What are you listening 2 now?

[Traverso]

Johann Sebastian Bach: Matthäuspassion, BWV 244. Gustav Leonhardt, La Petite Bande, Tölzer Knabenchor

Just a little bit before work. I've always struggled with the Matthew Passion, and I haven't listened to this music in ages. Enjoying it well enough so far.

That's my favorite recording,I hope you will like it.I think it is important to make room in your head before you start listening.

I still very well remember listening to Gregorian chant in a listening  cabin while pop music was playing in the cabin next to me.
I thought it was very boring, but a few days later I went to listen again and now I was not disturbed and thought it was beautiful Prepare yourself well and take your time.

Leonhardt was in the US, I don't remember what the occasion was, but Leonhardt had brought his recording of Bach's Mass in B minor as a gift for the host.
This was accepted with great thanks and immediately set up while the chat continued undisturbed, an experience that  shocked Leonhardt.

[Brahmsian]

Not if you knpw how Magnard died.

Ohhhhhhhh! I see. 

[Papy Oli]

Braga Santos - Concerto for Strings

[Biffo]

Weber: Der Freischutz Overture
Mozart: Divertimento No 11 in D major - Minuet
Haydn: Symphony No 96 in D major Miracle

Halle Orchestra conducted by Sir John Barbirolli

[Papy Oli]

Langgaard 15th & 16th.

[Mirror Image]

Superb choral symphony:



Thanks to John (Mirror Image) for making me revisit a great composer!

Hah! Glad I could be of some service. For the record or anyone who didn't know, I said I wasn't a fan of Rosenberg.

[Mirror Image]

PD, I was wathcing this video myself just a while ago, prompted by Traverso mentioning the piece yesterday. I'm one of the rabid Boulezians here on GMG, so I do check out his music quite often  .

So glad Répons is impressing you....It is an unbelievably rich and sensous piece, so multi-faceted. I was lucky enough to see it live (under the composer) here in Madrid almost 20 years ago now. The impact it makes live, with the spatial distribution of sound, is hard to describe.

The entrance of the solsoists and electronics (at 8m 42s in the video) is pure magic (but so are many other pasagges in Répons).

A work like this almost guarantees it will be even better live, especially given the layers of texture and not the mention the electronics that are found in this work. I bet that was quite an experience seeing this in concert. I wish I had been there. I suppose now you could definitely count me as a Boulezian. By the way, did you ever get the meet him? And a good day to you, Rafael.

[Traverso]

Beethoven

sonatas  No.21-22-23-24 & 25

[Karl Henning]

Langgaard 15th & 16th.

It's time I revisited that set!

[bhodges]

Getting ready to watch this concert, live from Helsinki:

Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: André de Ridder
Piano: Nicolas Hodges

Edgard Varèse: Deserts
Anna Meredith: Four Tributes to 4am
Simon Steen-Andersen: Pianokonsert

https://areena.yle.fi/1-50742769

--Bruce

[DavidW]

An excellent evening for me, both spectacular recordings:

[Harry]

Had to deviate from my usual listening pensum today because the stitches in my eyes were removed. Painful business that. Have already 50% of my vision back, and the doc is very optimistic of even further improvement, I believed her, she"s very pretty and capable in that field. I want to believe, didn't Fox Mulder say so? 

[ritter]

.... By the way, did you ever get the meet him? And a good day to you, Rafael.

Well, fleetingly. First time was in Bayreuth in 1979 (I was in my teens at the time, and Boulez was conducting the Ring for the fourth summer). He was having lunch a couple of tables away from the one my mother and I were sitting at in the restaurant of our hotel. I had bought a poster of the Bayreuth Festival, that had a portrait of Wagner and his signature printed on it, and went to fetch it from my room; when it seemed appropriate, walked over to Boulez's table and asked him to sign it. He said he'd be delighted, looked at the poster, and slyly said: "I'll sign above Wagner's signature!" to immedaietly add "No, better below", and stamped his minuscule signature in the "right" place. The framed poster (which also has the signatures of many of the singers of that summer,  and of conductors Edo de Waart and Dennis Russell Davies, who led Lohengrin and The Flying Dutchman, respectively) still hangs on my walls.

Later, during the Madrid concerts in 1992, I also exchanged a couple of words with him (he was very polite and friendly), and then had a short online exchange with him (about his at the time long-awaited opera, that was never to be) on the now defuct Deutsche Grammophon "Yellow Lounge" forum.

Good day to you, John.

[Traverso]

Well, fleetingly. First time was in Bayreuth in 1979 (I was in my teens at the time, and Boulez was conducting the Ring for the fourth summer). He was having lunch a couple of tables away from the one my mother and I were sitting at in the restaurant of our hotel. I had bought a poster of the Bayreuth Festival, that had a portrait of Wagner and his signature printed on it, and went to fetch it from my room; when it seemed appropriate, walked over to Boulez's table and asked him to sign it. He said he'd be delighted, looked at the poster, and slyly said: "I'll sign above[/u][/i] Wagner's signature!" to immedaietly add "No, better below", and stamped his minuscule signature in the "right" place. The framed poster (which also has the signatures of many of the singers of that summer,  and of conductors Edo de Waart and Dennis Russell Davies, who led Lohengrin and The Flying Dutchman, respectively) still hangs on my walls.

Later, during the Madrid concerts in 1992, I also exchanged a couple of words with him (he was very polite and friendly), and then had a short online exchange with him (about his at the time long-awaited opera, that was never to be) on the now defuct Deutsche Grammophon "Yellow Lounge" forum.

Good day to you, John.

Thank's for sharing 

[vandermolen]

Had to deviate from my usual listening pensum today because the stitches in my eyes were removed. Painful business that. Have already 50% of my vision back, and the doc is very optimistic of even further improvement, I believed her, she"s very pretty and capable in that field. I want to believe, didn't Fox Mulder say so? 

Good news Harry! I wish you a speedy recovery.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Ohhhhhhhh! I see. 

Frankly, unless I had heard exceptional things about the recording, I would avoid buying it myself.  And even then....?

PD

[steve ridgway]

Had to deviate from my usual listening pensum today because the stitches in my eyes were removed. Painful business that. Have already 50% of my vision back, and the doc is very optimistic of even further improvement, I believed her, she"s very pretty and capable in that field. I want to believe, didn't Fox Mulder say so? 

50% already sounds great.

[steve ridgway]

Currently listening to Maderna - Dimensioni II - Invenzione Su Una Voce.

[steve ridgway]

Berio - Due Pezzi (Für Violine Und Klavier).

[Karl Henning]

Good news Harry! I wish you a speedy recovery.

Hear, hear!