What are you listening 3 now?

[Bachthoven]

Excellent playing and sound.

[AnotherSpin]

I listened to something a few days ago and thought that it was exactly what you needed to take your mind of the war. A sort of musical warm and fuzzy comfort blanket at first, but Leith is the real deal and it develops so don't dismiss it on the basis of the opening track -- it's not all like that. Oliver Leith's Good Day Bad Day

https://open.spotify.com/album/7boQcL6JOBemTadjVo8xq8?si=rMJ34RFkRxmL4KdL5Bg_rg

Thanks! I've definitely listened to that album, and I even have it bookmarked on Qobuz. Honestly, though, I have no memory of what's on it. I'll give it a listen tomorrow.

By the way, I don't actually need to distract my mind from the war, because my mind isn't on the war at all. There are plenty of mundane daily matters that take up almost 100% of my thoughts. I've made it a rule not to follow the news, and on social media, I very selectively follow things that have nothing to do with the war. I flinch at loud explosions, but I forget about them a few minutes later.

I have no desire to listen to anything Russian, but there's enough other music out there anyway.

[Linz]

Dmitri Shostakovich Symphony No.9 in E flat major, op.70
Symphony No.9 in E flat major, op.70
National Symphony Orchestra, Mstislav Rostropovich

[brewski]

A live master class with the great Joyce DiDonato:

[brewski]

Recorded from a concert in October 2025, now on WRTI, with four of the orchestra's wind principals:

Note: will be on the WRTI website for about two weeks.

The Philadelphia Orchestra
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor
Philippe Tondre, oboe
Ricardo Morales, clarinet
Daniel Matsukawa, bassoon
Jennifer Montone, horn

Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante for Winds and Orchestra
Bruckner: Symphony No. 4

[SonicMan46]

Devienne Day - most of the 12 CDs owned - now finishing up the Flute Concertos shown below - on modern flute - cannot find a period instrument collection - the other CDs owned in the attachment - considered the 'French Mozart' (born about the same time in 1759 and died in his early '40s) - wrote mainly wind music for the bassoon and flute et al - about a third of my CDs on period instruments, wish there were more!  Dave

[(poco) Sforzando]

Good point, and l certainly missed it.

In my defense, being homeless presents certain challenges so far as sleep ( and by extension, lucidity ) is concerned. I'm in the motel for the next three nights so l can catch up a bit, after that money will be tight and I'm not sure if or when any roof will be available.

I'm very sorry to read this. Is there anything we can do to help?

[Linz]

Anton Bruckner Symphony no. 5 in B Flat Major, 1878 Version Ed. Robert Haas
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Günter Wand

[(poco) Sforzando]

Excellent playing and sound.

And he looks particularly nice in that cover photo.

[VonStupp]

William Walton
The Quest
The Wise Virgins: Suite
London PO - Bryden Thomson

Christopher Palmer makes a lot of apologies in the liner notes for Walton's ballet The Quest. He doesn't need to really, as it is an exciting score. Even my wife commented that she really enjoyed herself during its playing.
VS

[Bachthoven]

And he looks particularly nice in that cover photo.

Well, I'd rather have a painting of Mozart or perhaps a musical scene from his era. I hate the emphasis on the artist rather than the composer.

[Madiel]

Well, I'd rather have a painting of Chopin or perhaps a musical scene from his era. I hate the emphasis on the artist rather than the composer.

The composer being Mozart...

[Madiel]

Brahms: String quintet no.2



I do like this music a lot. Though these days I don't entirely love the sound quality of the recording, it feels quite dated now (made in 1970).

[Madiel]

J.S. Bach: Es ist das Heil uns kommen her, BWV 9
(6th Sunday after Trinity, c.1732-35)



It's a relatively short time since my first listen to this cantata, a mere 4 months. It's a chorale cantata written to fill one of the gaps in the 1724-25 cycle, a gap that quite literally seems to have existed because Bach was away that week.

I find it interesting that the original publishers, from whom we get this BWV numbering, focused so much on the chorale cantatas initially. I guess the regular pattern of them held a certain appeal.

[Kalevala]

By the way, why did it never occur to anyone to put commercials on CDs? Like, between the movements of a symphony? It could have been a great way to fund the artists and sound engineers. You could even do it during live concerts, or right between opera arias.

Oh God, nooooo!  Are you being sarcastic?  I hope....or no?

K

[Traverso]

Louis Couperin

[foxandpeng]

Claudio Santoro
Symphonies 11 and 12
Neil Thomson
Goias PO
Naxos

Back on the Santoro wagon. Need to hear the remaining few symphonies that have been recorded before revisiting the entire cycle. I don't think I have any real conclusions so far about how much I like them, as a single or double listen doesn't allow me to sufficiently appreciate or live with my thoughts on it.

Onwards!

[Traverso]

Mozart

[LKB]

I'm very sorry to read this. Is there anything we can do to help?

Keep being GMG.

This is the third time I've found myself without a home, the first two spells were in 2017 and 2018. So I had over seven years of stability, which were invaluable and for which I remain grateful. ( You never know the true value of anything in life, until you find yourself without it. )

As I've just posted elsewhere, I'm not without assistance. Good friends are providing cash to help with expenses, and people I barely know are providing food and promising more. Three nights out of four, I'm in a budget motel and secure.

Many who are homeless are much worse off than I am, even though I am somewhat elderly and infirm.

So while I might complain, I also know that this is a temporary condition and a familiar one.

One thing I noticed previously while I was sheltering amongst the homeless community: Those who are the worst off, are those who have lost their identity. By that I mean, they can no longer function as contributing adults, even when they are in a safe environment, provided food, and have been presented opportunities to escape their situation. Granted that a certain percentage are mentally or emotionally challenged in some way, but in my experience most are not, but are still unable to accept responsibility for their actions, which to some degree led to their being homeless.

It tool a very long time, but now I can mostly come to grips with my own failings, poor choices and bad judgement which are the main factors in my current situation. Hell, this current situation is one I chose, freely and voluntarily ( put simply, it was a choice between homelessness or jail, and I've never had a record nor wish to start one ).

So keep being GMG, and you'll be helping me to do likewise. 

[Madiel]

Vivaldi bassoon concertos in F major (RV 486) and D minor (RV 481)



Still a little bit weakened by Azzolini's thicker texture and new ideas, though the D minor is the better of the two. I think I also understand now why Azzolini felt free to record again a couple of the concertos he'd already performed much earlier in the series - a side-by-side comparison will probably show how different the takes are. But I expect I would like the earlier recordings better.