What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[RichardB]

But liking either Rubbra or Martinu might do it. Or not. Who knows……

I'll report back. Timpani aren't my favourite sound though.

PS I came across Kabeláč a long time ago through his electronic piece E fontibus Bohemicis and his music for percussion ensemble - I was only vaguely aware that he had also written large amounts of orchestral music. Anyway, lined up for later this evening.

[Serial_Apologist]

I'll report back. Timpani aren't my favourite sound though.

PS I came across Kabeláč a long time ago through his electronic piece E fontibus Bohemicis and his music for percussion ensemble - I was only vaguely aware that he had also written large amounts of orchestral music. Anyway, lined up for later this evening.

This is the only time I've come across reference to Kabelac anywhere since hearing a tuned percussion piece of now forgotten title on Music In Our Time (I think it was) somewhere around 1970!

[RichardB]

This is the only time I've come across reference to Kabelac anywhere since hearing a tuned percussion piece of now forgotten title on Music In Our Time (I think it was) somewhere around 1970!

Well, he wrote eight symphonies so he was certainly no slouch. But most Western people's impression of postwar music from eastern Europe comes down to one or two composers per country at most.

[Bryn]

This is the only time I've come across reference to Kabelac anywhere since hearing a tuned percussion piece of now forgotten title on Music In Our Time (I think it was) somewhere around 1970!

I had a Philips LP, one of those with a silvery holographic geometric sleeve, of a percussion work by Kabelac. I think that recording might also be in the Percussions de Strassborg boxed set of CDs. I will have to check.

[HighlandDougie]

This is the only time I've come across reference to Kabelac anywhere since hearing a tuned percussion piece of now forgotten title on Music In Our Time (I think it was) somewhere around 1970!

Well, TS (I think) has been a cheer-leader for his music on the forum as I can't think why else I would have bought the Supraphon set of his symphonies. A good recommendation - music well worth hearing - as is much else from countries to the east of the Oder-Neisse line. The wretched "Iron Curtain" did much damage to Western exposure to so much inventive music, as RB implies.

[Joseph K]

Disk 47 of the Boulez The Conductor box -

[Mandryka]

Book 2 of Finnissy’s Verdi transcriptions. Quite why this music should sound so good this morning I can’t explain, but it does.

[Petrushka]

Messiaen: La Nativitie du Seigneur
Simon Preston at the organ of Westminster Abbey

[BBMmk2]

Berlioz’s birthday today!

Berlioz
Symphonie Fantadtique, Op.14
(Philadelphia Orchestra,
Riccardo Muti)
Roméo et Juliet, Op.17
(Jessye Norman, mezzo-soprano,John Aler, tenor,
Simon Estes, bass
The Westminster Choir,
Philadelphia Orchestra
Riccardo Muti).

[cloughie]

Disk 47 of the Boulez The Conductor box -

The Ma Mere l’Oye on that CD is to my ears one of the best on record!

[frankbridge]

Elgar: Symphony No 3 elaborated by Tony Payne

Sapporo Symphony Orchestra/Tadaaki Otaka

Signum Classics SIGCD 118

An early christmas present from a friend, and as I already have the recording with Goldilocks with the BBC SO on NMC (I mean who hasn't, darling?) I must make space for it on my heaving bookcase somehow

Especially when it is coupled with the Pomp and Circumstance No 6 (again, a Payne effort)...

[Pulcinella]

The Ma Mere l’Oye on that CD is to my ears one of the best on record!

And I think I remember Joseph K being impressed by Une barque quite recently, possibly the first time he'd heard it?

[Joseph K]

The Ma Mere l’Oye on that CD is to my ears one of the best on record!

Yes, I found it utterly exquisite.

[Joseph K]

And I think I remember Joseph K being impressed by Une barque quite recently, possibly the first time he'd heard it?

Hmm. Maybe from the other Boulez box? I don't remember listening to that recently, but I could well be mistaken...

[smittims]

Pierre recorded 'Un Barque...' with the New York Philharmonic for CBS and with the Berlin Philharmonic for Deutsche Grammophon. The DG is in a set called 'Boulez conducts Debusssy and Ravel'.

The latter was one of a series of similarly-presented sets , Mahler, Stravinsky, etc. Bargains, but poor documentation. The Stravinsky had an essay in threeee languages all about what a marvellous conductor he was, but not a word about the music itself, dates, descriptions, etc. Ah, for the days of Columbia LPs with their long articles by Alec Robertson, et al, on the back!