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[Symphonic Addict]

Carter's Piano Sonata and Scriabin's Piano Sonata No. 10



The Carter is a kaleidoscopic piece in two movements. I was expecting something deliberately dissonant, but it wasn't so at all. Even I heard some Debussy bits there. Different and interesting.

I've never been a fan of Scriabin. However, I did enjoy this sonata. Scriabin is quite succinct on this kind of works. In barely 12 minutes he says what he has to say.

[Symphonic Addict]

Finally for tonight - Lepo Sumera, Symphony No.2.
One of my favourite modern symphonies:

It's certainly a good one.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Disc 2

Dowland: Come again, sweet love
Campion: Never love unless you can
Campion: Oft have I sighed
Campion: If thou longst so much to learn
Fain would I wed
with Robert Spencer (lute)


Purcell: Sleep, Adam, sleep
Purcell: Lord, what is man?
Monro: My lovely Cecilia
Boyce: Tell me, lovely shepherd
with Martin Isepp (harpsichord), Ambrose Gauntlett (viola da gamba)

Arne: Where the bee sucks
with Martin Isepp (harpischord), Ambrose Gauntlett (viola da gamba), Douglas Whittaker (flute)

Henry Lawes: A dialogue on a kiss
William Lawes: A dialogue between Charon and Philomel
William Lawes: A dialogue between Daphne and Stephen
Handel: Gia nel Tartael regni
Handel: Quando in calma rida il mare
with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Kenneth Heath (cello), George Malcolm (harpsichord)

Purcell: Come ye sons of art away - Sound the trumpet
Purcell: Pausanius - My dearest, my fairest
Purcell: The Maid's Last Prayer - No, resistance is but vain
Purcell: King Arthur: Shepherd, leave decoying
Mendelssohn: Abschied der Zugvögel
Mendelssohn: Wie kann ich froh und lustig sein
Mendelssohn: Herbstlied
Mendelssohn-Hensel: Suleika und Hatem
Cornelius: Heimatsgedanken
Cornelius: Verratene Liebe
Cornelius: Ich und du
Cornelius: Der beste Liebesbrief
with Dietrich Fischier-Dieskau (baritone), Daniel Barenboim (piano)

The second disc of this exhaustive surevy of Janet Baker's EMI recordings covers early English song and excerpts from a couple of live duet recitals with Fischer-Dieskau, recorded in the Royal Festival Hall in 1970 and the Queen Elizabeth Hall in 1969. Baker brings a personal touch to all she sings and she and Fischer-Dieskau collaborate wonderfully well in duet.

That's a box that I've been meaning to buy for some time now.  I trust that you've been enjoying it overall?

Best wishes,

PD

[Carlo Gesualdo]

Hello

I'm feeling better, since my mother out of danger she me and my father spook us to death, we fear she would pass out, this was her last night whit us.she survive she still resting but out of danger.
Ishe she really scarred the living crap from us, I won't talk about my sister behavior all have been said...

Tonight I'm listening to my Lyricord vinyls, wright now listening to the excellent Missa Iste confessor and missa sine nomine(mass in his name).

Perhaps I will listen to Gombert LP same rad label. Excellent choice, a very good vinyl I have plenty more of these.

Goodnight folks thanks for the support and that it...

[André]

Well known in its film incarnation (best actress oscar for Susan Sarandon), Sister Helen Prejean's novel was turned into an opera by composer Jake Heggie and librettist Terrence McNally. It was premiered at the San Francisco Opera in 2000, reprised by opera houses the world over. It was to be staged at the Met this spring. I saw it in Montreal 7 years ago. This recording is from a Houston Grand Opera production in February 2011.

It's a powerful work, thanks to McNally's tight narrative and Heggie's voice-friendly, lucid musical lines and his resourceful use of the orchestra. The words are easily heard and understood. A good thing, as there is no printed libretto. The booklet mentions an online one on the Virgin website, but it leads to the Deutsche Grammophon online catalogue, where a search for Heggie among composers brings a 'no result' dead end.

Listening on disc to an unfamiliar opera I saw on stage is a bit strange. The words are clearer on record, but the visuals are gone, so something is lost one way or another. The singing is excellent, with an all-star female cast (Joyce Di Donato, Suzanne Mentzer, Frederica von Stade, Measha Brueggergosman) - the men are an unknown lot, but sing convicingly too. There is a nonstop hum throughout the recording, like something electronic, unless it's an AC unit (how warm is it in Houston in February?).

[Karl Henning]

Hello

I'm feeling better, since my mother out of danger she me and my father spook us to death, we fear she would pass out, this was her last night whit us.she survive she still resting but out of danger.
Ishe she really scarred the living crap from us, I won't talk about my sister behavior all have been said...

Tonight I'm listening to my Lyricord vinyls, wright now listening to the excellent Missa Iste confessor and missa sine nomine(mass in his name).

