What are you listening 2 now?

[Papy Oli]

Vasks - String Quartet No. 2 "Summer tunes" (Navarra Quartet}

[aligreto]

Telemann: Oboe Concertos [de Vries/van Dael]





There are four wonderful Telemann Oboe Concertos to savour in this set. De Vries plays a baroque oboe in all four concertos.

[aligreto]

Vasks - String Quartet No. 2 "Summer tunes" (Navarra Quartet}

That should have been much more suitable for your sensitive ears   

[Linz]

Beetoven Concerto For Piano And Orchestra No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 37, Dieter Zechlin piano and Concerto For Piano And Orchestra No. 4 In G Major, Op. 58, Amadeus Webersinke piano, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Franz koniwitschny

[Lisztianwagner]

Gustav Mahler
Symphony No.4

Edith Mathis (soprano)
Herbert von Karajan & Berliner Philharmoniker

[Traverso]

César Franck

CD 4

Trois Pièces (1878)

Trois  Chorales (1890)

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Contemporary Japanese Piano Music - Miwa Yuguchi.

[Todd]

First listen to Szell's Mahler 6.  Good, but not a top five choice.

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony No. 4 in E Flat Major 878/80 Version (1880 with Bruckner's 1886 revisions) - Ed. Leopold Nowak [1953]

[Mandryka]

Not often that I'm completely lost for words.

[Florestan]

Not often that I'm completely lost for words.

Is that a compliment or a criticism? 

[Mandryka]

Is that a compliment or a criticism? 

It is an compliment, this is mysterious music.

[DavidW]

Mozart's 28th, 29th and 34th Davis/Dresden


Bach's Brandenburg Concertos Leonhardt (a magnificent performance):

[Florestan]

It is an compliment, this is mysterious music.

I've heard nothing by Horațiu Rădulescu. What is his music like?

[JBS]

Music for Strings.

Ralph Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis.
Herbert Howells: Concerto for String Orchestra.
Frederick Delius: Late Swallows.
Edward Elgar: Introduction & Allegro op. 47.

Sinfonia of London, John Wilson.
John Mills violin.
Michael Trainor violin.
Andriy Viytovych viola.
Richard Harwood cello.

Recording venue Church of S. Augustine, Kilburn, London; 5 January 2022 (Late Swallows) & 23 and
24 August 2021 (other works). TT= 66:00 minutes.

This SACD is very loudly recorded, too much so. The Thomas Tallis has no magic in this recording, it is aggressively played, mostly without feeling or understanding this composition of VW. The quiet moments have to much speed, there is no respite, not at all. There are far better interpretations I am afraid, and one should not buy this CD for the Fantasia, but that's only my opinion of course. So I let the rest go......

Oh dear...I thought the RVW on this CD wasn't that bad...but the Fantasia isn't my favorite RVW work, and I'm not lacking in other recordings. Same could be said for the Elgar, probably, but the Howells was interesting, and for me worth getting the CD.

[Luke]

I've heard nothing by Horațiu Rădulescu. What is his music like?

It very much depends on the piece. He was influenced by spectral techniques, by Buddhist philosophy, by Romanian folk music. These influences are to the fore in varying proportions. I'd probably try his more conventional scores first - the 'Lao Tzu' piano sonatas, for instance. On this disc, for instance...

...the slow movements of the sonatas (tracks 2 and 6) show the influence of the doina and of bell ringing, and are particularly approachable (imo) (watch it on youtube so that you can go straight to those tracks)

[Florestan]

It very much depends on the piece. He was influenced by spectral techniques, by Buddhist philosophy, by Romanian folk music. These influences are to the fore in varying proportions. I'd probably try his more conventional scores first - the 'Lao Tzu' piano sonatas, for instance. On this disc, for instance...

...the slow movements of the sonatas (tracks 2 and 6) show the influence of the doina and of bell ringing, and are particularly approachable (imo) (watch it on youtube so that you can go straight to those tracks)

Thanks, will listen tomorrow and report --- right now it's 23:47 in Romania and I've had a few glasses of wine after driving for three hours so not in the proper mood for this kind of music. 

Anyway, Budddhism-cum-doina certainly picqued my interest.

[Lisztianwagner]

Igor Stravinsky
Petrouchka

Pierre Boulez & Cleveland Orchestra

[Mandryka]

I've heard nothing by Horațiu Rădulescu. What is his music like?

Like nothing else on earth.  I'm not crazy keen on that sonatas cd though.  This is the only sonata of his that I've really liked

https://soundcloud.com/katapataptwsi/horatiu-radulescu-4th-piano-sonata-like-a-wellolder-than-god

[Florestan]

Like nothing else on earth.

So, is he the most original and innovative composer in the whole history of music? Wow, that's a tall order.