What are you listening 2 now?

[steve ridgway]

Crumb: Voice Of The Whale



A great cover art concept for 1974 before there was any AI to do Voice Of The Whale plus Night Of The Four Moons for you .

Out of curiosity I signed up to Canva and it made me this within minutes so I'm sure that someone with a clue and bothering to read the instructions could do a very good job .

[AnotherSpin]

[steve ridgway]

Now listening to Maderna: Oboe Concerto No. 1



The cover art looks like an old PC overheating and emitting a score in the form of smoke so I guess he used Finale .

[Harry]

August Kühnel. (1645-1700)
Sei Sonate O Partite.
LES SONATES POUR DEUX VIOLES DE GAMBE.
See back cover for details.
Recorded: Église Saint-Augustin, Mirabel (Québec), Canada, December, 2010.

Despite his modest output, Kühnel remained the most important master of the bass viol of his time in Germany. He is almost forgotten and little recorded as it is, yet it is very attractive music, and on a very high artistic level. Kühnel's only collection demands both melodic and harmonic playing from his instrument. It beautifully combines Italian, French, and German styles. In it, he shows himself to be by turns elegant, sensitive, and virtuosic. A real gem for the likes of me. Pristine performances and superb sound. Such a pity that he is virtually unknown to most.

[hopefullytrusting]

Tried listening to Arkady Luxemburg's Cello Concerto, and it is just a disaster. I can deal with bad acoustics, but when you combine that with lackluster performance - you almost feel sorry for the composer because I cannot imagine them desiring this.

It does feel as if there is something there, but I'll never know as I'll never make it through.

Very disappointed. :-(

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Xb9ViliLer0

[steve ridgway]

Scelsi: Xnoybis



I am no expert but it looks like Scelsi put a lot of thought into this and wrote it all down carefully .

[steve ridgway]

NP Ives: Set No. 6: From The Side Hill

[Florestan]

One of my first CD purchases years ago. An excellent set no one ever seems to mention.

Excellent indeed.

IIRC, you live in Florida. I hope you are okay and not affected by Milton.

[Harry]

Music for the Eyes.
Masques and Fancies.
See for details back cover.
Concerto Scirocco, Giulia Genini.
Alfia Bakieva Violin, Johannes Frisch Violin, Krishna Nagaraja Viola, Amelie Chemin Viola da Gamba,  Luca Bandini, Violone Piccolo, Violone Grosso, Pietro Modesti, Cornetto, Marc Pauchard, Cornetto, Susanna Defendi, Sackbut, Nathaniel Wood, Sackbut, Michele Vannelli, Organ, Cembalo, Virginal, Giovanni Bellini, Lute, Theorbo, Gabriele Miracle, Percussion, Giulia Genini, Dulcian, Recorders.
Pitch: a' = 415/466 Hz, Meantone temperament 1/4 comma.
Cover picture: Robert Peake the Elder, Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, with Sir John Harington, in the Hunting Field, detail, 1603.

This recording delves into the English music of the Elizabethan age, specifically that of the elaborate masques and intimate fantasias. Eccentric fantasias by John Hilton, monumental Canzones and Pavanes by William Brade, brash, eloquent masques by Robert Johnson. all of them testaments to an era of unprecedented musical invention and experimentation. And this you clearly hear in a fantastic performance, really outstanding. This interpretation is so cultivated and multi-faceted that one has the passions captured in music. SOTA recording.

[Harry]

Grazyna Bacewicz (1909–1969).
Music for String Orchestra.
Details on the back cover.

Somehow I missed this recording in my quest for Bacewicz music. I am a great admirer of this Polish genius. And this CD proves abundantly why. Great performance and recording.

[Mookalafalas]

I've been playing this every day. It's not necessarily better than other versions, and yet I don't get tired of it.

[Papy Oli]

Morning all,

Rued Langgaard - 9th & 10th Symphony

[Harry]

Sergei Rachmaninov.
Orchestral works.
The Rock, Op.7, Symphonic poem after A. Chekhov.
Prince Rostislav, Symphonic poem after A.K. Tolstoy.
Scherzo in D minor.
Caprice bohémien, Op.12.
The Isle of the Dead, Op.29, Symphonic poem after A. Böcklin.
Russian State Symphony Orchestra, Valeri Kuzmich Polyansky.
Recorded in 2001, Grand Hall of Moscow Conservatory.

