What are you listening 2 now?

[Florestan]

what about the music itself?

That is the question. 

[JBS]

And, what about the music itself?

Just finished the CD.

The Parker was a bit of a bore, the Oquin very good, the Rouse good but not at the level of the Oquin, the Ives a virtuoso showpiece good for recitals or encores.

[Symphonic Addict]

Just finished the CD.

The Parker was a bit of a bore, the Oquin very good, the Rouse good but not at the level of the Oquin, the Ives a virtuoso showpiece good for recitals or encores.

Thanks. The Rouse and the Oquin definitely interest me.

[Bachtoven]

I've listened to this recording dozens of times, and it still blows my mind. I don't see how his 4 fingers can play all the notes he has added. (Playing the violin and lute works without additions are hard enough, but the extra notes, and not just filling in chords but separate musical lines, makes them exponentially harder.) Close, but not dry sound.

[prémont]

I've listened to this recording dozens of times, and it still blows my mind. I don't see how his 4 fingers can play all the notes he has added. (Playing the violin and lute works without additions are hard enough, but the extra notes, and not just filling in chords but separate musical lines, makes them exponentially harder.) Close, but not dry sound.

The answer is probably multitracking.

[Linz]

Nicolo Paganini Complete Chamber Music CD6

[Bachtoven]

The answer is probably multitracking.

Nope. He has several videos--clearly no multitracking.

[NumberSix]

Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra


I have been listening to "Cosi" all afternoon, so here's something different. I still need to get in a symphony, too, for Saturday Symphony. Probably a Mahler. . .

[Symphonic Addict]

G. Devreese: Symphony No. 1 'Gothique'

A very good work, except for the very ending which was somewhat abrupt. It features some heroic gestures, even sounding like film music in some parts.

[André]

Which Schuricht?

The 1964 Den Hague Residentie Orkest (aka Hague Philharmonic Orchestra) one. Not the epochal BP (1938). He conducted it many times but these two are the only commercial recordings he made.

[André]

Quite enjoying this. Perhaps the clavichord is growing on me, or Spanyi got better, or the music, not sure.. .

I do wonder how many people on the planet got all 40 volumes on disc - that would be quite an investment!

I collect them piecemeal, if they are at a good price (i.e., under 10$). I'm about halfway through. I know I'll never get the whole thing but that's life. I'm not a completist, just an ordinary maniac.

[André]

And speaking of modern Italian composers:

Goffredo Petrassi: the 8 Concertos for Orchestra!!!

For all the concertos, see:


https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4D14bmfCxVXUKhauuegNEsB98vjWy4Db

This set is the bee's knees, one of the best kept secrets of the cd catalogue ! Has it disappeared ?

[NumberSix]

Mahler: Symphony No. 1
Roger Norrington, Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR

[JBS]

First listen. Not thorny, but a lot going on in these works. Probably need several listens to digest it.
Serenades btw is night time music in the same way Mahler's Seventh Symphony is, not the way Mozart KV 525 is. The cover image of water in ceaseless motion fits it rather well.

[Symphonic Addict]

Halvorsen: Symphony No. 2 in D minor 'Fatum'

I'm aware of other recordings of the symphonies on Simax, and they pale in comparison with these ones on Chandos. Järvi and the Bergen PO get under the skin and play them much more lively.

[NumberSix]

Nielsen: Symphony No. 1
Sir Colin Davis, London Symphony Orchestra

[NumberSix]

Sibelius: Violin Concerto
Anne-Sophie Mutter
Nelsons, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
2015

That part a little after 6 min, when the strings come in. Oof, chills every time.
Watching on the Carnegie Hall channel on amazon. This video also has the Shostakovich No. 10, which I probably won't do tonight. But we shall see. . .

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony No . 4 in E Flat Major, 1880 (aka 1878/80) - Ed. Robert Haas, Berliner Philharmoniker, Daniel Barenboim

[brewski]

William Byrd: Civitas Sancti Tui and Bruckner: Virga Jesse (Tenebrae / Nigel Short). Magnificent works, great group.

-Bruce

[NumberSix]

Hilary Hahn: Bach Violin Concertos
Bremen

Now streaming on Carnegie Hall channel. . .