What are you listening 2 now?

[DavidW]

[Traverso]

@Karl Henning @Traverso @Harry @prémont @Que @Cato

I know you'll think I'm crazy for suggesting this, but I want to you to listen to Finnissy's Pious Anthems and tell me what you think. I've just got an intuition that you'll find the experience rewarding.

I can't give a well-founded opinion but will add the recording in question to my collection. The second CD is somewhat less accessible but that is not meant as a disqualification. I have listened to a number of fragments and it certainly invites me to get to know it better. To say anything sensible about it I will necessarily have to listen to it a number of times. Based on what I have heard it certainly has something attractive although I wonder how I ever discovered this recording in the great abundance of recordings. Good that you posted it here.



I don't use streaming services and don't plan to do so. There are enough complaints from musicians about being underpaid.

[JBS]

I can't give a well-founded opinion but will add the recording in question to my collection. The second CD is somewhat less accessible but that is not meant as a disqualification. I have listened to a number of fragments and it certainly invites me to get to know it better. To say anything sensible about it I will necessarily have to listen to it a number of times. Based on what I have heard it certainly has something attractive although I wonder how I ever discovered this recording in the great abundance of recordings. Good that you posted it here.



I don't use streaming services and don't plan to do so. There are enough complaints from musicians about being underpaid.

There are some trailers and a couple of tracks on Youtube.

[Traverso]

There are some trailers and a couple of tracks on Youtube.

Yes,I listened to the fragments and thought it was interesting enough to purchase the set.It will be my first  introduction to Finnissy...

[Mandryka]

I can't give a well-founded opinion but will add the recording in question to my collection. The second CD is somewhat less accessible but that is not meant as a disqualification. I have listened to a number of fragments and it certainly invites me to get to know it better. To say anything sensible about it I will necessarily have to listen to it a number of times. Based on what I have heard it certainly has something attractive although I wonder how I ever discovered this recording in the great abundance of recordings. Good that you posted it here.



I don't use streaming services and don't plan to do so. There are enough complaints from musicians about being underpaid.

You can hear the whole thing here


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs8jxJtiBCE&list=OLAK5uy_lEMRw8pTDW71sRxcH0LsGdWnEnYqBn62Y

Some of the tracks towards the end (I guess that's the same of the second CD) seem to contain a sort of distant echo of J S Bach's way of setting words and music, this for example

[Karl Henning]

@Karl Henning @Traverso @Harry @prémont @Que @Cato

I know you'll think I'm crazy for suggesting this, but I want to you to listen to Finnissy's Pious Anthems and tell me what you think. I've just got an intuition that you'll find the experience rewarding.

Not crazy in the least. Sounds intriguing. 

[Traverso]

Heinz Holliger

Induuchien

[Mandryka]

You can hear the whole thing here


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs8jxJtiBCE&list=OLAK5uy_lEMRw8pTDW71sRxcH0LsGdWnEnYqBn62Y

Some of the tracks towards the end (I guess that's the same of the second CD) seem to contain a sort of distant echo of J S Bach's way of setting words and music, this for example

That was a mistake, it was this that made me think of Bach's way of setting words and music - or maybe a bit of Mahler's (in the 8th)

@Traverso

[Karl Henning]

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Listening to some samples of Magnus Lindberg's Viola Concerto on the Chandos website.

PD

[Daverz]

Holst: Planets - Bernstein/New York Phil.  Inspried by Charles Coleman's appreciation on YT

[Pohjolas Daughter]

I'm getting a handle on his SQs, but beyond that, I'm not familiar with much at all. It's never really 'stuck'. My lack of perseverance, I'm sure, but something to double down on.

Not ready to be discouraged yet!

What do you think of the Sea Interludes; they're a favorite of mine..along with his cello works. 

PD

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Reynaldo Hahn

Susan Graham  mezzo soprano

À Chloris is (I find to be) particularly tender and enchanting.

PD

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony No. 8 in C Minor, 1887/90 Mixed Versions. Ed. Robert Haas, Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester Berlin, Heinz Rogner

[ritter]

This landed today from Paris (ordered from Melomania.com):



String Symphonies No. 3, 4 & 8 by Jean Rivier. Bernard Calmel conducts his orchestra.

[vandermolen]

I can't stop playing the 'Uzbek Dance' from Khachaturian's 'Dance Suite' - always makes me sit up and smile:

[Symphonic Addict]

Eduard Franck: Symphonies in A major and in B-flat major

Amiable, unpretentious, light-hearted pieces. Pretty background music, but quite hardly little more than that.

[foxandpeng]

What do you think of the Sea Interludes; they're a favorite of mine..along with his cello works. 

PD

Not awful?

Actually,  that isn't fair. Oddly, there is something reminiscent of Peter Maxwell-Davies in them for me, I think. Or rather, the other way round 🙂.  Any friend of PMD...

I'm probably not hugely taken with the Sea Interludes though. Not yet, at least. Give it time, perhaps!

[Symphonic Addict]

This landed today from Paris (ordered from Melomania.com):



String Symphonies No. 3, 4 & 8 by Jean Rivier. Bernard Calmel conducts his orchestra.

Looks interesting. Unfortunately, that disc doesn't appear on streaming platforms.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Not awful?

Actually,  that isn't fair. Oddly, there is something reminiscent of Peter Maxwell-Davies in them for me, I think. Or rather, the other way round 🙂.  Any friend of PMD...

I'm probably not hugely taken with the Sea Interludes though. Not yet, at least. Give it time, perhaps!

I wonder whether or not you might appreciate them more if you watched the opera first before revisiting them?  Or is opera currently "anathema" to you?

PD