What are you listening 2 now?

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AnotherSpin

Quote from: Mandryka on April 12, 2025, 09:14:35 AMI don't know, I'd have to see Psycho again.

I've been listening to some other things by IX, Synaphai and Nomos Gamma. Synaphae is a piano and orchestra piece, and Nomos Gamma is orchestral. I think there is something genuinely sublime about these works and Jonchaies, sublime in the Kantian sense. The music is as powerful as a volcano, listening to it is uncomfortable for me precisely because I become aware of my own insignificance sub specie aeternitatis, I'm face to face with such a strong, almost divine, force. I want to say that if it's possible to make deep music without words, IX found the way.

By the way, I know someone who knew IX. He said to me that he was a total nerd, dry as dust, but that he used to pull  by talking about spirituality.

Fascinating — thank you for sharing. Perhaps one day I'll return to Xenakis with fresh ears.

As for the divine, I'm not sure it's as powerful as people often think. It's something altogether different — neither forceful nor frail, just beyond that kind of scale.

JBS

The Chopin half of this double CD

Five mazurkas, three waltzes, two polonaises. Total length 50:43.

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Florestan

Quote from: ritter on April 12, 2025, 10:01:09 AMWhat ravishing music, and what revolting text La Damoiselle... has!  ::)

What could possibly be so revolting about it, l wonder?  ???

Good evening, Rafael.
"Ja, sehr komisch, hahaha,
ist die Sache, hahaha,
drum verzeihn Sie, hahaha,
wenn ich lache, hahaha! "

ritter

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Quote from: Florestan on April 12, 2025, 10:30:34 AMWhat could possibly be so revolting about it, l wonder?  ???

Good evening, Rafael.

It's a succession of mystical-erotic nonsense... "Lorsqu'autour de sa tête, s'attachera l'auréole, et qu'il aura revêtu sa robe blanche, je le prendrai par la main et j'irai avec lui aux sources de lumière... :o

Here's a Wikipedia article on Dante Gabriel Rossetti's original poem, where you can admire his (equally revolting) painting on the subject.... Yikes!

Good evening, Andrei!

I'm glad to announce that my first granddaughter was born about an hour ago. Mother and child are in perfect shape...  :)
 « Et n'oubliez pas que le trombone est à Voltaire ce que l'optimisme est à la percussion. » 

AnotherSpin

In Sciarrino's world, silence isn't empty — it's just waiting for you to read between the lines


Que

Quote from: ritter on April 12, 2025, 11:02:21 AMI'm glad to announce that my first granddaughter was born about an hour ago. Mother and child are in perfect shape...  :)

Felicitations!  :)

Florestan

Quote from: ritter on April 12, 2025, 11:02:21 AMIt's a succession of mystical-erotic nonsense... "Lorsqu'autour de sa tête, s'attachera l'auréole, et qu'il aura revêtu sa robe blanche, je le prendrai par la main et j'irai avec lui aux sources de lumière... :o

Here's a Wikipedia article on Dante Gabriel Rossetti's original poem, where you can admire his (equally revolting) painting on the subject.... Yikes!

I know both the poem and the painting. While certainly mawkish by modern standards, "revolting" seems to me an exaggeration.

QuoteI'm glad to announce that my first granddaughter was born about an hour ago. Mother and child are in perfect shape...

Great news! Congratulations!
"Ja, sehr komisch, hahaha,
ist die Sache, hahaha,
drum verzeihn Sie, hahaha,
wenn ich lache, hahaha! "

AnotherSpin

Quote from: ritter on April 12, 2025, 11:02:21 AM[..]

I'm glad to announce that my first granddaughter was born about an hour ago. Mother and child are in perfect shape...  :)

That's wonderful news.

I have two granddaughters and two grandsons, and I can't see any of them, as they don't live in Ukraine.

Henk

Quote from: AnotherSpin on April 12, 2025, 11:06:42 AMIn Sciarrino's world, silence isn't empty — it's just waiting for you to read between the lines



Great recording
'The 'I' is not prior to the 'we'.' (Jean-Luc Nancy)

Henk

'The 'I' is not prior to the 'we'.' (Jean-Luc Nancy)

ritter

Quote from: AnotherSpin on April 12, 2025, 11:13:06 AMThat's wonderful news.

I have two granddaughters and two grandsons, and I can't see any of them, as they don't live in Ukraine.
Many thanks!

I am more or less familiar with that feeling: my daughter lives in London, but came to Madrid to have the baby (they'll be going back in a couple of months), and my son —who's getting married next year — lives in America. So I'll probably not get to see my granddaughter (and other grandchildren that may come) too often either.

 « Et n'oubliez pas que le trombone est à Voltaire ce que l'optimisme est à la percussion. » 

Lisztianwagner

Quote from: ritter on April 12, 2025, 11:02:21 AMI'm glad to announce that my first granddaughter was born about an hour ago. Mother and child are in perfect shape...  :)
Congratulations, Rafael!

Kurt Atterberg
Symphony No.8

SWR Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart


"You cannot expect the Form before the Idea, for they will come into being together." - Arnold Schönberg

Mandryka

https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/samedi-fiction/arthur-rimbaud-rumeurs-et-visions-7696776

Listening to this Rimbaud programme on the wireless -- I think it's outstanding --  @Florestan you may enjoy it.
Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muss man schweigen

Karl Henning

Quote from: JBS on April 12, 2025, 10:28:43 AMThe Chopin half of this double CD

Five mazurkas, three waltzes, two polonaises. Total length 50:43.
I remember that being very nice.
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

Linz

Anton Bruckner Symphony No, 4 in E Flat Major, 1878/80 Version (1880 with Bruckner's 1886 revisions) - Ed. Leopold Nowak
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Simon Rattle

nico1616

I did not think Gardiner's version could be bettered, but to be honest, Robert King surpasses it.
It is not that the singing is better, but the Hyperion version just has more bite and has a better overall sound. Gardiner was a pioneer in 1980 with one of the first period recordings of a Handel work. King recorded his version in 1999 and it was a different musical world then with a whole generation of singers and choirs that were schooled in this repertoire.

The first half of life is spent in longing for the second, the second half in regretting the first.

Number Six

Saturday Symphony!



Mozart: Symphony No. 25
Marriner, Academy of St Martin in the Fields

It's almost 3pm, so I am running late. But I always make time for one of my favorite pieces of all (thanks, Marriner and Amadeus).

vandermolen

Richard Stohr: Symphony No.2 (1942)
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

Number Six



Rossini: Overtures
Abbado, Chamber Orchestra of Europe

Linz

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Op. 74 "Pathétique"
Oldřich František Korte The Story of the Flutes
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Lovro von Matacic