What are you listening 2 now?

[Traverso]

Bach

Back to this recent set and with it a further internalization of Pieter van Dijk's stylistic views, which are characterized by a certain aloofness.
A detachment that, however contradictory it may seem, is also an internalization at the same time
In general, you can say that this does not work equally well in all cases, but I noticed that at times (many) I was unknowingly included in a fascinating musical argument that carried me away.
Today the fifth volume that begins with a youthful work by Bach, the Passacaglia

CD 1






The Choir & Organ Newsletter
Here, then, is the culmination of what must be one of the finest 'complete' Bach organ works, from a musician steeped in this music and the appropriate period organs. Bravo!

[Harry]

GEORGE FREDERICK BRISTOW.
Symphony No. 4 "Arcadian".

WILLIAM HENRY FRY.
Niagara Symphony.

THE ORCHESTRA NOW, LEON BOTSTEIN.
Recorded: January, 2022 at the Fisher Center at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY.

I begin to admire these works very much. Much to discover, even more to enjoy. Botstein is a good advocate of both composers. Reasonable recorded and performed. This CD is not the utmost in Fidelity, neither is this orchestra in the top tier, but it will do! Beggars can't be choosers, right?

[vandermolen]

What's the music like?
Looks interesting

[Traverso]

What's the music like?
Looks interesting

I think that it is very "Yang" 

[Mookalafalas]

What's the music like?
Looks interesting

  Much tamer than I'd expected. It's light and harmonic, with lots of strings and light brass, with some Asian strings and flutes and percussion sounds mixed in. Melodic and pleasant, but not more than that. Frankly, it feels like a 1960s soundtrack--the part that would accompany a montage showing the main characters visiting Beijing, or some such. That's my first impression, anyway (I'm listening to the title track now).

[vandermolen]

Much tamer than I'd expected. It's light and harmonic, with lots of strings and light brass, with some Asian strings and flutes and percussion sounds mixed in. Melodic and pleasant, but not more than that. Frankly, it feels like a 1960s soundtrack--the part that would accompany a montage showing the main characters visiting Beijing, or some such. That's my first impression, anyway (I'm listening to the title track now).

Many thanks

[Traverso]

Prokofiev

Symphony No.6
Scythian Suite

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Arthur Meulemans 'Pliny's Fountain' etc. A very enjoyable CD:

Nice!

[Harry]

JACQUES IBERT.

Ballet Music.

Le Chevalier errant.
Les Amours de Jupiter.
Orchestre national de Lorraine, Jacques Mercier.
Recording: Metz, Arsenal, 21-24 October 2014.

This is right in my street. A wonderful journey through the Ballet music by Ibert. And a very good performance its is! Well recorded too. A hilarious extravagant and energized interpretation. More of this might come my way!

[Todd]

Disc six.

[AnotherSpin]

Eliso Virsaladze

Waldszenen

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

JACQUES IBERT.

Ballet Music.

Le Chevalier errant.
Les Amours de Jupiter.
Orchestre national de Lorraine, Jacques Mercier.
Recording: Metz, Arsenal, 21-24 October 2014.

This is right in my street. A wonderful journey through the Ballet music by Ibert. Ans a very good performance its is! Well recorded too. A hilarious extravagant and energized interpretation. More of this might come my way!

Great music! (Not a big fan of the cover art though).

[Harry]

Nimrod Borenstein (b. 1969)

Orchestral Works.
Irmina Trynkos violin.
Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Ashkenazy.
Recording: venue Henry Wood Hall, London; 11 and 12 December 2016.

O, dear, this is really good, and I missed this release. A new composer for me! I could say a lot about the music, but I urge everyone to try, and as I being hooked on it. Superb recording and performance.

[NumberSix]

Nimrod Borenstein (b. 1969)

Now that is a badarse name. 

[Traverso]

Ravel

[Linz]

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Miklós Spányi,  Solo Keyboard Music, Vol. 22

[Mandryka]

Just what the doctor ordered today, thanks @AnotherSpin for reminding me about it.

[Spotted Horses]

Martinu, Parables, Ancerl, Czech Philharmonic



Usually I am most attracted to Martinu's neo-Baroque/neo-Classical style, but this more romantic/expressionist piece is beautiful in this recording. It appears on a Praga compilation, but the original recording seems to come from Supraphon in the 1970s.

Mozart Divertimento KV131, first Marriner/ASMF, then Zefiro. The small ensemble includes four horns, which are used very prominently through the piece. The two menuettos include extended passages where the horn quartet plays unaccompanied, and the slow introduction of the finale is also performed by the horn quartet, with aggressive interjections by horns throughout the subsequent allegro. Even the normally polite horns the Marriner's ASMF are exciting, and the natural horns of Zefiro are fantastic.

[Harry]

Great music! (Not a big fan of the cover art though).

But I do love this art, a great entrance into the strange world of   Ibert

[Harry]

Now that is a badarse name. 

It did not hit me that way, what's in a name, namely nothing I guess