What are you listening 2 now?

[Harry]

Les Delices.
French Music for Viols and Recorders from 1639 to 1715.
Ensemble Isabella d'este.
Recorded probably around 1991.
Added a barely visible back cover from the original release.

The recordings sounds it's age, but it's acceptable. The "Nuova Era" recordings were either a hit or miss thing, this one is a miss as it comes to the sound, but the performance is first rate. A pity really. Prepare for a digital sharpish sound especially when a Viol takes center stage, in which it bounces from the left to the right speaker.  Somewhere in the middle they fiddled at the buttons and the sound gets marginally better. An impressive array of fine musicians though.
 

[Christo]

Good old Debussy, again.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Wada / Ifukube / Toyama: Japanese Orchestral Music.  Malmö Symphony Orchestra.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Good old Debussy, again.

I like some orchestrations in the recordings.

[Traverso]

Wada / Ifukube / Toyama: Japanese Orchestral Music.  Malmö Symphony Orchestra.

You have a PM....

[Harry]

Wada / Ifukube / Toyama: Japanese Orchestral Music.  Malmö Symphony Orchestra.

I bookmarked that one. Thanks for posting it.

[Traverso]

Sweelinck

We have to be flexible,Sweelinck sung in Japanese.


 
Psalms
Masaaki Suzuki,
 Bach Collegium Japan
 

 

[foxandpeng]

This night my city has once again been attacked by the Russians. There are civilian casualties; a maternity hospital was among the places hit. Residential buildings are burning in the city center, which is under UNESCO protection — but who will care? This post has been edited by the moderation to remove inappropriate remarks regarding other members' musical tates and listening habits.

It's hard to keep sleeping on a night like this, so I'm listening to music.

So sorry to hear this. May your listening bring you some small comfort.

Thread duty:

Anders Nordentoft
Light Imprisoned
Dance of Separation
Cathedral
Pointed Out
Atrani
HillShapes-WindStillness
Moment
John Kruse
Johannes Soe Hansen
Copenhagen Classic

Cellos and stuff. Modern and compelling. Repeat listening after being drawn in earlier today.

[Harry]

Musique and Sweet Poetrie.
Musical Jewels from Europe around 1600.
Emma Kirkby, Soprano.
Jakob Lindberg, Lute by Sixtus Rauwolf, Augsburg c. 1590.
Recorded in November 2005 at Länna Church, Sweden.

SOTA recording to start with. Kirkby's voice is not so good anymore as I remember from the olden days, but she manages pretty well considering. The choice of composers is compelling, and finely attuned to her voice, which at time sounds a little bit too close for comfort, but that does not happen often. Her voice flows not as supple as to give the ultimate satisfaction but granted the close miking there is no way of masking this, which could be easily done. Lindberg Lute sounds the works, beautifully poised into the performance, set against a very silent background in the Länna Church. Still love this disc to bits. After all for many years she was my favourite Soprano.

[Karl Henning]

Ugh, I can't stand brutal Soviet propaganda art 🤮.

Now playing Scelsi - Chukrum

I don't think I know Chukrum, but I feel that I ought. 

[foxandpeng]

John Corigliano
Concerto for Oboe and Orchestra
Steinar Hannevold (Oboe)
Dmitri Kitayenko

This seems quite complex to me, but I like it very much. Certainly some great passages to get hold of.

[Karl Henning]

Yesterday I was halfway disturbed  while listening to this disc. Second half now. Really a sublime recommendation by our @Que.

Carlo H likes the Carlo G MS.

[Karl Henning]

Sweelinck

We have to be flexible,Sweelinck sung in Japanese.


 
Psalms
Masaaki Suzuki,
 Bach Collegium Japan
 

 

Make a joyful noise, all the earth!

[DavidW]

This and other posts remind me how much I love Foccroulle's Bach. But also, how much I should explore his performances outside of Bach.

[Irons]

Third or fourth listen to this CD.

Amazon blurb

Philip Cannon's Concertino for piano and strings (1951) dates from his formative years. It was written for the Petersfield Festival, where it was premiered on 27 January 1951 by soloist Joseph Cooper, with the Petersfield Orchestra conducted by Kathleen Merritt. This lively, neo-classical piece has achieved over a thousand performances internationally. Though John Addison's Concertino for piano and orchestra is, for the most part, couched in a light-hearted language, it is the product of a serious, and unfailingly inventive, approach to keyboard and orchestral writing. Speaking of the work to Lesie Ayre of the London Evening News, the composer remarked that, 'it is a real concerto in the full sense of the word I would not be ashamed to show the work to any first-class pianist'. Francis Chagrin maintained an intensely practical and unpretentious attitude towards his own craft, observing that, 'My music is not for first performances - it is just to be played'. His Piano Concerto was first performed by soloist Franz Osborn, with the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by the composer, at an SPNM Experimental Rehearsal held at the Royal College of Music on 4 February 1944. Conversation Piece by John Addison was written in 1958 to a commission from the BBC Concert Orchestra for that year's British Light Music Festival. John Addison felt that, by the late-1950s, too great a divide had opened up between serious and light music: 'Concertgoers think contemporary music is so alarmingly serious that when confronted with a mildly witty turn of phrase, they assume something has gone wrong. I remember the astonished sigh of relief when, in the course of introducing one of my chamber works, I told the audience I would not mind if they smiled'. In Conversation Piece, Addison exploits to the full his talent to amuse and divert.

To the best of my knowledge none of the composers has any influence on the decisions of the current British government.

Don't know about that. Chagrin a huge influence so it seems!

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

Any further off-topic posts will be deleted. This thread is called "What are you listening 2 now", and is not the place to discuss Russia's barbaric actions.

Instead of issuing statements like this, why don't you or any of the other mods take action and tell this member that he will be temporary banned if he doesn't stop the off-topic and completely unwarranted posts and if he doesn't comply, then just make it a permanent ban.

Our everyday lives have become politicized enough, I just want to come to this forum and talk about music. The one refuge I have left in my life.

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

Now playing two back-to-back Minimalist masterpieces:

Reich Variations for Winds, Strings and Keyboards and Adams Shaker Loops

[Harry]

ARNOLD ROSNER:
ORCHESTRAL MUSIC, VOLUME FOUR.
See back cover for works.
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Nick Palmer.
Recorded on 5–6 September 2023 in the Abbey Road Studios, London.

Impressive composer, a good orchestrator, and an ear for good tunes and bend on delivering his musical message. Postmodernism, stretched tonality, vehement and pastoral at the same time. He doesn't shun contrasts that can shake your equilibrium up and down the scale. Also conservative in expression, and above all a sense for good choices in what to juxtapose or to provoke. All in one composer, yes. To me a fascinating figure. I think he deserves the attention he currently gets. Already four volumes with his Orchestral music on the Toccata label, plus one with chamber music, and on other labels a few recordings too.
Well performed and excellent recording.

[Karl Henning]

Discussion over in the "Dacha" reminded me that it's too long since I've listened to "Lennygrad" in Chicago

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

Discussion over in the "Dacha" reminded me that it's too long since I've listened to "Lennygrad" in Chicago

A pulverizing and devastating performance! One of the best in Bernstein's career, IMHO.

P. S. I also LOVE Bernstein's live in Japan performance of Shostakovich's 5th. Still my reference for this symphony after all of these years.