What are you listening 2 now?

[steve ridgway]

Messiaen: Les Offrandes Oubliées

[steve ridgway]

R. Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra

[steve ridgway]

Takemitsu: For Away

[steve ridgway]

Scelsi: Hurqualia

[Mandryka]

Ivo playing Chopin's Op. 28 Preludes: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QkodzAsgo6o&pp=ygUfaXZvIHBvZ29yZWxpY2ggY2hvcGluIHByZWx1ZGVzIA%3D%3D

I was disappointed. It is listenable, but I didn't find anything special about it. Oddly, I felt it was too clean. I like my Chopin, for lack of a better word, frail.

Anna Malikova maybe?

[Que]

Very impressive. Jewel in the crown of this recording is the anonymous English Missa Caput, composed probably in the 1440s.

[DaveF]

Scelsi: Hurqualia

This is someone I feel I ought to get to know better (he is the favourite composer of a friend of mine), so gave it a spin... Yeah - there were many more notes (pitches) than I was expecting, although C was becoming quite familiar by the end of the first movement.  Sort of Revueltas meets Xenakis, to my ears.  Impressive stuff.

[Que]

Serenata Notturno in D K239
Cassation in G K63
Concertone in C K190

I have the previous issue - such a wonderful recording! 

[Que]

I cannot provide any comparisons, but this sounds pretty wonderful...

[pi2000]

Beethoven PC 5 Emperor
Mindru Katz /Sir John Barbirolli/Hallé Orchestra
Excellent and good sound despite age

[Mandryka]

I cannot provide any comparisons, but this sounds pretty wonderful...

I like it very much -- the thing to say is that it's a real quirky set of performances in a way because of the gothic style. But I like it, he's got an affinity for the music I think.

[Madiel]

Tubin: Music for Strings



Comfortably my favourite work on this particular Tubin album. I really enjoyed it.

[Traverso]

The Missa Caput it is for me  today as well.

[JBS]

Morning Mozart

Number 25 in G Major K183/K173dB
Number 29 in A Major K201/K186a

[VonStupp]

Franz Schmidt
Symphony 2
Chicago SO - Neeme Järvi

These finales are where I am really enjoying Schmidt right now.
VS

[Madiel]

Nielsen: Saul and David

I'm listening to and watching a 1986 production (Sixten Ehrling as conductor) that somebody has put up on YouTube. Clearly the source is a VHS and the picture quality isn't the best, but so far through Act One the sound has generally been good except for one brief section.

I just felt like I wanted to watch and not only listen. I'm too tired for the whole thing tonight, but Act One was interesting enough to persist in the coming days. I'm not a huge opera fan but my preference is for opera from this sort of period (late 19th and early 20th).

[Todd]

[Karl Henning]

John Corigliano
Symphony 1
Daniel Barenboim
Chicago SO
Erato

Not a composer I know well. Possibly the wrong sort of energy for a late night first listen, but this is pretty good so far. It may be reflective of real pain and emotional turbulence, but I was pretty wide awake and prepared 🙂

Corigliano's grappling with loss and harrowing mental anguish is well described in this work. Anything with a reflective cello melody like Guilio's Song, tugs at the heart strings and is a helpful relief from Corigliano's torment.

I need to listen to that. For that matter, I need to revisit his Clarinet Concerto.

[Karl Henning]

Nielsen: Saul and David

I'm listening to and watching a 1986 production (Sixten Ehrling as conductor) that somebody has put up on YouTube. Clearly the source is a VHS and the picture quality isn't the best, but so far through Act One the sound has generally been good except for one brief section.

I just felt like I wanted to watch and not only listen. I'm too tired for the whole thing tonight, but Act One was interesting enough to persist in the coming days. I'm not a huge opera fan but my preference is for opera from this sort of period (late 19th and early 20th).

And I'm long due to listen to this!

[AnotherSpin]

Piano Sonata No. 26 "Les Adieux" performed by Wilhelm Backhaus. Real thing.