What are you listening to now?

[Coopmv]

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Q

Q,  I added this twofer to my collection a few months ago.  How do you like the set?

[Coopmv]

Now playing CD7 from the following set for a first listen ...

[listener]

HANDEL: Dixit Dominus (Psalm 109)
Ingeborg Reichelt, Lotte Wolf-Matthäus, Halle School for Church Music Choir
Berlin Bach Orchestra      Eberhard Wenzel, cond
and part-songs by DEBUSSY, FAURÉ, CHAUSSON, RAVEL and SAINT-SAËNS
split between a vocal quartet and an ensemble led by Jean Sourisse
Faure's op. 12 setting of Hugo's Les Djinns is a find, the Pavane   op.30 in much better known in its transcription for orchestra.  Lovely disc.
54 page book with notes, text and translation included.

[Coopmv]

Now playing CD1 from the following set for a first listen ...

[Brahmsian]

IEAM continues!

Vaughan Williams

Symphony No. 8 in D minor
Symphony No. 9 in E minor

Sir Adrian Boult
London Philharmonic Orchestra

EMI Classics

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[Coopmv]

Now playing CD6 from the following set for a first listen ...

[Brian]

THE GAME IS AFOOT!

If you want to participate in GMG's latest blind comparison, for Ravel's Gaspard de la Nuit, but you have not received a PM from me with links to the recordings, please reply here or in that thread, or PM me! The more the merrier... and the listening/reckoning has begun. 

[Fafner]

Jean Sibelius - Symphony No. 5

Hallé Orchestra, Sir John Barbirolli
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Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria, Adrian Leaper
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I gave this disc another chance and it is really not that bad, just not as immediately exciting as the Barbirolli or Bernstein.

Next in line:

Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 6
Münchner Philharmoniker, Sergiu Celibidache

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[North Star]

IAEA!
Ravel
Cinq Mélodies populaires grecques
Felicity Palmer & John Constable (piano)
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[Brian]

Here's a potential 2013 Recording of the Year:

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Gabriela Lena Frank (1972- )
Leyendas: An Andean Walkabout (2001)
Lou Harrison (1917-2003)
String Quartet Set (1978-79)
José Evangelista (1943- )
Spanish Garland, 12 Folk Melodies (1993)
Reza Vali (1952- )
Nayshaboorák, Calligraphy No. 6 (2005-06)
Elena Kats-Chernin (1957- )
Fast Blue Village 2 (2007)

Music inspired by Peru, Turkey, medieval Germany, baroque France, Spain, Iran, and Uzbekistan. Great pieces, electrifying playing. I'm in a very happy place with this!

[TheGSMoeller]

Jóhann Jóhannsson: Fordlandia


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[Karl Henning]

Thanks to those sipping tea over at the Veranda . . . .

RVW
Towards the Unknown Region
London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus
Sir Malcolm Sargent

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[Coopmv]

Jóhann Jóhannsson: Fordlandia


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The Land of Fords (the Ford cars)?  LOL ...

[Karl Henning]

Further thanks to those sipping tea over at the Veranda . . . .

RVW
Symphony № 5 in d
Philharmonia Orchestra
Sir Jn Barbirolli

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[TheGSMoeller]

The Land of Fords (the Ford cars)?  LOL ...

Very close, Coop...

"One of the two main threads running through it is this idea of failed utopia, as represented by the "Fordlândia" title – the story of the rubber plantation Henry Ford established in the Amazon in the 1920's, and his dreams of creating an idealized American town in the middle of the jungle complete with white picket fences, hamburgers and alcohol prohibition. The project – started because of the high price Ford had to pay for the rubber necessary for his cars' tyres – failed, of course, as the indigenous workers soon rioted against the alien conditions. It reminded me of Werner Herzog's Fitzcarraldo, this doomed attempt at taming the heart of darkness. The remains of the town are still there today. The image of the Amazon forest slowly and surely reclaiming the ruins of Fordlândia is the one that gave spark to this album. For the structure and themes of the album I was influenced by the films of Alejandro Jodorowsky, Herzog and Kenneth Anger. I was interested in a kind of poetic juxtaposition and an alchemical fusion of themes and ideas, which I feel is similar to the way Anger uses montage as an alchemical technique – as a way of casting a spell. During the making of the album, I also had in mind the Andre Breton quote about convulsive beauty, which he saw in the image of "an abandoned locomotive overgrown by luxurious vegetation". There is a strong connection to the IBM 1401 album in terms of both thematic and musical ideas and I see the two albums as belonging to a series of works."

-Johann Johannsson

[Karl Henning]

What a trippy idea, Greg.

[Brahmsian]

IEAM continues!

Vaughan Williams

Symphony No. 4 in F minor
Symphony No. 6 in E minor

Sir Adrian Boult
New Philharmonia Orchestra

EMI Classics

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[Wakefield]

Enjoying every single moment of this superb disc:

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[Karl Henning]

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Well, I do call that a dangerous discovery . . . .

[Brahmsian]

Further thanks to those sipping tea over at the Veranda . . . .

RVW
Symphony № 5 in d
Philharmonia Orchestra
Sir Jn Barbirolli

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D ou d?