Music For Eastertide

[hedgehog]

Wot??!! No Schütz???!!!

My sentiments too. In fact just now I have his 7 Worte on. Beautiful.

[amateur51]

Wot??!! No Schütz???!!!

Bach, Schütz, Browne, Wagner, Haydn ... and, every so often, Penderecki for me.

Ignoramus P Cornforth here, ferney - could you nominate maybe one example/performance for me to listen to please? If pressed, I'd say I don't care for this composer but I really couldn't say why, so in my ignorance I am persuadable

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Ignoramus P Cornforth here, ferney - could you nominate maybe one example/performance for me to listen to please? If pressed, I'd say I don't care for this composer but I really couldn't say why, so in my ignorance I am persuadable

Well, the recordings that grabbed my attention from the start (and heven't let go since) were the ones in the set of Passion settings (together with the Seven Last Words and "Resurrection Story" with the Cappella Augustana directed by Matteo Messori on a BRILLIANT CLASSICS box.

This is now available in a 19-disc box, but Spotification is probably possible. Meanhile there's youTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VPJVLp9nHA

[amateur51]

Well, the recordings that grabbed my attention from the start (and heven't let go since) were the ones in the set of Passion settings (together with the Seven Last Words and "Resurrection Story" with the Cappella Augustana directed by Matteo Messori on a BRILLIANT CLASSICS box.

This is now available in a 19-disc box, but Spotification is probably possible. Meanhile there's youTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VPJVLp9nHA

Many thanks, ferney

Only three minutes in and already I think you may be hearing from my bank manager

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I think you may be hearing from my bank manager

He can join the queue behind mine!


(Forgot to add Stravinsky's Threni. Anyone know what became of our erstwhile fellow forumista with that nom-du-web?)

[JFLL]

Perhaps this is too secularist, but how about Housman’s ‘Loveliest of Trees’ as set by George Butterworth in his ‘Shropshire Lad’ song-cycle?

“Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
Is hung with bloom along the bough,
And stands about the woodland ride
Wearing white for Eastertide.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPTwNT77-WE

[Roehre]

....Threni. Anyone know what became of our erstwhile fellow forumista with that nom-du-web?

I was wondering this myself as I listened to Threni a week or so ago.
Haven't a clue, unfortunately.