What are you listening 2 now?

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O papagaio do moleque

[Iota]

Stravinsky:Requiem Canticles


". . . this work is not suitable for liturgical use as only one-tenth of the liturgical text is set. . . . Requiem Canticles is the Requiem for the Requiem. After that, every composer who writes a liturgical requiem . . . will seem like a taxidermist. He will be stuffing a skeleton with ersatz meat and then be putting a black top hat on it. Then he will say: here, this is a man. But he will be wrong. It is no longer possible. Stravinsky's Requiem Canticles is Berlioz's Grande Messe des Morts, shriveled to an aphorism."

Elmer Schönberger and Louis Andriessen


There's a poetic truth to that, if not an actual one I think. But certainly a work that merits any number of wild and grand descriptions.

[Irons]

Mendelssohn: String Symphony no.9.



Composed by a 14 year old! The mind boggles! Listening to Mendelssohn you can only marvel at his facility for melody (I also listened to the E flat string quartet).

Neville Marriner directs the Academy from the first desk of violins, along with others including Alan Loveday and Hugh Maguire.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

The Hiller Variations is my favorite because of the wittiness and superb craftsmanship of the music culminating in an apotheosic fugue. The Tone Poems after Böcklin are not bad either. I think you would enjoy both works!

thanks! 

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Piano Trio No. 3

[Pohjolas Daughter]

I love both but the Böcklin tone poems, especially Isle of the Dead, win by a neck. Do you know the other Reger work I listened to yesterday?...Variations and fugue on a theme by Mozart (the main theme of his Piano Sonata No 11 A major K 331)? Stunningly beautiful.

Sarge

Thanks for your thoughts Sarge! 

PD

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Mendelssohn: String Symphony no.9.



Composed by a 14 year old! The mind boggles! Listening to Mendelssohn you can only marvel at his facility for melody (I also listened to the E flat string quartet).

Neville Marriner directs the Academy from the first desk of violins, along with others including Alan Loveday and Hugh Maguire.

The Academy All Stars!! (really not sure quite why folk get so huffy about Marriner these days.  I still hear great music making in just about everything he did whether its HIP or not

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The 6th -



Stunning performance from Thomson/LSO.

[Roasted Swan]

Just time for something small scale, quiet and reflective........ NOT!!!  Epic stuff

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The 6th -



Stunning performance from Thomson/LSO.

+1

[Mahlerian]

Berg: Four Pieces for clarinet and piano
Sabine Meyer, Lars Vogt


Boulez: Dialogue de l'ombre double
Alain Damiens

[SonicMan46]

Boccherini, Luigi - String Chamber Works - Quartets, Quintets, & Sextets from the 10-CD Capriccio Box below - my only disappointment are the 2 discs of Guitar Quintets (also disliked by the review attached); however, I've got those works covered w/ Pepe Romero and the Acad SM in the Fields, plus Jakob Lindberg & the Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble on PIs -   Dave

   

[Todd]

Disc 2.

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Walton Henry V (reduced orchestra version) with a gossipy introduction by Lady Walton.
No 'Prologue - The Globe' alas, but more like listening to the work in a theatre:

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Walton Henry V (reduced orchestra version) with a gossipy introduction by Lady Walton.
No 'Prologue - The Globe' alas, but more like listening to the work in a theatre:

And alas, no Waterfall Scene.

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The 8th:

[Todd]

Disc 3 equivalent.  It seems to just get better with each disc.  And wouldn't you know, but Hannes Minnaar has recorded an LvB concerto cycle.

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The 8th:

Best version. 

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And alas, no Waterfall Scene.

My thought exactly. But at least we get 'The Fountain' and some famous Shakespearian extracts. I have greatly enjoyed listening to this performance:

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Best version. 

I like it a lot, Jeffrey but I do like the Thomson performance a lot as well. So I don't think I could choose between them.