What are you listening to now - I ?

[AmpH]

Therapy

Sheer delight this one ER

[Roehre]

Today:

Schubert:
Symphony no.6 in C D.589

Stravinsky:
Concerto for piano and wind instruments
Movements for piano and orchestra

Krenek:
Das geheime Königreich op.50 (1926)

[Beef Oven]

[Stanfordian]

Johann Strauss Jr:
Morning Papers, Op. 279 (1864)
Emperor Waltz, Op. 437 (1888)
By the Beautiful Blue Danube, Op. 314 (1867)
Vienna Blood, Op. 354 (1873)
Roses from the South, Op. 388 (from The Queen's Lace Handkerchief) (1880)
Treasure Waltz, Op. 418 (from The Gypsy Baron) (1885)
Thunder and Lightning, Op. 324 (1868)
Carl Maria von Weber:
Invitation to the Dance, Op. 65 (1819)
Josef Strauss:
Village Swallows, Op. 164 (1864)
Richard Strauss:
Rosenkavalier (1910) arr. by Fritz Reiner
Chicago Symphony Orchestra / Fritz Reiner
Recorded Orchestra Hall, Chicago, USA 1957/60
On RCA Living Stereo

Stanford:
Piano Quintet in D minor, Op. 25 (1886)
String Quintet No 1 in F major, Op. 85 (1903)
RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet with Piers Lane, piano (Op. 25) & Garth Knox, viola (Op. 85)
Recorded 2004 in the Henry Wood Hall, London
On Hyperion

[Lateralthinking1]

Mompou - Piano Music

[Beef Oven]

Mompou - Piano Music

Haven't heard of this composer

Great cover

[Lateralthinking1]

Beefy - Piano miniatures, less experimental than Satie. In some respects closer to Debussy. Delicate and quietly moving. He was Spanish or more accurately Catalan. Shy. Played the piano but didn't do live performances though he did record. Regarded by leading composers but he gave up music for 10 years and went into business to earn money. Married at 64. Died in his 90s in 1987. This is an underrated composer and a good starting place for my 'Latin' journey though it is hardly typical of those styles. The Stephen Hough performances are considered the definitive ones and, yes, I'm keen on that cover too. It is just right for the music.

(El Dabh on American Classics was a googly but before all of the hippydom he was arguably the inventor of electronic music. The early stuff is basic but it would be! I'm firmly in the romantic era with a bit of very early music and one or two classicists. I don't like a lot of the atonal/dissonant/serialism styles but I do like the modern/experimental in electronics, percussion, minimalism etc.)

[BBMmk2]

I've always liked these pieces, ever since R3 broadcast them on CD Review yonks ago!

Walton: Crown Imperial. Philip Wil;by(organ), Black Dyke Band, Nicholas J Childs.

The Road to Paradise. Gabrieli Consort, Paul McCreesh.

[Beef Oven]

Beefy - Piano miniatures, less experimental than Satie. In some respects closer to Debussy. Delicate and quietly moving. He was Spanish or more accurately Catalan. Shy. Played the piano but didn't do live performances though he did record. Regarded by leading composers but he gave up music for 10 years and went into business to earn money. Married at 64. Died in his 90s in 1987. This is an underrated composer and a good starting place for my 'Latin' journey though it is hardly typical of those styles. The Stephen Hough performances are considered the definitive ones and, yes, I'm keen on that cover too. It is just right for the music.

(El Dabh on American Classics was a googly but before all of the hippydom he was arguably the inventor of electronic music. The early stuff is basic but it would be! I'm firmly in the romantic era with a bit of very early music and one or two classicists. I don't like a lot of the atonal/dissonant/serialism styles but I do like the modern/experimental in electronics, percussion, minimalism etc.)

He sounds interesting, one for spotify perhaps.

Married at 64 and lived into his nineties? There's something in that, methinks!

I picked up on your El Dabh on the American Classics thread and I made a note to definitely investigate

Although I'm with you on the modern/experimental etc, I also like atonal/dissonant/serialism. however, lacking a technical music understanding, I am unable to explain why

[Mahler's3rd]

Rachmaninov Isle Of The Dead & Symphonic Dances...LPO/Jurowski

[BBMmk2]

Vaughan Williams: Sinfonia Antartica; Aristophanic Suite, "The Wasps". LPO/Boult

E J Moeran: Serenade in G; Peter Warlock: Capriol Suite; Moeran: Nocturne. Hugh Mackie(baritone), The Renaissance Singers, Ulster orchestra, Handley.

Tallis: The lamentations of Jeremiah and Contrafacts. Chapelle du Roi/Alistair Dixon.

Howells: Rhapsody in E flat minor, Op.17/2; Sonata for organ(No.2); Intrata(No.2); Partita. Robert Costin(organ, Dunedin Town all, NZ).

Bax: Piano Quintet in G minor; Frank Bridge: Piano Quintet in D minor, H49a. Ashley Wass(piano), The Tippett Quartet.

[Bryn]

Morton Feldman: Pianos and Voices 1 (published as "Five Pianos") + Chorus and Orchestra 2

Harrison Birtwistle, Morton Feldman, Stephen Savage, Roger Smalley and John Tilbury (pianos),
Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Academy of Music,
Simon Rattle (chorus master)
Alan Hacker (conductor)

from a BBC Radio 3 Invitation Concert recorded at St. John's, Smith Square on 5 January 1973 and broadcast on 4 April the same year.

[Tapiola]

James Joyce, reading from Finnegans Wake.

Cage - Amores

Adam de la Halle - Jeu de Robin et Marion (Joel Cohen)

[Bryn]

... Harrison Birtwistle, Morton Feldman, Stephen Savage, Roger Smalley and John Tilbury (pianos) ...

Well that's what it says on the tin, but my ears say that at least one of 'em is playing a celesta. Which one (or more) though?

[Il Grande Inquisitor]

This evening:

Wagner:
Die Walküre

Nina Stemme, René Pape, Jonas Kaufmann, Anja Kampe; Mariinsky Orchestra/ Valery Gergiev