What are you listening 2 now?

[André]

By the way, there is no duplication between the sets.

That's great. I'll put this on the wish list !

[Mirror Image]

Ravel
Miroirs
Tharaud

[San Antone]

Igor Raykhelson: Viola Concerto
Yuri Bashmet | Novaya Rossiya Orchestra | Alexander Slatkovsky

Igor Raykhelson (Russian: Игорь Райхельсон; born 24 April 1961 in Leningrad) is a Russian born American classical and jazz pianist and composer. He studied classical and jazz piano as a teenager at Leningrad Conservatory from 1976 then in 1979 his family moved to New York City where Igor continued his education at New York University under Alexander Edelman.  His Jazz Suite and works for viola performed by Yuri Bashmet were well received by Gramophone Magazine in 2007. Wikipedia

Lush, tonal, somewhat heavy-handed orchestration; viola sections well played by Bashmet.  Raykhelson's composition style lies somewhere between Shostakovich and Gershwin, although there is a nagging sense of superficiality.

[Mandryka]

Talking of hush, I've never heard a Missa L'homme arme voiced so ... gently. Second run for this, I liked it quite a bit, and will be returning soon to see if I like it some more.

This is the influence of Rebecca Stewart, who used to lead Cappela Pratensis and has a very distinctive approach to this sort of music.

Iota your Johannes Ockeghem Missa l'homme armée look awesome I got to hear this, thanks for sharing buddy.

Yes you must hear that performance, it is exceptional.

[Carlo Gesualdo]

Dear friends and follower , I'm listening to CPO awesome Weser Bremen Renaissance, a composer name Knupfer: Veni Sancte spiritus, a Manfred Cordes brewed album sweet late renaissance or early baroque, Germans and French add their Baroque earlier, so It hard to tell if it's late renaissance or early baroque, but who care it sounds great, that what important in the end.

[Traverso]

Stockhausen

Gruppen

[Biffo]

I enjoyed that CD with 'Riders to the Sea'.

The Hickox recording comes (or came) coupled with A Cotswold Romance. As I already have the complete Hugh the Drover I just bought Tintagiles separately as a download.

[André]

Disc two, La maison dans les dunes, a collection of 10 pieces where the view of the sea from 'the house in the dunes' inspires the composer to write about waves, starry nights, sails on the sea, sea swells, etc. The music is more descriptive than Les heures dolentes, which is more about moods and feelings. Both collections are wonderful, but quite different in character, which is an excellent thing.

[Ratliff]

Samuel Barber, Essay for Orchestra, No 1, 2 and 3, Slatkin, St Louis



These works seem like symphonies in miniature, to me. The structure seems to resemble that of the Liszt Sonata in b minor (and many works that followed) in which a single "sonata allegro" movement, organized around a basic theme or motif, contains sections that function as a scherzo and slow movement. This is wonderfull music, concise, opulently orchestrated, dramatic, sensuous. The performances do it justice.

[Florestan]

Disc two, La maison dans les dunes, a collection of 10 pieces where the view of the sea from 'the house in the dunes' inspires the composer to write about waves, starry nights, sails on the sea, sea swells, etc. The music is more descriptive than Les heures dolentes, which is more about moods and feelings. Both collections are wonderful, but quite different in character, which is an excellent thing.

I second your appraisal. Great music, sensitive performance, excellent sound.

[Karl Henning]

RVW
Sinfonia Antartica
London Phil
Bennie

This is like falling in love with the piece all over again

[Traverso]

Elgar

Enigma Variations
Pomp and Circumstance Marches 1-5
Serenade

[aukhawk]

Talking of hush, I've never heard a Missa L'homme arme voiced so ... gently. Second run for this, I liked it quite a bit, and will be returning soon to see if I like it some more.

The instrumental track In hydraulis from that recording is both weird and fascinating.  I play it quite often.

[aligreto]

Verdi: Aida [Leinsdorf]





I find this to be an intense, gripping, powerfully dramatic reading without being forced or over exuberant in any way. The dramatisation and pacing feel quite natural yet the presentation has the requisite gravitas resulting in a passion and intensity. I think that it is a very fine version indeed.

[aligreto]

Bach

Matthäus Passion  live recording 2017

   

I hope that you enjoyed it.

[aligreto]

Stravinsky: [Stravinsky]





Greeting Prelude
Dumbarton Oaks Concerto
Eight Instrumental Miniatures for 15 Players

[Iota]

Iota your Johannes Ockeghem Missa l'homme armée look awesome I got to hear this, thanks for sharing buddy.

You're welcome. I'd be interested in your thoughts if it does come your way. 

This is the influence of Rebecca Stewart, who used to lead Cappela Pratensis and has a very distinctive approach to this sort of music.

Ta for the info.

The instrumental track In hydraulis from that recording is both weird and fascinating.  I play it quite often.

I didn't play the non-Ockeghem tracks this time, but if that's the one with what sounds like the chiming of a wine glass, I thought it was pretty intriguing too.


Here earlier in the week:



Shostakovich: 24 Preludes and Fugues, Scherbakov

I also have Melnikov (Harmonia Mundi) and know the Nikolayeva, both are excellent, but for me Scherbakov outshines them all. His  imagination seems more probing and the pieces' charismatic inner lives and dreamlike qualities emerge very vividly.

[aligreto]

Meyerbeer: Les Patineurs [Martinon]

[Sergeant Rock]

Pettersson: Symphony 7 (Dorati, Stockholm PO) Decca LP

I bought that LP in the 70s not knowing what really to expect. I listened to the first side but couldn't bear to listen to the second, I  was so depressed    It wasn't until the CD era that I listened to the entire symphony (Rasilainen)...and this time survived the encounter...barely 

Sarge

[aligreto]

Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 21 [Klien/Kehr]


   


Vibrant and exhilarating outer movements.