What are you listening to now?

[Mirror Image]

Thought I'd end tonight's listening session with a Reich work:



Listening to Nagoya Marimbas. Hypnotic little piece.

[SimonNZ]

Messiaen's Quartet For The End Of Time - Ensemble Liaison

[Harry]

Choral music to start with

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2016/08/vaet-jacobus-c1529-1567-sacred-music.html?spref=tw

[Autumn Leaves]

Today's listening:



The Mazurkas (listened to all of them).



Listening to some of the Chopin in this box-set: most likely the Piano Sonatas (#2 & 3 are included here I think).

[Monsieur Croche]

Irving Fine ~ Music for Piano
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4l0Rxc3MFHA

[SimonNZ]

Philip Glass' Powaqqatsi

[Harry]

Some baroque music on a recording that made quite a entrance...

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2016/08/muffat-georg-1653-1704-florilegium.html?spref=tw

[Madiel]

These songs are sung by Shara Worden, also the lead singer of My Brightest Diamond. Her voice is stirring, and fits Lang's vision perfectly. She was featured on an album by The Decembrists as well, and I saw her in concert with them. she's a great performer.

I know her from another recording I think I've previously mentioned, Penelope

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In fact it was while I was obsessed by Penelope that I came across mention of Death Speaks. I don't remember being immediately grabbed by it however. I couldn't tell you for sure how much of it I listened to.

[Madiel]

One of my favorite HvK recordings. His Verklarte Nacht is the best I've heard.

It's the one recording that I own, and it drives me nuts because it's orchestral. Hearing the original sextet version, live, was a revelation and has forever left the orchestral version in the dust.

[Wanderer]

Streaming:

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[The new erato]

It's the one recording that I own, and it drives me nuts because it's orchestral. Hearing the original sextet version, live, was a revelation and has forever left the orchestral version in the dust.

I have forever left the "bigger is better" school of thought.

[Karl Henning]

Streaming:

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Cool!

[Karl Henning]

It's the one recording that I own, and it drives me nuts because it's orchestral. Hearing the original sextet version, live, was a revelation and has forever left the orchestral version in the dust.

I am entirely in sympathy with preference for the sextet (I am exactly the same with Jn Adams's Shaker Loops—I just cannot bear to hear the "big band" version, for musical reasons. I understand that it is marketing, pure and simple; and Adams has long been all about the marketing.)

But the string orchestra version of the Schoenberg is a pleasure of its own.  I agree that HvK is (and in this, true to himself) much, much too whooshy.

[Madiel]

But the string orchestra version of the Schoenberg is a pleasure of its own.  I agree that HvK is (and in this, true to himself) much, much too whooshy.

Shrug. It's entirely possible that another performance of the orchestral version would be something I respond to. I just don't know if anyone will get the chance...

Pelleas and Melisande on the same album is, I seem to recall, something I liked better.

I've had a recording of the sextet on my shopping list for quite a while (sometime last year), I just haven't pulled the trigger yet. This year's shopping has been dictated by what I could find in a real-life physical store on two trips to Melbourne, partly because I found so much of what I wanted! The next time that I do some online purchasing, I expect to be purchasing the sextet.

[Drasko]

[Karl Henning]

Schoenberg
Verklärte Nacht, Op.4 (string orchestra version)
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

[Karl Henning]

Shrug. It's entirely possible that another performance of the orchestral version would be something I respond to. I just don't know if anyone will get the chance...

It won't surprise you that I find both Boulez and Craft much better in the Op.4 than HvK.

The Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, too, give a committed and thoroughly engaging performance.

[Mirror Image]

It's the one recording that I own, and it drives me nuts because it's orchestral. Hearing the original sextet version, live, was a revelation and has forever left the orchestral version in the dust.

I like both versions. It doesn't matter which version I hear because it's the music that I most care about.

[Mirror Image]

I am entirely in sympathy with preference for the sextet (I am exactly the same with Jn Adams's Shaker Loops—I just cannot bear to hear the "big band" version, for musical reasons. I understand that it is marketing, pure and simple; and Adams has long been all about the marketing.)

But the string orchestra version of the Schoenberg is a pleasure of its own.  I agree that HvK is (and in this, true to himself) much, much too whooshy.

[Raises quivering hand] Ummm...I actually like Adams' orchestration of his Shaker Loops.

Thread duty -



Listening Hungarian Sketches. A fun work expertly performed by Fischer/Budapest Festival Orchestra.

[Karl Henning]

[Raises quivering hand] Ummm...I actually like Adams' orchestration of his Shaker Loops.

YMMV of course