Beautiful
https://open.spotify.com/album/2dTuI0bGGJA6hbMj2qamRQ
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Minimalist-ish Kilar piano concerto - great stuff
https://open.spotify.com/album/7B80bJiEbtohbcQCVRWPDl
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A mesmerisingly slow Bruckner 7
https://open.spotify.com/album/6fImCwgxRpd4P63WQhxIvl
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[QUOTE=montesquieu;928187]New out and a wonderful performance from beginning to end
https://open.spotify.com/album/4fFLhfRW5l9Tge0tlaxcw2
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Received my copy a few days ago and really enjoying this - thank you again for the recommendation :)
R3 featured a week of modern opera at the beginning of December. Unfortunately I only caught a snippet, but heard this and was quite taken. The composer is new to me.
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CD arrived over Christmas and I'm finding it very interesting listening. Helps that the recording is excellent (ECM New Series).
Great performances from one of imo the world's great orchestras - the Royal Liverpool Phil!
https://open.spotify.com/album/2WiNpsisOqDnWXJU72N5f1
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Funny how things move on, when I was a teenager the Monteverdi Choir/EBS stuff sounded fresh and fleet footed, now in comparison to younger ensembles they often sound like they are plodding along in much the same way as they had made the more traditional performances sound in the past.Quote:
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Yeah, JEG is just an old fuddy duddy. :D
Never did go for much of his output - too controlled.
A conductor's job is to control every aspect of a performance - the ultimate control freak - but it shouldn't sound like it and with JEG it very often does,
Anyway I think I am alone in the world taking that view! :lol:
Midnight last night, New Year fireworks, and there's us with 5 cats, 3 of them of a nervous disposition, so we needed music to mask the whizzes and bangs.
Kamran Ince 2nd symphony "The Fall of Constantinople" to the rescue - the 1st movement is a Turkish percussion extravaganza :eek: - perfect!!
https://open.spotify.com/album/5aTv6PxNu4dIwexqa0Ncjg
https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JP...er=allrovi.com
Oh, and a ....
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... to you all.
And to you Jerry (and the cats!)Quote:
Originally Posted by jandl100
I'm going to have to listen to more "younger ensembles"!Quote:
Originally Posted by Lawrence001
Gardiner's Fairy Queen was one of my first introductions to Purcell - that and the Tony Palmer film "England, My England" from 1995 that Gardiner did the music for too - so I'm always going to hold a bit of a candle for this recording.
I listened to a lot of Bach cantatas a few years ago (still enjoy them) and compared a lot of the recordings. Though Herreweghe was usually my preference, I often felt that Gardiner's live cycle came out very well - sounded full of life when compared to others (Suzuki for example).
I'm interested to hear suggestions for alternatives if you have them?
Pretty wonderful on CD .. doesn't appear to be on Spotify or Qobuz though. An old favourite that I'd somehow mislaid till today. Beautiful recording too as well as beautifully sung.
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https://www.amazon.co.uk/Brahms-Germ.../dp/B0007TX998
Hope you didn't leave your car in the car park ....Quote:
Originally Posted by jandl100
A stern and severe looking geezer, but he wrote delightful oboe music!
https://open.spotify.com/album/0T7XKig1A76ut9l2RUuAlj
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I wonder how tall he was.
I fink he was quite lickl.
And his string quartets are yummy. too.
https://open.spotify.com/album/0T3ThyUONzETwEmt665S5t
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Enjoyable contemporary Spanish. Not as astringent as some of his music.
https://open.spotify.com/album/2wjzdhhYjEHnAgJFKWItZl
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A very fine recommendation by new AOSer Alanbeeb.
It's like hearing this familiar work afresh.
Fantastic sq, too.
https://open.spotify.com/album/4K1qDDbKEYVGF4jQIZyyJI
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Great disc that - I'm really into Currentzis, love him or hate him ! You should try his Shostakovich 14, to say nothing of his Rite of Spring with this band...
Welcome to participation in the forum, Tony!Quote:
Originally Posted by basslover
I'd not come across Currentzis before somehow.
Loved the Tchaik 6 -- I then went of to his Shostakovich piano concertos with Melnikov - stunning, and the slow mvt of the 2nd PC ---- whooosh, words fail me it's so beautifully played!
I see he's done a lot of opera, which isn't really my bag, but Mozart's Requiem, Shosty 14 and Rite. Yup, looking forward to trying those!
https://open.spotify.com/album/3shQgVtC27b0nogkZPHKnb
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So, naturally, I went straight on to Tchaikovsky's violin concerto. :doh:Quote:
Originally Posted by jandl100
And got immediately sidetracked by the astonishing violin playing of Patricia Kopatchinskaja.
My gosh, another wonderful musician I'd not come across before!
She's made lots on interesting looking recordings.
https://open.spotify.com/album/3HxyTZPw92lySW2WlDFXnh
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Hi Tony :wave:
And then, some avant garde-y stuff played by Patricia K.
https://open.spotify.com/album/2BP8YCAbfYLJiXm8LF8E85
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Yep she’s quite something, and I’d forgotten that Tchaikovsky concerto which I actually bought in the end. Maybe it’s a bit marmite with the pulling around of the phrases, but it makes others now seem rather dull....
