What are you listening to now?

[Karl Henning]

First-Listen Fridays!

Jack Gallagher
Symphony № 2, Ascendant
LSO
Falletta

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[Ken B]

First-Listen Fridays!

Jack Gallagher
Symphony № 2, Ascendant
LSO
Falletta

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Wait. Didn't you post that already? isn't this second-listen Friday material?

[Karl Henning]

First post was just the purchase . . . just listening to it now!

[Philo]

Nikolai Roslavets's Piano Sonata No. 1 and No. 2 followed by Anatoly Alexandrov's Piano Sonata No. 10 and No. 11

[kishnevi]

First-Listen Fridays!

Jack Gallagher
Symphony № 2, Ascendant
LSO
Falletta

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Any quiet reflections to give us yet?

[Karl Henning]

Jack is at the top of his game with this Symphony.  By turns muscular and lyrical, this is great stuff, a 63-minute symphony which inhabits its scale with assurance and beauty.  This is a "play-to-destruction" candidate, and I expect it to win.  Great writing for the brass (Jack is a trumpeter), and all the clarinet licks I hear are a blast to play, too.  In short, both faithfully engaging for the listener, and writing to win over the players.  (I haven't reached the Reflections yet.)

[ Fair Disclosure:  I studied with Jack. ]

[Karl Henning]

First-Listen Fridays!

Jack Gallagher
Quiet Reflections (1996)
LSO
Falletta

Luminous and tender, and gorgeously performed.

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[Lisztianwagner]

Leos Janacek
The Makropulos Case

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[king ubu]

not too active here lately, as my listening time was mostly spent with jazz ... but in the past days, some new acquisitions made their way into the player, amongst them these fine discs:

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then, also tihs one:

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and from the first impression, I think the Doulce Mémoire/Dadre disc of similar stuff is more interesting, though ultimately not a great one either ... wish some really gripping recording of this Ferrara material would turn up, after all the story behind the "concerto delle donne" is most intriguing!

anyway, earlier today:

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Now this was gripping! More so, I think, than Hogwood, but then the Hogwood box is wonderful, all in all, comes with a great booklet (great for this ignunt at least) and contains a lot more music, too. Played all but the final four of the symphonies (already know the great mass - great recording of it, too -, but looking forward to exploring the Requiem, a piece I've not really acquainted myself with yet).

now:

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Händel: Acis and Galatea (discs 1 and 2 of the above set, Daneman, Petibon, Agnew and a few others with Christie and his forces)

[EigenUser]

Steve Reich's Music for a Large Ensemble
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Currently, more Milton Babbitt -- Composition for 12 Instruments. It's actually not so bad. It reminds me a bit of the Webern Symphony.

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...and more Milton Babbitt -- Transfigured Notes. I wonder if Mirror Image would like this...
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[Ken B]

Steve Reich's Music for a Large Ensemble
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Currently, more Milton Babbitt -- Composition for 12 Instruments. It's actually not so bad. It reminds me a bit of the Webern Symphony.

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...and more Milton Babbitt -- Transfigured Notes. I wonder if Mirror Image would like this...
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"Not so bad. Remind me of .... Webern."
So, like cold pokers in the eye, rather than red hot ones?

[EigenUser]

"Not so bad. Remind me of .... Webern."
So, like cold pokers in the eye, rather than red hot ones?

Not quite. More like cold pokers in the eye rather than Philip Glass.



Currently, a very nice orchestration of Berg's Piano Sonata. First listen.
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[Moonfish]

JS Bach: Cello Sonatas Nos 1-3  (BWV 1027-1029)      Maisky/Argerich

A precious performance! Ah, I need to open a bottle of wine!

[kishnevi]

JS Bach: Cello Sonatas Nos 1-3  (BWV 1027-1029)      Maisky/Argerich

A precious performance! Ah, I need to open a bottle of wine!

This is why I have all the DG and EMI Argerich boxes.....

Thread duty
Friend of Argerich box

CDs 1 and 2 Concertos with Kempe/ Munich Phil Tchaikovsky 1 Liszt Totentanz Grieg Schumann

[Todd]

Charles Rosen.  Disc 7.  Schumann's Davidsbundlertanze and Carnaval.  Fine ivory tickling, to be sure, but some of the least Schumannesque Schumann I've heard.  Quick (except for a at times somewhat lumbering concluding march to Carnaval), cool, a bit antiseptic.  Not really my kind of thing.

[kishnevi]

Charles Rosen.  Disc 7.  Schumann's Davidsbundlertanze and Carnaval.  Fine ivory tickling, to be sure, but some of the least Schumannesque Schumann I've heard.  Quick (except for a at times somewhat lumbering concluding march to Carnaval), cool, a bit antiseptic.  Not really my kind of thing.

I know you are only a third of the way through that set, but what do you think of it so far?
TD
Stravinsky Fireworks Firebird (complete ballet) Tango Scherzo a la Russe Song of the Nightingale. LSO Dorati
CD 48 of the Mercury Living Presence box.

[Todd]

I know you are only a third of the way through that set, but what do you think of it so far?

So far, mixed, with more misses than hits.  There's no gainsaying Rosen's chops, but I find his interpretations to often be too cold.  I mainly bought the set for his lauded Beethoven recordings.  I will hear those soon enough.

[kishnevi]

So far, mixed, with more misses than hits.  There's no gainsaying Rosen's chops, but I find his interpretations to often be too cold.  I mainly bought the set for his lauded Beethoven recordings.  I will hear those soon enough.

I will await with interest.
Meanwhile, listening to Stravinsky's Song of the Nightingale, I realize this is the first time I have ever heard it.

[Mirror Image]

Now:



Listening to Symphony No. 6. This is fiery, explosive RVW at his best. Great performance from Davis/BBC SO.

[kishnevi]

Now:



Listening to Symphony No. 6. This is fiery, explosive RVW at his best. Great performance from Davis/BBC SO.

The Slatkin RVW set is at the top of my listening pile, probably start it this weekend.
But now return to the Freire set, with CD 3. Schumann Carnaval Schubert Impromptus original release in 1969.