What are you listening 2 now?

[Irons]

Barbara Bonney is a sure bet, as is Riccardo Chailly!



Wow!  Have fun!


Today I listened to:

I checked on the energetic Vladimir Ashkenazy:  he is 87 years old!  What a life so far, beginning with his defection from Communist Russia and building a career as pianist and conductor!

No frailty here!

[Que]

Disc 3: Secular music.

This ensemble wholeheartedly goes along with Teramo's fascinating idiosyncrasies, but does not overegg the pudding. It feels completely unforced and natural. Flawless...

[Mandryka]

I need to find me some more Bernardino di Ribera! Fast!

[Madiel]

Mozart: Symphonies 32 and 33



No.32 was a bit dull, though that is perhaps the piece itself as much as any rare misstep by Tate. The more substantial no.33 was thoroughly engaging.

[Madiel]

Granados, Goyescas, Book 1



My spreadsheet is claiming I haven't listened to this in 14 years. Which is vaguely horrifying.

[Que]

Picking up where I left off with this series...

Meanwhile fellow forum member Linz got waaayy ahead of me! 

[Iota]

Prokofiev: Symphony No. 6 in E flat minor, Op. 111

A restless, uneasy piece for its first two movements, passages of lyricism do seem to try to break away from the gloom, but without any lasting success. Then something of an abrupt volte-face in the last movement, with a kind of Peter and the Wolf jollity romping up out of nowhere, but even that seems to get sucked back into the generally dark mood, and it closes with a rather sudden full stop
Not a piece that has lit my fire yet, but it should be said that many far more significant musical minds, including SP himself, seem to have a very opposite opinion about the work, and I leave the door open to hopefully finding in it what they do. 

[Traverso]

Another recording with "The Parley of Instruments" .

Music for the Restoration Court Band

[Madiel]

Albéniz: Iberia, Book 1



Not so long since I've listened to this, but hey, I've been to these places now. A religious procession went right through where I was staying on my first day in Seville.

Edit: Though apparently, the march tune in "El Corpus Christi en Sevilla" is from the other end of the country...

[Lisztianwagner]

Charles Ives
Symphony No.3
Symphony No.4

Michael Tilson Thomas & Concertgebouw Orchestra/Chicago Symphony Orchestra

 

[Harry]

Peter Philips.
Consort Music.
English Orpheus, Vol 24.
The Parley of Instruments, Peter Holman.
Recording: December 1986, Seldon Hall, Haberdashers' Aske's School, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom.
Release date: July 1988. GRAMOPHONE CRITICS' CHOICE.

I join @Traverso in his travail through the wealth of Orpheus series by Hyperion with this wonderful rendition of Peter Philips's Consort Music, wonderfully recorded and performed. I must admit I have a soft spot for Philip's music, and am always looking around for newer recordings of his consort music, but to be honest it is not necessary, if you have a performance by the Parley of instruments. Another pearl in the crown of TPOI.

[Harry]

Another recording with "The Parley of Instruments" .

Music for the Restoration Court Band

Marvelous recording indeed!

[Cato]

Charles Ives
Symphony No.3
Symphony No.4

Michael Tilson Thomas & Concertgebouw Orchestra/Chicago Symphony Orchestra

 

An excellent set!

Prokofiev: Symphony No. 6 in E flat minor, Op. 111

A restless, uneasy piece for its first two movements, passages of lyricism do seem to try to break away from the gloom, but without any lasting success. Then something of an abrupt volte-face in the last movement, with a kind of Peter and the Wolf jollity romping up out of nowhere, but even that seems to get sucked back into the generally dark mood, and it closes with a rather sudden full stop

Not a piece that has lit my fire yet, but it should be said that many far more significant musical minds, including SP himself, seem to have a very opposite opinion about the work, and I leave the door open to hopefully finding in it what they do. 

I have always thought that the ominous atmosphere pervading the symphony, especially with the terror in the galloping final bars of the last movement, was a mirror of the atmosphere around Prokofiev and his entire country at that time.

I find it to be one his top symphonies, sharing the spot with #2 and #3.

I need to find me some more Bernardino di Ribera! Fast!

I am intrigued!  And if this is not on the above CD, you can at least compare performances:

[Iota]

I have always thought that the ominous atmosphere pervading the symphony, especially with the terror in the galloping final bars of the last movement, was a mirror of the atmosphere around Prokofiev and his entire country at that time.

I find it to be one his top symphonies, sharing the spot with #2 and #3.

I agree completely about the ominous atmosphere. And I know Prokofiev mentioned to a friend that the symphony was a reflection of his feelings on the recent devastation of WWII, a mood that comes through clearly, but for whatever reason it has not yet really connected with me.
But as I say, you are in fine company indeed with your high opinion of it, and I live in hope I might join you one day.

[Mandryka]

An excellent set!


I have always thought that the ominous atmosphere pervading the symphony, especially with the terror in the galloping final bars of the last movement, was a mirror of the atmosphere around Prokofiev and his entire country at that time.

I find it to be one his top symphonies, sharing the spot with #2 and #3.

I am intrigued!  And if this is not on the above CD, you can at least compare performances:

Just such a totally different approach to the music there. Try the Schmelzer performance and genuflect

[relm1]

Just finished @relm1 Organ Concerto, and it is a banger.

https://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,33505.msg1591319.html#new

Wow! Thanks for the shout out!

[DavidW]

Or Petrenko, age 13? 

You are definitely showing your age! If you look at an adult and wonder if they are a child, you're over the hill old man.

[DavidW]

[Harry]

"Paz,Salam & Shalom".
Sephardic chants, music from Arabia & Cantigas de Santa Maria.

Canticum Novum, Emmanuel Bardon,
Barbara Kusa, Emmanuel Bardon, Yves Bergé chant, Valérie Dulac vièle, lire d'archet, Emmanuelle Guigues vièle, & kamancheh, Gwenaël Bihan flûtes à bec, Philippe Roche oud, Remi Cortial oud, bandolim, Aroussiak Guevorguian, kanun, Henri-Charles Caget, Ismaïl Mesbahi percussions.
Recorded: in the Church of Pommiers, France, 2010.

That's a curious journey through a world of diversity, with lots of musical colours, impressions, and expression of different influences. Very rewarding indeed, even on a intellectual level, for it demands knowledge to understand, and being attuned to what's a offer here. After all, Alfonso X el Sabio, was an enigmatic and a highly creative tune smith, using all the tools at hand to make music. A fine performance, and ditto recording. How weird "El Rey de Francia", a Sephardic traditional sounds, that is in general what you will hear, strange weirdness.

[Cato]

Just such a totally different approach to the music there. Try the Schmelzer performance and genuflect

YES!  An exquisite performance, making the polyphony glassily lucid!



This Taneyev piece I revisited again with awe!