What are you listening 2 now?

[Traverso]

Boulez-Amy-Manoury

[Que]

Any thoughts about the music in Bk 5.

I still prefer Jean-Louis Charbonnier by the way, but that's just taste I expect.  Joubert-Caillet is  sensual.

He is indeed.

Book V was written after the death of Louis XIV and Marais' retirement from the court. It is a collection of intimate, small scale "character pieces", also used for pedagogic purposes. Very different from the aspirations and grandeur of the previous books. Personal afterthoughts, so to say. I like them for what they are.

[JBS]

First listen. Part of a Presto package that landed yesterday.
Cover image befits today.

[Harry]

Saved the songs for five and six parts of the Byrd for later and switched to another new arrival:



The last volume in an amazing and probably definitive series of Marin Marais' Pièces de Viole.

Totally agree with that statement.

[Lisztianwagner]

Vítězslav Novák
Toman and the Wood Nymph

Libor Pešek & BBC Philharmonic

[Mandryka]

Boulez-Amy-Manoury

As soon as I saw that I thought of this

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Stravinsky Petrushka.

[VonStupp]

Ralph Vaughan Williams
Henry V Overture
Fat Knight, Sir John in Love Suite
Serenade to Music (orchestral version)

James Clark, violin
RSNO - Martin Yates

A few weeks of personal-life strife has made me appreciate DST. The official end of my 14-hour work days and a few extra days of driving to work in daylight sound wonderful.

Really enjoyed Fat Knight; like A Cotswold Romance's effect on me, I am now interested to hear the opera.

Haven't heard the purely orchestra/concertante version of Serenade to Music either.
VS


Falstaff, Bardolph, and Dame Quickly (1845), Francis Philip Stephanoff

[Iota]

Debussy: Études

What magical places these pieces reach at times. Osborne's jeweller-like attention to detail suits this music perfectly and produces yet another absorbing performance from him.

[Lisztianwagner]

On youtube:
Krzysztof Penderecki
Horn Concerto 'Winterreise'

Jennifer Montone (horn)
Antoni Wit & Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra

[vandermolen]

Vítězslav Novák
Toman and the Wood Nymph

Libor Pešek & BBC Philharmonic

Novak is a most underrated composer 'De Profundis' is very powerful and moving (written during the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia).

[vandermolen]

Sibelius: Tapiola
This was one of the top recommendations of the current Gramophone Magazine's survey of recordings of the work.
I think that it's very fine in all respects.
Finnish RSO
Hannu Lintu

[Mapman]

Elgar: Violin Concert
Kennedy; Rattle: CBSO

Many nice moments, but there seem to be too many sections where virtuosity dominates over music. Maybe I'll feel differently as I get to know this concerto better.

[Lisztianwagner]

Novak is a most underrated composer 'De Profundis' is very powerful and moving (written during the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia).

I agree, he wrote very striking and immersive music, that's a pity it isn't recorded very often; both Lady Godiva and Toman and the Wood Nymph are incredibly suggestive works, Pešek beautifully unfolded their magic in all their nuances.

[Que]

PS Excellent performances in which chamber music is still an interesting, at times charming and at times passionate conversation instead of a screaming contest...

[Mapman]

Novak is a most underrated composer 'De Profundis' is very powerful and moving (written during the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia).

Novák: De Profundis
Vogel: Brno

It is a nice work! I look forward to hearing more Novák.

[Todd]

It has been a good, long time since I listened to B8, and an even longer time since I last listened to Giulini's rendition, still one of the very best.  Volume set to eleven, of course.

[vandermolen]

Novák: De Profundis
Vogel: Brno

It is a nice work! I look forward to hearing more Novák.

And that's a fine old historic recording. De Profundis is doom-laden but ultimately defiant. It was brave of Novak to compose it under those circumstances. I'd also recommend the South Bohemian Suite which also has a political agenda - an assertion of Czech independence as the war clouds encroached on the Czech state. His oratorio 'The Storm' is his greatest work IMO and there is some very accomplished and atmospheric chamber music.

[Mapman]

. His oratorio 'The Storm' is his greatest work IMO

'The Storm' was my introduction to Novák, when I found it at a book sale about a year and a half ago!

[vandermolen]

Alwyn: Symphony No.3 + Violin Concerto
Two of his finest works.

PS I've just realised that parts of the second movement remind me of Khachaturian's Second Symphony 'The Bell'.