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Kalevala

Quote from: Irons on February 06, 2025, 12:56:36 AMUp to usual high standard of conducting French music, K. Jean Fournet's large discography is made of nearly totally French orchestral music with little actually recorded in France. Many fine recordings with Czech Philharmonic for Supraphon, which I treasure. He also recorded in the Netherlands for Philips. Towards the end of his career he moved to Japan and made recordings for Denon. Fournet can safely described as a specialist conductor and worldwide promoter of French music. 

I recalled reading that he was a fine conductor and also associating him with French music.  Any idea as to why he recorded so little actually in France?

K

Harry

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!
All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

vandermolen

"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

vandermolen

Popov: Symphony No.2 'Motherland' New Alto release
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

VonStupp

George Lloyd
Symphony 7 'Proserpine'
Symphony 8
BBC PO & Philharmonia - George Lloyd

These two symphonies take a turn towards moodier settings. More harmonic uncertainty exists compared to what I heard in the previous six.
VS

"All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff."

Traverso

Mozart

Eine Kleine Nachtmusik


brewski

Watching the live press conference with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra's new music director, Cristian Mӑcelaru, introducing the new season.

Cincinnati is lucky.

"I set down a beautiful chord on paper—and suddenly it rusts."
—Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998)

Traverso


pianococo90


ritter

Ernest Ansermet conducts the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande in Ravel: Boléro and Le Tombeau de Couperin.

From CDs 13 and 9, respectively, of this set:



I acknowledge the historical relevance of Ansermet as a conductor of 20th century music and all that, but must confess that I find most of his recordings undistinguished; not bad, simply undistinguished (well, except when there's choirs involved, then things can turn really dreadful -- some of those Geneva choirs were  squalid-sounding  ::) ).



 
 « Ce qui est le contraire de la musique , c'est l'arbitraire, la sottise et la gratuité  »  Antonin Artaud

Harry

#123650
Alla Venetiana.
Early 16th Century Venetian Lute Music.
See back cover for details.
Paul O'Dette, Lute. Which Lute?
No PDF file attached to this recording.
Recorded: 1997. Venue?


A wonderful performance. During the Renaissance the Lute was the most popular instrument in Italy, and elsewhere. The music is divided into three divisions of pieces I think, namely arrangements of well-known and popular (polyphonic) vocal movements, dances, and preludes. Of all three  O'Dette plays a fair amount of them. Excellent recording.
All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

Traverso


Karl Henning

CD 12 recorded 16 Nov 1946
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

ritter

Eduardo Mata conducts Falla's Homenajes suite (Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar).

From this set:

 « Ce qui est le contraire de la musique , c'est l'arbitraire, la sottise et la gratuité  »  Antonin Artaud

Que


Que

Quote from: ritter on February 06, 2025, 06:30:31 AMErnest Ansermet conducts the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande in Ravel: Boléro and Le Tombeau de Couperin.

From CDs 13 and 9, respectively, of this set:



I acknowledge the historical relevance of Ansermet as a conductor of 20th century music and all that, but must confess that I find most of his recordings undistinguished; not bad, simply undistinguished (well, except when there's choirs involved, then things can turn really dreadful -- some of those Geneva choirs were  squalid-sounding  ::) ).

I once bought this set specifically for exploring French Music, and have to agree...  :-\

Karl Henning

Quote from: Karl Henning on February 06, 2025, 06:50:06 AMCD 12 recorded 16 Nov 1946

I don't often listen to the Tchaikovsky First Concerto (thanks to Radio Overkill) but when I do, I love it. I just had to replay the Andantino semplice and Allegro con fuoco.
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

Dry Brett Kavanaugh

Reza Vali: The Being of Love.



Dry Brett Kavanaugh

Quote from: ritter on February 06, 2025, 07:01:37 AMEduardo Mata conducts Falla's Homenajes suite (Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar).

From this set:




How do you like the set? Not a big fan of the cover art.

Que