Herzogenberg symphony #1.
Yum.
A long and lovely slow intro to the 1st movement, then he picks up the pace nicely.
https://open.spotify.com/album/6xNjcQ4D89laBAL0nWJiNX
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Herzogenberg symphony #1.
Yum.
A long and lovely slow intro to the 1st movement, then he picks up the pace nicely.
https://open.spotify.com/album/6xNjcQ4D89laBAL0nWJiNX
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon....yL._SY355_.jpg
Listening now to Martti Talvela in Schubert's Winterreise song cycle.
I'm not usually that keen on lieder, but I do love this guy's voice!
https://open.spotify.com/album/5H1RPkV1vMf7VY6DTBIKcS
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/TNY8Z-5W7S0/hqdefault.jpg
Quite a major discovery for me.
Herzogenberg - he knew Brahms and had a very similar musical voice.
These 3 large scale choral and orchestra works are fabulous ...
https://open.spotify.com/album/0SOrDZvlVX26nFIWaxmUUQ
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon....SL._SY355_.jpg
More off the beaten track stuff, I'm afraid. :sorry: :D
Irish composer John Kinsella.
Absolutely brilliant symphonies. :thumbsup:
https://open.spotify.com/album/1M7bi952PXloaB9TtDk5Mt
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000069JO.01.L.jpg
Well this is damn good, currently listening to it on my train home. Dramatic and fleeting at the same time.Quote:
Originally Posted by jandl100
Great stuff, Neil, glad you like it. :)
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try this for soaringly beautiful - the Salve Regina in particular :eek:
https://open.spotify.com/album/1O1MPPXlp81Gs9stOtxUsf
http://www.boosey.com/imagesw/shop/p...1245-2_cov.jpg
Enjoyed that one Jerry, fantastic voice.
Here's one for you - Schubert with two guitars! (and I wouldn't have found this without my new spotify subscription)
https://open.spotify.com/album/6WoR9sOqcKfS1Ewvs9cuQp
http://d24jnm9llkb1ub.cloudfront.net...cover-zoom.jpg
Quote:
Originally Posted by montesquieu
Tom...it's on Tidal too! :eyebrows:
:yay:Quote:
Originally Posted by montesquieu
Howzitgoin' with Spot?
Pretty good. I think I prefer the Qobuz viewer and Tidal have been quite responsive in a flurry of emails to my complaints about metadata (can no-one really have complained before?) ... I have all three trial subsciptions running at once at the moment. Spotify seems to be pretty good for classical .. frustratingly a couple of the albums I've gone to buy having heard them online seem to be unavailable on CD.Quote:
Originally Posted by jandl100
I believe that's one of the positives of Qobuz..it has a dual download option, so stream and listen, like it, download it (at an additional cost, obviously)Quote:
Originally Posted by montesquieu
Not that I can see myself wanting to use the facility, but typically how much does a Qobuz album download cost?
Back on topic, playing now ....
Roussel chamber music
https://open.spotify.com/album/4rCTMsUKWRhRLugmwoOUUe
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16 bit CD Quality £11.59 Hi Res £13.39 Hi Res with Qobuz Sublime (premium subscription £220 a year one payment) £8.89Quote:
Originally Posted by jandl100
they also offer a Sublime+ one off payment £350 a year, which allows 24bit Hi Res Streaming and Hight Res downloads.
Sorry back on topic...
Listening to...
Arvo Pärt : The Deer's Cry
http://play.qobuz.com/album/0002894812451
and
Brad Mehldau: Elegiac Cycle (CD)
Qobuz £11.59 for CD quality album download.
Cripes - my CD buying was and occasionally still is on Amazon Market Place or eBay for around a £fiver each max.
Still, whatever makes you happy.
I'm happy just streaming from Spotify Premium.
I've still got ~2,000 CDs for when t'internet is down or for car or out&about use.
Tom's philosophy of parallel subs of internet streaming services and seeing what works best for you is the way to go, ime.
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Die Schone Mullerin mit zwei guitars was interesting!
