What are you listening to now?

[Iota]

First listen to this new harpsichord album:



Great cover. I wonder if someone will buy it for the cover, not knowing what music is inside, and be very, very, very surprised.

Great cover indeed! It seems to perfectly capture the spirit so often found in his keyboard music. It certainly incentivises me to hear the disc!

[Brian]

Great cover indeed - how about the music?!ä Almost added it to an order I put in with presto's today ...

Great cover indeed! It seems to perfectly capture the spirit so often found in his keyboard music. It certainly incentivises me to hear the disc!

It's excellent! I get fatigued listening to the harpsichord often, but this is an excellent and varied recital and the artist actually asks (in the booklet) that you take a break halfway through, so at the spot where he says to do so, I got up and went for a walk and came back. Superb Scarlatti playing with occasional ornamentation so tasteful that if you do not know the music well, you will not notice it.

Now first listen:



Oh, I absolutely love music like this. It's like Haydn - anything that sounds even close to this, I will like.

[ritter]

A recent, enthusiastic post by our fellow GMGer SymphonicAddict has led me to revisit CD 2 of this set:

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André Jolivet's concertos  i) [concertino] for trumpet, string orchestra and piano, ii) No. 2 for trumpet, and iii) for ondes martenot and orchestra. Maurice André plays the trumpet, Annie d'Arco the piano, Jeanne Loriod the ondes, and the composer conducts.

[Mandryka]

Great cover indeed! It seems to perfectly capture the spirit so often found in his keyboard music. It certainly incentivises me to hear the disc!

The power of marketing.

[Iota]

It's excellent! I get fatigued listening to the harpsichord often, but this is an excellent and varied recital and the artist actually asks (in the booklet) that you take a break halfway through, so at the spot where he says to do so, I got up and went for a walk and came back. Superb Scarlatti playing with occasional ornamentation so tasteful that if you do not know the music well, you will not notice it.

Great! I too get harpsichord fatigue sometimes. Will see if I can track it down.

[Iota]

The power of marketing.

True!

[vandermolen]

Not particularly good, but rather overlong for its material

I like the tune which runs through the last movement.

[aligreto]

Previn: Guitar Concerto [Williams/Previn]


   


This is a work that is written in the style of the great tradition of modern Romantic guitar concertos but in a modern idiom, particularly and interestingly in the slow movement which is intriguing, atmospheric and compelling listening. It is a very interesting listen, largely tonal in the outer movements, and lyrical throughout. If you have not heard this work, the final movement includes an electric lead and bass guitar and a set of drums. These interject the classical work somewhat incoherently, almost in the form of a challenge or a duel, but the classical guitar, predictably, wins out in the end.

[Iota]

This music seems to hover in an almost opiate haze somewhere between Debussy and Messiaen, and there's something transporting and sirenic about the way it beckons you further in, diffuse and vivid at the same time, extraordinary stuff. And what a strikingly deft orchestrational touch Koechlin has, the sound of the string harmonics for example in the La Caravane (reve pendant la sieste) movement are utterly hypnotic!

[ritter]

And now, on to Arthur Honegger: Symphony No. 4, "Deliciae Basiliensis" and Symphony No. 5, "Di tre re", with Serge Baudo conducting the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra.

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[Ghost of Baron Scarpia]

And now, on to Arthur Honegger: Symphony No. 4, "Deliciae Basiliensis" and Symphony No. 5, "Di tre re", with Serge Baudo conducting the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra.

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That cycle is unrivaled, IMO!

[bwv 1080]

Previn: Guitar Concerto [Williams/Previn]


   

the Ponce concerto is the best piece in the genre


This is a work that is written in the style of the great tradition of modern Romantic guitar concertos but in a modern idiom, particularly and interestingly in the slow movement which is intriguing, atmospheric and compelling listening. It is a very interesting listen, largely tonal in the outer movements, and lyrical throughout. If you have not heard this work, the final movement includes an electric lead and bass guitar and a set of drums. These interject the classical work somewhat incoherently, almost in the form of a challenge or a duel, but the classical guitar, predictably, wins out in the end.

[milk]

It's my favourite as well 
Next to Kuijken/Leonhardt, which slightly shows its age...

Q

I so happy I'm not alone on this. I love this one, really love it.

[JBS]

Finishing this set with the Seventh "Choral" Symphony and the Requiem.
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The former has a Danish text, apparently by the composer, and rather went by me with little impact. The Requiem reminds me of the choral passages in Verdi's Requiem, by turns vigorous and meditative.

Overall, Hamerik is well within the Central European symphonic tradition, although his treatment of themes is not necessarily classic. Most interesting was the Sixth Symphony, scored only for strings because of budgetary reasons,

Recommend the full set.

[Ciaccona]

NP:

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Bruckner: Symphony #5 in B Flat, WAB 105, "Tragic"

Riccardo Chailly: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra


Been listening to nothing but Bruckner this week.

[Que]

Morning listening:

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Bob van Asperen on a roll with music from around Europe composed in the 16th and 17th century during the Thirty Years' War (1618 - 1648) and the Eighty Years War (1568 - 1648).

Q

[Christo]

Previn: Guitar Concerto [Williams/Previn]


   


This is a work that is written in the style of the great tradition of modern Romantic guitar concertos but in a modern idiom, particularly and interestingly in the slow movement which is intriguing, atmospheric and compelling listening. It is a very interesting listen, largely tonal in the outer movements, and lyrical throughout. If you have not heard this work, the final movement includes an electric lead and bass guitar and a set of drums. These interject the classical work somewhat incoherently, almost in the form of a challenge or a duel, but the classical guitar, predictably, wins out in the end.

One of my LPs I played most often, in those days - both sides BTW. 

[pi2000]

Schmid/Mandeal Brahms Violin Concerto
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[king ubu]

It's excellent! I get fatigued listening to the harpsichord often, but this is an excellent and varied recital and the artist actually asks (in the booklet) that you take a break halfway through, so at the spot where he says to do so, I got up and went for a walk and came back. Superb Scarlatti playing with occasional ornamentation so tasteful that if you do not know the music well, you will not notice it.

Ok, onto the shopping list then! 

[Karl Henning]

Finishing this set with the Seventh "Choral" Symphony and the Requiem.
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The former has a Danish text, apparently by the composer, and rather went by me with little impact. The Requiem reminds me of the choral passages in Verdi's Requiem, by turns vigorous and meditative.

Overall, Hamerik is well within the Central European symphonic tradition, although his treatment of themes is not necessarily classic. Most interesting was the Sixth Symphony, scored only for strings because of budgetary reasons,

Recommend the full set.

Thanks.