What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[MrGongGong]

I thought I might have another go and learning lip trills
but this is insane

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I thought I might have another go and learning lip trills
but this is insane

[ahinton]

All four of the complete recordings are pretty good though. I don't really mind which I listen to, but the Ensemble 13 version is somehow more sharply defined.

I don't know anything about Malcolm Arnold, but it does seem clear to me that very many 20th century British composers have Hindemith's music as one of their starting points. Tippett is another example; it's not a connection that's often made, but to me it seems obvious.

Perhaps the most notable (in terms of the extent of the connection rather than necessarily of the music itself!) is Arnold Cooke who at times seems very much to resemble a kind of Hindemith epigonus. Erik Chisholm was another who fell under Hindemith's spell; indeed, Hindemith was one of the composers whom he invited to participate in the historic series of concerts in Glasgow in the 1930s under Chisholm's own exterprising (if rather cumbersomely titled) Active Society for the Propagation of Contemporary Music, whose principal aim was to invite composers to talk about and perform their work (other participants included Bartók, Medtner, Casella, Ireland, van Dieren, Walton, Szymanowski and, curiously more often than any other, Sorabji - Berg was also invited but seems not to have come), although this seems to have been something of a passing phase in Chisholm's music rather than something that was to take a more permanent hold.

[Beef Oven!]

Today (so far):

PMD - string quartets 5 & 6

Messiaen - Turangalila (Hannu Lintu)

Boulez - Notations (orchestrated) & Figures, Doubles Prismes

Vivaldi - various violin concertos (Dmitry Sinkovsky) Various bassoon concertos (Peter Whelan, bassoon; Chandler direction)

Haydn - Symphony 22 (Giovanni Antonini & Il Giardino Armonico)

Arvo Part - Symphonies 1, 2 & 3 (BIS)

Lutoslawski - Concerto for Orchestra & Symphony #1 (Scrowaczewski)

Richard Barrett - life-forms & nacht & traume & Blattwerk

Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage

Krzysztof Meyer Piano Quartet, Piano Quintet & String Quartet #6

Steve Reich - Music For 18 Musicians

Arther Honegger - Pastorale D’Eté, Pacific 232, Rugby & Symphonic Movement #3

Ruth Crawford Seeger - Violin Sonata, 2 Ricercari

Soft Machine - Fifth

[teamsaint]

Today (so far):

PMD - string quartets 5 & 6

Messiaen - Turangalila (Hannu Lintu)

Boulez - Notations (orchestrated) & Figures, Doubles Prismes

Vivaldi - various violin concertos (Dmitry Sinkovsky) Various bassoon concertos (Peter Whelan, bassoon; Chandler direction)

Haydn - Symphony 22 (Giovanni Antonini & Il Giardino Armonico)

Arvo Part - Symphonies 1, 2 & 3 (BIS)

Lutoslawski - Concerto for Orchestra & Symphony #1 (Scrowaczewski)

Richard Barrett - life-forms & nacht & traume & Blattwerk

Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage

Krzysztof Meyer Piano Quartet, Piano Quintet & String Quartet #6

Steve Reich - Music For 18 Musicians

Arther Honegger - Pastorale D’Eté, Pacific 232, Rugby & Symphonic Movement #3

Ruth Crawford Seeger - Violin Sonata, 2 Ricercari

Soft Machine - Fifth

Makes me somehow feel that I have wasted my day !!

Anyhow, what sort of a job does Lean-to do on the Messiaen? And did he use an orchestra ?


Currently

Malcom Arnold, Symphony #1, RPO Handley
Earlier,
Rachmaninov Symphony #1, Leningrad SPO Sanderling, courtesy of a fellow boarder.


And a pile of CDs that needs tidying from the kitchen worktop.

[Beef Oven!]

Makes me somehow feel that I have wasted my day !!

Anyhow, what sort of a job does Lean-to do on the Messiaen? And did he use an orchestra ?


Currently

Malcom Arnold, Symphony #1, RPO Handley
Earlier,
Rachmaninov Symphony #1, Leningrad SPO Sanderling, courtesy of a fellow boarder.


And a pile of CDs that needs tidying from the kitchen worktop.

The Hannu Lintu Turangalila is excellent, and top-drawer recording quality too. I bought it recently as a Hi-Res download. I’d say it is one of the best recordings.

Now listening to:

Luciano Berio - Sequenzas
Ensemble Intercontemporain. DG

Edit: I’m on Sequenza 5 and the thought struck me that when I first used to listen to these pieces about 26 years ago (I came to classical music late), they seemed so radical to my ears. Now they seem so tame!

