What are you listening 2 now?

[Madiel]

Nikolai Tcherepnin: Le Pavillon d'Armide



Half of the opening night of the Ballets Russes, which was a big hit. A couple of the original costumes are visible here.

Tcherepnin's score does have a few repetitive bits but on the whole it's rather enjoyable, and the playing on this recording seems excellent.

[Florestan]

Galuppi is not very famous these days.

Depends on whom you ask. For fans of 18th century music, especially opera, he's a pretty well-known name. It's true, though, that his fame for the general audience may rest, if at all, on Robert Browning's poem and his (Galuppi's) association with Carlo Goldoni.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43777/a-toccata-of-galuppis

[pjme]

True, but even so, a little more respect for the man would not have been out of place. After all, he's much more famous than she'll ever be, 

"Signor Galuppi was a scholar of the famous Lotti, and very early taken notice of as a good harpsichord player, and a
genius in composition.

He was so obliging as to present me to Signora Galuppi; to show me his house; an admirable picture of a sleeping child,
by P. Veronese, which has been long inhis wife's family; and to carry me into his working-room, with only a little
clavichord in it, where, he told me, he dirtied paper. His family has been very large, but all his children, except three or four, are now well married. He has the appearance of a regular family man, and is esteemed at Venice as much for
his private character as for his public talents. He seems, however, rather hurt at the encouragement and protection
which some ecclesiastical dunces, among whom is F----, meet with as composers here. Indeed, except Sacchini, his second,
he stands so high among the present race of musicians in Venice, that he seems agiant among dwarfs: he was so obliging, at my request, as to promise me a piece of his composition, which has not yet been made public, as a relick and mark of his friendship."
Charles Burney

[JBS]

Galuppi is not very famous these days. I know him mostly as the guy whose name was used to sell Vivaldi when Vivaldi went out of fashion.

I know him mainly because of Browning's poem.

[pjme]

A little bit more Galuppi, a composer I never explored. 

And a fragment (the wonderful first movement) of this Venetian "audiograph"...

[Madiel]

Borodin: Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor



After watching part of Warner's Youtube series that accompanied this box, which is great, I had to come back and finish off the Ballets Russes opening night. This was the climax. Ozawa's performance of these dances has got plenty of verve. Although... the Ballets Russes had singers.

Sadly the box doesn't include the other music from the 1909 season - I'm moderately surprised there isn't a recording of Les Sylphides in here, though apparently the arrangement that's usually recorded now is a later one, not the one by Russian composers that was used in 1909. And the other works were a compilation of various composers. But what's here is definitely good.

[Florestan]

The first musical setting of Goldoni's famous libretto.

[Harry]

The Forgotten Kingdom.
The Tragedy of the Cathars.
Part II. "The Albigensian Crusade-Invasion of Occitania. (1204-1208)
La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Hesperion XXI, Jordi Savall.


Part II of the journey in the past. Learns you, that nothing has changed for the better, the mode of evil has changed, but the results are the same.

[DavidW]

That Mozart recording is AMAZING!

[Spotted Horses]

Beethoven String Quartet No 2, Takacs.



A bit lighter in texture than the first quartet, respectful of the Haydn/Mozart style with a lot of inventiveness. Satisfying performance.

[SonicMan46]

Franck, Eduard (1817-1893) - Chamber Music - well decided to spend the day w/ many of the chamber works of Eduard (father of Richard) - on the half dozen discs shown below (own about 18 CDs/MP3s of the father-son team - see attachment for suggestions, if interested).  Dave

   

   

[Harry]

The Forgotten Kingdom.
The Tragedy of the Cathars.
Part III. Persecution, diaspora and the end of Catharism, 1229-1463.
La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Hesperion XXI, Jordi Savall.

The close of this book. I did not have the stomach to listen to something else today. This music however is no punishment, but it remembers me of the follies of humans, and the world at large. Give me green nature anytime, trees, shrubs, flowers, it grows despite.....

[Pohjolas Daughter]

The Forgotten Kingdom.
The Tragedy of the Cathars.
Part III. Persecution, diaspora and the end of Catharism, 1229-1463.
La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Hesperion XXI, Jordi Savall.

The close of this book. I did not have to stomach to listen to something else today. This music however is no punishment, but it remembers me of the follies of humans, and the world at large. Give me green nature anytime, trees, shrubs, flowers, it grows despite.....

I understand; Mother Nature is a salve to human nature.

PD

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Nikolai Tcherepnin: Le Pavillon d'Armide



Half of the opening night of the Ballets Russes, which was a big hit. A couple of the original costumes are visible here.

Tcherepnin's score does have a few repetitive bits but on the whole it's rather enjoyable, and the playing on this recording seems excellent.

Glad that you are enjoying it!  It sounds like a neat compilation. 

PD

[Harry]

I understand; Mother Nature is a salve to human nature.

PD

Indeed it is

[Spotted Horses]

I understand; Mother Nature is a salve to human nature.

PD

Well, our technological society has rendered nature benign. A few hundred years ago nature was dangerous and frightening. I remember reading that for people traveling between cities in Europe being set upon and mauled to death by packs of wolfs was a real concern. People in rural Texas are still being killed by feral hogs. In 1900, before weather forecasting, a hurricane hit Galveston TX with almost no warning and killed close to 1/3 of the population.

[Linz]

Mahler Symphony No. 9 in D Major, Gary Bertini, Kölner Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester CDs 8 & 9 With the Adagio for The 10th Symphony in F Sharp Minor 

[Karl Henning]

Beethoven String Quartet No 2, Takacs.



A bit lighter in texture than the first quartet, respectful of the Haydn/Mozart style with a lot of inventiveness. Satisfying performance.

I'm in for the Op. 18 № 2, the Colorado Quartet.

[Lisztianwagner]

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Symphony No.6

Herbert von Karajan & Berliner Philharmoniker

[Florestan]

Well, our technological society has rendered nature benign. A few hundred years ago nature was dangerous and frightening. I remember reading that for people traveling between cities in Europe being set upon and mauled to death by packs of wolfs was a real concern. People in rural Texas are still being killed by feral hogs. In 1900, before weather forecasting, a hurricane hit Galveston TX with almost no warning and killed close to 1/3 of the population.

Indeed. What we call "nature" is usually a carefully managed and controlled environment, one in which risks to our lives, while not exactly nil, is small and quick rescue operations in case of emergency are usually feasible.

I recently visited a spectacular cave in the Carpathian Mountains --- one can reach it by car until a few hundred meters to the entrance, it is fully electrified and people walk on metallic passageways and stairs. Safety helmets are provided at the entrance so as not to have your head hit by stalactites. The experience is so safe and smooth that even mothers carrying in their arms babies not older than a few months have it. It is no more natural nature but tamed nature, and all the better for that. I love nature, too, but only when the safety and convenience of civilization is not far away.