What are you listening 2 now?

[Linz]

Luciano Berio Sinfonia for 8 voices & orchestra and Ekphrasis (Continuo II) for orchestra, Göteborgs Symfoniker, Peter Eötvös

[foxandpeng]

I have to correct a little in your narrative, I live in a village, 12 kilometers from Groningen. So no busy city, thank God. Farmland and woodland around my house, cows, donkeys, sheep, frogs, birds, foxes, bees, butterflies, squirrels, hedgehogs, wildflowers, etc etc,   

Please can we come and live with you?

[DavidW]

I have to correct a little in your narrative, I live in a village, 12 kilometers from Groningen. So no busy city, thank God. Farmland and woodland around my house, cows, donkeys, sheep, frogs, birds, foxes, bees, butterflies, squirrels, hedgehogs, wildflowers, etc etc,   

That is similar to my experience.  I live out of town and farms and wooded areas surround my neighborhood. The frogs croak after each rainfall.  You hear the cows in the morning.  The birds chirp.  I hear a woodpecker, two types of doves, and more.  Squirrels go scurrying over tree branches.  And in the spring there are wildflowers along the road near my house.  Occasionally a rabbit hops through my yard.

[Irons]

The trouble with stray cats is that they eat a lot of small birds, and my wife definitely doesn't like that!

Nor the small birds, I would imagine.

[foxandpeng]

That is similar to my experience.  I live out of town and farms and wooded areas surround my neighborhood. The frogs croak after each rainfall.  You hear the cows in the morning.  The birds chirp.  I hear a woodpecker, two types of doves, and more.  Squirrels go scurrying over tree branches.  And in the spring there are wildflowers along the road near my house.  Occasionally a rabbit hops through my yard.

Perhaps weekends with you?

[Irons]

Perhaps weekends with you?

Trouble is you would not get any sleep! You have to listen to this and this and this....

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Trouble is you would not get any sleep! You have to listen to this and this and this....

Much better than listening to "Beep, beep!" and the sound of dump trucks picking up trash early in the morning and lots of construction. 

Though I had an interesting experience last night.  The temps had dropped quite a bit, so I turned off the a/c and opened the windows--only to smell a skunk passing through my yard.  Eck! 

PD

[foxandpeng]

Trouble is you would not get any sleep! You have to listen to this and this and this....

      

[Spotted Horses]

It was the chants de Kervéléan which caught my attention on that one. I've been listening with great pleasure to the violin sonata.

Just listened, and it is splendid.

Which recording of the violin sonata?

[Mandryka]

Just listened, and it is splendid.

Which recording of the violin sonata?

This one

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Violin-Sonata-64-Piano-Quintet/dp/B075QWLYFS

[Spotted Horses]

This one

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Violin-Sonata-64-Piano-Quintet/dp/B075QWLYFS

I'll make a note of it. This is the one I listened to:

[Harry]

Please can we come and live with you?

Yes absolutely, must of course build an annex attached to my house, but hey, nothing is impossible  

[Karl Henning]

You would rejoice in it, plenty of trees, shrubs, flowers, wildlife aplenty, hidden corners, and most of the time very quiet.

Yes, this is a period of History quite favorable to shrubbers!

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony No. 3 in D Minor, 1889 Version (aka 1888/89) Ed. Leopold Nowak, Kurt Sanderling, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig 

[ritter]

It was the chants de Kervéléan which caught my attention on that one. ....

Just listened, and it is splendid.

...

Just listened as well (I remembered I had that set in my collection — bought when it was first released?). I tried, but... ce n'est pas ma tasse de thé, hélas!

[Mandryka]

I'll make a note of it. This is the one I listened to:

There's also one with Mirielle Guillaume, Marie Viaud playing fiddle. In Orledge's book there's a lot of discussion about the violin sonata, because Koechlin wrote about what each movement meant for him in his correspondence.

[Spotted Horses]

There's also one with Mirielle Guillaume, Marie Viaud playing fiddle. In Orledge's book there's a lot of discussion about the violin sonata, because Koechlin wrote about what each movement meant for him in his correspondence.

I came across that one as well, and somehow decided to listen to the gramola recording instead. But now that I have come to value Guilluame, I think I will circle back. The viola and violin sonatas are both very compelling to me.

[Linz]

Christoph Willibald Gluck, The Chinese, Anne Sofie von Otter, Orchestra of the Schola Cantorum Basilienisis, René Jacobs

[Bachtoven]

An excellent new release.

[Bachtoven]

Another excellent release, but I wish the mics had been placed a little closer.