What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[PaulR]

First time in a long time I listened to the Requiem.  Maybe I am just in the mood for it

[PaulR]

#14

Not in a very good mood tonight, most likely

[Philoctetes]

Rage Against the Machine and Soundgarden

[Sid]

Rossini
Petite messe solennelle.
RIAS Kammerchor/Marcus Creed

Just listened to the Kyrie - wow, the piano opening sounds so modern (reminds me of Carmina Burana). The harmonium gives it this southern European, relaxed feel. I just borrowed this cd from my local library, as I will go to a performance of the work here in Sydney in October. So I want to acquaint myself with it well before. I'm really looking forward to getting to know this work & then going to the concert.

[Mirror Image]

Little change of pace tonight:



Adams' The Dharma at Big Sur is one of the only compositions I like by him, but I think the first movement drags on too long and doesn't get to the point soon enough. The second movement, however, is quite beautiful.

[Mirror Image]

Okay, I couldn't stomach John Adams any further, so I put this on quickly to get back in the right frame of mind:



Listening to Pastoral Fantasia right now. This Hickox recording is one of my favorite Alwyn discs.

[Conor71]

Martinu: Cello Sonatas



First listen of this recently arrived Disc and the first time I have heard this Composer who has been popular on the forum lately  .

[Que]

Good morning/ afternoon all!

Q

[Harry]

Started this morning with this wonderful disc, released by Brilliant and simply brilliant. They seem to release these kind of quality recordings all the time now.
Authentic instruments, lively tempo's, very good music, absolute topnotch recording.

[Harry]

Hard on the heels of Vitali came disc III of the Schutz collection, a absolute bestseller, to great critical acclaim. It is almost impossible to describe the beauty of the music, the gorgeous singing, the fine instrumental contributions, the excellent recording. How anyone can walk by without buying this is beyond my comprehension.

[Harry]

One of my favorite composers, and Hyperion being so kind to lower the prices of these, due to the fact that nobody is buying them, I have a yield day with what Francaix cooked up. Fischer is a ideal conductor for this music and Simon Eadon made sure that the sound is topnotch.

[Harry]

Another great disc that came my way 2 weeks ago. Its stunningly recorded and performed. And its not often that Weill and Vask are combined on one disc, which is altogether not inappropriate. The sound words have some things in common. Anyways I like what I hear, although I realize that Vask's Violin concerto is not for everyone. But it is for me. Does not happen often that I go that modern.

[DavidRoss]

Opening of the Wells: Love the music, hate the narration, not enough of the former, way too much of the latter.

[karlhenning]

Roussel
Symphony № 3, Opus 42 (1929-30)
Incidental Music to Le marchand de sable qui passe (1908)
Résurrection — Symphonic Prelude after Tolstoy (1903)
RSNO
Stéphane Denève

Roussel – Complete Symphonies

Listened to two different recordings of the Third last night, with score.  The Denève is in many (though not all) ways the better of the two.  The two works this morning from the first decade of the last century are very different to the Third Symphony, of course.  All of it lovely.

[Harry]

For me this composer is on number one, since I had the first recording of her work some years ago. I traverse the whole gamut of my emotions in her music. She writes so well.
Symphony No. 6 is again a deeply felt work, starting with a beautiful first movement, but what am I saying, she must be heard. Desert island music for any time, the first composer that would be on my list. The performance is very good, as is the recording.

[karlhenning]

Schuman
Symphony № 3 (1941)
Symphony № 4 (1941)
Seattle Symphony
Gerard Schwarz

Schuman – Complete The Symphonies [Symphonies nos. 1 & 2 remain withdrawn from the public]

Fine music!  The puzzle is how it 'went missing' almost from the moment it left the gate.

[karlhenning]

Schuman
Orchestra Song (1963)
Seattle Symphony
Gerard Schwarz

Schuman – Complete The Symphonies [Symphonies nos. 1 & 2 remain withdrawn from the public]

A three-minute curio more than anything, an arrangement of an Austrian folksong (Kostelanetz conducted the première).  Cannot be many pieces by 20^th-c. American composers which use only two chords.

[Drasko]

Bernardo Segall playing eight Bach/Siloti transcriptions and ten preludes from WTK (sans fugues). Never heard of the pianist before but am rather enjoying Bach/Siloti selection, fine clear tone, plenty of momentum and dash of swing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-TKs9v9ND4

[karlhenning]

Rodrigo
Zarabanda lejana y Villancico (1926-30)
LSO
Bátiz

[jlaurson]

L.v. Beethoven
Sonatas No.15 (op.28, "Pastoral")
No.18 (op.31/3)
No.21 (op.53, "Waldstein")
No.30 (op.109)
Live, Berlin, 1969
audite

Some very impressive (in Backhausen's own, non-'impressive' way) moments... but also marred by a good deal of mistakes, especially in the first movements.