What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

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There's the MI we all know...that is still my favorite from Koechlin, great music.

MI never left, he just got off the beaten track a little. I had forgot that you had gotten into Koechlin too.

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[PaulR]

MI never left, he just go off the beaten track a little. I had forgot that you had gotten into Koechlin too.

The beaten track is dull anyways

I still haven't listened to Koechlin.  But I also haven't listened to a lot of composers.

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The beaten track is dull anyways

I still haven't listened to Koechlin.  But I also haven't listened to a lot of composers.

Don't get me started on Koechlin. I will say that I like hearing new music, especially if it's from a 20th Century composer.

[PaulR]

Don't get me started on Koechlin. I will say that I like hearing new music, especially if it's from a 20th Century composer.

I just have a lot of music on my iPod that need to get to listening to, as well as my......need to get more.....

anyways,

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Symphony #7

[TheGSMoeller]

Doing a little comparison this evening.

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Listening to Symphony No. 3.

[PaulR]

More Sibelius!

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Symphony #6

[not edward]

New(ish) Gubaidulina:

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I'm rather taken with The Lyre of Orpheus, which strikes me as one of her better recent works. The main dish seems to me a little less valuable, given that it's the fourth recording of The Canticle of the Sun, and I don't find the cellist here anything as convincing as Rostropovich in the original recording. A bit of a missed opportunity, given the number of recent works of hers that haven't been recorded.

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Listening to Symphony No. 6 "Pathetique". A remarkable symphony.

[kishnevi]

Take your own time and approach with Schnittke, bien sûr.

That said, if you want to give the Piano Quintet and the Concerto for Choir a try, they occupy a different corner of Schnittke's world, a corner which you may find a bit more inviting . . . and that may be some aural leverage onto the Concerto grosso № 1.

Also (or, subsequently) . . . the Symphony № 4 largely encompasses ground similarly to that covered by either the Concerto grosso № 1 and the Concerto for Choir.

Or, you may just want to chill to some Haydn. I don't mean to be pushy . . . . : )

Thanks for the suggestions.  Schnittke is one of those composers whom one enters in the same way that you enter the water at Nantasket Beach:  very slowly, to allow yourself to adjust to the cold cold water.   (That's the beach my parents always took me to when I was a kid, before we moved to Florida.  Ironically, I've gone less often to the beach living in Florida than I did as a kid in Stoughton.)

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Listening to Symphony No. 6.

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Absolutely gorgeous music.

[Que]

Doing a little comparison this evening.

Interesting! Particularly the 2nd has my interest. Impressions?

Q

[Opus106]

[W]hat really counts is the music, and not the flavour of the dressing...

It's the healthiest, most joy-bringing attitude to have, on our musical journeys.

Are you allowed to say such things as a professional reviewer?

[val]

SCHUMANN:     Fantasie in C major                / Dino Ciani  (live Genoa, 1966)

The sound is decent even if we can listen sometimes cars outside and a baby crying (!).
The performance of Ciani is amazing. It is more like an improvisation, full of passion, as if music was being created under his fingers in each moment. It's not perfect but it is a great moment of music, one of the greatest in Dino Ciani's legacy.

[Que]

New stuff is in! Of course I do a more elaborate write up some later time, but the essential here is that this is early (late 16th century) Germanic harpschord music by the brothers Hans Leo Hassler & Jacob Hassler. Léon Berben plays the Franciscus Patavinus Harpsichord (1561) from the collection of the Deutsches Museum, Munich.

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[Willoughby earl of Itacarius]

I always start the day with coffee, and close on its heels is Lute music. They go well together, the first kicks some life into me, the second eases my mind into a workable state. What other, as the excellent Silvius Leopold Weiss series on Naxos! Landed in the midst of volume X, with the sonate, no 28 in F major, "Le Fameux Corsaire"...No. 40 in C major and the absolutely stunning performance of "Tombeau sur la mort de M. Comte de Logy". Robert Barto is a veteran in this repertoire, and so you hear. He is very assured musician, and knows exactly where to go. sound is top notch too. Not one of the previous volumes is below standards. I would say, this is for me, quite definitive music to have.

[Willoughby earl of Itacarius]

New stuff is in! Of course I do a more elaborate write up some later time, but the essential here is that this is early (late 16th century) Germanic harpschord music by the brothers Hans Leo Hassler & Jacob Hassler. Léon Berben plays the Franciscus Patavinus Harpsichord (1561) from the collection of the Deutsches Museum, Munich.

Q

That one is on my wishlist, the Patavinus should sound gorgeous. I heard it a while ago, just by chance in a concert on television.

[Willoughby earl of Itacarius]

A twofar that came my way is this beautifully recorded and performed issue on the label Capriccio, with Christine Schornsheim on Organ, Harpsichord, and Fortepiano, in Concerts by Joseph Haydn. She is one of my favourite keyboard players, presently, and I did not hear anything from her that rubbed me the wrong way. The instruments she is using sound all gorgeous, to wit: A Clop organ build in 2008 ( Very intimate sound), Harpsichord by Dowd, build in 1974, (perfectly balanced instrument), and a Fortepiano by Dulcken, build in 1793, the most impressive of the three. It is well recorded too. The Neue Dusseldorfer Hofmusik, led by Mary Utiger, is filling in the instrumental parts with care and detailed attention. Nothing to complain here!

Concerto for Organ and Orchestra in C major, HOB. XVIII, No. 1.
Concerto for Harpsichord and Orchestra in D major, HOB. XVIII No. 2, and in C major, HOB. XVIII, No. 5.
Concerto for Fortepiano and Orchestra in G major, HOB XVIII, No. 4.