What are you listening to now?

[NikF4]

"Que c'est beau!", said Igor Stravinsky. And I fully agree with him...

Indeed, beautiful.
And I'll need to put together an updated list of the works I own by Schmitt, because there's bound to be much I'm missing out on.

[Irons]

Be it as it may, GB / UK is now only a pale and laughable shadow of her former self. Sic transit gloria mundi.

What! Have you forgotten Frank Lampard and Wayne Rooney already? 

[The new erato]

Enescu
Symphony No. 1 in E-flat major, Op. 13
Lawrence Foster, conductor
Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo



Really amazing work. Of course, the orchestration is first-rate, but there's much more to this work than orchestration. There is a musical narrative happening. I still won't say that orchestral music is Enescu's strongest point, but there's nothing unworthy about this symphony and it's his first, so I can't wait to revisit the other two.

I didn't quite warm to Enescu's symphonic works (I have the Foster) until I bought the Ondine recordings. I'm sorry if that makes you spend more money.

[NikF4]

D'Indy: Orchestral Works - Janowski/Radio France Philharmonic.

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[SurprisedByBeauty]

#morninglistening to #DavidGompper on @naxosrecords w/#WolfganDavid, @rpoOnline, #EmmanuelSiffert et al.

: http://a-fwd.to/3NR5l6b

@surprisedbeauty music!

[Florestan]

What! Have you forgotten Frank Lampard and Wayne Rooney already? 

Alas! they too belong to the past.

[Irons]

Alas! they too belong to the past.

OK. Declan Rice then. (Forgetting the fact we "stole" him from the Irish Republic).

[Traverso]

Debussy

Préludes  book 1
Tarantelle Styrienne
Hommage à Haydn

[vandermolen]

Symphony 5 'Solitudo':

[Florestan]

OK. Declan Rice then. (Forgetting the fact we "stole" him from the Irish Republic).

Declan who?

[Madiel]

UK is England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, while Great Britain is all of the above plus the rest of the Commonwealth. Is this right?

"Britain" is the name of an island. Someone decided it warranted the adjective "Great".

The island used to be the home of the Britons. Only after the Anglo-Saxons invaded, quite a lot of them fled across the sea, to Brittany. Where they became Bretons.

[Traverso]

Kurtàg

CD 1

[vandermolen]

Just heard that my aunt (actually a cousin of my dad's) died last night just five weeks short of her 100th birthday - so thought this would be appropriate and consoling music. I often turn to it at such times:

[TheGSMoeller]

Purchased this for $3.99 through iTunes.

[Papy Oli]

Some assortment of Vaughan Williams - CD11 from his collector's edition :

Serenade to Music
The poisoned Kiss
Old King Cole
Five mystical songs
Prelude on an old carol tune
The running set
Prelude 49th parallel
Sea songs - March

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Just heard that my aunt (actually a cousin of my dad's) died last night just five weeks short of her 100th birthday - so thought this would be appropriate and consoling music. I often turn to it at such times:

Sorry for your loss, Jeffrey.

[vandermolen]

Some assortment of Vaughan Williams - CD11 from his collector's edition :

Serenade to Music
The poisoned Kiss
Old King Cole
Five mystical songs
Prelude on an old carol tune
The running set
Prelude 49th parallel
Sea songs - March

[asin]B00156ZWV0[/asin]


Sorry for your loss, Jeffrey.

Thank you Olivier.

Interesting VW selection. I'm not fond of the Serenade to Music but am very much in the minority there. However, I think that Old King Cole is great fun and the Five Mystical Songs are amongst his greatest works. I like the two Preludes and The Running Set as well.

Thread duty:
Back to Peterson-Berger as I was interrupted last time I attempted to listen to this (Symphony 5 'Solitudo'):

[Mirror Image]

I didn't quite warm to Enescu's symphonic works (I have the Foster) until I bought the Ondine recordings. I'm sorry if that makes you spend more money.

Hah! I already own the Lintu recordings. I should listen to those. I'm not really a huge fan of Enescu's orchestral music in general. I'm finding much more excitement and originality in the chamber works and, hopefully, the solo piano music, which I will be visiting soon.

[Papy Oli]

Interesting VW selection. I'm not fond of the Serenade to Music but am very much in the minority there. However, I think that Old King Cole is great fun and the Five Mystical Songs are amongst his greatest works. I like the two Preludes and The Running Set as well.

I ended up skipping the songs, not in the right frame of mind for them I guess. I enjoyed mostly the Serenade to music and the last four tracks myself.

With my recent foray in British orchestral music, I seem to be more receptive to RVW's orchestral music than on previous attempts. I might have to revisit his symphonies sooner rather than later (I have the Handley cycle and Andrew Davis'.). Only the 2nd symphony really stuck with me (that Lento is one of my most favourite symphonic movements), all the rest was just same-y  0:)

High time, I re-assess them.

[Traverso]

Hans Werner Henze

Piano Concerto No.2 ( Eschenbach)

[Mirror Image]

Enescu
Violin Sonata No. 3 in A minor, Op. 25 'dans le caractère populaire roumain'
Remus Azoitei (violin), Eduard Stan (piano)