What are you listening 2 now?

[lordlance]

Some of Igor Markevitch's original music tonight...

How was the PC? I have no idea which style Markevitch wrote in?

[VonStupp]

Gioachino Rossini
Sonatas for Wind Quartet
  (arr. Frédéric Berr)
Michael Thomson Wind Quartet

Delightful.
VS

[Symphonic Addict]

Bentzon: Symphony No. 5 'Elipser'

A project that labels like Dacapo, Ondine, CPO or others should undertake is to record all of his symphonies, no less than 24! Well, perhaps I'm being too optimistic about it, but one never knows. This fifth symphony, for instance, comprises an intriguing and gripping journey full of curious sonorities.

[Bachtoven]

[Symphonic Addict]

Not only do these quartets portray a "schizophrenic" countenance, but also several scary moments. A most gripping combination.




Casella: Piano Sonatina, op. 28

A neoclassical miniature with tinges of Stravinsky. The performance sounded good to me, but the sound quality is too dry and there's little reverberation. I'll have to seek out a better recording of it.

[JBS]

The centerpiece of this recording is the reconstructed parody mass Missa Scaramella (the discantus and tenor parts are missing) and the reconstructed motet Mater Paris, both originally by Obrecht.
The CD is a sort of in memoriam to musicologist Philip Wheeler; the 2 1/2 minute piece by Fabrice Fitch explicitly so.

The cover image is a detail of the Resurrection panel of the Trebon Altarpiece.

[steve ridgway]

Xenakis: Terretektorh (Rophe, 2012)

[steve ridgway]

Ives: Set No. 9 for Chamber Orchestra

[steve ridgway]

Ligeti: Organ Study 1 ("Harmonies")

[steve ridgway]

Murail: Mémoire / Erosion

[Que]

Interesting (rare) repertoire but I'm not entirely sure...
It sounds a bit bland with standard tempo throughout...The singers sound like drones...

PS Now I notice that Christopher Page wasn't involved in this recording,  that must be a big factor.

[Irons]

Suk: A Fairy Tale.

Dvorak described 'A Fairy Tale' thus "This is music from heaven". Family connections may have played a part in his enthusiasm for the piece but I do not think him far wrong. Not a bad bone in a piece that radiates calmness and goodness.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Man Charged With $10 Million Streaming Music Scam Using AI-Generated Songs

Good Lord!   

PD

[pjme]

How was the PC? I have no idea which style Markevitch wrote in?

I bought all the Naxos/Markevitch cds years ago and (occasionally) enjoy the music a lot - but I do find the "roaring twenties, Art Deco, constructivism and futurism..."...exiting and intriguing.
Markevitchs pianoconcerto (written before he turned 20!!) is  short and very dynamic, the slow movement an almost dramatic reflection that reminded me of Prokofiev (4th and 5th concerto). the fast movements are motoric - think of early Hindemith à la Bach (Konzertmusik/Kammermusik), Honegger and Milhaud. Yet I wouldn't call the music derivative. Youthfull swagger and daring!
I love the Cantata a lot  - the last movement, a chorale, I find mesmerisingly beautiful and moving...(text by Cocteau)

[pjme]

At least the No. 3 managed to stand out a little.

...a little...? Poor Cyril Scott....

It is a great, crazy bacchanal/ spooky ritual ending in an orchestral blaze with wind machine, wailing chorus and organ!

[foxandpeng]

Try Billy Budd. All male cast so you will endanger no penguins.

TD
The contents of this CD, although the concerto comes first

CD 8 of

Thanks for this. It was a good suggestion to focus on male voices, but I confess that I remain convinced that one man's precious jewels are another man's pointless rocks.

I admit that I only lasted an hour into the 2 hours 45, but I still feel as though my ears have been loofahed out with Draino.

I do appreciate the recommendation, nevertheless! If you don't try, you don't discover.

[Mandryka]

Thanks for this. It was a good suggestion to focus on male voices, but I confess that I remain convinced that one man's precious jewels are another man's pointless rocks.

I admit that I only lasted an hour into the 2 hours 45, but I still feel as though my ears have been loofahed out with Draino.

I do appreciate the recommendation, nevertheless! If you don't try, you don't discover.

I'm not mad about Billy Budd the opera.  But I love Curlew River, which  is another piece for men only, with one part played in drag

[foxandpeng]

Curlew River is another piece for men only, with one part played in drag

Perhaps I am the 'Ignorant Man' from part way in, but this is definitely something for others rather than me. I don't think Britten is the problem, although I am yet to be convinced, but vocal music, operas and the like, leave me cold.

@foxandpeng Try Ronald Stevenson's Peter Grimes Fantasy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSdrSeRbTqI

Ah, this is kind. Again, sadly not my thing due to the pianos 🙂

I love the helpfulness and kindness of this forum. Willingness to assist, suggest and take time to recommend, are always present and appreciated.

Thank you for both of these, and to others too 😊

[Mandryka]

Perhaps I am the 'Ignorant Man' from part way in, but this is definitely something for others rather than me. I don't think Britten is the problem, although I am yet to be convinced, but vocal music, operas and the like. Leaves me cold.

Ah, this is kind. Again, sadly not my thing due to the pianos 🙂

I love the helpfulness and kindness of this forum. Willingness to assist   suggest and take time to recommend, are always present and appreciated.

Thank you for both of these, and to others too 😊

To be honest, my own view is that opera needs to be seen. It's a dramatic art, the experience is nowhere near as satisfying without the production, preferably regietheatre, the glamour and expense of the opera house, the trouble of getting dressed up, the kir royales in the bar in the interval and before, dinner in the nice restaurant opposite after.

That being said, the only time I've seen Curlew River was in a performance by people serving time in prison.

[foxandpeng]

To be honest, my own view is that opera needs to be seen. It's a dramatic art, the experience is nowhere near as satisfying without the production, the glamour and expense of the opera house, the trouble of getting dressed up, the kir royales in the bar in the interval and before, dinner in the nice restaurant opposite after.

That being said, the only time I've seen Curlew River was in a performance by people serving time in prison.

All sounds a bit 'fur coat and no knickers' to me... or for the more refined and cultured amongst us, somewhat 'Emperor's New Clothes' 😁

The performance by prisoners sounds intriguing, however...