What are you listening to now?

[Traverso]

Messiaen

La Nativité du Seigneur
Le Banquet Céleste
Apparition de l'eglise Eternelle

Great music and a joy to listen to.

[springrite]

First run:

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A significant recording due to the inclusion of the "Six Concertos in Seven Parts", aka Scarlatti's "Concerti Grossi".

Q

Interesting! I love his Concerti in Five Parts but have never heard the seven parts concerti

[Todd]

[kyjo]

TD
Kyjo said this was good. Kyjo was right.

[cilgwyn]

Helios,op 76,which opens the selection,on this cd. One of his "musical landscapes of the mind". This one was inspired by a trip to Greece.

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Helios,op 76,which opens the selection,on this cd. One of his "musical landscapes of the mind". This one was inspired by a trip to Greece.

What do think of it cilgwyn? I wonder how it compares to the Nielsen and 'The Sun: The Great Luminary of the Universe' by another compatriot of your's Alun Hoddinott?

[SonicMan46]

Dussek, Jan (1760-1812) - Fortepiano Sonatas - now listening to Vols. 3/4 - Brilliant is half way through an 8-CD series recording all of his keyboard sonatas on a variety of fortepianos using 8 different performers - Dave

     

[NikF]

Saint-Saens: 2 Violin Sonatas - Kantorow/Rouvier.

[aligreto]

Purcell: King Arthur, Acts 1, 2 & 3 [Christie]

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Moeran Symphony (Dilkes: English Sinfonia)

[aligreto]

Dussek, Jan (1760-1812) - Fortepiano Sonatas - now listening to Vols. 3/4 - Brilliant is half way through an 8-CD series recording all of his keyboard sonatas on a variety of fortepianos using 8 different performers - Dave

     

Interesting Dave. I have a very limited amount of his music in my collection and I have found it to be engaging.

[vandermolen]

Bax: Tintagel

[Mandryka]

The de la Rue L'homme Armé is a major masterpiece which is completely new to me, jaw dropping music, even for someone as blasé and jaded as me, you have never heard a mass like this. The USP of La Rue is the bass writing. I'll check the other one from Sound and Fury later.

[Mandryka]

Turfan Fragments strikes me as a cut above the majority of Feldman's other work in this vein

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I think Kotik is very good, even in the Samuel Beckett piece, which sounds to me less like a musical picture of the void  than with other people, and so is less conducive to suicidal thoughts (maybe it's faster than normal, I'm not sure, but he's doing something differently.)

[Draško]

The de la Rue L'homme Armé is a major masterpiece which is completely new to me, jaw dropping music, even for someone as blasé and jaded as me, you have never heard a mass like this. The USP of La Rue is the bass writing. I'll check the other one from Sound and Fury later.

There is a very fine recording of it by Ensemble Clement Janequin, coupled with Requiem on HM. 

[Irons]

It could be argued that Kondrashin is preferable in Symphonic Dances and Svetlanov in Isle of the Dead. Still like Previn though.

[cilgwyn]

What do think of it cilgwyn? I wonder how it compares to the Nielsen and 'The Sun: The Great Luminary of the Universe' by another compatriot of your's Alun Hoddinott?

Well,after listening to this cd (which is still playing) this afternoon,I had a sudden,uncontrollable,compulsion to buy two more cd's of William Mathias!! The Lyrita cd of the Concertos (which I did,once, own) and the Somm cd of Piano Concertos 1 & 2 ,and the VW Fantasy)!! (More expense!! ). I must admit,I'm not so mad,on Hoddinott! Some of his music is quite interesting. I did quite like the Sixth (which I have on a Chandos cassette) but I never feel that much of an urge to go back to his music. As to,Carl Nielsen! My recent purchase of the,deleted,4 cd,Sony box set of Bernstein and Ormandy conducting Nielsen (see below) and Gibson's recording of Nielsen's Fourth (I had the RCA Lp,as a youngster) has converted me to the Nielsen cause!! (Not that I didn't like his music,before!).

     

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It could be argued that Kondrashin is preferable in Symphonic Dances and Svetlanov in Isle of the Dead. Still like Previn though.

Previn is excellent I think here and you get a wonderful image of the Bocklin painting. One of my favourites notwithstanding the fact that one A.Hitler had a copy in his collection.

[vandermolen]

Well,after listening to this cd (which is still playing) this afternoon,I had a sudden,uncontrollable,compulsion to buy two more cd's of William Mathias!! The Lyrita cd of the Concertos (which I did,once, own) and the Somm cd of Piano Concertos 1 & 2 ,and the VW Fantasy)!! (More expense!! ). I must admit,I'm not so mad,on Hoddinott! Some of his music is quite interesting. I did quite like the Sixth (which I have on a Chandos cassette) but I never feel that much of an urge to go back to his music. As to,Carl Nielsen! My recent purchase of the,deleted,4 cd,Sony box set of Bernstein and Ormandy conducting Nielsen (see below) and Gibson's recording of Nielsen's Fourth (I had the RCA Lp,as a youngster) has converted me to the Nielsen cause!! (Not that I didn't like his music,before!).

     

Thanks cilgwyn. I like Mathias's 1st Symphony very much, coupled with the equally excellent one by the late John Joubert on Lyrita. I like Hoddinott's 5th Symphony as well as the more approachable No.6 but some of his music is, for me at least, difficult to appreciate.

Thread duty:
A wonderful recording and fabulous performance allowing so much more detail than usual to be heard. My new top choice:
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How did they get 83 minutes to fit on a single CD?

[pi2000]

Shostakovich String quartet 8
from here(Brodsky Quartet)
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