What are you listening 2 now?

[DavidW]

I went to a concert last night. The standout was Gershwin's PC which I haven't heard in a million years.

[Karl Henning]

Ančerl Gold Edition Vol. 24

Janáček Sinfonietta

Martinů Frescoes & Parables

[Rinaldo]

Primavera
Les Voix Humaines / Suzie LeBlanc / Daniel Taylor



Just what the doctor ordered for a gloomy November afternoon.

[Roasted Swan]

Today's most startlingly obvious comment; isn't de Falla's "Nights in the Garden of Spain just gorgeous!

I picked up this disc recently



mainly for the Halfter and the Gerhard because of course "I know the de Falla".  Or so I thought!  Perhaps I was just in a particularly impressionistic languorous mood(!) but it really hit a nerve this time and a note to self - I must listen to more of de Falla's music away from Love the Magician and Three Cornered hat.  I haven't got to the other pieces yet - I'm still in the spell of the those Spanish Gardens.......

[Roasted Swan]

Ančerl Gold Edition Vol. 24

Janáček Sinfonietta

Martinů Frescoes & Parables

It always shocks me when I remember that Ancerl was interned in Theresienstadt and latterly Auschwitz and you realise that a pure quirk of fate saved him when other musician/composers such as Klein, Hass, Hans Krása, Ilse Weber and Viktor Ullmann as well as literally thousands of others (including Ancerl's wife and son) perished.......

[Florestan]

Had no idea that Fritz Kreisler wrote a (delightful) SQ.

[Traverso]

Delius 



Not a bad idea to listen to this Handley recording of Hassan

[Kalevala]

Heinz Holliger is, as everyone knows, a fantastic oboist and musician. His playing has an infectious quality that is reserved only for the very best.

I have and love that Brilliant set!  And what a bargain too!  Forget exactly what I paid for it; I purchased it for a bit of a discount from BRO years ago.  In any event, tons of gorgeous music and musicianship on it. 

K

[Que]

[Harry]

Luigi Boccherini 1743 – 1805.
String Quintets.
La Ritirata, Josetxu Obregón.
Recorded in Las Rozas, Spain, in October 2023.

[Spotted Horses]

I need to resume my Arnold survey, too.

After a very quick sample (excerpts of Symphony No 7, 9) I've decided that Arnold is not my thing, or at least not the thing I want to explore now. Instead I will be restarting my survey of Hindemith Chamber Music (which started with early sonatas for solo instrument with piano and continued with the marvelous cycle of string quartets). I will have to figure out where I left off. Hindemith collected sonatas for a variety of instruments under one opus number, Opus 11, plus a few odds and ends. Opus 25 would seem to be next up. And I think I should listen to the Bartok quartets, which I have not heard in ages.

[Kalevala]

After a very quick sample (excerpts of Symphony No 7, 9) I've decided that Arnold is not my thing, or at least not the thing I want to explore now. Instead I will be restarting my survey of Hindemith Chamber Music (which started with early sonatas for solo instrument with piano and continued with the marvelous cycle of string quartets). I will have to figure out where I left off. Hindemith collected sonatas for a variety of instruments under one opus number, Opus 11, plus a few odds and ends. Opus 25 would seem to be next up. And I think I should listen to the Bartok quartets, which I have not heard in ages.

Arnold isn't someone whose music I know well, but if I'm recalling correctly, what I heard of it didn't appeal to me then.  Perhaps, like you, there were others whose music was more intriguing for me to explore at the time...and I went with "the flow".

K

[Florestan]

How is this? I'm tempted.

[Spotted Horses]

Arnold isn't someone whose music I know well, but if I'm recalling correctly, what I heard of it didn't appeal to me then.  Perhaps, like you, there were others whose music was more intriguing for me to explore at the time...and I went with "the flow".

K

I vaguely remember liking some of it in the past, but at the moment I'm looking for less profundity, more sparkle.

[Florestan]

Op. 110

[Karl Henning]

After a very quick sample (excerpts of Symphony No 7, 9) I've decided that Arnold is not my thing, or at least not the thing I want to explore now. Instead I will be restarting my survey of Hindemith Chamber Music (which started with early sonatas for solo instrument with piano and continued with the marvelous cycle of string quartets). I will have to figure out where I left off. Hindemith collected sonatas for a variety of instruments under one opus number, Opus 11, plus a few odds and ends. Opus 25 would seem to be next up. And I think I should listen to the Bartok quartets, which I have not heard in ages.

In one of my Region Bands, we played Arnold's Scottish Dances. Probably played them again at Wooster, whose mascot is the Fighting Scot. The Dances are fun, well written, yet I felt no great urge to seek out more Arnold. I can see it as "when I'm quite in the humor" music. You cannot go wrong with Hindemith Chamber Music, of course.

[Karl Henning]

I vaguely remember liking some of it in the past, but at the moment I'm looking for less profundity, more sparkle.

May I suggest:

[Kalevala]

I vaguely remember liking some of it in the past, but at the moment I'm looking for less profundity, more sparkle.

Some days you just need to bring out the bling. 

Now humming "Diamonds are a girls best friend"....

K

[Roasted Swan]

I vaguely remember liking some of it in the past, but at the moment I'm looking for less profundity, more sparkle.

Arnold's 8 English Dances are genuinely joyful works - do dip into them if you can or feel inclined. 

Symphonies 7&9 are about as bleak as he gets!

[Karl Henning]

Arnold's 8 English Dances are genuinely joyful works - do dip into them if you can or feel inclined. 

Symphonies 7&9 are about as bleak as he gets!

Still, a ray of sunshine compared to Pettersson!  😉