What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[EdgeleyRob]

Late night piano preludes

Shostakovich Op 34
Alkan Op 31

Oil Mustonen

[teamsaint]

Miloslav Kabeláč - Symphony #1
Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, Marko Ivanovic. Supraphon. 16 bit Download.

Working my way through these in order, 1-8

Terrific cycle, and the CD set is nicely presented and under £20 for those that prefer CDs.

I'll play a couple this morning, I think.

[Beef Oven!]

Terrific cycle, and the CD set is nicely presented and under £20 for those that prefer CDs.

I'll play a couple this morning, I think.

It was your good self that made me aware of this composer

[DublinJimbo]

Miloslav Kabeláč - Symphony #1
Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, Marko Ivanovic. Supraphon. 16 bit Download.

Working my way through these in order, 1-8

I'd never heard of the composer before, but this is wonderful music (listening to the Qobuz stream). With only the first symphony listened to I've placed an order for the CDs (physical format this time because the download doesn't include the booklet, which I consider essential in the case of music which is new to me).

[Beef Oven!]

I'd never heard of the composer before, but this is wonderful music (listening to the Qobuz stream). With only the first symphony listened to I've placed an order for the CDs (physical format this time because the download doesn't include the booklet, which I consider essential in the case of music which is new to me).

I didn’t know this composer until teamsaint posted about him last year.

I agree about the booklet, but these days, most of the time there’s enough on the internet to get by without one, IMV.

[teamsaint]

I'd never heard of the composer before, but this is wonderful music (listening to the Qobuz stream). With only the first symphony listened to I've placed an order for the CDs (physical format this time because the download doesn't include the booklet, which I consider essential in the case of music which is new to me).

It really is a mystery why he seems so neglected, DJ. You're in for a real treat.

Got this set from one of my lads as a birthday present this year, and he's still in my good books !!

Very curious pricing on Amazon. CDs including autorip around £26, MP3 download £59. Bonkers.

[Bryn]

I'd never heard of the composer before, but this is wonderful music (listening to the Qobuz stream). With only the first symphony listened to I've placed an order for the CDs (physical format this time because the download doesn't include the booklet, which I consider essential in the case of music which is new to me).

I only knew of him through his Inventions for percussion which was on a Philips LP I had (the Strasbourg kitchenware bunch), and his Mystery of Time and Hamlet Improvisation on Supraphon Ancerl Gold. I will also listen via QOBUZ.

[BBMmk2]

Janacek: Orchestral Music Vol.3
Glagolitic Mass; Adagio;
Hail Mary(David Stewart, violin, Karstein Askeland, organ);
Our Father.(Johannes Wik, harp, Karstein Askeland,organ)
Sara Jakubiak(soprano), Susan Bickley(mezzo-soprano),
Stuart Skelton(tenor), Gabor Bretz(bass), Thomas Trotter(organ),
Edvard Greig Kor, Bergen Cathedral Choir,
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Gardner.

[Bryn]

Janacek: Orchestral Music Vol.3
Glagolitic Mass; Adagio;
Hail Mary(David Stewart, violin, Karstein Askeland, organ);
Our Father.(Johannes Wik, harp, Karstein Askeland,organ)
Sara Jakubiak(soprano), Susan Bickley(mezzo-soprano),
Stuart Skelton(tenor), Gabor Bretz(bass), Thomas Trotter(organ),
Edvard Greig Kor, Bergen Cathedral Choir,
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Gardner.

A fine recording, using the new edition of the 1928 'final' version of the score for the Glagolitic Mass.

[BBMmk2]

A fine recording, using the new edition of the 1928 'final' version of the score for the Glagolitic Mass.

Agreed Bryn. I am glad that Gardner is doing much work in this repertoire, eg with Lutoslawski as well.

Berio: Realisations
Schubert Renderings I, II & III.
Brahms:Clarinet Sonata No.1 in F minor, op.120(I)
Mahler Leider und Gesang aus der Jugendzeit(II)
(I)Roderick Williams(baritone), (II)Michael Collins(clarinet)
Bergen PO, Edward Gardner.

[Stanfordian]

Arvo Pärt – Live
Collage über B-A-C-H for strings, oboe, harpsichord and piano
Sieben Magnificat-Antiphonen for mixed choir a cappella
Cecilia, vergine romana for mixed choir and orchestra
Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten for string orchestra and bell
Litany. Prayers of St John Chrysostom for Each Hour of the Day and Night for soloists, mixed choir and orchestra
The Hilliard Ensemble, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Münchner Rundfunkorchester
Directors: Robert King, Peter Dijkstra, Ulf Schirmer, Marcello Viotti
Recorded live 2000/2011 Munich
BR Klassik

A super new release from Munich ! I was reminded of hearing Pärt's 'Berliner Messe' played in 2011 at Michaelskirche, Munich.

[Serial_Apologist]

Bernard van Dieren's remarkable (for any composer living in this country in 1912) first string quartet, on utube. B.vanD. may not have had quite the musical personality to gain much of a following (beyond the Warlock/Lambert circle around WW1), but this music surely deserves to be considered groundbreakingly radical, and on its own terms, alongside Berg's and Schoenberg's, at this early date.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aXmGEOEyhA

A composer worthy of further investigation... there's heaps of other stuff of is to be found on there.

[ahinton]

Bernard van Dieren's remarkable (for any composer living in this country in 1912) first string quartet, on utube. B.vanD. may not have had quite the musical personality to gain much of a following (beyond the Warlock/Lambert circle around WW1), but this music surely deserves to be considered groundbreakingly radical, and on its own terms, alongside Berg's and Schoenberg's, at this early date.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aXmGEOEyhA

A composer worthy of further investigation... there's heaps of other stuff of is to be found on there.

Ah, yes, it is indeed remarkable. To date it's stll not had a public performance; the recording that you have there is a BBC broadcast in the composer's centenary year (to which I listened at the time) by the Gabrieli Quartet which, as far as I know, is the only ensemble ever to have played it.

His fourth quartet's up there as well but why he used double bass instead of cello I have no idea, since hardly anything in the bass part is below the cello's register.

[Petrushka]

Lutosławski:

Chain 3

Chantefleurs et Chantefables
Lucy Crowe (soprano)

[interval]

Silesian Triptych
Lucy Crowe (soprano)

Symphony No 3

BBC Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner

[Beef Oven!]

Lutosławski:

Chain 3

Chantefleurs et Chantefables
Lucy Crowe (soprano)

[interval]

Silesian Triptych
Lucy Crowe (soprano)

Symphony No 3

BBC Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner

Great programme (but I don’t know the recordings).