Perhaps I will listen to Gombert LP same rad label. Excellent choice, a very good vinyl I have plenty more of these.

Goodnight folks thanks for the support and that it...

Rest well!

[Carlo Gesualdo]

Rest well!

Oh I will, thanks Karl and everyone who supported my anguish, stress, sadness, at 9h30 pm she would wake up tired but stable I gave her the two thumbs up like yes you made it your one foot , talking and everything, what a relief.

[Madiel]

Work-from-home Vivaldi again.

[Mandryka]

Capriccio la sol fa mi re ut. Very good, I think Vartolo inspired and all the better for it.

[pjme]

So, how did your Bachian-infused dinner come out [Note:  I said "Bachian" not "Baccahanalian"   ].

Best,

PD

As always, I make simple, healthy food. But I will regularly participate in wild, orgiastic bacchanals, of course: Saint-Saëns, Ravel, Respighi, Schmitt, Scriabin... Schoenberg, Henze, K.A. Hartmann, Poledouris (Conan)...   

[Florestan]

I wa listening to it more as background music, and in that respect it was splendid!  At the beginning, I thought of the Trio No. 1, "this wouldn't be out of place in the Caffé Florian in Venice, while sipping an (outrageously expensive) espresso". 

NIce thought! I agree on both accounts but I'd replace Cafe Florian with a private salon in one of the palaces along the Canal Grande and the outrageously expensive expresso with a free Port courtesy of the gracious hostess.   

But the music sounds beautifully crafted, and the melodious gift is very apparent. [...] I think the composer is best in a light-melancholy vein

Agreed again.

I have this recording:



and I'm perfectly happy with it.

[Irons]

Bloch: Concerto Grosso No.1.

Martin: Petite Symphonic Concertante.



Neville Marriner with his ASMF made a multitude of top drawer recordings and this is one of the best. The first movement of the Bloch doesn't have the rhythmic drive of Hanson on Mercury in the first movement, but the strings are so more refined in what follows that it sheds a whole new light on the work.

Possibly the title put me off - what an error! Petite Symphonie Concertante is a masterpiece. It is as if Frank Martin gets his inspiration from music itself, from baroque and before, right up to modernism, and moulds it into a coherent whole. Hugh Ottaway puts it much better "drawing fresh shoots from old stems" An endlessly fascinating work.     

[vandermolen]

Hello

I'm feeling better, since my mother out of danger she me and my father spook us to death, we fear she would pass out, this was her last night whit us.she survive she still resting but out of danger.
Ishe she really scarred the living crap from us, I won't talk about my sister behavior all have been said...

Tonight I'm listening to my Lyricord vinyls, wright now listening to the excellent Missa Iste confessor and missa sine nomine(mass in his name).

Perhaps I will listen to Gombert LP same rad label. Excellent choice, a very good vinyl I have plenty more of these.

Goodnight folks thanks for the support and that it...

Excellent! That's very good news.

[Florestan]

Excellent! That's very good news.

+ 1

[Harry]

Excellent! That's very good news.

+ 1

[vandermolen]

Bloch: Concerto Grosso No.1.

Martin: Petite Symphonic Concertante.



Neville Marriner with his ASMF made a multitude of top drawer recordings and this is one of the best. The first movement of the Bloch doesn't have the rhythmic drive of Hanson on Mercury in the first movement, but the strings are so more refined in what follows that it sheds a whole new light on the work.

Possibly the title put me off - what an error! Petite Symphonie Concertante is a masterpiece. It is as if Frank Martin gets his inspiration from music itself, from baroque and before, right up to modernism, and moulds it into a coherent whole. Hugh Ottaway puts it much better "drawing fresh shoots from old stems" An endlessly fascinating work.   

I remember that LP! What a great combination of works and you're quite right about the diminutive title given to the Frank Martin work Lol.

TD
Just thought I'd lower the tone a bit - a bizarre but highly entertaining concept:

[ritter]

Some Rameau this morning (in anticipation of the set of historical recordings I ordered yesterday and which should arrive on Monday).

John Eliot Gardiner conducts Les Boréades.


From the big Erato box.

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[Harry]

New acquisition.

Musik am Hofe derer von Bünau, Volume II.
Sächsische Musiklandschaften in 16th und 17th Jahrhundert.

The last of the five CD'S in this set, all of them sublime in what they have to offer. I am heartily glad acquiring them, when they wer up for sale at such a ridiculous price. Production values are of the highest standard, as are the recordings and performance. No wishes are left open. And again music of composers I never heard before, apart from Andreas Hammerschmidt, of which I have some music in my collection.

[Florestan]

First listen

[aligreto]

JS Bach: Suites for Solo Cello Nos. 3 & 4 [Rostropovich]





The masterful touch of Rostropovich brings both passion and fluidity to these performances. These are spirited performances reflecting the dance-like nature of the works.