What are you listening 2 now?

[Karl Henning]

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

Really lovely work! I avoided it for decades, unfairly considering it "gimmicky." Shame on me.

Yes, indeed. It has surprising climatic moments in it that took me by surprise when I first heard this piece.

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

Now playing Harrison Third Symphony

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

Following @Iota...

Now playing Stravinsky Ode

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

Now playing Bliss A Colour Symphony

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

Last work for the night --- Fauré String Quartet in E minor, Op. 121

[AnotherSpin]

Cello Concerto
Piano Quintet

[Roasted Swan]

Now playing Bliss A Colour Symphony

another classic Ulster Hall recording from Chandos - gorgeous sound! (love the piece...)

[steve ridgway]

Ligeti - Chamber Concerto

[Que]

The only complete recording of Missa Praeter serum seriem by George de La Hèle, a Franco-Flemish at the Spanish court. Peter Philips here creates with a 30+ Spanish choir a full blown English cathedral style. A pity, but I appreciate the chance to hear the music.

[Que]

Away from the alluring Franco_flemish repertoire:



A raving review (see below) brought this to my attention. Caccini is a well known composer but gets IMO not the credit he deserves. Peformance and recording here are absolutely impeccable in this selection from Caccini's innovative Le Nuove Musiche. In the dissenting MusicWeb review another Caccini recording on Brilliant (with a few overlaps) is pointed out, which I will check out.

https://earlymusicreview.com/caccini-amarilli/

https://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2021/Aug/Caccini-amarilli-96254.htm

[Traverso]

Bach

Vol.2 CD3

[Iota]

You've convinced me - just bought this.

Well I hope not on the strength of Ode alone, as it clocks in at only under 11 mins .. but the rest of the album is superb, including a lovely fresh and uplifting Pulcinella. For me Jurowski has a very high hit rate, and he's on form again on this disc imo, such colour and electricity about him.

[vandermolen]

Shostakovich: Symphony No.12 'The Year 1917' (Prétre)
Philharmonia Orchestra
Erato boxed set

[Que]

Picked up from Harry's playlist:

[AnotherSpin]

[Traverso]

Mauricio Kagel

A rhythmically charged piece full of atmospheric references

[foxandpeng]

Krzystof Penderecki
Orchestral Works, Volume 1
Symphony 2, Christmas Eve
Threnody on the Victims of Hiroshima
Orchestra of the Cracow Philharmonic
Wojciech Czepiel
Dux

Nice. Penderecki has a special talent that speaks often to where I am at. Cool beans.

Listened earlier this morning to his Viola Concerto and Cello Concerto #2. Always helpful.

Also had a run at Stale Keliberg's Concerto for Violin and Orchestra and The Bell Reef (His Symphony 1). Majestic stuff.

Oh, and Bax's Spring Fire. And some P!nk (but I don't think that belongs in this thread  )

[Madiel]

Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, Act 2.

So, we have some really good music (although the whipping scene is just a frenetic mess), and some fairly awful characters.

Katerina's father-in-law decides he's going to sleep with her, and then gets really upset when he finds out someone else got there first. Frankly, after that the two murders during this Act seem relatively conventional.

[Cato]

Wyn Morris is - it seems to me - not well known anymore.

But c. 50 years ago, this was the absolute must-have Symphony #10 by Mahler!

The second revision of the Deryck Cooke performing edition: