What are you listening to now?

[Ken B]

I love the QFET.

Odd, though. To me, TPL seems almost exactly like the TS with an added chorus. Especially the third liturgy, with the loud hyperactive/overheated writing juxtaposed immediately with the lyrical "love-song" featuring the O-M and strings. TPL is nowhere near as bombastic as the TS, but I don't think bombast is a bad quality (like anything, it can be done well and it can be done poorly -- I find the TS to do it quite well).

What do you think of Oiseaux Exotiques and the Et Exspecto Resurrectionum Mortuorum? Both of those are scored for a small-ish ensemble (no strings in either). The EERM is one of my favorite pieces (my favorite Messiaen for sure), but I also love the OE. The back of our house faces the woods and it really is amazing how similar the piece sounds to the birds in the morning! I mean, sure, it isn't as high or as fast as birds, but all of the patterns are remarkable.

Mixed feelings. I do think he let the idea of birdsong run too wild and take over. I wonder if these works will last in your affections. Remember Alvin.  I was a big Mess fan at about 24 ... The ones that lasted I listed.

Thread, Dutch Brats do Bach Cantatas, disc 4, whatever that corresponds to ...

[EigenUser]

Mixed feelings. I do think he let the idea of birdsong run too wild and take over.

I actually agree. It's fine in OE since that is the point of the piece. I think that I like EERM significantly more than his other later works (say, 1960s and on) because it doesn't play a huge role (really just in the 4th mvt.). The gamelan orchestra effect there is also very cool and goes back to Debussy and the 1889 Worlds Fair in Paris.

I wonder if these works will last in your affections. Remember Alvin.  I was a big Mess fan at about 24 ... The ones that lasted I listed.

I hope so. I really enjoy them now. I tend to listen to things obsessively and then put them "on a shelf", so to speak, where I still call them my favorites, but rarely listen to them since I know them so well (i.e. much of Bartok -- I'd say it has all lasted, but I just don't need to hear so much anymore since his music is pretty much engraved on my eardrum like grooves on a record player ).

[Ken B]

I actually agree. It's fine in OE since that is the point of the piece. I think that I like EERM significantly more than his other later works (say, 1960s and on) because it doesn't play a huge role (really just in the 4th mvt.). The gamelan orchestra effect there is also very cool and goes back to Debussy and the 1889 Worlds Fair in Paris.
I hope so. I really enjoy them now. I tend to listen to things obsessively and then put them "on a shelf", so to speak, where I still call them my favorites, but rarely listen to them since I know them so well (i.e. much of Bartok -- I'd say it has all lasted, but I just don't need to hear so much anymore since his music is pretty much engraved on my eardrum like grooves on a record player ).

For me at least Bartok has held up pretty well. He's never been a top favourite, but he's always been part of my regular listening. He has depth and avoids empty show.

[Mookalafalas]

I was expecting this to be rather quaint, but find it has real depth and power.

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[Moonfish]

Thread duty - today:

JS Bach: Cantatas BWV 12, 38, 61        The Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir/Koopman

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Smetana: Ma Vlast          Royal PO/Sargent

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Haydn: Baryton Trios Nos 97, 111, 87 & 101        Hsu/Miller/Arico

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Haydn: String Quartets Op 76.1-3      Kodaly Quartet

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[Que]

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[Que]

Full agreement here, Que. He really composed some amazing music.

Did you finally purchase that 4-CD set set with the complete recording of his keyboard sonatas, superbly played by Sylvia Georgieva on Praga Digitals? 

Already bought that quite some  time ago!
http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,9.msg224396.html#msg224396

Does not lessen my enjoyment of that amazing set, BTW.

Q

[amw]

https://www.youtube.com/v/c9gvTKdZhD4

[Bogey]

Haydn: Baryton Trios Nos 97, 111, 87 & 101        Hsu/Miller/Arico

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Top shelf.

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Q

Added to wish list.

Thread duty:

[Karl Henning]

Good morning, Bill!

[TheGSMoeller]

Good morning, Bill!

Good morning, Bill. Good morning, Karl. Good morning, everyone! 

[Karl Henning]

Good morning, Greg! 

[EigenUser]

For me at least Bartok has held up pretty well. He's never been a top favourite, but he's always been part of my regular listening. He has depth and avoids empty show.

Oh, he definitely is holding up -- it's just that there is so much more music out there! I still call him my #1 favorite composer because his aesthetic is the most appealing to me.

Currently: fractals, conga-lines, and coffee -- breakfast with Ligeti's Piano Concerto
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[Bogey]

Good morning, Bill. Good morning, Karl. Good morning, everyone! 

*raises mug of coffee to screen*

[Karl Henning]

Oh, he definitely is holding up -- it's just that there is so much more music out there! I still call him my #1 favorite composer because his aesthetic is the most appealing to me.

Currently: fractals, conga-lines, and coffee -- breakfast with Ligeti's Piano Concerto
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Good morning, Nate!

I'm thinking of arranging a piece for piano trio, does that combination suit you these days?

[Karl Henning]

*raises mug of coffee to screen*

(* brandishes Oolong with a friendly air *)

[EigenUser]

Good morning, Nate!

I'm thinking of arranging a piece for piano trio, does that combination suit you these days?

Good morning, Karl!

Which piece? One of yours? I don't know a cellist, so I'm not sure I'd be able to play it.

[Karl Henning]

Aye, a piece of mine presently scored for cl/vn/pf.

[Madiel]

Haydn: String Quartets Op 76.1-3      Kodaly Quartet

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My first love...

Thread duty for me: doing something relatively unusual, and listening to this disc the whole way through rather than siphoning off individual works.

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[Karl Henning]

Thread duty for me: doing something relatively unusual, and listening to this disc the whole way through rather than siphoning off individual works.

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Will be interested to hear your report.