What are you listening to now?

[Cato]

In recent days:

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and

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Hard to believe that this is out of print!

[Mookalafalas]

Really like Bruggen in these.  I never thought the 4th sounded tragic before...

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[North Star]

Hard to believe that this is out of print!

It should be here, though



Thread duty

It's been way too long since I've last listened to this

Mussorgsky (arr. Ravel)
Pictures
Tchaikovsky
Symphony No. 4
Sokhiev & Toulouse

[EigenUser]

I'll give this a go, too.
You should remember to take your medication, Ken - that cough is really irritable.

What do you think of it?

Cough cough French impressionist orchestral music cough cough

In all seriousness, though, I think that this music is the perfect length. Especially for someone like me who has the attention span of an amoeba (not typical for classical music lovers, I know). For me, Mahler is too long. I truly enjoy parts of his writing, but it is just too long. When I listen to Mahler I feel like I'm digging through some (good) music to get to the really good stuff.

[North Star]

What do you think of it?


In all seriousness, though, I think that this music is the perfect length. Especially for someone like me who has the attention span of an amoeba (not typical for classical music lovers, I know). For me, Mahler is too long. I truly enjoy parts of his writing, but it is just too long. When I listen to Mahler I feel like I'm digging through some (good) music to get to the really good stuff.

I had to stop at 31 minutes, as I had a luncheon with my brother. I'll try it again later, I think.

Which 'this music' - Messiaen or French Impressionist orchestral?

Thread duty

Prokofiev
Etudes, Op. 2
Raekallio

[Ken B]

I'll give this a go, too.
You should remember to take your medication, Ken - that cough is really irritable.

A dose of Stravinsky works well.

Thread duty: Britten, 4 Sea Interludes
excellent performance from Cincinnati and Paavo Jarvi

[Moonfish]

CPE Bach: The Complete Works for Piano Solo    Markovina 

CD 23 from:

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[Mirror Image]

I was really enjoying the first half, but now I am thinking that it is too long.

It's really a work that goes nowhere for me. It's also way too long considering it's lack of musical material. Like I mentioned on the Messiaen thread, L'ascension is the best thing he wrote IMHO.

[Mandryka]

Marie Claire Alain plays Grigny hymns at Sarlat.

Matchless sweep and beauty of sound, and the feeling that she has a totally firm grip on the music.  A riveting performance by a fiery your musician at the very height of her powers, which makes all the other organists sound as though they're counting out notes.

[Moonfish]

Machaut: Messe de Nostre Dame       Ensemble Gilles Binchois/Vellard

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[Todd]

http://www.youtube.com/v/diFAvwtp_-M


http://www.youtube.com/v/XQsh178n7Y8



Dueling Handel Variations.  Gelber wins.

[EigenUser]

It's really a work that goes nowhere for me. It's also way too long considering it's lack of musical material. Like I mentioned on the Messiaen thread, L'ascension is the best thing he wrote IMHO.

The other day I heard his first orchestral work -- the three movement "Les Offrandes Oubliées". It was wonderful and it's only around 12 minutes long. The second movement is very Bartokian (like it could be out of "The Miraculous Mandarin").

[Mirror Image]

The other day I heard his first orchestral work -- the three movement "Les Offrandes Oubliées". It was wonderful and it's only around 12 minutes long. The second movement is very Bartokian (like it could be out of "The Miraculous Mandarin").

An early work and, yes, it's quite good. Let me say that I don't mind long works as long as there's rhyme and reason to the proceedings and I feel that the music is going somewhere and telling some kind of narrative. If I don't get anything from the music even after two or three listens, I'll file it under the 'don't come to that one for a year' bin.

[Moonfish]

Arne: Eight Overtures     AAM/Hogwood

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From this wonderful beast of a box (that finally arrived today from the UK)   
I know what I am doing for the next couple of weeks (err -- summer, ummm year)
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[Harry]

Second rerun, as good as I remember!

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2014/05/new-acquisition-isabel-i-reina-de.html?spref=tw

[Todd]

http://www.youtube.com/v/d16g3NrMVMU


Hey, who's this Lubka Kolessa?

[listener]

GLIÈRE: Overtures: Holiday at Ferghana, ..on Slavonic Themes, Gyul'sara
Concert Waltz,  Ballad for cello and orch., Heroic March
nice 'pops'-y collection of exotic-Russian sounding pieces
BBC Philharmonic      Vassily Sinaisky, cond.
originally a 1987 Chandos release
PURCELL: Odes and Welcome Songs vol.5
Welcome, welcome glorious morn
Great parent, hail to thee      The summer's absence....
The King's Consort        Robert King, cond.
REGER: Fantasy on Wie schön leucht' uns der Morgenstern
BACH: Sonata in C
KARG-ELERT: 3 Chorale improvisations
Graham Barber, organ at Altenberg Cathedral

[Ken B]

Arne: Eight Overtures     AAM/Hogwood

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From this wonderful beast of a box (that finally arrived today from the UK)   
I know what I am doing for the next couple of weeks (err -- summer, ummm year)
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Darn it, you always get the boxes before I do. Same thing happened with Markovina.

Thread duty Markovina 23 again

[Moonfish]

Darn it, you always get the boxes before I do. Same thing happened with Markovina.

Thread duty Markovina 23 again

I bribe USPS and Royal Mail to use a teleport device.   

Hmm, why Markovina 23 again? A special attraction to the sonatas?

[Ken B]

Hmm, why Markovina 23 again? A special attraction to the sonatas?

I have spun each of the discs at least twice.

Schubert 958, 959

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