What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[karlhenning]

Elgar - Cello Concerto (Schiff, Elder, Hallé)

(* pounds the table *)

[Kullervo]

(* pounds the table *)

You should be pounding the table for the Nørgård choral works. They are absolutely mindblowing.

[beclemund]

It begins quite big and sounds great.

[karlhenning]

You should be pounding the table for the Nørgård choral works. They are absolutely mindblowing.

Recommendation noted, thanks.

[karlhenning]

Stravinsky
from Disc 21:

Introitus TS Eliot in memoriam

The dove descending breaks the air

A Prayer (from Thos Dekker)

This may possibly be my very favorite of the 22 discs.

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[bhodges]

Good morning!

Wow, Cover of the Day!  Beautiful...

(And how's the music?  )

--Bruce

[karlhenning]

Hindemith
Kammermusik No. 1 for twelve solo instruments, Opus 24 No. 1
fl(picc) / cl / bn / tp / perc / acc / pf / string quintet
Members of the Concertgebouworkest / Chailly

[Kullervo]

Wow, Cover of the Day!  Beautiful...

(And how's the music?  )

--Bruce

As a fan of electroacoustic music you could do no wrong by getting this disc. I don't often find myself in the mood for this kind of music, but when I do it's excellent.

[Harry]

Louis Spohr.

Overture opus 12, in C major.

Quartet-Concerto opus 131, for 2 Violins, Viola, and Violoncello, with accompaniment of a Orchestra.

Nonet, opus 31.

Ensemble Villa Musica.
Leipziger Streichquartett.
Leipziger Kammerorchester/Sebastian Weigle.

On this cd 3 of his best works are assembled, in fine performances. Opus 131 is special to me, in that it is the most colorfull piece Spohr ever wrote.  The first movement of the Nonet is rightly famous, for it is ingeniously scored.

[bhodges]

As a fan of electroacoustic music you could do no wrong by getting this disc. I don't often find myself in the mood for this kind of music, but when I do it's excellent.

I'm a pretty big fan of Saariaho's work (even if some of her pieces sound a little too much alike), and her electronic pieces are usually quite beautiful. 

Just looked at the track list and I have heard two of these: Petals and Sept Papillons (both by Madeleine Shapiro, a New York-based cellist who does a lot of contemporary music).  I like those two a lot. 

Edit: just found a nice review of that CD on ionarts, a blog in Washington, DC:

http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2006/09/plesure-nise-kaija-saariahos-cello.html

--Bruce

[karlhenning]

Hindemith
Kleine Kammermusik for woodwind quintet, Opus 24 No. 2[/url]
fl(picc) / cl / bn / tp / perc / acc / pf / string quintet
Members of the Concertgebouworkest / Chailly

[karlhenning]

Predictably, you might say:

Hindemith
Kammermusik No. 2 for piano solo and twelve solo instruments, Opus 36 No. 1

Kammermusik No. 3 for cello solo and ten solo instruments, Opus 36 No. 2

Members of the Concertgebouworkest / Chailly

Predictably, because (similarly to the Stravinsky box), you start listening to one piece, and it sounds so good, you're led on to piece after piece . . . .

[Kullervo]

Predictably, you might say:

Hindemith
Kammermusik No. 2 for piano solo and twelve solo instruments, Opus 36 No. 1

Kammermusik No. 3 for cello solo and ten solo instruments, Opus 36 No. 2

Members of the Concertgebouworkest / Chailly

Predictably, because (similarly to the Stravinsky box), you start listening to one piece, and it sounds so good, you're led on to piece after piece . . . .

That Hindemith set is high on the want list.

[Harry]

John Tavener.

Lament for Jerusalem.

Angharad Gruffydd Jones, Soprano.
Peter Crawford, Counter Tenor.
Choir of London and Orchestra/Jeremy Summerly.


Recommended by a fellow GMGer, I forgot alas who it was, but I am still grateful for the advice.
This is a marvelous piece, well sung by both Jones & Crawford. It makes me go in contemplation mode, and that is always beneficial to my equilibrium. I need that!

[karlhenning]

Hindemith
Kammermusik No. 6 for viola d'amore and chamber orchestra, Opus 46 No. 1

Kammermusik No. 7 for organ and chamber orchestra, Opus 46 No. 2

Members of the Concertgebouworkest / Chailly

[Harry]

Philipp Scharwenka.

String Quartet opus 117, in D minor.

String Quartet, opus 120 in D major.

Piano Quintet, opus 118, in B minor.

Mannheimer Streichquartett.
Thomas Duis, Piano.

This well filled disc, (79:53) has three reasons to rejoice. Scharwenka is a fine composer which was forgotten shortly after his death in 1917. Not the only one by all means, he belongs to that select membership that is quite undeservingly out of the minds of music lovers.
The D minor SQ is a case in point, with its first movement gloriously elevating this music to the very top of what man can reach. The third movement In memoriam, "Andante Tranquillo" is a masterwork. But then all of his works are. So glad I have the opportunity to listen to genius, so little heard. Recommended.

[bhodges]

Took a break from the Verbier concerts for some vocals:

Karita Mattila: Arias & Scenes



Ramón Vargas: Verdi Arias
Julia Varady: Richard Strauss Arias

--Bruce

[karlhenning]

Stravinsky
from Disc 20:

Cantata

[Que]

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[Harry]

Q

That's a good one Que!