What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Peregrine]

[hildegard]

[Lethevich]

Djabadary - Orchestral works (Goraieb, Luxembourg RSO, Froment)

Staggeringly obscure stuff - mp3s from (I presume) a vinyl. Generally this is totally unimpressive, but the obscurity gives it a certain appeal The Georgian Rhapsody is quite nice.

[AnthonyAthletic]

Clementi:

Having heard nothing of his music prior to buying this set, nor knowing nothing about the composer I was really suprised at the beauty in the music.  Two very short (un-numbered) symphonies to start followed by his sumptuous piano concerto, which has a Mozartian lyrical second movement.

The inlay notes refer to Clementi as a composer sandwiched between the end of the 18th century, through the changes into the early 19th Century.

The remaining two cds deal with his numbered 1-4 symphonies and two overtures.  If they are as fine as the first cd, then its £2.50 well spent 

[Dancing Divertimentian]

Scriabin, symphony #3, Kondrashin w/ the Concertgebouw, live recording, 1976.

[Lilas Pastia]

Tony, I can assure you that Clementi is one composer you won't regret exploring further! And that ASV set is a sumptuous repast of his orchestral works. Mind you, it's anything but HIP, what with the Philharmonia Orchestra in full cry and warm, glossy recorded sound to boot. Someday we'll get a HIP version of these works but in  the meantime Signor Clementi is very well served by these recordings (reissued as a set on Brilliant Classics). I own about a dozen discs of his keayboard music, and it's just as good.

This week, my in-car listening features the wonderfully tuneful and surprisingly 'deep' Franz Danzi bassoon quartets. This is music of uncommon sophistication, with many a movement as good as the very best by Haydn or Mozart (not that they wrote any chamber music featuring 'the clown of the orchestra', but you get the idea . The variation movement (last) of quartet 2 in d minor is an instant hit I can't stop replaying! It has the drollest theme played, harmonized and varied canonically between the voices. Magnificent!

[Lethevich]

Dunstaple - Musician to the Plantagenets (Orlando Consort)



I wish more of his motets survived Still looking for a good disc of all 12 (or around that number), but the few on this CD are suprerbly performed...

If they are as fine as the first cd, then its £2.50 well spent 

I wish I could find CDs of obscure composers for £2.50

[Renfield]

Brahms' Third Symphony.

I need to get some sleep.

Edit: And I also need to write less sluggishly.

[Lethevich]

I need to get some sleep.

I have to stay awake all night, then later tomorrow, and later again the day after to fix my sleeping pattern by Friday

[Renfield]

I have to stay awake all night, then later tomorrow, and later again the day after to fix my sleeping pattern by Friday

I was hoping I'd be alone in doing these "circadian stunts".

I'm trying to reset my own sleep-pattern to a more "conventional" one, for the next week, but I've had more trouble than usual readjusting. In fact, I'm so tired at the moment that I might as well sleep, whereas the last couple of days my eyelids wouldn't get heavy before it dawned. Must be "daylight-savings" doing the damage...


And Brahms' Third is over. Should I really go to sleep? Perhaps I will.

[Lethevich]

Not playing now, but will be in 5 minutes:

Berg - Lyric Suite (Arditti Quartet)

Must be "daylight-savings" doing the damage...

That's my favourite excuse!!!

Also: Sleeep, I wish I could

[George]

Lethe and Renfield: I thought that daylight savings time isn't until Saturday? 

[Lethevich]

Lethe and Renfield: I thought that daylight savings time isn't until Saturday? 

It's done several days earlier in the EU for some reason.

[George]

It's done several days earlier in the EU for some reason.

Perhaps they should do it here in the USA as well. I couldn't sleep until 5am both nights this weekend. 

[Dancing Divertimentian]

Warsaw recital, 1972. First issued by Arkadia, later by Music & Arts. Arkadia's transfer is actually a notch above M&A. Warmer, with a bit more bloom.

[Que]

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[Mark]

A truly astonishingly terrible album cover. Looks like an advert for gardening clothing.

[Que]

A truly astonishingly terrible album cover. Looks like an advert for gardening clothing.

Scott Ross was obviously not a very smart dresser...

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[matti]

A quote from Wikipedia:

"For one concert at Université Laval which was attended by the university chancellor and the French Consul General he wore jeans and a red lumberjack shirt. Self-effacing to a fault, he explained, 'I started the Goldbergs 'cause I quit smoking and, to keep one's fingers busy, it's better than knitting'."

[Harry]

Oh, just listen to Mr "I don't want any sopranos, thank you!" 

Doesn't stop me from liking Strauss Orchestral music, now does it......