What are you listening 2 now?

[Mandryka]

That particular NC recording is one of the few that seemed to convey that joy; most others(especially non-piano solo works) I heard sounded like dry drudgery.

This may be a question of self fulfilling expectations. For example, a friend of mine years ago said to me that he thought that Ferneyhough's string trio was funny, slapstick comedy in music. Well, I know I'm very suggestible, I'm a hypnotist's dream client, and ever since, I hear it as exactly that - the modern equivalent of that Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody which sounds like Looney Tunes. 

And as far as drudgery is concerned, this is exactly how I hear nearly everything written by Wolfgang Rihm, but he's probably the most successful contemporary European composer, he has a vigorous fan base! What on earth are they hearing which is eluding me?

Listening to this

https://www.youtube.com/v/bYM84n-2Sas

[Irons]

Yes, Lol. This steal is not available for so long! 

Too late! Already ordered at full price. 

[vandermolen]

Honegger: Hymne for string decet

The composer here is intensely moving and visceral. What a piece! This must not be the version for 10 instruments, but for string orchestra. The sound is thicker and dense. I'll want to hear the original version too. A stunner.

Oh, I need to hear this one Cesar!

[vandermolen]

Too late! Already ordered at full price. 

You won't regret it Lol.

Now playing: Arnell Symphony No.5 (had to repeat the last movement)

[vandermolen]

David Diamond: Symphony No.1
This CD also includes the atmospheric 'The Enormous Room' (after E.E. Cummings):

[aligreto]

Victoria: Sacred Works [Noone]





Surrexit pastor bonus
O lux et decus Hispaniae
O Regem caeli
Magi viderunt stellam
Condito alme siderum
Vadam et circuibo civitatem

[Que]

[aligreto]

JS Bach: Motets BWV 225 & 226 [Herreweghe]

[vandermolen]

Hovhaness: Symphony No.6 'Celestial Gate':

[Pohjolas Daughter]

enjoy   

https://www.youtube.com/v/BRCZjTq6dOw

Thank you.  Will give it a listen to. 

PD

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Aulis Sallinen's Sinfonia, Chorali, and Sinfonia III in excellent performances on this superbly recorded LP.

I don't know that particular album but do enjoy Sallinen's music and have four or so discs of his.  Years ago, I recall listening to a program on the BBC (several that week) about Finnish composers who were either contemporaries or post-Sibelius Finnish composers and how they were influenced by his music and, of course, there was a segment about Aulis Sallinen which intrigued me.  I remember being particularly haunted by the poem which he set to music called "Vintern var hård".

Do you have a favorite piece of music from that album Klavier?

PD

[Traverso]

Sweelinck

I start with the first book of psalms These psalms consist of four books, I will listen to them in the coming days.

[aligreto]

Victoria: Sacred Works [Noone]





Duo seraphim
Veni, creator Spiritus
O magnum mysterium
Ascendens Christus

[aligreto]

That is a really lovely looking set, Jan.
I think that I remember you saying that it was produced specially for the Dutch market?

[Traverso]

That is a really lovely looking set, Jan.
I think that I remember you saying that it was produced specially for the Dutch market?

The edition you refer to has been specially made for the Dutch market. The books all contain about 150 pages with full texts with extensive background information in Dutch.
There is also an international edition that is much simpler.
The Dutch edition with the psalms was published in four separate parts, I'm not sure but I think the international edition contains only  one complete 
box.

 

https://www.youtube.com/v/lBJH74EosEs

[Traverso]

Adriaan Willaert

The Motets

CD3

[vers la flamme]

György Kurtág: String Quartet, op.1. Quatuor Molinari

Amazing stuff.

[vers la flamme]

Been some time since I've heard this, so I'll try again:



György Kurtág: Movement for Viola & Orchestra. Kim Kashkashian, Péter Eötvös, Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra

Doesn't really sound like the Kurtág I know and love (it's quite tonal, for one), but it is an interesting work.

[Biffo]

Schubert: Sonata No 6 in E minor, D566/506 & Sonata No 14 in C major Relique, D840 - Paul Badura-Skoda fortepiano

[aligreto]

JS Bach: Motets BWV 227 & 228 [Herreweghe]