What are you listening 2 now?

[Madiel]

Now streaming on Idagio:

Forgive me, but I do find it ever so slightly delightful how you keep specifying where you're doing your streaming. Warms my heart, it does.

[NumberSix]

Forgive me, but I do find it ever so slightly delightful how you keep specifying where you're doing your streaming. Warms my heart, it does.

I still bounce around platforms a bit. But I did pay for a month of Idagio after my trial ended, so that's something. I will probably keep paying for it now that I have gotten comfortable with its use.

I like mentioning the service I use to remind people that they have options.  And also because I am not using CDs or LPs, and that's okay.

[Madiel]

And also because I am not using CDs or LPs, and that's okay.

Look, your lifestyle choices in the privacy of your own home are your own business. It's when people start flaunting their weird behaviour in public that there's a problem.

_{This is irony from a gay man, people}

[NumberSix]

Look, your lifestyle choices in the privacy of your own home are your own business. It's when people start flaunting their weird behaviour in public that there's a problem.

_{This is irony from a gay man, people}

[NumberSix]

Now streaming on Idagio:



Kalevi Aho: Concerto for Timpani and Orchestra (2015)
Erkki Lasonpalo, Turku Philharmonic Orchestra
Ari-Pekka Mäenpää (Timpani)

I don't think I have ever heard a timpani concerto. Might follow this one up with Aho's piano concerto on the same album.

Finishing the Timpani Concerto now, and I liked it very much. At places, it feels like John Williams.

On to the Aho Piano Concerto, by Sonja Fräki.

[Madiel]

Definitely qualifies as weird. Which was kind of the point!

[steve ridgway]

Webern: Symphony

[steve ridgway]

Ligeti: Atmospheres

[steve ridgway]

Stravinsky: Requiem Canticles

[steve ridgway]

Takemitsu: Le Son Calligraphie I, II, III

[steve ridgway]

Schnittke: String Trio

[Madiel]

Mozart: Violin sonatas 18-23 (K.301-306)



As good as the childhood sonatas are, it's not hard to hear the big shift in style in the sonatas written in Mannheim and Paris with a much more independent violin part. Excellent music, all of it, and each sonata has a different mood, though it's certainly curious that Mozart decided to hold back sonata no.17 (K.296) from publication and instead wrote no.23, which is much bigger in scale than all the others in the set.

And with that, I can basically return to my Mozart chronology, so the rest of this set can wait to be heard... along with the piano trios and quartets that are still waiting from whenever I bought them late last year or early this...

[Mandryka]

@Todd 's work on this cycle has made me appreciate how hard Goyescas is to pull off, and how wonderful it can be in the hands of a master - Del Pueyo's recording may not be perfect, but it is still good to have.

[SimonNZ]

93,94,95

[Traverso]

Bach

Violin Concertos

CD 1



 For the second time I give this box with the recordings of Isabelle Faust a chance.
Once again it strikes me how everything is subjected to a musical concept that I do not like. It feels as if it has been squeezed into a straitjacket and is subject to a homeopathic dilution that drives me away from enjoying Bach. This is of course my personal opinion.
What I miss most is not letting the music breathe. Quickly to another recording that appeals to me much more.

[vandermolen]

Vaughan Williams: Symphony No.6
(VW born this day in 1872)

[Harry]

Vaughan Williams: Symphony No.6
(VW born this day in

Vaughan Williams: Symphony No.6
(VW born this day in 1872)

@vandermolen

You have a PM my friend!

[vandermolen]

@vandermolen

You have a PM my friend!

Responding now!
 

[AnotherSpin]

@Todd 's work on this cycle has made me appreciate how hard Goyescas is to pull off, and how wonderful it can be in the hands of a master - Del Pueyo's recording may not be perfect, but it is still good to have.

Thank you for recommending. One more thing, something too perfect may reveal itself as inauthentic or counterfeit...

[Papy Oli]

The only other completely complete set I know of is this. I've never heard a note from it, and have no idea if it's available to stream.

The above (all 6CDs) is available on Idagio.
Quickly ruled out for me sadly as I found the violin style too "screetchy" and rapidly grating.