What are you listening to now?

[Mandryka]

In the Hill GVs on youtube I noted hints of the Rübsam-like indepence of the voices in var. 15 and 21, but I hear it as being somewhat constructed and rather far from Rübsam''s spontaneous effect. I also think the influence of Leonhardt is the most obvious trait in Hill's interpretation. more so than in Rübsam's.

This is more interesting I think, a French suite from 2016 - there are the other French Suites on YouTube.

https://youtube.com/v/RJ1WBwvEvVw

[Que]

Relistening:

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This turned out to be absolutely awesome in terms of the music - Pasquini establishis himself as a very accomplished and imaginative composer here - as well as performance.
One of my top harpsichord discoveries in a long time! 

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[Madiel]

...Well, that's unless you put this remark in the context of his other remarks, where he criticizes the concept of atonality as nonsensical.  I think he was saying that if atonal music existed, it would be such and such, but his English was not sufficiently sophisticated at that time (this was shortly after his move to the US) to explain it clearly.  If he were saying that he believed that atonal music was an actual thing, it would be unique in his remarks, conflict with his stated views before and after.

...

That's if he changed his views for one single interview before changing them back later on.  That seems unlikely to me.

So in short: YOU select one quote to put in your signature, and when I refer to it, you declare it's not a good representation of Schoenberg's views?

See the problem there? If I'd lifted something it would be legitimate to argue it was out of context or not representative. But I am simply using the text that YOU chose, and now you tell me the text is no good.

I think we should end it there.

[pi2000]

Revisiting this pinnacle of musical art. It doesn't matter how many times I listen to it, always overwhelms me. The 4 movements are incredibly well-crafted in every way, with a truly accomplished mastery that is characteristic of geniuses. This performance is not less than sharp and muscular. A desert-island disc.

Yes !

[vandermolen]

Symphony 4
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[Karl Henning]

Symphony 4

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I've listened to this three times in the past week. It is holding up well 

[vandermolen]

I've listened to this three times in the past week. It is holding up well 

The glowering darkness of the end section was wonderfully conveyed and recorded  (appropriate for me after England's exit from the World Cup - I needed something which conveyed a sense of doom-laden catastrophe).

On to Symphony 11 now.

A terrific CD but part of me misses the rawness and glaring brass of those old USSR SO versions conducted by Kondrashin and Mravinsky.

[Karl Henning]

For me, that glare is a bug not a feature 


I feel sorry for the players;  I want them to have better control of the instrument . . . .

[Karl Henning]

Again—how beautiful this is:

Shostakovich
Symphony № 11 in g minor « 1905 », Op.103
BSO
Nelsons

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[Draško]

[Madiel]

Stravinsky, Orpheus

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This lovely work does seem rather different from the 'neoclassical' works that precede it in Stravinsky's output.

[Karl Henning]

Stravinsky, Orpheus

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This lovely work does seem rather different from the 'neoclassical' works that precede it in Stravinsky's output.

It is one-of-a-kind.

[cilgwyn]

Playing here,now! I absolutely love the strange nocturnal atmosphere of the Chinese Symphony by Bernard Van Dieren. It really is quite beautiful and haunting. The performance and recording quality really is superb. Whoever it was who left money to record this definitely got their money's worth. Although,sadly,they won't have been able to hear it!! Lovely choice of artwork,too!

               

[Biffo]

Vaughan Williams : A Sea Symphony - Philharmonia Orchestra & Chorus conducted by Leonard Slatkin with Thomas Allen and Benita Valente. Fine performance,  the Philharmonia Chorus are excellent, the only blemish is the rather feeble soprano soloist though she improves in the Finale.

[aligreto]

Vivaldi: Orlando finto pazzo, Atto secondo [De Marchi]

[aligreto]

Jill Gomez is a singer's singer. Whether she sings Mozart or Canteloube, she throws her heart into the experience like few do. Netania Davrath has this repertoire under her skin, and it's high praise indeed to put Gomez in the same company. Vernon Handley is much more than a mere accompanist here, and the RLPO play beautifully. Even the cover art is excellent: one of Canteloube's most fetching songs is La fiolairé (The Spinning Girl), the subject of the art cover by Millet, Une chevrière auvergnate.

A winner.

Agreed on all counts 

[Mandryka]

An extremely impressive performance of JSB's 6th cello suite by Rocco Filippini, original and inspired. The lean, taut, grey-shaded, muscular sound is extraordinary. Magisterial, restrained, engaged. Discovered this morning, I've been bowled over by it all day.

[aligreto]

Poulenc: 7 Chansons [Crespin/Wustman]

[André]

More Bach cantatas (149-151 by Leonhardt), more Keilberth Icon box...

[king ubu]

first spin ... nice stuff, nothing all too deep I guess, but most enjoyable to wind down after a long day