What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[Joseph K]

All the way back on the 13th of May I listened to the seventeenth disk of the the DG/Decca Boulez box, which is of Birtwistle's Earth Dances and Theseus Game: http://www.for3.org/forums/showthrea...506#post882506

Now, after all that time where I was listening to Xenakis and Vaughan Williams amongst other things, I am getting round now to resuming where I left off by listening to disk eighteen, which is this:



I love this one!

[RichardB]

I love this one!

By far the best of his later pieces I reckon, I mean it isn't really a late piece in so far as it goes back to (?) 1971 or so, but it's full of startling sounds and harmonies. I must listen to that again.

I was back to Schoeck's Elegie again today.

[Joseph K]

By far the best of his later pieces I reckon, I mean it isn't really a late piece in so far as it goes back to (?) 1971 or so, but it's full of startling sounds and harmonies. I must listen to that again.

I was back to Schoeck's Elegie again today.

Although actually I didn't get round to listening to explosante-fixe itself last night - I just listened to the two works that precede that, Notations and Structures book II, and I'm not as familiar with the latter work, but it mightily impressed me last night.

I did line up Schoeck's Elegie the other day for listening (via youtube) but didn't get round to it. I will make sure I listen today.

[Mandryka]

Robert Ashley, In Sara, Menken, Christ and Beethoven There Were Men and Women.

[Bryn]

Robert Ashley, In Sara, Menken, Christ and Beethoven There Were Men and Women.

[BBMmk2]

Time for some music for brass band. There’s a Facebook group, dedicated to the SA composer, (Lt-Col)Dr.Ray Steadman-Allen. We were talking about his work for non-SA bands Hymn at Sunrise. I thought I’d put it on, as I have not heard it in ages. Here’s the recording details.

Alpha & Omega The Music of Ray Steadman-Allen
Hymn at Sunrise
In Quiet Pastures
The Beacons
Romans 8 - A Brass Celebration
At the Edge of Time
Evening Hymn
Yorkshire Building Society Band
Professor David King.

[Bryn]

John Cage: Hymnkus; Score(40 Drawing by Thoreau) and 23 Parts (for any Instruments and/or Voices): Twelve Haiku followed by a Recording of Stony Point, New York, August 6, 1974 (aka Thoreau Drawings); and Two (Apartment House).

[richardfinegold]

Ravel: Piano Trio. Beaux Arts Trio. A good outing, although I feel that the quirkiness of II is somewhat slighted

[Joseph K]

Schubert: symphony no. 5 - COE/Harnoncourt

Just changed my bedsheets while listening to this - on the last movement as I type.

[BBMmk2]

Sibelius -The Symphonies
San Francisco Symphony
Herbert Blomstedt

Bartók
Kossuth
Concerto for Orchestra
San Francisco Symphony
Herbert Blomstedt.

[Pulcinella]

Hindemith
Symphony "Mathis der Maler"

Listened to several versions this afternoon (see Summer BAL thread launched this morning).
Philadelphians strongest contenders at present.

[Joseph K]

Schoeck - Elegie - Gerhaher, Kammer Orchester Basel/Holliger

Enjoying this. I like the laid-back singing and beautiful orchestration, lucidly played here.

[Stanfordian]

Jules Massenet
‘Songs with Orchestra’
Nicole Car (soprano), Jodie Devos (soprano), Cyrille Dubois (tenor),
Étienne Dupuis (baritone), Véronique Gens (soprano),
Chantal Santon Jeffery (soprano)
Orchestre de Chambre de Paris / Hervé Niquet
Recorded 2020 Salle des concerts, Philharmonie, Paris
Bru Zane, CD
A strong contender as my 'Record of the Year'.

[BBMmk2]

Richard Strauss
Don Juan, Op.20
Eine Alpensinfonie, Op.664
Carl Nielsen
Symphony No. 4 “The Inextinguishable”
Symphony No.5, Op.50
San Francisco Symphony
Herbert Blomstedt.

[gurnemanz]

Jules Massenet
‘Songs with Orchestra’
Nicole Car (soprano), Jodie Devos (soprano), Cyrille Dubois (tenor),
Étienne Dupuis (baritone), Véronique Gens (soprano),
Chantal Santon Jeffery (soprano)
Orchestre de Chambre de Paris / Hervé Niquet
Recorded 2020 Salle des concerts, Philharmonie, Paris
Bru Zane, CD
A strong contender as my 'Record of the Year'.

Thanks for he nudge, Stan. Having only quite recently enjoyed discovering Massenet songs with piano via fine discs from Sally Silver with Richard Bonynge , I shall definitely investigate. Bru Zane are doing a great job in exploring the French repertoire.