What are you listening 2 now?

[Traverso]

Bach

Suite 1-2 & 3

[Traverso]

Bach

If one wonders what might be some of the most charming music that Bach composed, the French Suites certainly come to mind. These recordings with Leonhardt make you a participant in less complex works without losing any of their appeal. Music that warms your heart is certainly not an incorrect description.

Suite 1-2 & 3

[foxandpeng]

Søren Eichberg
Symphony 2, 'Before Heaven, Before Earth'
Christoph Poppen
Danish NSO

Eichberg's symphonies grabbed my attention from the very first listen. He is one of an encouraging number of modern composers who seem to to engage meaningfully with the existential struggles of humanity.

Is also just a good listen 🙂

[Harry]

Søren Eichberg
Symphony 2, 'Before Heaven, Before Earth'
Christoph Poppen
Danish NSO

Eichberg's symphonies grabbed my attention from the very first listen. He is one of an encouraging number of modern composers who seem to to engage meaningfully with the existential struggles of humanity.

Is also just a good listen 🙂

Again as so often, a composer I do not know, Blimey, how ignorant I am. And I was thinking that I knew them all. You are a star in finding what is hard to find. My list grows longer and longer, like my beard. I don't bother trimming it, for it grows twice as fast if I do, a bit like all the composers you come up with, ignore them and they grow even faster on my to listen list. Sigh    

[foxandpeng]

Søren Eichberg
Symphony 1, 'Sturzen wir uns ins Feuer'
Christoph Poppen
Danish NSO


Nice accompaniment to a brisk Spring morning, black coffee, and a volume of Berkouwer.

Oh, and work bubbling along in the background.

[foxandpeng]

Again as so often, a composer I do not know, Blimey, how ignorant I am. And I was thinking that I knew them all. You are a star in finding what is hard to find. My list grows longer and longer, like my beard. I don't bother trimming it, for it grows twice as fast if I do, a bit like all the composers you come up with, ignore them and they grow even faster on my to listen list. Sigh    

So much music, so little time!

In beard related news, I'm pondering letting mine grow a while rather than all this bi-weekly trimming, nonsense. I am somewhat behind your impressive example, at this point!

[Madiel]

Today's non-randomised Schumann piano trial:



Pretty good. I get the impression that the Finghin Collins volumes are the most highly thought of out of the series on Claves. I certainly enjoyed this one and I loved the other one.

[Madiel]

Ravel: 5 Greek folksongs

[Harry]

So much music, so little time!

In beard related news, I'm pondering letting mine grow a while rather than all this bi-weekly trimming, nonsense. I am somewhat behind your impressive example, at this point!

It will make your life much easier, believe me. For whom should I trim it at my age, the days of beauty are over, so I look like I look, beardy!  

[ChamberNut]

It will make your life much easier, believe me. For who should I trim it at my age, the days of beauty are over, so I look like I look, beardy!  

I'm on an approx. 2 to 3 month rotation, just out of pure laziness. Clean shave and then beard growing for 2 to 3 months, no trimming. Then another shave. 

[Harry]

Claude Le Jeune.
Dix Psaumes de David (1564)
See for more details back cover.
LUDUS MODALIS, Bruno Boterf.
Recorded in 2010 at the church of Chambray (Eure), France.

This music creates stillness in me, much needed in this loud and aggressive world! I know, music composed in the Calvinistic mode, but with some extra bite, that it does. When they are sung as magnificently as they are here, the deliberately simple French psalm settings of the calvinist Claude Le Jeune are a real discovery! Quite acceptable in performance and recording. These are well researched interpretations, clearly explained in the excellent booklet.

[VonStupp]

FJ Haydn
Symphony 1 in D Major
Symphony 2 in C Major
Symphony 3 in G Major
Symphony 4 in D Major
Symphony 5 in A Major
Austro-Hungarian HO - Ádám Fischer

Here we go! See you at the other end...
VS

[Harry]

FJ Haydn
Symphony 1 in D Major
Symphony 2 in C Major
Symphony 3 in G Major
Symphony 4 in D Major
Symphony 5 in A Major
Austro-Hungarian HO - Ádám Fischer

Here we go! See you at the other end...
VS

I have the complete set, and still find it to be an excellent project!

[Que]

Warmly recommended for those who'd like indulging in an hour ors so of beautiful Neapolitan recorder music. And who wouldn't? 


https://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2015/May/Dolce_Napoli_1007.htm

[Madiel]

Schumann: Spanisches Liederspiel, op.74



The first of 3 similar collections that Schumann composed in the one year, where he mixes together duets, quartets and solos. Only some of the songs really give a Spanish feel (one mentions the Guadalquivir River, so like so many things it seems that "Spanish" probably means Seville).

The highlight here is arguably the 4th song, "In der Nacht". Somehow Schumann takes the shortest poem and turns it into the longest song, a soprano-tenor duet where for much of it length they don't really sing together. The soprano gets through almost the whole poem as a solo, and then for a while the 2 are really singing against each other. Anyway, it's beautiful.

[Madiel]

Nielsen: Wind Quintet



A wonderfully rich work.

[Harry]

New Release

Emánuel Moór 1863–1931.
3 Piano trios.
Storioni Trio.
Bart van de Roer piano · Wouter Vossen violin (Laurentius Storioni, Cremona 1794) Marc Vossen violoncello (Giovanni Celoniatus, Turin ca.1730-1740).
Recorded: Konzertsaal der Kulturstiftung Marienmünster, 2023.
Cover: Peder Mørk Mønsted, "At the Lake", 1901.

What a discovery, the composer and his music and the performance. I had not heard from this composer before, but I am glad I found him, and then performed on such a very high level by an ensemble who are unknown to me too. It makes my day a bit brighter. A romantic journey, in which he opens mirrors to another world, deeply introvert, with a dramatic touch in its expression. His music moves one right into his emotional world, rich and colourful and bright in it's imagination. A broad fiesta of harmonious and melodic perfection. He travels far beyond all what I said. Excellent recorded, and recommended to those who like to take a few steps outside the well trodden path.

[hopefullytrusting]

Alondra de la Parra with the WDR SO playing Ravel's Bolero:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmNEvSFWftc

You can tell that they are really trying, so I suspect this is the most I will ever tolerate this piece.

i cannot recommend Bolero to anyone, but if you like it already - I suspect this will become one of your favorite recordings of that piece.

[Traverso]

I'm on an approx. 2 to 3 month rotation, just out of pure laziness. Clean shave and then beard growing for 2 to 3 months, no trimming. Then another shave. 

I only shave my beard when I've spilled too much soup in my beard.

[Madiel]

Alondra de la Parra with the WDR SO playing Ravel's Bolero:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmNEvSFWftc

You can tell that they are really trying, so I suspect this is the most I will ever tolerate this piece.

i cannot recommend Bolero to anyone, but if you like it already - I suspect this will become one of your favorite recordings of that piece.

To my mind, the biggest single barrier to people appreciating Bolero is that we've largely forgotten it's a ballet score. People sit listening to it statically in a concert hall.