What are you listening 2 now?

[Roasted Swan]

Didn't understand the link RS which cut out after a few seconds. I appreciated the links to the 1966 Batman TV series however. 

Sorry - it was possibly a little vague!  It was meant to be the Monty Python "its a bargain" sketch where someone had just bought a internal combustion engine because of it being a bargain.  So it wasa gentle reference to your purchase of (what I assume is another version) of Rach....  Jokes are always beter when they are explained I find.......  

[atardecer]

Hamelin has recorded Debussy's Images and Preludes II  - I'd like to see the interview, does he really say that Debussy's music is insubstantial?

Maybe I've misunderstood, he is somewhat vague. Here is the interview:

[vandermolen]

Sorry - it was possibly a little vague!  It was meant to be the Monty Python "its a bargain" sketch where someone had just bought a internal combustion engine because of it being a bargain.  So it wasa gentle reference to your purchase of (what I assume is another version) of Rach....  Jokes are always beter when they are explained I find.......  

V good - thanks!
 

[Que]

Good stuff... 

[Mandryka]

Maybe I've misunderstood, he is somewhat vague. Here is the interview:

Thanks -- he could say that Faure stands out in "harmonic and melodic sophistication" and Debussy stands out too. But I agree it's vague and provocative.

[Mandryka]

The first recording I bought was a Nonesuch LP "The English Lute" Dowland and Byrd.I think it is never released on CD (?)

No, but rather nicely transferred here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTbSyAIbRmE

[Traverso]

No, but rather nicely transferred here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTbSyAIbRmE

Thank you for that...

I see that he plays on a lute built by Nico van der Waals

[Traverso]

The King's Musick

[vandermolen]

Robin Orr
Symphony in One Movement
You Tube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FcBlU8xDY4

[atardecer]

No, but rather nicely transferred here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTbSyAIbRmE

I'm sampling this music, I notice in the video it says "Paul O'Dette began classical guitar studies at age 15; six months later he won first prize in a competition sponsored by the Columbus Symphony (Ohio)."

What?! Wow.

[Madiel]

The Impromptus from this excellent set.

[Madiel]

Re: Hamelin's Fauré

I've only heard excerpts, but it sounded good. There is an interview with Hamelin regarding this recording where he praises the composer and states that Fauré was unsurpassed by any contemporary French composer in terms of harmony and melody. I think this is a questionable statement considering Fauré was a contemporary of Debussy and Ravel. He also seems to hint that the latter composers are 'more flash than substance', though he doesn't refer to them specifically when saying this. I disagree with Hamelin, and especially in terms of harmony consider his statement fairly ridiculous, but I'm grateful we have excellent musicians today recording Fauré's music.

Well you're entitled to think that Fauré was harmonically and melodically surpassed by (i.e. inferior to) Debussy and Ravel (assuming it's correct to treat them as contemporaries, Fauré was considerably older). But I don't. I don't think he was inferior to anybody at all. I consider him to be in the first rank of composers.

EDIT: Also, your description of what Hamelin actually said about "flash over substance" is completely inaccurate.

[Cato]

Today is Overture Day!

Schumann's Manfred Overture

S. Taneyev: Overture to The Oresteia.

Allow me to recommend the entire opera, especially the performance from c. 10 years ago by The American Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leon Botstein.  (STILL NOT available on CD!)

The Oresteia Mp3


And...Kalliwoda: Overtures #7

and #16!

[brewski]

Happily replaying Bruckner 6 in my head, after performances this weekend with the Philadelphia Orchestra and conductor Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla.

At the concert, struck up a conversation with a journalist from Panama who was in town for the day. She had never heard the piece, nor the conductor, and was in awe.

-Bruce

[Mookalafalas]

Enjoying this enormously right now.


  Also been listening to the big WB Saint-Saens box.



  I just acquired this. It's FAR better than I'd imagined. I guess it's a few years old now, but for me, a purchase of the year.

[Harry]

Eric Coates. 
"Sound and Vision"
ATV March from "Sound and Vision"; From the Countryside-Suite No.1, Holborn, March, Moresque, Dance Interlude, Four Ways, Suite, Valse from "The Three Bears", Phantasy, The Eighth Army March.
BBC Concert Orchestra, John Wilson.
Recorded in 2007, Colosseum Town Hall, Watford, Hertfordshire.

A delightful musical journey, well performed and recorded. My quest to listen to as much Coates as I possibly can, is on its way and progressing.

[Harry]

The King's Musick

A pity, that nothing of these series, very much liked by me, is on Qobuz.

[Mookalafalas]

Recommended for clarinet fans. Top tier stuff.

[atardecer]

Well you're entitled to think that Fauré was harmonically and melodically surpassed by (i.e. inferior to) Debussy and Ravel (assuming it's correct to treat them as contemporaries, Fauré was considerably older). But I don't. I don't think he was inferior to anybody at all. I consider him to be in the first rank of composers.

EDIT: Also, your description of what Hamelin actually said about "flash over substance" is completely inaccurate.

I think Debussy and Ravel surpassed Fauré in terms of harmony, yes. I think that is about as objectively true as something can be related to music. In terms of melody I think all three were gifted and I don't think one stands out as clearly the best. As far as my comment about "flash over substance" I said 'seems' and that I'm not certain. But as you seem to be certain that my description was inaccurate, who do you think he was referring to? What other notable French composers of keyboard music are there that are contemporary to Fauré? French music contemporary to Fauré seemed to be the context in which he was making the statements.

[Traverso]

A pity, that nothing of these series, very much liked by me, is on Qobuz.

When you look at the prices they ask for these CDs today