What are you listening 2 now?

[Symphonic Addict]

Absolutely! Though I enjoy all of Braga Santos' symphonies - even the more challenging 5th and 6th

Those are my favorites right after the 4th. Pretty awesome pieces.

[Symphonic Addict]

Mamoru Samuragochi Takashi Niigaki (the real composer of this work): Symphony No. 1 'Hiroshima'

[André]

First listening in quite a few years. I find Zimerman pretty much perfect in D959, almost as good in D 960, where the first movement is quite dramatic but a tad deliberate for my taste. I don't object to first movement repeats in general, but there are works where I find they impede the flow and sectionalize the music. So, okay for D 959, but no in D 960. I won't hold that against Zimerman though, it's just my taste. A great disc.

[André]

Mamoru Samuragochi Takashi Niigaki (the real composer of this work): Symphony No. 1 'Hiroshima'

Now that the important business of authentification has been attended to, what about the music Cesar ? I'm curious. Japanese symphonic music is a subset I really like.

[Symphonic Addict]

Now that the important business of authentification has been attended to, what about the music Cesar ? I'm curious. Japanese symphonic music is a subset I really like.

That is a monumental, funereal, stirring symphony in 3 big movements, lasting 81 minutes in all. Its style might be deemed like anachronistic for its time (completed in 2003), where some hints of Mahlerian gravitas seem evident. The music is slow for the most part (chiefly in the first two movements) permeated with a sorrowful veil, whereas in the third movement there's more ongoing action, just like some of the most crushing climaxes in the symphonic literature.

Niigaki composed another example in the form, the Symphony 'Litany' (it can be found on a Decca recording) that is worth listening too, despite its conservative idiom.

[Symphonic Addict]

Szymanowski: Harnasie

For works like this colourful, invigorating choral ballet, is that Szymanowski is one of the really great Polish composers. Fantastic piece.

[Harry]

Actually, we had a brief conversation about this recording some time ago (which I cannot find due to our malfunctioning search engine). But I posted it with the comment: gorgeous. You reponded by telling me that you hadn't heard it for a long time, but that you wrote on your note with the recording: gorgeous.
Performances are not to the level of international acclaimed ensembles but good.

BTW I only now found out there is one other recording of these pieces - by Currende with Erik van Nevel:

Yes I remember Que. It simply slipped my mind, and I immediately started a search for this CD and found it, comments and all. I will play it one of these days.
It goes to show that I have far too many CD'S to keep an manual oversight, without looking in my spreadsheet.

[AnotherSpin]

On @Mandryka's recommendation.

D.959

[steve ridgway]

Carter: String Quartet No. 1

[Roasted Swan]

Szymanowski: Harnasie

For works like this colourful, invigorating choral ballet, is that Szymanowski is one of the really great Polish composers. Fantastic piece.

agreed - and all the Szymanowski recordings by Rattle are excellent.

[AnotherSpin]

Very nice performance of Beethoven's sonata No.3, op. 10 on fortepiano by Trudelies Leonhardt.

[steve ridgway]

Szymanowski is a good idea. Currently on Stabat Mater .

[Que]

A Henry's Eight recording I hadn't heard yet. I wasn't wowed by their LaRue recording. But this Christmas themed recording is pretty good, actually!

It does contsin one of the few recordings of Arcadelt's "Missa Noe Noe". Another recording is the Baroque version by Chœur de Chambre de Namur with Leonardo García Alarcón, with a couple more singers than eight.... Here you get the real deal: that mass is worth the price of admission alone. One for the list, I guess.

[Que]

Yes I remember Que. It simply slipped my mind, and I immediately started a search for this CD and found it, comments and all. I will play it one of these days.
It goes to show that I have far too many CD'S to keep an manual oversight, without looking in my spreadsheet.

My collection never got into the spreadsheet territory.... But it has happened a very few times that I noticed a particular recording, thinking I always wanted that but never got it. But then it turned out I did get it...

 

[Madiel]

Half a dozen string quartet movements by Nielsen.



Two of the movements are almost certainly the first and final movements of a string quartet in F. This album makes a cogent case for two other movements to be the missing middle of the same work. Either way there's a lot of really fine music here, and I'm always impressed by this album.

[Que]

Very nice performance of Beethoven's sonata No.3 on fortepiano by Trudelies Leonhardt.

I looked into her recordings yesterday, and they turned out to be much more numerous than I expected!

[AnotherSpin]

I looked into her recordings yesterday, and they turned out to be much more numerous than I expected!

I found the same thing. Some recordings are hard to find in Qobuz. For example, one of Schubert's albums was retrieved through a label page.

[AnotherSpin]

My collection never got into the spreadsheet territory.... But it has happened a very few times that I noticed a particular recording, thinking I always wanted that but never got it. But then it turned out I did get it...

 

Same with some of the really important things in life. We search for them desperately, not realising that we have them and always have had them...

[Madiel]

Mozart: Mass in C major K.259, known for its organ solo.

[Que]

Same with some of the really important things in life. We search for them desperately, not realising that we have them and always have had them...

Because our perception of what is actually important, changes through our experiences in life.