What are you listening 2 now?

[Irons]

Frank Bridge: 'Oration' - a masterpiece.
The cover image shows the Sussex countryside as viewed from Bridge's house at Friston, Eastbourne:

I own the LP issue, Jeffrey.

Philip Sawyers: Cello Concerto.

May be gobbledygook but after repeated listens I get the strong impression that Elgar's Cello Concerto is lurking in the DNA of Sawyers' work. They share the same emotional envelope. The richness of tone from Bogdanovic's cello is spine-tingling, I have heard few recordings as good. Highly recommended.

[vandermolen]

My favorite Koechlin work at this moment in time. Sublime!

+1

[Traverso]

Froberger

[vandermolen]

I own the LP issue, Jeffrey.

Philip Sawyers: Cello Concerto.

May be gobbledygook but after repeated listens I get the strong impression that Elgar's Cello Concerto is lurking in the DNA of Sawyers' work. They share the same emotional envelope. The richness of tone from Bogdanovic's cello is spine-tingling, I have heard few recordings as good. Highly recommended.

I didn't know that there was an LP of the Cologne recording Lol.
NP
Frankel Symphony No.1
Not the easiest music (for me) but oddly gripping and searching, conveying a sense of journey.

[The new erato]

I acknowledge that there was no need for you to respond to my initial post about Glass in the first place. Your response to my post came across negatively to me as if you're somehow smarter than I am because you've "saved your money" and it's a curious comment especially after I said I'm going to keep trying with his music. So, no, I didn't waste my money and I'm glad to have his music in my collection.

Not to take any sides here, but I have never understood the point of having any opinion on how other people spend their time or money. As long as it doesn't hurt other people directly or indirectly (e.g. environment) we shouldn't care.

I am from a generation where the only possibility of listening to significant amounts of music was to have a personal library, and I always dreamt of having one. Old habits and dreams die hard, and I now have a large library which I love, but which also seem sligthly over the top and frankly to some degree unneccessary. But I still buy the occasional disc for the thrill. I still like books on paper too, and quite often have to discard them as useless paper. Even though I have a kindle (but I have grown into hating amazon for a number of reasons).

[Traverso]

 Gregorian Chant

This recording begins with the beautiful "Salve Festa Dies"

[Mandryka]

A alert, energised, clear headed and confident interpretation. He must be doing something right because I'm finding it hard to pull myself away from the recording!

[Traverso]

A alert, energised, clear headed and confident interpretation.

Sounds very sympathetic with well-dosed acoustics

[Madiel]

Not to take any sides here, but I have never understood the point of having any opinion on how other people spend their time or money.

Sigh. But I don't have an opinion on it, beyond attempting to interpret MI's own comments. I certainly saw no need to comment on his original purchase of Glass albums. But when someone says that they bought something and don't like it, I interpret that as a complaint. I was suggesting a solution to avoid that situation.

Apparently that was not correct. Apparently, spending your money on things that you don't like is not actually a source of regret for some people, and you can always hope that one day you will come to like what you don't currently like.

So be it. So long as there's never any follow-up complaint about not having the money to spend on things that one does like, it's all academic.

[The new erato]

I know. This was a rather general comment from me, not trying to involve myself in any misunderstandings.

[Mandryka]

My signature tune from now on

https://www.youtube.com/v/6hxfS8d94SQ&t=2s&ab_channel=Grandad%27sMusic

[Papy Oli]

Good morning all,

Starting a maiden listen to Scriabin's symphonies. Playing No.1.

[foxandpeng]

I own the LP issue, Jeffrey.

Philip Sawyers: Cello Concerto.

May be gobbledygook but after repeated listens I get the strong impression that Elgar's Cello Concerto is lurking in the DNA of Sawyers' work. They share the same emotional envelope. The richness of tone from Bogdanovic's cello is spine-tingling, I have heard few recordings as good. Highly recommended.

This is a great release. I am thoroughly enjoying everything I am hearing from Sawyers, particularly his symphonies.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

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A wonderful pianist!  I don't know that particular album but love her Mozart piano sonatas and her Granados. 

PD

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Pommer - Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra

I have three recorded Cantus Arcticus by Rautavaara:  Lintu with the RSNO, Segerstam with HPO and Pommer with the Leipzig RSO.  The worst of all is Segerstam, no finesse to it, clunky, and poorly mixed with the bird sounds which end up frizzing like bad radio frequencies towards the end when the Swans are flying away.  Lintu is much better, smoother, but still some energy in the playing that could be softened out a bit, although acoustically very good indeed.  Wonderful and worth many repeated listenings is the Pommer version, recorded in December 1989 (earlier than the other two), which is beautifully rendered, well discovered and extremely evocative.  So there.    0:)

I love that Pommer/Rautavarra recording!  I don't normally buy recordings with animal sounds in them, but was enchanted with it the first time that I heard it.  The only other one that I've heard is actually just one movement from it (The Bog) with Vanska on an album called "Finlandia:  A Festival of Finnish Music".

PD

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Metacosmos is the first track of this CD which, spurred by yesterday's talk, I played this evening.


It's not unpleasant, and has, to borrow a Sherlockian phrase, features of interest, but nothing made me want to hear it again. Which was my reaction the previous times I have listened to this CD. The three other works on the CD were no better.

Sorry that it was an unmemorable trip to Iceland for you.  Do you happen to know whether or not the recording of Metacosmos on your CD is the same one as that live performance on her website?  I did see that it was with the same forces.

PD

[mahler10th]

Nothing to say.  I am too calm with this...

[Pohjolas Daughter]

One last work before retiring for the night:

Koechlin
Vers la Voûte étoilée, Op. 129
Stuttgart RSO
Holliger



Beautifully cosmic.

Beautiful piece!  I don't have any of Koechlin's music, so decided to check it on on youtube.    A good choice before going to sleep.

PD

[The new erato]

Better before than while.......

[Pohjolas Daughter]

I own the LP issue, Jeffrey.

Philip Sawyers: Cello Concerto.

May be gobbledygook but after repeated listens I get the strong impression that Elgar's Cello Concerto is lurking in the DNA of Sawyers' work. They share the same emotional envelope. The richness of tone from Bogdanovic's cello is spine-tingling, I have heard few recordings as good. Highly recommended.

I hadn't heard of Philip Sawyers before Irons.  Did you hear some of his music over the BBC?  Or how did you hear about him?  Just curious.  I did a quickie check and see that he is a contemporary British composer.

PD