[jayne lee wilson]

Today (so far):

PMD - string quartets 5 & 6

Messiaen - Turangalila (Hannu Lintu)

Boulez - Notations (orchestrated) & Figures, Doubles Prismes

Vivaldi - various violin concertos (Dmitry Sinkovsky) Various bassoon concertos (Peter Whelan, bassoon; Chandler direction)

Haydn - Symphony 22 (Giovanni Antonini & Il Giardino Armonico)

Arvo Part - Symphonies 1, 2 & 3 (BIS)

Lutoslawski - Concerto for Orchestra & Symphony #1 (Scrowaczewski)

Richard Barrett - life-forms & nacht & traume & Blattwerk

Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage

Krzysztof Meyer Piano Quartet, Piano Quintet & String Quartet #6

Steve Reich - Music For 18 Musicians

Arther Honegger - Pastorale D’Eté, Pacific 232, Rugby & Symphonic Movement #3

Ruth Crawford Seeger - Violin Sonata, 2 Ricercari

Soft Machine - Fifth

OH. MY. GOD....
How on earth do you confront, or get through, that much music in a day? I mean, when do you start... or finish, do you... take coffee breaks, eat meals, cuddle cats or walk dogs.....?

Sorry.. just the envious curiosity of the forum's slowest listener....

[Beef Oven!]

OH. MY. GOD....
How on earth do you confront, or get through, that much music in a day? I mean, when do you start... or finish, do you... take coffee breaks, eat meals, cuddle cats or walk dogs.....?

Sorry.. just the envious curiosity of the forum's slowest listener....

Well, I’m an early riser and I’ve no cats or dogs

[jayne lee wilson]

You see, this is a very, very good Beethoven First....
Beethoven Symphony No.1. NBCSO/Toscanini. RCA 1951, streamed via Qobuz HiFi.

But this....is on another level, rarely glimpsed or visited; it seems to have come from somewhere else...
Beethoven Symphony No.1. NBCSO/Toscanini. Live recording 10/1939, Music & Arts CD 2013.

[cloughie]

OH. MY. GOD....
How on earth do you confront, or get through, that much music in a day? I mean, when do you start... or finish, do you... take coffee breaks, eat meals, cuddle cats or walk dogs.....?

Sorry.. just the envious curiosity of the forum's slowest listener....

...or is it a disease?

[Bryn]

...or is it a disease?

OCL?

[BBMmk2]

My goodness JLW, that's quite a playlist. I think these days, my listening should have a theme running through, but what?

[Stanfordian]

The French Collection - Piotr Beczala
Opera arias by Massenet, Berlioz, Verdi, Boieldieu, Donizetti, Gounod, Bizet
Piotr Beczala, tenor
guest Diana Damrau, soprano (Manon duet)
Orchestre de l’Opéra National de Lyon/Alain Altinoglu
Recorded 2014, Auditorium Maurice-Ravel, Lyon, France
Deutsche Grammophon

Koechlin
Piano Quintet, op. 80
String Quartet No. 3, op. 72
Sarah Lavaud (piano)
Antigone Quartet
Recorded 2008 Studio Tibor Varga, Grimisuat, Switzerland
AR RÉ-SÉ

[BBMmk2]

Hiya Stan. The Koechlin interests me somewhat. I only know his Jungle Book. So, be interested to hear about the comparisons.

I thought I would have a session of hearing some Russian orchestral showstoppers today.

Rimsky-Korsakov
Stephen Bryant(violin), London PO, Takuo Yuasa.
Borodin
Polovstian Dances from "Prince Igor"
Beecham Choral Society, Royal PO, Beecham
Khatchaturian
Spartacus, Adagio of Spartacus & Phrygia
Gayaneh: Sabre Dance.
LSO composer.

Tchaikovsky
Symphopnies: No.4 in F minor, Op.36; Francesca da Rimini, Op.32;
No.5 in E minor, Op.64; Borodin: Prince Igor;
Tchaikovsky: Slavonic March,Op.31 Eugene Onegen Valse & Polonaise;
Symphony No.6 in B minor, op.74; Romeo and Juliet, Fantasy Overture.
LSO, Antal Dorati.

[Beef Oven!]

Goffredo Petrassi

Flute Concerto (1960)
Piano Concerto (1936/39)
La Follia di Orlando, symphonic suite (1942/43)

The CD arrived this morning. Naxos.