What are you listening to now?

[bhodges]

Reich: Mallet Quartet (Third Coast Percussion) - This excellent, Chicago-based group tackles some of Reich's best work.

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--Bruce

[Brian]

Maybe the least well-known Salonen album?

[aligreto]

Tveitt: Concerto No. 1 for Hardanger Fiddle and Orchestra....

[Kontrapunctus]

Stunning.

[Andante]

The Whale. John Tavener.


https://youtu.be/up6e_zKJcxU

[ludwigii]

Carl Nielsen
Symphony No. 1 in G minor, Op. 7, FS 16

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Carl Nielsen knitting to keep his heart rate down on a vacation in Jonsered, Sweden

[kishnevi]

I thought he was primarily a violist (playing viola in the Amar Quartet)? But perhaps the difference isn't htat great, and I seem to remember that Hindemith once said that he could play all instruments in the orchestra to some degree.

Hindemith wrote Der Schwanendreher and Trauermusik  for himself as soloist.

TD

Started on this set with CD1, the Slavonic Dances (Neumann, Czech PO)
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And now the Ricercares from Musical Offering and the Art of Fugue, from the Sony Charles Rosen box

[Mirror Image]

A  very fine disc which however could have benefited from a little more variety; containing only relatively slow moving music for violin and various orchestral combination.

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Yes, a very fine disc indeed. The lack of variety isn't an issue with me as this kind of music really puts my mind at ease and I can just bask in beautiful sonorities.

[Mirror Image]

Now:



Listening to the 3rd. Sometimes there's just nothing like some Late-Romantic lushness.

[listener]

The set of solo pieces played by Julius Katchen in the Philips "Great Pianists..." series
works by BALAKIREV, FRANCK, ROREM, CHOPIN, LISZT, MENDELSSOHN and BRAHMS

[Mirror Image]

Stunning.

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

[Kontrapunctus]

A fine performance and excellent SACD audio.

[Mirror Image]

Now:



Listening to Chukrum. Love these kind of soundscapes. Jessop, if you haven't heard any of Scelsi's music, then run, don't walk over to Amazon and buy this box set. You'll thank me later.

[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