What are you listening 2 now?

[Madiel]

Earlier today, Haydn: Opus 50, numbers 1, 4 and 6.

[Iota]

Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3 (Yunchan Lim / Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra / Marin Alsop. Final round of the Van Cliburn Competition, June 17, 2022).

With the recent release of Lim in Tchaikovsky's The Seasons, I wanted to revisit this performance. All I can say is that yes, Lim is all that, and may be at the beginning of a legendary career. You can see it in Alsop's face, and now and then in the orchestra: they know they are witnessing something special.

Yes that was/is an astonishing performance! The way he allows the music to rise and fall seems as natural and absorbing as a breathing chest, and the climaxes are breathtaking, that 1st movement cadenza!  

Here:



Bach: English Suite No. 1 in A Major, BWV 806
Alexandra Papastefanou (piano)

Papastefanou doesn't really do anything particularly extraordinary yet this feels a very individual and fresh take on the music, and one I enjoyed very much. There's something about naturally unshowy playing that sets the music in such clear relief, that it can seem like enjoying the endlessly varying transparency of water.

[Madiel]

Vivaldi: flute concertos



This album includes almost all the flute concertos that aren't part of the published op.10 set, including works where only some movements survive.

Initial impressions from the first half are that it shows how the Baroque flute lacks a little punch and can't do anything super dramatic - though that's probably somewhat true of a modern flute as well, plus the liner notes indicate that these works are not as virtuosic as the op.10 set. They still have their fair share of leaps and runs, though, and when the music needs to dance the flute can certainly do that.

[Que]

https://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2019/Mar/Camerloher_lute_OC1894.htm

[T. D.]

From this morning's Osho reading: ...

Osho? = "Bhagvan Shree Ragneesh"? 🤣 Some of his writings are reasonable, but an out-and-out scoundrel IMO.

[Traverso]

Messiaen

[Todd]

The latest from Mrs Marsalis. 

[Linz]

William Walton Symphony No. 1 in B flat minor, P|hilharmonia Orchestra, Louis Frémaux
Violin Concerto in B minor, Salvatore Accardo violin, London Symphony Orchestra, Richard Hickox

[AnotherSpin]

Osho? = "Bhagvan Shree Ragneesh"? 🤣 Some of his writings are reasonable, but an out-and-out scoundrel IMO.

Yes, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, born Chandra Mohan Jain. My view of him isn't quite so straightforward, and rather the opposite. Nevertheless, I don't think we should start a discussion about him here. If you like, drop me a private message .

[DavidW]

[AnotherSpin]

Yes, and it's precisely this which is difficult to accept.

It shouldn't be difficult at all. There is no need to accept thoughts, for they are not ours.

[SonicMan46]

Tchaikovsky, Peter - Symphonies & Others w/ Vladimir Jurowski and the London PO recorded from 2004-2016 (these are 'live' but applause on only a few discs).  Hurwitz loves this set  (see his videos below if interested).  This week pulled out my Peter T. collection of about three dozen CDs (some duplication in the string chamber works, piano concertos, and the symphonies) - my other symphony sets shown below - Ionarts (Jens again) long listing HERE - an overabundance of recordings to pick although the ones at the bottom rank high.  Dave


 

   

[prémont]

It shouldn't be difficult at all. There is no need to accept thoughts, for they are not ours.

You say so, but it makes no sense to me.

[Mandryka]

Not quite. They gave money to the Church for Masses to be celebrated in their name for the salvation of their soul, regardless of the nature of the Mass. Or do you imply that Gregorian chant was only tolerated, while polyphony was enjoyed? Then how about the time when only Gregorian chant was available? Churches were not concert halls, not during Mass anyway.

When only  chant was available, they'd invite the jongleurs in to spice it up a bit. St Francis, jongleur de dieu and all that.

You've got to remember also that church chants were much more exciting than the people at Solesme would have us believe. There were spicy local traditions.

By the way, in Romania, don't the priests play some sort of drum in the mass? Toacă.  I'd like to hear this.

[AnotherSpin]

When only  chant was available, they'd invite the jongleurs in to spice it up a bit. St Francis, jongleur de dieu and all that.

You've got to remember also that church chants were much more exciting than the people at Solesme would have us believe. There were spicy local traditions.

By the way, in Romania, don't the priests play some sort of drum in the mass? Toacă.  I'd like to hear this.

Besides the drums, there are also bears with chains.

[AnotherSpin]

The album by Graindelavoix from Harry's list. I think I understand what some people mean when they express a certain caution or concern about Björn Schmelzer's projects. It is... like The Thing in John Carpenter's film. A suddenly erupting, overwhelming life that at the same time breaks flesh and mind.

Caveat: a good-quality audio setup is required.

[AnotherSpin]

You say so, but it makes no sense to me.

Yes, never mind, sorry.

[Florestan]

By the way, in Romania, don't the priests play some sort of drum in the mass? Toacă.  I'd like to hear this.

No musical instruments are allowed in the church, only voices. Toaca is used in monasteries outside the church to summon monks or nuns to Mass or other divine services.

[Karl Henning]

Tchaikovsky, Peter - Symphonies & Others w/ Vladimir Jurowski and the London PO recorded from 2004-2016 (these are 'live' but applause on only a few discs).  Hurwitz loves this set  (see his videos below if interested).  This week pulled out my Peter T. collection of about three dozen CDs (some duplication in the string chamber works, piano concertos, and the symphonies) - my other symphony sets shown below - Ionarts (Jens again) long listing HERE - an overabundance of recordings to pick although the ones at the bottom rank high.  Dave

I love Tchaikovsky, and am utterly indifferent to what Hurwitz thinks. I don't hold it against you, Dave (we're good friends, I hope) but I almost resent seeing that mug in this thread.
TD:
CD 4
Frank Martin (1890-1974)
Cello Concerto (1965-66)
Jean Decroos
Wm Walton (1902-1983)
 Cello Concerto (1956)
Zara Nelsova

The Martin is a first listen, and as with all the music of his that I have heard, it really ought not to surprise me, how very much I like it. It concludes with a brilliant Vivace, with orchestral colors never heard in any previous Cello Concerto.

[Florestan]

When only  chant was available, they'd invite the jongleurs in to spice it up a bit. St Francis, jongleur de dieu and all that.

Do you really believe that jugglers played their tricks during Mass? What do you think the church was, some sort of circus?