What are you listening to now?

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Are you re-re-re-re-re-evaluating Delius again?

I am. Elgar called Delius 'a poet and a visionary' so this is enough for me. I agree with Elgar.

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Listening to Dance Rhapsody No. 1. Great stuff.

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I am. Elgar called Delius 'a poet and a visionary' so this is enough for me. I agree with Elgar.

I hope you did not dispense of your Delius collection prematurely and have to re-acquire them!


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A Bach Book for Harriet Cohen (British transcriptions of Bach), Jonathan Plowright

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I hope you did not dispense of your Delius collection prematurely and have to re-acquire them!

Hah! I would never part with my Delius collection and I knew that I would knocking at the Delius door again even after my rejection of his music. I should never listen to the critics. I should always listen to what my heart and mind tell me about the music.

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Hah! I would never part with my Delius collection and I knew that I would knocking at the Delius door again even after my rejection of his music. I should never listen to the critics. I should always listen to what my heart and mind tell me about the music.

But you do have two hearts and three minds at the same time! Ha!

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But you do have two hearts and three minds at the same time! Ha!

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All my hearts are belong to Delius!

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All my hearts are belong to Delius!

Oh, you say that to all the composers!

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Tales of the Musically Promiscuous

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All my hearts are belong to Delius!

[SonicMan46]

New arrival and a new composer to me - purchased prompted by an enthusiastic review by Jerry Dubins in the most recent issue of Fanfare (attached, for those interested):

Moór, Emanuel (1863-1931) - Cello Concertos et al w/ Peter & Ildiko Szabó on cellos & Zsolt Hamar/Hungarian SO Miskolc - these works were in part written for and premiered by Pablo Casals, and are indeed beautiful - excellent sound presence as expected on the Hungaroton label - recommended. 

Moór was a Hungarian composer, pianist, and inventor of musical instruments; his best know invention was the Emánuel Moór Pianoforte, which consisted of two keyboards lying one above each other and allowed, by means of a tracking device, one hand to play a spread of two octaves. The double keyboard pianoforte was promoted extensively in concerts throughout Europe and the United States by Moór's second wife, the British pianist Winifred Christie (Source Wiki).

Picture of the double-keyboard piano (1927) added below (New York Times Article, July 2007) - his works: "besides five operas and eight symphonies his output also included: concertos for piano (4), violin (4), cello (2), viola, and harp; a triple concerto for violin, cello, and piano; chamber music; a requiem; and numerous lieder (Wiki). On Amazon USA, only this CD is listed under his name (plus one w/ works of different composers) - must be some great 'unrecorded' music by him!  Dave

 

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WAGNER: Lieder again, particularly listening to the French ones after coming across a chapter on them in Eric Blore's Blom's Stepchildren of Music.  (image posted yesterday)
and a pair of concertos SCHUMANN and RUFINATSCHA played on a Graf fortepiano of 1838
by Michael Schöch with the St. Blasius Academy Orch., Karlheinz Siessel, cond.

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New arrival and a new composer to me - purchased prompted by an enthusiastic review by Jerry Dubins in the most recent issue of Fanfare (attached, for those interested):

Moór, Emanuel (1863-1931) - Cello Concertos et al w/ Peter & Ildiko Szabó on cellos & Zsolt Hamar/Hungarian SO Miskolc - these works were in part written for and premiered by Pablo Casals, and are indeed beautiful - excellent sound presence as expected on the Hungaroton label - recommended. 

Moór was a Hungarian composer, pianist, and inventor of musical instruments; his best know invention was the Emánuel Moór Pianoforte, which consisted of two keyboards lying one above each other and allowed, by means of a tracking device, one hand to play a spread of two octaves. The double keyboard pianoforte was promoted extensively in concerts throughout Europe and the United States by Moór's second wife, the British pianist Winifred Christie (Source Wiki).

Picture of the double-keyboard piano (1927) added below (New York Times Article, July 2007) - his works: "besides five operas and eight symphonies his output also included: concertos for piano (4), violin (4), cello (2), viola, and harp; a triple concerto for violin, cello, and piano; chamber music; a requiem; and numerous lieder (Wiki). On Amazon USA, only this CD is listed under his name (plus one w/ works of different composers) - must be some great 'unrecorded' music by him!  Dave

 

Dave, how would you describe Moor's musical style?

Edit: I see he composed eight symphonies! Very nice. Not to mention numerous concerti and a Requiem.

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Webern's Symphony, Op. 21. An outstanding work. Morton Feldman claimed it to be "The most thrilling thing I've ever heard". It shows in Feldman's music, too.
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Listening to Lyra Angelica. One of most exquisite works I know for harp and orchestra.

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Bartók
Sonata for Two Pianos & Percussion
Argerich, Freire, Guggeis & Sadlo

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JS Bach: Trio Sonatas  BWV 530, 525, 529;  Duettos BWV 802-805          Palladian Ensemble

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Dave, how would you describe Moor's musical style?

Edit: I see he composed eight symphonies! Very nice. Not to mention numerous concerti and a Requiem.

Hi John - these works were written in the first decade of the 1900s (w/ mainly Casals prompting and encouragement) - but the music is late 19th century Romantic (Brahms, Bruch, & Dvorak come to mind) - the orchestral writing is full and varied, often quite lyrical, and w/ plenty for the cellists to show off their talents - see Dubins thoughts in my PDF attachment for a lot more detail.

Moór was prolific (Dubins lists the number of his works from a dedicated German site) but much is unpublished and very little recorded - other than the cello CD, Amazon USA has just a few other discs of 'mixed' composers.  Dubins makes a rather bold statement about the symphonies possibly being the equal of Dvorak's similar works - well?  Dave

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For the afternoon, Beethoven - String Quartets, Op. 18 w/ Quatuor Mosaïques - Dave