!

[MN Dave]

[jlaurson]

Haydn Duty

Haydn String Quartets op.33 1-3 Kodaly Naxos	Haydn String Quartets op.33 4-6 Kodaly Naxos
Haydn String Quartets op.33 Auryn Tacet	Haydn String Quartets op.33 Festetics Arcana
Haydn String Quartets op.33 Mosaiques Niave

[Lethevich]

Cooke's 3rd - thanks to Christo for prodding me towards this disc, even though I initially bought it for Havergal Brian. This is one of the most convincing neoclassical symphonies I have so far heard. It has quite a wonderfully buoyant filmic sound - like the scores to those rollicking* 40s-60s WW2 fighter plane films. Indeed, it sounds like some bizarro-world combination of Walton and Hindemith at times. Wonderfully balanced, but also emotionally engaging.

*Underrated word.

[prémont]

And where is that my friend??

Far from your place, I suppose. 

[CD]

Weinberg - Symphonies 14 and 18 (Fedoseyev/USSR RSO)



No. 14 is sounding really freaking good so far.

[Conor71]

Pärt: Te Deum (Alfred Schlee Gewidmet)

[Lethevich]

(Lars-Erik Larsson, symphonies 1 & 2)

[Cato]

Back in November I started listening to every CD in my collection: things were interrupted by Christmas, etc. but today I am back on track!

Boulez



Le Marteau has more in common with Hildegard of Bingen than one might realize at first or second hearing: the vocal lines, as well as the flute part, and the instrumentation present a skewed, rhomboid Medievalism which more than once today made me think of Hildegard and other medieval works.

[CD]

[Cato]

Back in November I started listening to every CD in my collection: things were interrupted by Christmas, etc. but today I am back on track!

Boulez



Le Marteau has more in common with Hildegard of Bingen than one might realize at first or second hearing: the vocal lines, as well as the flute part, and the instrumentation present a skewed, rhomboid Medievalism which more than once today made me think of Hildegard and other medieval works.

Allow me to mention that the CD also contains Derive I and II which both have a good deal of "drive" and are some of my favorite pieces of chamber music.

Derive II has some affinity with Schoenberg's Chamber Symphony I  (even though "Schoenberg is dead"   0:)  )   Honegger and Hartmann seem to be in the work's exhaust also!

[CD]

Tubin - Symphonies 4 and 7

[listener]

ALKAN Treize prières  op.64,   Petits préludes sur les huit gammes du plainchant,  Impromptu on Luther's "Un fort remport est notre Dieu" op.69
Originally for pedal piano or organ, here played on the organ of Salisbury Cathedral.  Specs. for the organ  aren't given, but I'll bet the piano did not have the variety of sounds and swell capability we get here.   These pieces do not duplicate Bowyer's recordings on Toccata.