What are you listening to now?

[Ken B]

Forqueray Family on Brilliant. Quite fine.

[mn dave]

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[EigenUser]

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I don't have this album, but I never really understood his 1st symphony. I like Penderecki's earlier and later works (not a favorite of mine, but still quite good), but the 1st I've yet to figure out.

[DavidW]

I like the first symphony.  I never understand what people mean by "getting music."  What is there to get?  Just listen and enjoy.  Not everything is a classical allegro sonata to be deciphered like a formula.

[TheGSMoeller]

Forqueray Family on Brilliant. Quite fine.

Agreed. 

[mn dave]

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[Karl Henning]

What a beautiful and evocative title, Karl!

If it's not a problem, a link would be highly appreciated. You have aroused my curiosity. 

Thank you for your interest!

Here it is:

Nicodemus brings myrrh & aloes for the burial of the Christ, Op.85 № 4
Recorded at the Rivers School Conservatory, Weston, Mass.
4 April 2014

[Moonfish]

Haydn: String Quartets op20 No 4-6   The Aeolian SQ

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[TheGSMoeller]

Thank you for your interest!

Here it is:

Nicodemus brings myrrh & aloes for the burial of the Christ, Op.85 № 4
Recorded at the Rivers School Conservatory, Weston, Mass.
4 April 2014

Haunting and lovely, thanks for sharing, Karl.

[Ken B]

Haydn: String Quartets op20 No 4-6   The Aeolian SQ

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Aaaaaaaah. Take it away! Take it away! My ears are bleeding.
That is one awful set.

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[Moonfish]

Aaaaaaaah. Take it away! Take it away! My ears are bleeding.
That is one awful set.

I will play it all night..... The Aeolian will take over the world!!!   

[EigenUser]

Morton Feldman's "Coptic Light", for orchestra.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgS37X4P2hM

[Ken B]

I will play it all night..... The Aeolian will take over the world!!!   

I had their Beethoven on vinyl, but I believe they had a change of line up. Anyway that set has harsh sound, and strident, wayward playing from the 1st violin. Awesomely bad set.

[Moonfish]

I had their Beethoven on vinyl, but I believe they had a change of line up. Anyway that set has harsh sound, and strident, wayward playing from the 1st violin. Awesomely bad set.

I kind of enjoyed the op 20 this evening and have not yet had an auditory allergic reaction like the one you are describing. Ouch!  Hmm, I have heard the Aeolian, Angeles, Kodaly, Mosaiques, and the Buchberger SQ.  I tend to listen to the Kodaly and the Angeles most of the time, but like switching ensembles to get a better feel for the compositions.  Which ensemble allows Haydn's compositions to turn into delightful music (in your opinion, that is)? 

[Ken B]

I kind of enjoyed the op 20 this evening and have not yet had an auditory allergic reaction like the one you are describing. Ouch!  Hmm, I have heard the Aeolian, Angeles, Kodaly, Mosaiques, and the Buchberger SQ.  I tend to listen to the Kodaly and the Angeles most of the time, but like switching ensembles to get a better feel for the compositions.  Which ensemble allows Haydn's compositions to turn into delightful music (in your opinion, that is)? 

Mosaiques clear first
Angeles best modern instruments
I like the Buchberger more than I recall liking the Kodaly, but that might be because the Buchs take a very different tack than the Angeles, which was my choice until I heard the Ms.
Some older sets are very good too, with lesser sound of course.

[Moonfish]

Taking this for a spin since it has been gathering too much dust....

Vivaldi: Bassoon Concertos Vol 1    Smith/ECO/Ledger

[listener]

WEBER: Symphonies 1 & 2     Concertino for horn and orch., op.45
Anthony Halsted, natural horn (copy of Raoux c.1800)  Hanover Band      Ray Goodman, cond.
ERNST: Violin Concertino in D op. 13    Concerto pathétique in f# op. 23
Sherban Lupu, violin     Sinfonia da Camera    Ian Hobson, cond.
String Quarteti n B^b op. 26
Ciompi String Quartet
nice Dvořák -like feel to the Quartet, the concertos pass by inoffensively

[Moonfish]

Mosaiques clear first
Angeles best modern instruments
I like the Buchberger more than I recall liking the Kodaly, but that might be because the Buchs take a very different tack than the Angeles, which was my choice until I heard the Ms.
Some older sets are very good too, with lesser sound of course.

Wish the Mosaiques recorded more Haydn! I usually listen to Kodaly as they were my first Haydn discs. Habits you know!  Which older set/s would you recommend? Hmm, I bet there is a Haydn SQ thread here somewhere....

[Wakefield]

Thank you for your interest!

Here it is:

Nicodemus brings myrrh & aloes for the burial of the Christ, Op.85 № 4
Recorded at the Rivers School Conservatory, Weston, Mass.
4 April 2014

Thanks, Karl.

Excellent, really excellent composition. Congratulations.

Quite demanding for the cellist, indeed: I would even like to hear a version for solo cello. 

[Wakefield]

I had their Beethoven on vinyl, but I believe they had a change of line up. Anyway that set has harsh sound, and strident, wayward playing from the 1st violin. Awesomely bad set.

I have been saying the same for years.