What are you listening 2 now?

[Traverso]

Vivaldi

CD 2

L'Estro Armonico

[Mandryka]

Disc 27

Well, here's one I didn't enjoy. I couldn't actually finish the disc. This is just not music to my taste.

78 mintes of madrigals is a big ask, especially if you don't follow the poetry.

[Roasted Swan]

Now playing Bridge The Sea



Absolutely gorgeous work.

Oh YES!!!!!!

[Karl Henning]

78 mintes of madrigals is a big ask, especially if you don't follow the poetry.

Ties in with an earlier point about CDs not representing intended or ideal listening experience. 

[AnotherSpin]

I can't recall when I first heard these quartets. It must have been a long time ago, most likely during those carefree, blissful days of my youth. Ever since, the moment the music begins, I feel as if I'm effortlessly transported back to that distant realm. The Quartetto Italiano's performance evokes this feeling with remarkable subtlety.

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

Oh YES!!!!!!

  If you could only choose one work from Bridge, which one would it be?

[toledobass]

The recent DSCH cello concerti release with Yo-Yo Ma/Andris Nelson/Boston Symphony Orch

[Karl Henning]

The recent DSCH cello concerti release with Yo-Yo Ma/Andris Nelson/Boston Symphony Orch

Nice! My review of the concert

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

Before lunch --- Holst The Perfect Fool - Ballet, Op. 39

[Karl Henning]

TD:

[Harry]

Stravinsky: The Fairy's Kiss



First listen to this CD purchase. I'm sure I've listened to the work once before some years ago, though what version I used I don't know. It wouldn't have been this one as Hyperion recordings were not streamable at the time.

By my reckoning it's Stravinsky's 2nd longest ballet, after The Firebird.

In my book that's a fine recording and performance.

[Harry]

Disc 27

Well, here's one I didn't enjoy. I couldn't actually finish the disc. This is just not music to my taste.

This I understand fully and completely, it is not the standard one may expect for the likes of Monteverdi.

[Harry]

I have not heard the CD in question, but Monteverdi's madrigals always left me cold.

Shocking! I stand amazed. Left you cold?, such full blooded emotional time capsules.

[Symphonic Addict]

If you could only choose one work from Bridge, which one would it be?

You didn't ask me, but I'd pick Enter Spring. A richly scored, memorable, gorgeous work.

[Symphonic Addict]

A nod to the Shostakovich 15th?

It's a possibility. I haven't checked the booklet notes out yet, though.

[Mandryka]

Ties in with an earlier point about CDs not representing intended or ideal listening experience.

Last year I went to a concert with the whole of Monteverdi Bk 4 - Alessandrini. There was an interval of course, but it was still just too much for me, even trying to follow the words.

[Roasted Swan]

Before lunch --- Holst The Perfect Fool - Ballet, Op. 39

Another cracking work/performance!

[Roasted Swan]

If you could only choose one work from Bridge, which one would it be?

It would have to be Enter Spring - just so original and moving (great performance here from Groves....)

[Karl Henning]

Last year I went to a concert with the whole of Monteverdi Bk 4 - Alessandrini. There was an interval of course, but it was still just too much for me, even trying to follow the words.

Yes, that's pushing it.

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

You didn't ask me, but I'd pick Enter Spring. A richly scored, memorable, gorgeous work.

A gorgeous work, indeed.