It worked quite well - I wonder what it would be like with accordion, Tom? ;)
I don't download from there, just answering your price query..
I no longer own CDs, all on a NAS now, rest are horribly scratched from car use.
Back on topic
This recording is Oh-My-Gosh Magnificent !!
If only the whole of Tintner's Bruckner cycle was as good.
https://open.spotify.com/album/07YnAggZog0P94hiSB7jTV
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One of my favourites along withQuote:
Originally Posted by jandl100
https://img.discogs.com/VlbkKMkkT4aD...11052.jpeg.jpg
and the Third from the same DG Bernstein set?
Totally laidback.
Totally yummy.
What a lovely way to just chill out.
https://open.spotify.com/album/3Be8kJzfPBZV5dgzeajxt6
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CUkEVODWEAA1muf.png
Right now this (streaming, via the RPi), which in parts is rather 'dark', but very good!
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...924/l76kxM.jpg
:cool:
Marco.
I am wondering why you say 'dark' ?Quote:
Originally Posted by Marco
I think I Bought the CD I have of this about twenty five years ago there is also a live version conducted by Haitink, EMI boxsets annoy me they have so little information on the sleeves
Putting this DVD as I go to bed
http://mahlerchamber.com/img/lucerne...phony-no-3.jpg
Lol... Because large chunks of it remind me of 'effects music' you'd hear in horror movies, just before something terrible happens! ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Ronksley
Enjoy the Mahler :)
Marco.
Effects from horror movies.
Close enough!
RVW's 7th symphony (Sinfonia Antartica) was written initially as a soundtrack to the 1948 film 'Scott of the Antarctic' and was later transformed into the symphony.
So it is indeed dark and tragic at times film music! ... They all died. :deceased:
But you probably knew that. :)
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...ilm_poster.jpg
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Contemporary classical music - played by an ensemble of flutes! Not very appealing at all, in principle, but this turned out to be very enjoyable!
https://open.spotify.com/album/0UhP1hjdpnSL9YSbuAQgM7
https://images-eu.ssl-images-amazon....0wL._SS500.jpg
Interesting stuff, Jerry. It was certainly rather bleak in parts, but I like bleak!Quote:
Originally Posted by jandl100
More 'obscurities', eh? :D Exploring off the beaten track is often how you find the hidden gems! ;)Quote:
Contemporary classical music - played by an ensemble of flutes! Not very appealing at all, in principle, but this turned out to be very enjoyable!
https://open.spotify.com/album/0UhP1hjdpnSL9YSbuAQgM7
https://images-eu.ssl-images-amazon....0wL._SS500.jpg
Marco.
Totally awesome music.
Immensely beautiful melds with immensely powerful - is your kit up to it? :eek: ;)
https://open.spotify.com/album/3NcDXMplBu8pkIM8hXvNpB
http://mp3red.me/cover/1374650-460x4...ch-windows.jpg
Fed up of his whatever it is you get all the time Tediums of Rome ? will try and have a listenQuote:
Originally Posted by jandl100
Are my neighbours up to it though ?
Listening to Inbals Shostakovich 9
http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/kNYAAO...ZcM/s-l300.jpg
I really think Shostakovich pulled an ace with his Ninth
Braga Santos 4th symphony
https://open.spotify.com/album/2gMLkqcAhPsgT2Vukk7YIY
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon....CLZZZZZZZ_.jpg
Right now this, which is just fantastic in every way:
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/QYro0B.png
Marco.
^ I agree - excellent works.
I have one of the concertos on the Centaur label
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Last night the glories of Bruckner's 4th symphony echoed through the Forest of Dean ...
https://open.spotify.com/album/1sGwxW6m4CB7Tbcff5gzeK
https://www.israbox.one/uploads/post...-live-2017.jpg
Bruckner's fourth was performed at the very first orchestral concert I went to, when I was about 14 (1975 or so) at the Aberdeen Music Halls. The SNO (as it then was) used to play Aberdeen on a Thursday, Edinburgh on a Friday, and Glasgow on a Saturday. As well as piano and organ, at the time I was a French Horn player (I did my Scottish O Grade on the horn, not piano). I was utterly awestruck by the brass section in the Bruckner. Kurt Sanderling conducting.Quote:
Originally Posted by jandl100
Also on the programme was the Mendelssohn violin concerto though I can't remember who the soloist was.
