What are you listening to now - I ?

[EdgeleyRob]

SC, thanks once again for an intriguing insight into the music of 50 years ago.
perhaps radio 3 could play the odd one to celebrate the anniversary !!

[EdgeleyRob]

Just to add my symphonic tips from 1963:

Goehr
Lajtha
Mennin
Panufnik

I'd probably also add the Ivanovs and Frankel as well.

Haven't done any listening since Wednesday, due to a Thursday migraine and then concert rehearsals Friday and yesterday afternoon, and concert last night. Should start my birth year of 1964 later this evening.

Wot no Havergal Brian ?

Running out of superlatives to describe your posts sc,once again many thanks for taking the time and trouble.

[EdgeleyRob]

ER, there must be something about Miakovsky's music then!! I must investigate?!

Well BBM there is certainly something about his music to my ears.
I had been familiar with the 6th symphony for many years (Jarvi /DG) and had only heard bits and pieces of his other works.
Partly due to Suffolkcoastal's symphonic journey I started to listen to more and more of the symphonies and my recent obsession grew from there.
His music reminds me of so many other composers and yet a lot of the time I'm left thinking it couldn't have been written by anyone else
It's full of memorable themes and haunting,poignant slow movements.
I'm no good at this analysing music caper,suffice to say this glorious music has really struck a chord with me.
I can't believe that I am only realising this in my mid-fifties.

[EdgeleyRob]

There is an IMO excellent recording of M's violin concerto on Naxos as well.

Yes Roehre,I listened via the library.
A slow movement of exquisite beauty and a real romp of a finale.

[Padraig]

I'm listening to a selection of John McCormack songs. Never mind St.Patrick's Day, his songs and his singing represent for me what I choose to call the old decency of bygone days - a theme he never tired of. ' Let us sing of the days that are gone.....'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGoCF2v6Aeg

[richardfinegold]

I was surprised that I have 3 of the works in SCs last post--the Brian, the Frankel, and the Vainberg, which I recently purchased. I haven't listened to the Frankel in years but have listened to the other two fairly recently. I have to say that Brian and Vainberg both have never quite "clicked" for me. Their music is accessible and well championed, and I have bought several discs of music by each composer, but I haven't hit on one work that I would deem essential listening. I think SC describes both pieces well.

[richardfinegold]

Bruckner, Seventh Symphony, Haitink/CSO. a beautiful performance that I had previously undervalued.

[Alison]

Bruckner, Seventh Symphony, Haitink/CSO. a beautiful performance that I had previously undervalued.

[teamsaint]

Birtwhistle . Earth Dances. Boulez. Been promising myself to listen to this for a while.

I bet I can't whistle many of the tunes tomorrow morning !
Mind you, my whistling is distinctly average.

[ahinton]

Birtwhistle . Earth Dances. Boulez. Been promising myself to listen to this for a while.

I bet I can't whistle many of the tunes tomorrow morning !
Mind you, my whistling is distinctly average.

As Stephen Sondheim observed, Anyone Can Whistle; that said, Earth Dances remains, I think, one of Sir Harrison's best works but, PLEASE, whilst anyone can indeed whistle, the "h" is not merely silent in but absent from his surname! It's like Carter; two "t"s, please - and no sugar!...

[Roehre]

Today:

Petrassi:
Partita for Orchestra (1932)

Nikodijevic:
Gesualdo dub / raum mit gelöschter figur (2012)

Abrahamsen:
Piano Concerto (1999/2000)

Rogier (c.1561-1596)
Videntes stellam
Cantantibus organis
Calgaverunt oculi mei
Locutus sum in lingu mea
Laboravi in gemitu meo
Verbum caro

[Stanfordian]

The World So Wide - Dawn Upshaw
American opera arias by Copland, Adams, Bernstein, Leon, Moore, Weill, Barber & Floyd
Dawn Upshaw (soprano)
The Orchestra of St. Luke’s, New York/David Zinman
Recorded 1995 New York
Nonesuch

Britten: War Requiem
Stefania Woytowicz (soprano); Sir Peter Pears (tenor); Hans Wilbrink (baritone)
Wandsworth School Boys' Choir, Melos Ensemble,
New Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus/Carlo Maria Giulini
Recorded live 1969 Royal Albert Hall, London
BBC Legends

[Stanfordian]

I was surprised that I have 3 of the works in SCs last post--the Brian, the Frankel, and the Vainberg, which I recently purchased. I haven't listened to the Frankel in years but have listened to the other two fairly recently. I have to say that Brian and Vainberg both have never quite "clicked" for me. Their music is accessible and well championed, and I have bought several discs of music by each composer, but I haven't hit on one work that I would deem essential listening. I think SC describes both pieces well.

Hello richardfinegold,

I too question the music of Weinberg who seems to be flavour of the month. The music of his friend Shostakovich is light years ahead in terms of quality. Claims are often made for the music of Louis Spohr and I think Weinberg is of a similar level. For me Havergal Brian's music has been a tough nut to crack. After many years I haven’t cracked it yet but it will get to the point soon when I cannot spend anymore time on it.

[teamsaint]

As Stephen Sondheim observed, Anyone Can Whistle; that said, Earth Dances remains, I think, one of Sir Harrison's best works but, PLEASE, whilst anyone can indeed whistle, the "h" is not merely silent in but absent from his surname! It's like Carter; two "t"s, please - and no sugar!...

sorry AH, a bit of sunday evening Lightheartedness......!!

Anyhow, only got halfway through , but enjoyed the sounds I heard. Need to give this a lot more time, but it will be soonner rather than later.
And no h's next time..

[MrGongGong]

Poulenc : Double Piano Concerto ......... Francis Poulenc / Jacques Fevrier