What are you listening 2 now?

[ritter]

And now, to round off tonight's listening, Marc-André Dalbavie by the Ensemble Intercontemporain conducted by Pierre Boulez...



Seuils (for soprano —Rié Hamada—, ensemble and electronics) and Diadèmes (for viola —Christophe Desjardins—, ensemble and electronics).

I've always had the impression that Dalbavie is a, musically speaking, a "direct descendant" of Ravel...

[DavidW]

I've found a great set of Schubert's Piano Trios that I haven't heard before!

[Linz]

Mendelssohn, Schoenberg, Petrassi & Liszt: Orchestral Works, Orchestra Giovanile Italiana; Giuseppe Sinopoli

[VonStupp]

Samuel Barber
Mélodies Passagères, op. 27
Three Songs, op. 45
10 early songs

Cheryl Studer, soprano
Thomas Hampson, baritone
John Browning, piano

VS

[Karl Henning]

CD 17

César Franck
Symphony in d minor

Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra (Minnesota Orchestra)
Dimitri Mitropoulos
recorded 8 Jan & 4 Nov 1940

[Karl Henning]

CD 18

Tchaikovsky
Symphony in f minor, Op. 36

Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra (Minnesota Orchestra)
Dimitri Mitropoulos
recorded 12/22 Jan & 26 Nov 1940

[André]

Revisiting Brun's symphonies. Discs 1-2. Symphonies 1 and 2, Festive Overture and Symphonic Prologue.

The first was composed the same year as Mahler's 5th. The difference between fastidiousness and genius. Brun's work was to become much more original with symphonies 5 and 6. A bit like Nielsen and his first two symphonies (# 2 is also from 1901) vs his last two.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

A Room of Her Own.
Chamber Music.
Works by: Lili Boulanger (1893–1918)-Cécile Chaminade (1857–1944)-Germaine Tailleferre (1892–1983) Dame Ethel Smyth (1858– 1944).
See back cover for details.
Neave Trio
Anna Williams, violin.
Mikhail Veselov, cello.
Eri Nakamura, piano.
Recording: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk, 2023.

Lili Boulanger is still a tough nut to crack for me. Her D'un Soire Triste is a passionate composition with some disturbing harmonies, bend on sending out a disturbing message. I do not readily connect to her idiom. Tailleferre is another instance for me to find its worth, but I am trying to make sense of it. Chaminade and Smyth ist "Gefundenes fressen" for mich, always was. Performance and sound are very good!

I like Chaminade's piano concerto, Concertstück, Op. 40. Btw, the pianist Eri Nakamura, a Japanese, looks like European on the pic.

[Karl Henning]

CD 16
Rakhmaninov
Symphony in e minor, Op. 27

Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra (Minnesota Orchestra)
Dimitri Mitropoulos

Recorded 19/20 Jan 1947

[Karl Henning]

Not that I haven't enjoyed my visit with 19^th-c. symphonies—among which I shall liberally include the Rakhmaninov Opus 27 (I have) but the time has come to open the musical window. Thanks to @brewski for the suggestion!

[Mapman]

Berg: String Quartet Op. 3; Shostakovich String Quartet #10, Op. 118
Weller Quartet

I liked the Shostakovich. It's an impressive performance; I believe this was the first recording of the Shostakovich.

[brewski]

Not that I haven't enjoyed my visit with 19^th-c. symphonies—among which I shall liberally include the Rakhmaninov Opus 27 (I have) but the time has come to open the musical window. Thanks to @brewski for the suggestion!

I had never followed the Carter with the score (nor the other four), which was a fascinating dive.

[Karl Henning]

I had never followed the Carter with the score (nor the other four), which was a fascinating dive.

Yes!

[Karl Henning]

Here we go:

Well, and time to revisit this for me, too!

[hopefullytrusting]

Sumptuous, it melds and molds around your body, and the sound - stunning: Yannick's Introspections

[Karl Henning]

Oh, how I do love the colors!

[akebergv]

Berg: String Quartet Op. 3; Shostakovich String Quartet #10, Op. 118
Weller Quartet

I liked the Shostakovich. It's an impressive performance; I believe this was the first recording of the Shostakovich.

I wonder. What year was the Weller Quartet's version of the 3rd string quartet recorded? I have a set of the complete Shostakovich quartets recorded by The Beethoven Quartet, to whom the composer dedicated many of the quartets and who did the premiere recordings for many, perhaps most of them. The third quartet they recorded later than some, in 1962-63, so perhaps the Weller beat them to it. Anyway, it's a great quartet, one of my favorites among the 15.

[Harry]

De Leidse Koorboeken. Volume II
(Leiden Choirbooks Codex B).
Egidius Kwartet & College.
2 CD'S.
Recorded: 2011, Laurentius Church, Mijnsheerenland. The Netherlands.

It's well know around this community how good and important these performances are. For us Dutch this is cultural heritage, a monument if you will of great importance. This point I cannot stress enough. It gives an unique insight in the musical world of that time, and how life was given shape around it. This is the upteenth time I return to these masterworks, and bask in the warmth of the interpretation, and the sound of times long gone by. Recommended.

[LKB]

It seems Elly Ameling has a YouTube channel, featuring one of my " desert island discs "...

Finding this has made my shift immeasurably easier.

                       

[Que]

Following Harry's lead (from his post yesterday).