What Classical Music Are You Listening To?

[soulpope]

 

[Referentzhunter]

[soulpope]

[soulpope]

[soulpope]

Before .... :

[mikeweil]

Yesterday:

A rare double CD of Laura Alvini playing Domenico Scarlatti sonatas on a copy of a Cristofori/Ferrini gravicembalo col piano e forte. and then:

[Peter Friedman]

Op.10/1, Op.10/2 and Op.10/3

[Larry Kart]

Interesting composer. Without being all that "modern" in style (his initial model-mentor was Alan Rawsthorne), Hoddinott's music is exceedingly hard for me to get a grip on. Forceful gestures, often brass-dominant, in one direction are followed, often abruptly by other similar gestures in another direction, and then by swatches of introspective woodwind and strings "night-music," etc., etc. -- all typically organized in arch-like shapes. There are times when I think Hoddinott (I have two more CDs of his work)  just has a disordered mind or vocabulary, but then the next time through I'm close to being convinced that it's all as it must be. In any case, given all the "modern" music that I've listened to over the years, it's quite strange for me to encounter a non-"far-out" composer this side of an outright eccentric like Havargal Brian or Rude Langaard or Mathias Vermeulen whose musical language I can't quite grasp.

[Д.Д.]

2 hours ago, Larry Kart said:

Interesting composer. Without being all that "modern" in style (his initial model-mentor was Alan Rawsthorne), Hoddinott's music is exceedingly hard for me to get a grip on. Forceful gestures, often brass-dominant, in one direction are followed, often abruptly by other similar gestures in another direction, and then by swatches of introspective woodwind and strings "night-music," etc., etc. -- all typically organized in arch-like shapes. There are times when I think Hoddinott (I have two more CDs of his work)  just has a disordered mind or vocabulary, but then the next time through I'm close to being convinced that it's all as it must be. In any case, given all the "modern" music that I've listened to over the years, it's quite strange for me to encounter a non-"far-out" composer this side of an outright eccentric like Havargal Brian or Rude Langaard or Mathias Vermeulen whose musical language I can't quite grasp.

Sound intriguing, will give him a listen

[Marzz]

On 8/14/2019 at 4:21 PM, Chuck Nessa said:

While working at HNH we issued a wonderful disc of Boccherini Quintets - I should search for a reissue of that.

Chuck, I (think) I have the CD of these Quintets? This one, recorded in Spain (Girona) 1975 and issued via Ensayo.

https://www.discogs.com/Boccherini-Quinteto-Boccherini-Three-Quintets-For-Strings-La-Musica-Notturna-Di-Madrid-Minuetto-From/release/10374297

But I've never heard the HNH LP. Was it this one? - https://www.discogs.com/Quintetto-Boccherini-Boccherini-Quintets/release/9651952

 

Here's another partial listing listing of HNH https://www.discogs.com/label/602645-HNH-Records-Incorporated

 

[Marzz]

Hindemith - Mathis der Maler / Symphonic Metamorphsis / Trauermusik (Blomstedt & San Francisco Symphony) (Decca)

[Marzz]

Hindemith - Ludus Tonalis (Kabi Laretei) (Philips / Eloquence)

Edited August 16, 2019 by Marzz

[soulpope]

2 hours ago, Marzz said:

Hindemith - Mathis der Maler / Symphonic Metamorphsis / Trauermusik (Blomstedt & San Francisco Symphony) (Decca)

Excellent ....

[Chuck Nessa]

12 hours ago, Marzz said:

Chuck, I (think) I have the CD of these Quintets? This one, recorded in Spain (Girona) 1975 and issued via Ensayo.

https://www.discogs.com/Boccherini-Quinteto-Boccherini-Three-Quintets-For-Strings-La-Musica-Notturna-Di-Madrid-Minuetto-From/release/10374297

But I've never heard the HNH LP. Was it this one? - https://www.discogs.com/Quintetto-Boccherini-Boccherini-Quintets/release/9651952

 

Here's another partial listing listing of HNH https://www.discogs.com/label/602645-HNH-Records-Incorporated

 

Yes those are the recordings I mentioned. IIRC, the original Ensayo issue was a 2 lp set and we only issued 1 disc.

[ejp626]

Julian Bream - Popular Classics for Spanish Guitar

[T.D.]

[Peter Friedman]

Mendelssohn - String Quartet Op.13

Chopin - 4 Scherzi

[JSngry]

Had this in the car all week, may well leave it in for another.

The "foo foo" factor in Mozart's instrumental music has always seemed to me to be hardwired into it, and/or my reception of it, and normally it hits hard and fast and I just leave the room ASAP.

But not with this set. I can't tell you how or why, but this sounds like music with meat, all meat, not a spec of foo foo. I mean, if I listen for it, I can find it, but the point is, I'm (usually) too absorbed in the meat to even think about the foo foo, much less go looking for it.

This was one helluva band!

And this is one helluva set:

[erwbol]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEbRP6PBqQk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fau_hHNh5ng

Edited August 17, 2019 by erwbol

[erwbol]

Pollini, because I'll be playing nothing but Igor Levit for a while once his complete Beethoven piano sonatas box arrives next month.

[Alexander Hawkins]

3 hours ago, erwbol said:

Pollini, because I'll be playing nothing but Igor Levit for a while once his complete Beethoven piano sonatas box arrives next month.

Astonishing piano playing IMHO. Of course there are many, many versions of these late sonatas I love, but if I had to save one from the flames, it'd be Pollini for me...

[soulpope]

Masterful ....

[Peter Friedman]

Brahms - String Quartet No.1, Op.51/1

Schubert - Symphony No.4, D.417 "Tragic"

[Alexander Hawkins]

No. 4.

[soulpope]

4 hours ago, Alexander Hawkins said:

No. 4.

Excellent ....