I was unaware of this recording, until a GMG member alerted me to it. And since I am an admirer of Polyanski's art, it was quickly bookmarked and I now listen to. A few unknown works for me, and some I know well. There is nothing that disappoints, a very reflective and energized performance of "The Rock", the "Isle of the Dead" that gives you the chills, with a very melancholy wind blowing throughout this work. All the other works are pleasing to the ear and mind, and worthy to be heard. Superb performances and ditto sound.

[Madiel]

Mozart: Violin sonatas 14, 15 and 16



All highly enjoyable works, with no.14 being exceptionally bright and bubbly, no.15 quite mellow and no.16 splitting the difference. So ends the childhood violin sonatas, then you have to fast forward about a dozen years to get the second half of this series.

[vandermolen]

Maurice Ravel: Ma Mère l'Oye, for piano four hands. Samson François, Pierre Barbizet.

I just received that set.

[Iota]

Debussy Preludes, Book I
1. Danseuses de Delphe
4. Les sons et les parfums tournent dans l'air du soir
5. Les collines d'Anacapri
9. La sérénade interrompue

Schoenberg: 3 Piano Pieces, Op. 11

Bartók: Out of Doors
1. With Drums and Pipes
2. Barcarolla
3. Musettes

This is somewhat ridiculous, as far as I can ascertain Zedginidze is about thirteen or fourteen at the time of recording and yet this is some of the best Debussy I've heard, and some of most interesting Bartok. The Debussy is magical and the Bartok, not being as brutal as some, allows little tendrils of expression to be heard rather than steamrollered by higher energies, Musettes is remarkable. The Schoenberg is seen through clear spring water rather than soaked in 2nd Viennese gloom, and consequently sounds very new, which makes more sense now I find out within the last couple of minutes that he's quite so young.
 
I did start listening to his composition at the beginning, but wasn't that drawn to it. Again at the time I didn't know it was written by someone so young, and will return to it with that in mind I think. Anyway, obviously an extraordinary talent, I hope he's able to carry it with him through to adulthood.

[Papy Oli]

Chipping away at Foccroulle's JS Bach's Organ works.

Clavier Ubung III - BWV 684 to 689
Four Duettos on CU3 - BWV 802-805


 

[Madiel]

Haydn: Piano Sonata no.48 in C major



The first of the 'Auenbrugger' set of sonatas, where Haydn had a say in the publication order. So it makes sense that he chose a very bright work with a bustling 1st movement to head the collection. Well, Bavouzet certainly makes it sound like a very bright work. Enjoyable. Though possibly it was a better choice for a morning rather than a Friday evening!

[Harry]

William Walton (1902–1983).
Viola Concerto original version (1928–9)

Edmund Rubbra (1901–1986).
Meditations on a Byzantine Hymn for solo viola Op 117, (1962)
Viola Concerto in A major Op 75 (1952).

Lawrence Power, Viola.
BBC Scottish SO, Ilan Volkov.
Recorded at City Hall, Glasgow, on 16 and 17 September 2006 (concertos) and Henry Wood Hall, London, on 27 September 2006 (Meditations on a Byzantine Hymn).

Both Viola Concertos I like enormously, and certainly in such fine performances and sound. The Meditations were unknown to me, but it a huge draw into the world of Rubbra. A work of religious and solemn aspects. This release brings together three major pieces by two outstanding and highly individual English composers and is Prime quality time for my ears and mind.

[Papy Oli]

Mozart: Violin sonatas 14, 15 and 16

All highly enjoyable works, with no.14 being exceptionally bright and bubbly, no.15 quite mellow and no.16 splitting the difference. So ends the childhood violin sonatas, then you have to fast forward about a dozen years to get the second half of this series.

What I heard of Ibragimova/Tiberghien yesterday was really enticing.

Out of interest, which other performers did you also strongly consider before taking the plunge on this one?