What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[bhodges]

Music of Olga Neuwirth:

In Nacht und Eis (2006) for cello, bassoon and ring modulator (Rohan de Saram / Pascal Gallois)
AKROATE HADAL (1995) (Arditti String Quartet)

--Bruce

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Listening to Le Docteur Fabricius. Beautiful.

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Another First Listen™!

Busoni
Piano Concerto in C, Opus 39 [BV 247] (1902-04)
Marc-André Hamelin, pf
CBSO
Men's Voices of the City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus
Mark Elder

I think Busoni's Piano Concerto is wonderful - varied, colourful, exciting. And Hamelin is, as ever, excellent.

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I can't get enough of Suk:

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Listening to The Ripening.

[DavidW]

Radio listening for me since I had been traveling today:

Mendelssohn's String Symphony #4 (Boughton/English String Orchestra)-- oh I love this!  I need to hear it again!!
Haydn's Piano Trio #17 (Beaux Arts Trio)-- lovely
Mozart's Piano Concerto #17 (Uchida/Tate/English Chamber Orchestra)-- surprisingly intense performance
Danzi's Bassoon Concerto #1 (Pasquet/New Brandenburg Philharmonic)-- a nice, charming piece of music
Hindemith's Kammermusik #6 (Chailly/RCO)-- pretty darned good
Enescu's Symphony #3 (Mandeal/Budapest PO)-- really awesome!  I need to hear this again and again!  Never even heard this composer before but golly!!

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Enescu's Symphony #3 (Mandeal/Budapest PO)-- really awesome!  I need to hear this again and again!  Never even heard this composer before but golly!!

You never heard of Enescu before? Hmmm...this is surprising. I thought everybody knew at least his Romanian Rhapsodies.

[DavidW]

You never heard of Enescu before? Hmmm...this is surprising. I thought everybody knew at least his Romanian Rhapsodies.

I guess it's another blind spot for me.  I'll have to fix that.

[Scarpia]

I guess it's another blind spot for me.  I'll have to fix that.

Enescu wrote a fair bit of interesting chamber music, more or less takes it up where Brahms left off.

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I guess it's another blind spot for me.  I'll have to fix that.

Yes, let me suggest the Rozhdestvensky/BBC Philharmonic recordings on Chandos. There are three in this series and they are all excellent.

[DavidW]

Enescu wrote a fair bit of interesting chamber music, more or less takes it up where Brahms left off.

That sounds very promising!  I'll have to pull up his thread on this forum and give it a read.

[Keemun]

I've been looking at the Rochberg series for quite some time, Keemun. Please tell what you think about the music, thanks.

Honestly, I haven't listened to it much, except for Symphony No. 5.  I think it is good, but not spectacular. 

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[Scarpia]

That sounds very promising!  I'll have to pull up his thread on this forum and give it a read.

I'd start here

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Ooops, out of print, but there are other recordings of the same music.

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Honestly, I haven't listened to it much, except for Symphony No. 5.  I think it is good, but not spectacular.

I'll probably pass on Rochberg right now. There are too many irons in the fire so to speak. Not only that, but I want to hear spectacular music, not "good" music.

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Listening to Symphony No. 3. Yes, this is a great symphony indeed.

[Scarpia]

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This guy Image Unavailable wrote almost as much music as Anonymous.

[Florestan]

This guy Image Unavailable wrote almost as much music as Anonymous.

[Florestan]

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Listening to Symphony No. 3. Yes, this is a great symphony indeed.

Terrific disc, that one. 

[springrite]

This guy Image Unavailable wrote almost as much music as Anonymous.

Of course. It's the same guy!!!

[prémont]

I listened to the disc 5 (harpsichord partitas 1, 2 & 4) two times. I think Kirkpatrick will be a hard nut to crack, at least more difficult than Leonhardt's and Walcha's discs (not difficult at all, indeed) from approximately the same time. It's curious because Kirkpatrick's style sounds (I repeat I have just heard one disc) like a strange mix of mechanical and idiosyncratic decisions, always a bit hectic... like a sort of roll piano. Anyway, some highly enjoyable passages here and there, especially during the second partita. 

Kirkpatrick may be an acquired taste, however I had the advantage to have the opportunity to listen to several of his Bach recordings in the late 1960es. In these days there was no HIP nor PI,  and Walcha was the only alternative of any distinction, as Ahlgrimm´s recordings were unavailable in my country at that time, and Galling is no match for Walcha and Kirkpatrick. Both Walcha and Kirkpatrick are in the light of the (later) HIP movement somewhat idiosyncratic, but we did not know better. What I appreciate in Kirkpatrick´s playing is his colourfulness and his rhytmic energy. I find his playing intense rather than "hectic". I also admit that I find his approach better suited to the Suites (incl. Partitas) than to the strict counterpoint loaden works (first and foremost the WTC), and actually I used to own his harpsichord recording of WTC book II  (released by DG yellow label LP mid 1960es) but parted with it long time ago, finding it heavy and stiff. Retrospectively Walcha and Kirkpatrick were stylistically somewhat "disabled" by the instruments they used (rather similar generic two-manual instruments with 16´, 8´, 8´, 4´ and lute stop from Ammer and Neupert respectively) , and I think this must be taken into account when judging their efforts. And they certainly use the possibilities of their instruments to the full. And at least the 16´stop seems to be an "authentic" trait, contrary to the first and second generation HIPsters´  8´, 8´, 4´ tyranny.  So take your time. I am confident, that you will acquire the taste for Kirkpatrick´s Bach suites if not necessarily for his Goldbergvariations.