What are you listening to now?

[Florestan]

I guess birthday is as good a reason as any other for having an all-Haydn weekend. 

I'll start tonight (ie, in a few minutes) with CD 1 of this:



Missa "Rorate coeli desuper" Hob XXII:3
Missa Sanctae Caeciliae Hob XXII:5

First listen both.

[Sergeant Rock]

Haydn Symphony No.99 E flat "Cat"  ...Szell conducting the Cleveland




Sarge

[HIPster]

Hi HIPster, sorry for the delay. I thought it sounded great; an excellent way to explore the composers featured. Although it's perhaps more beautiful than exciting. Other recordings might make more of the dialogue in some of the music, for example in Buxtehude's sonatas.

Thanks Camphy! 

Here's their complete set ~

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[Spineur]

Joining the Haydn celebration with this new release

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[Florestan]

Haydn Symphony No.92 G major "Oxford", Szell conducting the Cleveland




Sarge

Ah, those horns in the Trio! Bliss! 

[Mister Sharpe]

Quick question:

I received a batch of older CDs this week, used, mint etc.  What was baffling was the markings on the discs themselves.

Tchaikovsky 4 & 5 symphonies, DG Karajan and an oldish copy of Shostakovich 5 with Ashkenazy on Decca, all had a vivid neon PINK over print on the 'info' side of the cd.

The overprint was, Original CYX DBGM.  With the same pink slashes like on the segments of a clock face around the circumference.

Anyone shed any light on this?  I certainly have never seen this before, discs are original DG/Decca or seem to be.  Anyone know what CYX DBGM means? A supplier, middleman, perhaps?

Cheers.

Those are termed "Matrix Markings" and are often seen on original vinyl recordings; they can refer to a specific engineer, mastering house, or record pressing plant.  Sometimes combinations of those.  Dunno what those specific markings indicate. 

[SimonNZ]

Haydn: "Arie per un'amante"

[Sergeant Rock]

Haydn 45 "Farewell" with a HIP ending, played by the Stanisław Moniuszko School of Music Symphony Orchestra

https://www.youtube.com/v/guFtLJjRuz4


Sarge

[listener]

Fell from a shelf and looked interesting enough to hear again
REGER organ music on the Klais organ of Limburg Cathedral
Intro. Passacaglia & Fugue in e op.127   Straf' mich nicht ...op. 40/2    5 chorale preludes from op. 67
Graham Barber
HANSON: Symphony no.2  BARBER: Violin Concerto
Elmar Oliveira, violin    Saint Louis S.O.   Leonard Slatkin, cond

[Ken B]

Mozart
PC 22 and 27
Zacharias, Lausanne CO
MDG box

Zacharias has long been a favorite of mine, but I have any of these before.

[amw]

Mozart
PC 22 and 27
Zacharias, Lausanne CO
MDG box

Zacharias has long been a favorite of mine, but I have any of these before.

I think you might have accidentally an entire word.

Love that disc tho, maybe my favourite 27.

[Ken B]

I think you might have accidentally an entire word.

Love that disc tho, maybe my favourite 27.

Oops, I think you right. 

[kishnevi]

I'm currently doing a (near) complete chronological listening of the entire Xenakis catalogue, starting with Six Chansons and ending with Omega/Sea Change 

There isn't enough time in one single day to get through it all, so this listening will be split into three sittings, as I've done in the past

Is there any Xenakis work you don't have?

And what would you suggest as a good entry point to Xenakis for someone who has heard nothing by him (and is not terribly enthused by music in the Darmstadt mode (to use a very approximate descriptor).

TD
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Shaping up as the best d--n recording I have ever heard of B4.

[SimonNZ]

Haydn's L'isola Disabitata (with German libretto) - Michi Gaigg, cond.

[Sergeant Rock]

TD
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Shaping up as the best d--n recording I have ever heard of B4.

I bought the LP in the 70s, own the first CD pressing. Yeah, the boys and I agree with you: best ever B4. K's chorale in the development of the first movement is incomparable.

Sarge

[Ken B]

Schubert
Winterreise
Bostridge/Andsnes

Recommended to Jeffrey as an alternative to Darmstadtery.

[kishnevi]

I bought the LP in the 70s, own the first CD pressing. Yeah, the boys and I agree with you: best ever B4. K's chorale in the development of the first movement is incomparable.

Sarge

Always nice to be right about something.


TD
From Bruckner moving over to Bach
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Partitas 5 and 6

[kishnevi]

There are a few "hard to get" works that I haven't got a hold of yet, but that is very small in comparison to the 95% of his catalogue I do have 

Lol, I wouldn't recommend Metastasis as a starting point 

My biggest recommendations to get a handle on his musical world is:

Orchestral
Tracees (a 5 minute miniature that packs a punch!)
Lichens (one of my favorite orchestral works, completely unique timbres and some nice melodic moments)
Keqrops (An astounding, out of body experience; a Piano Concerto)
Jonchaies (a more well known middle period work, the most intense climactic ostinato you'll ever hear in your whole life)

Chamber
Tetras (a "everything must go" intense and innovative onslaught of the string quartet)
Tetora (a beautiful contrast to Tetras, completely sublime and more meditative)
Phlegra (A jungle of winds and strings primarily, a little ensemble piece)
Mists (Beautiful piano piece)
Dmaathen (To show the melodic side which goes largely unnoticed)
Epicycles (Another melodic and beautiful work, very emotional)

Percussion and electronic:
Pleiades (his biggest percussion work, very groovy)
Orient Occident
Legende D'eer (An ancient cybernetic jungle of glowing particles)
Persepolis


Try those, then let me know your progress. That is a less than comprehensive guide to his prolific and diverse catalogue. IX fans will notice I skipped most of the early works, because they don't overall represent him as a composer, in my opinion.   

Thanks, I have saved this for use.

Schubert
Winterreise
Bostridge/Andsnes

Recommended to Jeffrey as an alternative to Darmstadtery.

Have it. Goerne is better.

[Ken B]

Have it. Goerne is better.

Yes. I like Bostridge in general, but this is not a great recording. Bär is the best. Best in DSM too.

I am seriously eyeing the Goerne box. But I just bought the Naxos set, and have the DFD, plus about a dozen of each of the two cycles ...

[Mahlerian]

Mahler: Symphony No. 8 in E-flat major
London Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus, cond. Tennstedt
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If not quite up to the level of Tennstedt's early 90s recording in terms of power, this studio version does have a better tenor soloist and is a bit faster overall.  Still, a wonderful recording of this often unfairly maligned work.