Golly.
Tom is a closet Bruckner fan. :eek:
Whodathunkit?
I thought you detested the overblown grandiosity of romantic large orchestral?
It has its place Jerry but at heart I'm a renaissance/baroque/classical chamber music and vocal junkie. There's not a huge amount after 1850 that floats my boat though an exception would be a good Bruckner or Mahler symphony.Quote:
Originally Posted by jandl100
Given your interests in music, Tom, you should be contributing more to this section of the forum! ;)
Marco.
Awesomely powerful and minimalistically beautiful contemporary classical music by Lepo Sumera
https://open.spotify.com/album/2Glvmah8iVNMRFmkt8n29T
http://www.good-music-guide.com/comm...ch=24510;image
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/22/fa...941d524179.jpg
Bream playing Giuliani and Malcolm Arnold ... the Giuliani is lovely. Malcolm Arnold less so. I recall his Clarinet Concerto clearing out a prom concert in Glasgow once - good night for the bar that must have been. They came back after the interval.
https://img.cdandlp.com/2012/10/imgL/115685673.jpg
I quite a few of Ucida's Mozart recordings on vinyl, this is my favourite - been giving them a spin this afternoon. Looking rather fetching it has to be said too.
edit - surprised
https://open.spotify.com/album/0XswfbZKP24hr6zF8OtNPs
https://open.spotify.com/album/6H1LxcZ2Bziq8g0GvVnsR8
Currently listening to this, which is soothing for a Sunday morning, but somewhat grandiose in parts:
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...924/X98tKD.jpg
Marco.
Right now this, which I'm enjoying immensely:
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/924/ycZs5o.jpg
:)
Marco.
Ooo - a new recording of Shosty 5th. And rather a good one!
From the Classics Today review ...
"Manfred Honeck makes the Shostakovich Fifth sound freshly-composed–quite an accomplishment for this certified warhorse. His scrupulous attention to Shostakovich’s meticulous dynamic markings and instrumental balances–the harp emerging perfectly from the orchestral texture in the first movement, the audible piano at the climax of the adagio, and the brass beautifully sonorous and penetrating throughout"
https://open.spotify.com/album/4JHeGESKOlQt2gBAXtcTND
https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JP...er=allrovi.com
Pure full blooded Romanticism !!
https://open.spotify.com/album/1fcnb5PEWt9r66FskovvUQ
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Some gloriously disjointed Armenian rhythms - timelessly beautiful music
https://open.spotify.com/album/4NNceaCDBc6rblTqB98d8C
https://images-eu.ssl-images-amazon....CLZZZZZZZ_.jpg
Possibly my fave recording of Mahler 9
Wonderful sq, too.
https://open.spotify.com/album/2lyKOFGfjaGCctnPrR1CqG
https://images-eu.ssl-images-amazon....QdL._SS500.jpg
Contemporary Welsh composer.
Approachable and interesting music.
https://open.spotify.com/album/19ET2RWjMBlxBaW6LEN0uk
https://images-eu.ssl-images-amazon....CLZZZZZZZ_.jpg
Just a young Welsh guy ...
http://signumrecords.com/wp-content/.../09/guto11.jpg
Nice one, Jerry. I'll check that out :thumbsup:
Right now, this:
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/2MWvOF.jpg
Marco.
Coo -I've never even heard of him!Quote:
Originally Posted by Marco
Playing now - very nice indeed! :thumbsup:
https://open.spotify.com/album/7FAaq52ZQHnOkzK8D8PPUf
Lovely, isn't it? :)
Hey, imagine me recommending something new to you! :eek::D
Marco.
Aye - there's always something new to be learned. :)
Right now, before bed (late listening sesh!):
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...924/ZPSeBY.jpg
Marco.