What are you listening 2 now?

[vandermolen]

Hanson Symphony No.4 'Requiem'
'In Memory of My Beloved Father'
Radio Première (1944):

[steve ridgway]

Schnittke - Symphony No. 6.

[Traverso]

Thomas Tomkins

Especially attractive because of the anthems sung by Red Byrd

[Kaga2]

Moroi
Symphony 3

The only Japanese symphony I know. Quite a good one.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Magnus Lindberg's "Chorale".  I listened to the work first (before reading the liner notes) and enjoyed it; went back to notes and found out that it's an homage to Bach.  He makes use of the Bach chorale 'Es ist genug' as it appears in BWV 20.  So, I dug up (via youtube) a version of that and listened to it a few times and yes, you can hear it.

From the liner notes:

'Lindberg has made a habit of alluding to other composers' work, particularly to Baroque music, but in "Chorale" Bach is present all the time.  Lindberg's work joins the extensive range of homages to Bach, though it explores the chorale on its own terms.  In "Chorale" too, Lindberg piles up the motif development into layers with different tempos and thus creates an effectively increasing intensity that is finally resolved at the very end".'

Will play the work again later tonight.  Glad that I took the time to listen to the Bach chorale a few times as I wasn't familiar with it and will be interesting to further explore how it works into the work.   

By the way, at the premier of the work (from the liner notes again), it was programmed before the Berg Violin Concerto which apparently also makes use of the same chorale.  I should also listen to that work later on too.  :-)

Best wishes,

PD

[JBS]

From the SEON box, CD 80 & 81.

The Organ in the Renaissance & Baroque, Alpenlandler.

Works by: Ammerbach/Blithemann/Eberlin/Fischer/Froberger/Fux/ Kerll/Krebs/Merula/Muffat/Newman/Pasquini/Pachelbel/Storace/Taylor/Zachow.

Locations Organs:
Churburg Castle in Val Venosta, Italy/St. James Church in Compatsch, Grisons, Switzerland/Klosterkirche in Muri, Aargau, Switzerland/Premonstratensian Abbey in Wilhering bei Linz Austria/Cistercian Abbey in Wilhering bei Linz, Austria/Cistercian Abbey in Stams, Tyrol, Austria.

Gustav Leonhardt, all Organs. 

A very pleasant ride through all the different organs, and music.  It is a bit hit and run with Leonhardt, but in general it runs smoothly enough, and I derived much pleasure from both CD'S. The sound is quite okay, apart from some incessant reeds in the mixtures, and the terrible sound of the organ in the Klosterkirche in Muri, especially in the what louder sections, like the piece by Merula, "Un cromatico ovvero capriccio, primo tuono per le semitoni",  painful, but as soon as the loudness increases with this organ it definitively sound grating on the ear in every piece.

It's been a few years since I played that CD, but I remember that unpleasant organ very distinctly!

TD
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Second listen, although my current mood is not really compatible with focused listening.

[SonicMan46]

Ibert, Jacques (1890-1962) - Orchestral Music - numerous participants w/ recordings spanning 1957 to 1990 - excellent remastering starting w/ a wonderful version of the Divertissement w/ Louis Frémaux and the City of Birmingham SO from 1973 - my first experience with many of these works.  Dave
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[Mandryka]

This one's rather good

[vandermolen]

Easdale: 'The Red Shoes'
Lambert: Horoscope
Two very enjoyable and atmospheric ballet scores.

[San Antone]

Messiaen: La Nativité du Seigneur
Jennifer Bate

[j winter]

Haydn Op 20 Nos 1-3, Angeles Quartet.  Excellent

[SonicMan46]

Martinů, Bohuslav (1890-1959) - Cello Sonatas, Cello Concertos, & Chamber Works - just getting started on my 20+ CDs of this Czech composer who seemed to go through most or all of the 20th century composing trends leaving an output of nearly 400 cataloged works!  For those interested, there is a catalog edition by Harry Halbreich, hence the use of an 'H' for the category and numbering system (see link in quote below).  Dave

List of compositions by Bohuslav Martinů by category. The date and place after each work are the date and place of origin. The catalog numbers with the prefix "H" are based on the comprehensive catalog of Martinů's works prepared by the Belgian musicologist Harry Halbreich, which was first published in 1968. A second revised and expanded edition was completed in 2006. (Source)

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[vers la flamme]

I was in the mood for a passacaglia...:



Anton Webern: Passacaglia, op.1. Giuseppe Sinopoli, Staatskapelle Dresden.

[vers la flamme]

& now...:



Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonata No.28 in A major, op.101. Pi-hsien Chen.

I really like Ms. Chen's performance, and the sound is great, but I feel like there's a lot of non-musical noise being picked up, heavy breathing, maybe the pedal being released, the occasional vocalization. Probably the result of close miking. It is a very dry recording, which I like.

[MusicTurner]

Ibert, Jacques (1890-1962) - Orchestral Music - numerous participants w/ recordings spanning 1957 to 1990 - excellent remastering starting w/ a wonderful version of the Divertissement w/ Louis Frémaux and the City of Birmingham SO from 1973 - my first experience with many of these works.  Dave
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A generous and interesting double-CD programme, sadly I don't own that one, but the material mostly as LPs, in various recordings. The very quirky Divertissement for example should be more well-known, say on the level of Milhauds Le Boeuf sur le Toit or La Creation du Monde, IMHO.

[MusicTurner]

Haydn Op 20 Nos 1-3, Angeles Quartet.  Excellent

Agree 

[MusicTurner]

I was in the mood for a passacaglia...:



Anton Webern: Passacaglia, op.1. Giuseppe Sinopoli, Staatskapelle Dresden.

Indeed, one of the most impressive Passacaglias in existence ...

[pjme]

A Passacaglia: what a good idea!

I've fallen in love with this (gloriously heavyweight) example by Jaromir Weinberger !

https://youtu.be/ehwJ9Z9N5vI

[Karl Henning]

Haydn Op 20 Nos 1-3, Angeles Quartet.  Excellent

Nice!

[MusicTurner]

A Passacaglia: what a good idea!

I've fallen in love with this (gloriously heavyweight) example by Jaromir Weinberger !

https://youtu.be/ehwJ9Z9N5vI

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That's interesting; Weinberger was obviously a more ambitious composer than I thought him to be, having previously judged him only by a few of the well-known operetta & opera titles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarom%C3%ADr_Weinberger