What are you listening to now?

[Karl Henning]

Babbit
All Set
BMOP

[asin]B00HF95P4U[/asin]

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

I've never properly applied myself to procrastination . . . .

You funny!   

[springrite]

I've never properly applied myself to procrastination . . . .

You are simply procrastinating about applying yourself to procrastination, which is the procrastination of the worst kind!

[Karl Henning]

Thread Duty:

Hanson
Concerto for Organ, Harp & Strings, Op.22 № 3
Joe Jackson, org
Phila. Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra
Daniel Spalding

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[Karl Henning]

Thread Duty:

Hanson
Concerto for Organ, Harp & Strings, Op.22 № 3
Joe Jackson, org
Phila. Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra
Daniel Spalding

[asin]B000FVQUVM[/asin]

It is perhaps ironic to reflect, first of all, that more striking use of the organ is made by both Holst (in The Planets) and Vaughan Williams (in the Sinfonia antartica) . . . so, even though this work is dubbed a Concerto, overall, it strikes me as a bit grey/monochrome in tone.  But it is nevertheless beautifully written, and "easy on the ear" in the best sense.

[North Star]

G'day, Karl!


Thread duty

Tchaikovsky
Ouverture solennelle 1812, Op. 49
Pletnev & RNO

Earlier today:

Bach
various organ works
Foccroulle

Mozart
Requiem
Andres Mustonen, Inessa Galante, Antra Bigaca, Viestur Jansons, Egils Silins

[Ken B]

Too bad I'm not a composer. I would have written a Requiem for Che Guevara's Victims. 

Nate wouldn't have liked it. Far, far, far too long.

[EigenUser]

Babbit
All Set
BMOP

[asin]B00HF95P4U[/asin]

If "Tierkreis" is the one Stockhausen piece I really liked (though "Mantra" is pretty cool at times), then "All Set" is the one Babbitt piece I really like.

[Karl Henning]

. . . "All Set" is the one Babbitt piece I really like.

The Composition for Twelve Instruments is excellent, too, IMO.

(I should revisit Mantra, which likewise, may be the only Stockhausen I need . . . .)

[Ken B]

First Listen Tuesday. John Adams, Dr Atomic Symphony.
First thought part way through: cheesey.

[EigenUser]

The Composition for Twelve Instruments is excellent, too, IMO.

(I should revisit Mantra, which likewise, may be the only Stockhausen I need . . . .)

If "Verklarte Nacht" reminded a critic of Schoenberg taking score of Wagner's "Tristan and Isolde" and smearing it while the ink was still wet (not a bad thing for me, I love VN), "Mantra" reminds me of Stockhausen taking a score of Bartok's "Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion", smearing it while the ink was still wet, and adding a few ring modulators (which I could do without, by the way).

[EigenUser]

Janacek's "The Cunning Little Vixen - Suite"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a79nSbmy69U

This is the best Janacek I've heard so far.

[listener]

Modem quit, so this is from yesterday
Now ready for the afternoon
SIBELIUS: Symphony no. 4     Tapiola
Vienna Philharmonic Orch.,  Lorin Maazel, cond.
This is good, Tapiola is excellent,
SHOSTAKOVICH: Song of the Forests, op.81
Vladimir Ivanovski, tenor    Ivan Petrov, bass
Moscow Philharmonic Orch.   with chorus       Rozhdestvensky cond.
No text or translation with this edition,
PROKOFIEV: Alexander Nevsky
Vera Soukupova, sop., Czech Singers Choir, Czech Philhamonic Orch.,  Ancerl cond.
I might pull a batch of Everest discs out for that thread.

[Ken B]

John Adams, City Noir
Continuing my disenchantment with most of Adams's more recent stuff.

[Cato]

In recent days: 2 excerpts from the 11-year old Mozart's Apollo et Hyacinthus

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and

[asin]B00000E3R1[/asin]

The CD has the early Overture in G minor which is also a fine work!

[Mandryka]

The Schoenberg Quartet play Webern's op 28 quartet.

The music sounds emotionally rich, expressive, especially in the first movement. I don't know how authentic it is to play it like this, but I find it really very attractive. I don't know what Webern thought music was for.

I've come across similar issues with baroque fugues.

[Karl Henning]

John Adams, City Noir
Continuing my disenchantment with most of Adams's more recent stuff.

Thanks for taking one for the team!

[SonicMan46]

Boccherini, Luigi - String Quintets w/ Ensemble Concertant Frankfurt.

Graupner, Christoph - Orchestral Suites w/ the Finnish Baroque Orchestra - a new arrival - Dave

 

[Todd]

Some items from this set, starting with Papillons and the Novelleten.

[Sergeant Rock]

Prokofiev Symphony No.5 B flat op.100, Szell, Cleveland




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