What are you listening 2 now?

[Traverso]

Albeniz & Turina

[DavidW]

Fantastic playing from Barenboim! Beethoven's PCs 1 and 2

[pjme]

After writing this, I came across the review linked below, titled "Dance over Meditation". I guess the title says it all... 

Already in 2023 some GMG members were more or less amazed when confronted with this photograph of a dancer....

#4184

January 10, 2023, 02:38:27 PMLast Edit: January 10, 2023, 04:12:49 PM by pjme

https://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,239.msg1489918.html#msg1489918

https://www.rosas.be/en/8-anne-teresa-de-keersmaeker

Anyway, on this very cold, wet and grey day I need some comforting music:



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[Harry]

Malcolm Arnold.
The complete Symphonies.
CD 5.
Symphony for Brass instruments, opus 123.
Symphony No. 9, opus 128.
Philip Jones Brass ensemble.
Bournemouth SO, Vernon Handley.

Good music deserves praise not long reviews.
So, SUPERB.

[SonicMan46]

Spohr, Louis (1784-1859) - Works for Two Violins on the recordings shown - finishing off my book biography mentioned previously and Spohr listening (and additions) - acquired the 4 recordings shown (2 for $5 each as MP3 DLs; 1 used (about $8); and 1 $10 MP3 DL, all burned to CDRs) - as shown Spohr wrote a lot of duet violin music (probably some WoOs) - of the Opus numbers I count just over a dozen composed over a 50 year period; of course he wrote a LOT of duo music for harp and violin (flute can be substituted for the violin).  Dave

Spohr's Works for Two Violins (*ones on the discs shown)
Op.  3 Nos. 1-3 Concertant Violin Duos, ca. 1804
Op.  9 Nos. 1 & 2 Concertant Violin Duos, 1808*
Op. 39 Nos. 1-3  Grand Violin Duos, ca. 1814*
Op. 67 Nos. 1-3 Concertant Violin Duos, ca. 1824*
Op. 148 Duo for Two Violins, ca. 1853*
Op. 150 Duo for Two Violins, ca. 1854*
Op 153 Duo for Two Violins, ca. 1855* (Source)

 

 

[Harry]

George Lloyd (1913-1998).
Complete Symphonies, Box II.
CD I.
Symphony No.7 'Proserpine' (1957-59). BBC Philharmonic, George Lloyd.
Symphony No.9 (1969).


This music is great beyond perception, it digs in your soul. Lloyd said I write what I have to write, I say, I listen to the music I have to listen. Great music, visionary even.

[Bachthoven]

String trios written by composers who were victims of the Holocaust.

[Harry]

String trios written by composers who were victims of the Holocaust.

Interesting, Chandos has a similar series, that is running for quite some years. Entartete Musik they call them. I probably heard them all, and that was never a boring exercise. Will search for this recording on Qobuz. Thank you for posting it.!
Found it and bookmarked.

[Traverso]

Ballet Music & Entr'actes from French Opera

[Harry]

Ballet Music & Entr'actes from French Opera

Super box! Great fun and indispensable 

[Traverso]

Super box! Great fun and indispensable 

I saw prices on eBay over €800 for this box. It is a very nice box and a collection that will probably never come back on the market like this.

[AnotherSpin]

[Harry]

I saw prices on eBay over €800 for this box. It is a very nice box and a collection that will probably never come back on the market like this.

Well I have it from someone who knows, that this box will appear on Qobuz and probably Tidal, and that will lower the ridiculous prices they are asking, on the net. And your right this box will never be re-released. The market for Big Boxes full of ballet music is marginal. Most of the stuff I have is already in the streaming services.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Hovhaness Guitar Concerto No. 2, etc..

[ritter]

First listen to this recent purchase.

Arturo Tamayo conducts Xenakis: Metastaseis A —the original version of Metastaseis)— (with the Orchestra Sinfonica RAI), and Terretekthor and Nomos Gamma (both with the Residentie Orkest Den Haag.



I was never much impressed by any Xenakis until now, but had never listened to Metastaseis (in either this original or the "canonic" revised version). I now get what all the fuss is about. This is an extraordinary composition!

[Papy Oli]

BWV 80
(Herreweghe on PHI)

[Que]

[Linz]

Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, 1891 Vienna Revision by Bruckner himself. Ed. Guenter Brosche
March in D Minor, WAB 96
Three Pieces for orchestra, WAB 97
Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg, Gustavo Gimeno

[Bachthoven]

I wouldn't have thought that Bach's "Overture in the French Style" was playable by a single guitarist, but it is by this fellow, and very well, too! All but the Assad were written for a keyboard instrument. Excellent sound. It's available on streaming platforms and as a digital download, which is what I selected. (24/96)

[André]

Malcolm Arnold.
The complete Symphonies.
CD 5.
Symphony for Brass instruments, opus 123.
Symphony No. 9, opus 128.
Philip Jones Brass ensemble.
Bournemouth SO, Vernon Handley.

Good music deserves praise not long reviews.
So, SUPERB.

Well said, Harry ! 😉