What are you listening 2 now?

[steve ridgway]

Messiaen: Quatuor Pour La Fin Du Temps

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Oh I'm so tired I missed the NOT.  

lol...that's o.k. 

By the way, you probably don't want to know at what time did I wake up this morning...oy!    Probably many "Oops!" ahead of me today!

PD

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Kodály piano music. Kornél Zempléni.

By the way, I wonder whether or not @Irons might know some of this pianist's work?

TD

Some chamber music by Martinu:  String Quartet No. 7  "Concerto da Camera" with the Pražák Quartet on Praga.  Great playing and wonderful sound!

PD

[Traverso]

That hurts      

Dear Harry, can you provide Mandryka a link :  Frescobaldi    Marco Vitale, I´m not a streamer.

[brewski]

"What, you don't like Servais? Get out of my way, you bastard." 

-Bruce

[brewski]

Martinu: Double Concerto for Strings, Piano and Timpani to be followed by Janacek's Sinfonietta:

How is this? Love both works enormously, but don't know this recording.

-Bruce

[Harry]

Dear Harry, can you provide Mandryka a link :  Frescobaldi    Marco Vitale, I´m not a streamer.

Sure I will, but I am retagging all my BIS records at the moment, so it might take some time, but I will do, no worries.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

By the way, I wonder whether or not @Irons might know some of this pianist's work?

TD

Some chamber music by Martinu:  String Quartet No. 7  "Concerto da Camera" with the Pražák Quartet on Praga.  Great playing and wonderful sound!

PD

He knows tons of Hungaroton discs.

Gave it a spin today to refresh my memory. With the exception of Children's Dances (1945) all items from the first quarter of 20c and yet sound so modern. I am blown away by Dances of Marosszék which is more monumental then the title suggests. Later, Kodaly was to orchestrate the work of which Dorati recorded with Musica Hungarica on Mercury. 

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Messiaen: Quatuor Pour La Fin Du Temps

Nice cover art!

[Todd]

Op 132.

[Ian]

From one Arnold to another.
I'm having a rest from Malcolm Arnold and am now listening to Arnold Bax, Tintagel. And I'll probably let it play on to my favourite RVW symphony.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Penderecki:  Symphony No. 7 "Seven Gates of Jerusalem" on Naxos with Antoni Wit and forces.

WOW!  He was commissioned in 1995 to write a work to celebrate the city's third millennium.  I see that the texts are available on Naxos' website.  I'll have to look at them.  It's very haunting and powerful.  Almost over.  I hope that the last track plays o.k.  I borrowed it from the library and there's a bad scuff at the very end of it.

Highly recommend it.



PD

[Roasted Swan]

Penderecki:  Symphony No. 7 "Seven Gates of Jerusalem" on Naxos with Antoni Wit and forces.

WOW!  He was commissioned in 1995 to write a work to celebrate the city's third millennium.  I see that the texts are available on Naxos' website.  I'll have to look at them.  It's very haunting and powerful.  Almost over.  I hope that the last track plays o.k.  I borrowed it from the library and there's a bad scuff at the very end of it.

Highly recommend it.



PD

The whole Wit/Penderecki/Naxos series is genuinely excellent!

[Cato]

Szymanowski: Concert Overture and Symphony I

If the Concert Overture is a work which seems like it was composed by Richard Strauss, the symphony seems like a collaboration by the Schoenberg of the Chamber Symphony #1 and the Webern of the Passacaglia for Orchestra.

"Seems," for Szymanowski's own voice comes through.  I cannot find a reference to whether or not Szymanowski knew anything about Schoenberg, whose Chamber Symphony was being composed at the same time as this symphony, and Webern had not yet composed his Passacaglia.

And they could not have known this work, which was not played until 1909 in Warsaw.

I suppose we could say that all three had their antennae in the same atmosphere!   

[Harry]

My heart aches for you now that Apple has made this strange decision.Which business reasons are underlying is a mystery  for me

The Mystery is solved Jan, BIS was sold to Apple music, and they are now transferring the Metadata from the servers of Naxos to the Apple servers. I had to pick another version on qobuz, the one tagged by Apple music, so all is restored now, but it took me three hours to get there. So I hope the selling is over now.

[Harry]

So the retagging of my BIS CD'S in my Qobuz library is done, took me three gruesome hours.    

I have listened to this BIS CD, a golden oldie, during this ordeal.

BACH, Johann Sebastian.
Suites for Lute, Complete.
Two CD'S.
BWV 995-1000 & 1006a.
Jakob Lindberg, lute
13-course Baroque Lute by Michael Lowe, Oxford 1981.
Recorded in 1992, Djursholms Chapel, Sweden.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

The whole Wit/Penderecki/Naxos series is genuinely excellent!

Good to hear that! 

PD

[ando]

...they are now transferring the Metadata from the servers of Naxos to the Apple servers.

Wonder if that will eventually make a Naxos Music Library subscription redundant. I still prefer their user interface over AM's classical spinoff by a mile.

Mozart Complete Edition: Piano Quintet K452/Clarinet Trio K498 disc 54 (2010, Brilliant Classics)
The "live" performance of K452 by a fine ensemble led by pianist, Klára Würtz, above sounds identical to the recorded offering from the BC Mozart box. The playing is light, subtle, at times seemingly close nothing (to paraphrase Shaffer's infamous Salieri  ) but ultimately quite satisfying. I do wonder sometimes, though, if (only for form's sake) ensembles instrument-sync. 

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Strauss · Boston Symphony Orchestra · Serge Koussevitzky.

[Harry]

Klezmer Dreams.
See back cover for details.
Recorded Salle Françoys-Bernier, Domaine Forget, Saint-Irénée, (Québec), Canada 2016.

An unusual programm but interesting nevertheless. Good performance and recording.