What are you listening 2 now?

[steve ridgway]

Respighi: Fontane Di Roma

[steve ridgway]

R. Strauss: Aus Italien

[Que]

It's fortunate that an important gap in my Franco-Flemish collection is suddenly filled. I have a wonderful Manchicourt recording by the Huelgas Ensemble, but that has a crosssection of Manchicourt's secular and sacred repertoire - no complete masses. The music is very impressive, marked by continuous organic shifts. Performed at unaltered (lower) pitch my a small group of male singers, it creates a wonderful mood.

[Mandryka]

It's been too long since I listened to this, so I'm in! The Schnittke Third Quartet was brilliant, BTW.

It's the fourth quartet that I really like - there's a live performance by the Kapralova Quartet which really got under my skin - streaming if you fancy trying it.

https://open.spotify.com/album/40sPglvoGyxZ6HsU5HnWoT?highlight=spotify:track:6O556Diaxsr2w2P95pGcz0

[Spotted Horses]

I think 6 and 7 are maybe his greatest piano works.

Though I always find myself playing number 7 then number 6. It works that way because of how number 7 ends in major.

I usually conclude that Faure's best work is the one I just listened to, particularly the late works. The longer form individual movements, Nocturnes, Barcarolles, Impromptus, Valse-Caprices, are equally impressive to me, as opposed to the variation sets and smaller pieces.

[AnotherSpin]

Op. 106

[Mandryka]

Nocturnes No 6, and 7. Le Sage



Now we are getting to Faure's middle period, where his style becomes more distinct from his traditional influences. No 6 contains some impressive pianistic pyrotechnics. No 7 is very familiar, since it is the one that I used to develop an impression of the various pianists with significant (to me) Faure discographies. I am enjoying Le Sage's efforts.

Next is No 8, which Mandryka pointed out is part of the Opus 84, pieces breves. Probably I will go to one of the complete sets to hear it in context. Maybe an excuse to listen to a little Pennetier.

7 is a bit Chopin-y I think -- just in the sense that it's made up of quite diverse sections which somehow, God knows how, hold together and flow into each other inevitably. Some of the Chopin nocturnes seem like that.

[Que]

[Harry]

François Dufaut.
Pièces de Luth.
See back cover for details.
André Henrich, Lute.
Recording, 2004, Bolland Belgium, Eglise Saint-Apollinaire.


Almost nothing is known about François Dufaut. Neither do we know when and where he was born, nor do we know the time and place of his death. But his reputation as a lutenist has been maintained over the centuries. I would call him one of the finests Lute composers I know. The Suite in D minor is especially wonderful, just listen at the Fifth movement "Sarabande Diminution", almost out of the realm of earthly context. Henrich has a lively touch, and finely fits all the movements in an all encompassing warmth. SOTA sound.

[AnotherSpin]

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony in D Minor, 1869 Ed. David Chapman, Altomonte Orchester St. Florian, Rémy Ballot

[Harry]

Bridge, Butterworth, Bantock.
Orchestral Works.
See back cover for details.
Recorded: 1979.
No PDF file.

A wonderful recording. I have good memories of it. So after so many years its good to come back to it.! Excellent Chandos sound.

[vandermolen]

Bridge, Butterworth, Bantock.
Orchestral Works.
See back cover for details.
Recorded: 1979.
No PDF file.

A wonderful recording. I have good memories of it. So after so many years its good to come back to it.! Excellent Chandos sound.

Coincidentally I was listening to 'There is a Willow...' earlier today (Hickox recording on Chandos) and think that it is one of Bridge's finest scores.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Fractales. Pacho Flores, Arctic Philharmonic/Christian Lindberg.

[Harry]

Coincidentally I was listening to 'There is a Willow...' earlier today (Hickox recording on Chandos) and think that it is one of Bridge's finest scores.

Agreed!

[Linz]

Johann Sebastian Bach Goldbreg Variations BWV 988 Gustav Leonhardt CD3

[Brian]

Wow, people have been listening to a lot of interesting stuff over the past 2-3 pages, I want to go through and take notes!

I am currently being inspired by Mark Anstendig to listen for the "dolce"...although I have not equalized my headphones properly so it will probably be inaudible 

[DavidW]

This was my introduction to Hindemith!

[DavidW]

I am currently being inspired by Mark Anstendig to listen for the "dolce"...although I have not equalized my headphones properly so it will probably be inaudible 

Oh didn't know you know... you can't hear the dolce unless you listen to the only true audiophile format: reel to reel tape!

Wait was that Mark or someone else?

[DavidW]

Thread duty: marvelous Haydn, great way to start the day.