What are you listening to now?

[EigenUser]

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What do you think of this? It has my favorite recording of the Messiaen Trois Petites Liturgies (if you forgive some slightly out-of-tune ondes-Martinot playing).

[Wanderer]

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[Karl Henning]

Admittedly, no surprise:

Дмитрий Дмитриевич [ Dmitri Dmitriyevich (Shostakovich) ]
Симфония № 9 ми-бемоль мажор , соч. 70 [ Symphony № 9 in E^b, Opus 70 ]
NY Phil
Lenny

[San Antone]

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What do you think of this? It has my favorite recording of the Messiaen Trois Petites Liturgies (if you forgive some slightly out-of-tune ondes-Martinot playing).

Good, or better, interpretations of music from the 20th century (of works that do not suffer from over-exposure), on one CD, which would be an excellent recommendation for someone with little or no experience beyond the standard repertory. 

[San Antone]

Seems Leonard Bernstein is receiving quite a few spins from a number of people today, and going back to yesterday too.  I have been dipping into his work, as well.  And it struck me that because of the overall excellence and variety of his recorded output, if I were forced to keep recordings by just one conductor, I could get by with Lenny, very nicely.



TD

A White House Cantata

[Karl Henning]

Mahler
Symphony № 5 in c# minor
NY Phil
Lenny

What may seem strange (except that it is relatively recently that I have become reconciled to the Mahler symphonies) . . . this may be the first I have ever listened to Lenny conducting Mahler.

[San Antone]

. . . it is relatively recently that I have become reconciled to the Mahler symphonies) . . .

Me too, but although I've had a Bernstein Mahler box for years,



it was by way of Abaddo.

[Wanderer]

Berlioz: Grande Messe des morts (aka Requiem). Paul Mc Creesh and vast assembled forces including his own Gabrieli Players. A truly historic recording in many ways. Not the only way to perform or record the work of course but, like spotlighting the dark side of the Moon, it sheds totally new visions (sounds) on that enigmatic work.

Very nicely put. It is truly superb.

[Beaumarchais]

Ravel's gorgeous Introduction and Allegro for harp, flute, clarinet and string quartet.

https://youtu.be/bBm1w8J63mg

[Pat B]

What may seem strange (except that it is relatively recently that I have become reconciled to the Mahler symphonies) . . . this may be the first I have ever listened to Lenny conducting Mahler.

I have only listened to his Columbia 5th once. I thought it was okay, but perhaps not representative of his general greatness in Mahler. I should probably give it another chance.

TD: Bruckner 7 (Jochum/EMI).

[Lisztianwagner]

Mahler, good idea!

Gustav Mahler
Symphony No.6

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[ritter]

Definitely not in the mood for Mahler here  , but rather for something completely different  :

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C'est magnifique!!! 

[North Star]

Mahler
Symphony № 5 in c# minor
NY Phil
Lenny

Ahem - how much of it is in c# minor? 

[San Antone]

[EigenUser]

Ahem - how much of it is in c# minor? 

Probably like 1/12th. Or I guess 1/24th, for that matter (including major scales, too)...

[Moonfish]

Dowland: Complete Music for Solo Lute             Jakob Lindberg

I think I prefer Lindberg over North as well as O'Dette in these works. 

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Disc: 2
1. Forlorn Hope, fantasie for lute, P 2
2. Walsingham, song arranged for lute, P 67
3. Mrs Vaux Galliard, for lute, P 32
4. Mrs Vaux's Jig, for lute, P 57
5. Fantasia, for lute in G minor, P 7
6. Galliard, for lute in F minor, P 76 (possibly spurious)
7. The Shoemaker's Wife, a Toy, for lute, P 58
8. Fantasia, for lute in G minor, P 6
9. Mrs Brigide Fleetwood's Pavan (Solus sine sola), for lute, P 11
10. Mr Henry Noell his Galliard (Mignarda), for lute, P 34
11. Mr Langton's Galliard, for lute, P 33
12. Loth to depart, song arranged for lute, P 69
13. Fantasia, for lute, P 73 (possibly spurious)
14. Robin (Bonny Sweet Robin), ballad arranged for lute, P 70
15. Pavan, for lute in G minor, P 18
16. Galliard, for lute in C minor, P 35
17. Farewell (on 'In Nomine'), fantasia for lute, P 4
18. Mrs Norrish's Delight, for lute, P 77 (possibly spurious)
19. A Coy Toy, for lute, P 80 (possibly spurious)
20. Fortune My Foe, song arranged for lute, P 62
21. Tarleton's Resurrection, for lute, P 59

[EigenUser]

Messiaen's Poemes Pour Mi. I love this -- a cross between Messiaen's L'Ascension and Ravel's L'Enfant et les Sortileges. It reminds me a lot of the Ravel opera, actually.
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[North Star]

Messiaen's Poemes Pour Mi. I love this -- a cross between Messiaen's L'Ascension and Ravel's L'Enfant et les Sortileges. It reminds me a lot of the Ravel opera, actually.

L'heure espagnole? 

[EigenUser]

L'heure espagnole? 

No, L'Enfant et les Sortileges. I just didn't want to type it out again...

[North Star]

No, L'Enfant et les Sortileges. I just didn't want to type it out again...

I knew, of course, but you wrote 'the Ravel opera' as if he only wrote one.