Investigating Schnittke: always liked the symphonies and chamber, but this was new to me
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Schnittke - yep, love some of his music, have yet to come to terms with some.
Choir concertos and piano concertos are my favourite, I think.
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Beautifully mysteriously haunting ...
Two violin concertos.
https://open.spotify.com/album/54wy9c9jttuQ7hXQOWaC4X
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This is also worth seeking out - ECM have done Kancheli proud !
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Aha , found it.Quote:
Originally Posted by basslover
it has a different cover on spotify and amazon ...
5.0 out of 5 stars
Stunning!
By A customeron 21 March 1999 - Published on Amazon.com
For those who have grown weary of the accepted wisdoms of classical music through the ages and the one-dimensional, dynamically compressed nature of most contemporary music, Giya Kancheli's compositions are a breath of fresh air. The music swings from barely-there echoes from the netherworld to visceral blasts of unrestrained passion.
https://open.spotify.com/album/552MhYMPmL4Mi0X5Sm7bJk
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Trauerfarbe...words=Kancheli
Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Telemann, Op.134 and Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op.24
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Jorge Bolet, piano
Decca SXL 6969, 1981.
The only Kancheli I have listened to has been 'Little Imber':
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Interesting, but it hasn't so far turned me into a Kancheli fan. Ought to listen to some more!
Oh, and 'Themes from the Songbook':
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Perhaps I ought to try some of his symphonic works. What would you recommend?
I played quite a bit of Reger in the days when I was forced to learn modern stuff (mainly for exams) alongside my usual renaissance, baroque and classical fare. Enjoyable stuff.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
Just reminded me to dig out Rheinberger/Reger arrangement for two pianos of the Goldbergs. For non-fans of the Gouldberg versions this is the perfect antidote.
https://open.spotify.com/album/7xHdY82drUKmgh2xUgpyMI
The Aria is fairly conventional but it soon moves into its own world ...
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Interesting!
Playing this one now ...
Oi loikes it! You can't have too many Goldbergs.
https://open.spotify.com/album/4KuETqvLUkToANaio3erzl
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I like the sound of that, so just ordered it from Amazon.Quote:
Originally Posted by montesquieu
Do I take it from your pun that you are not keen on Glen Gould's interpretation?
Far from it though a little goes a long way ... I think Gould's idiosyncratic approach has its merits and certainly its fans, it's brought a lot of people to this music who might otherwise have never had it come up on their radar, leading them on to explore further.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
What I meant was that it's the opposite of Gould's dry, intellectual (though still passionate) presentation, it's a big, bold sound-scapey performance (as indeed is the other one that Jerry found - I hadn't been aware of that) where unlike in Gould's version, it's impossible to be conscious of ever note, just as you can't be in a piece of Chopin or Liszt.
I first heard this in a record, CD and new-agey tat shop in a small town in the Nordheide south of Hamburg. The aria came on and I set myself a task to see if I could figure out whose it was. When the first variation came on I was completely flummoxed by all the extra notes, then captivated, and I just had to come home with a copy (in fact, the CD that had been playing as they only had the one).
This is a very interesting take by a living composer of the Goldbergs - not on Spotify unfortunately as it's Hyperion....
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I find Reger quite difficult.
This is by far my favourite music by him that I have heard - solo violin sonatas - superb sq here, too.
I've had the CD for decades, and now on Spot.
Review - https://www.gramophone.co.uk/review/...violin-sonatas
https://open.spotify.com/album/0zdpn71sqXHV6PbjhF6d9J
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Nice one Jerry I like this. :)
Yep, he seems to have shrugged off his fearsome technical formality (which is how I hear much of his music) and is just having some post-Bachian fun, just reveling in making beautiful music. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by montesquieu
A bit of unashamed Romanticism here, longings of old Vienna...
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this is joyous music to cheer a cold dank morning
https://open.spotify.com/album/7dlLDBENikDh3uBjY1AvGG
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Can't beat a theorbo for a proper baroque rhythm section!
Gave this a spin tonight on CD, very interesting ... about as un-authentic, non-original, plain 'wrong' a performance as you'll find - in fact I thought playing Gibbons on the piano was probably made a criminal offence around 1975 or thereabouts - but somehow quite captivating.
https://open.spotify.com/album/5t97rqYPcAOutsoycbN8Px
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Tsk tsk - I am deeply shocked - your old music professors will be turning in their graves, assuming they are now in them.
You'll be listening to the Goldbergs played on an accordion next, Tom. ;)
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Ooo, I do enjoy a bit of Turina chamber music now and then. It's got a nicely 20th century edge to it, but still full of melody and sumptuous textures.
https://open.spotify.com/album/2WP8f54wLsxfcNfKrueB6F
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These are wonderful cello-like pieces - I'll commit heresy and put them on a par with Bach's cello suites. :D
https://open.spotify.com/album/1NfiSOpUUyyTKHDiUFDOvi
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