Disco Stu 15,495 Posted September 6, 2019 Share Posted September 6, 2019 This new recording of Rautavaara's Vigilia is good "on the far edge of a hurricane" morning music. Both the work and the composer are new to me and it's very nice choral writing indeed. Dixon Hill and The Illustrious Jerry 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted September 6, 2019 Share Posted September 6, 2019 This album from 1996 by Swiss group the Amati Quartet is so specific to my musical interests it's like they recorded it for me. Their performance of Piston's Quartet No. 1 is masterful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loert 2,511 Posted September 7, 2019 Share Posted September 7, 2019 Mendelssohn''s Scherzo from A Midsummer Night's Dream never fails to brighten up my day: The Illustrious Jerry and Fabulin 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fabulin 3,511 Posted September 8, 2019 Share Posted September 8, 2019 . Jurassic Shark 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted September 8, 2019 Share Posted September 8, 2019 Been on a Lukas Foss kick this weekend. Symphony No. 1 (1944) Symphony No. 2 (1958) For Aaron (2002) And in addition to those more neoclassical/Americanist works, I've listened quite a bit to this solo piano piece from 1981, an excursion into minimalism for Foss, clearly curious to try it out in the wake of Glass, Adams, Reich, etc. I think it's a very successful piece! It's minimalism but with Foss' own sense of syncopated voicings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,054 Posted September 8, 2019 Share Posted September 8, 2019 3 hours ago, Modest Expectations said: I hope to get a Marston Records CD set of such recordings at some point. Here it is: https://www.marstonrecords.com/products/legendary-piano Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Jurassic Shark 12,054 Posted September 8, 2019 Share Posted September 8, 2019 2 minutes ago, Modest Expectations said: I know where it is I just don't know where the money is! It is expensive if purchasing directly from the label, and I haven't found it on any online CD store. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,054 Posted September 11, 2019 Share Posted September 11, 2019 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted September 11, 2019 Share Posted September 11, 2019 John Corigliano's "Snapshot Circa 1909" for string quartet. Eerily reproduces the feeling of getting lost in memories. Dixon Hill 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted September 11, 2019 Share Posted September 11, 2019 I'm currently reading a transcript of an audience Q&A with Aaron Copland from February 24, 1937 following a "Composers' Forum" concert in New York City. It's pretty amusing to see how an audience reacted to Copland's "modernist" music at the time (this was right at the transition point for Copland toward his more "populist" works). Example questions: "I have just had a hard working day. Your music does not contribute to my evening relaxation. Is that my fault?" "Why do you use so many dissonances?" "Your music makes me feel nervous and restless. Is that how you felt when you wrote your compositions?" "Does your music have any social significance?" "I prefer very much Gershwin" The last one was even of that infamous genre "more of a comment than a question"! I enjoyed his answer to the social significance question: "All music that is any good has social significance." I also enjoy his summation of his own music, which really does sort of work as a bare bones description of why I enjoy it. Quote The salient characteristics [of my music], as I see them, are in the first place, a certain massive sense and a certain attempt at quite a large and grandiose effect. Not so much "effect" but a large and grandiose feeling in the music. The second, is an attempt to get an alive rhythmic vitality in the music. And the third characteristic, I should say, is an attempt to write music which is always logically constructed. SteveMc 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,191 Posted September 11, 2019 Share Posted September 11, 2019 On 8/31/2019 at 3:07 PM, Loert said: This must be one of the most beautiful pieces of music I've ever listened to: Especially in his recording, because the same holds true for Janowitz's voice in general. Loert 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted September 11, 2019 Share Posted September 11, 2019 8 hours ago, Disco Stu said: John Corigliano's "Snapshot Circa 1909" for string quartet. Eerily reproduces the feeling of getting lost in memories. That's a stunning piece. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted September 11, 2019 Share Posted September 11, 2019 30 minutes ago, Dixon Hill said: That's a stunning piece. “Heart-wrenchingly bittersweet memories” is a hard tone to get just right. It’s pitch perfect in its emotional-narrative arc. Dixon Hill 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveMc 2,674 Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 The Illustrious Jerry 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fabulin 3,511 Posted September 14, 2019 Share Posted September 14, 2019 . SteveMc 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,054 Posted September 14, 2019 Share Posted September 14, 2019 1 minute ago, Modest Expectations said: I read Good for you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor 7,492 Posted September 14, 2019 Share Posted September 14, 2019 As mentioned in the "What are you drinking tonight?" thread -- live performances of Stravinsky's FIREBIRD and Ravels' DAPHNE & CHlOÉ yesterday. I don't own DAPHNE, but I have a CD set of Michael Tilson Thomas' Stravinsky set. 3CD set that includes THE FIREBIRD, PERSEPHONE and THE RITE OF SPRING. Brilliant (but weirdly mixed -- highs are too high, and lows are too low). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,054 Posted September 14, 2019 Share Posted September 14, 2019 I reckon they performed one of the suites from Daphne. I recommend getting the whole work - there's a very good recording on Naxos by some French orchestra, but I'm too lazy to get up from the couch to check which one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor 7,492 Posted September 14, 2019 Share Posted September 14, 2019 They did, yes. Thanks for the recommendation, I'll check it out. It was weird going from Stravinsky to straight-from-the-heart impressionism, but it worked! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Illustrious Jerry 3,356 Posted September 14, 2019 Author Share Posted September 14, 2019 A few selections from Leonard Bernstein's repertoire, namely Three Dance Episodes from On the Town, excerpts from On the Waterfront and West Side Story, and Fancy Free Ballet, a fine treat. Conducted by the composer himself, with guest Andre Kostelanetz, and the New York Philharmonic. Also, what better way to start ones day than with two of my favourite Debussy standalones: Tarantelle Styrienne (orch. Ravel) and Rhapsodie for Clarinet and Orchestra, a real beauty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,480 Posted September 14, 2019 Share Posted September 14, 2019 Bach's big Mess in B Menor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,054 Posted September 14, 2019 Share Posted September 14, 2019 Mass, you mean. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,480 Posted September 14, 2019 Share Posted September 14, 2019 Fucking troll. Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,054 Posted September 14, 2019 Share Posted September 14, 2019 Reported! Bespin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Fabulin 3,511 Posted September 14, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted September 14, 2019 2 hours ago, Modest Expectations said: The resurrection premiere (after 150 years) of Symphonies No. 1 and No. 2 by Emilie Meyer by Norddeutsche Rundfunk Radiophilharmonie. Apparently done so recently, in July 2019. Wow! While not as great as her later masterpieces, it is still clearly the same inspired, powerful voice of "lady Beethoven". Very interesting to hear for the first time earlier works by a composer whose later works one is intimate with. For a couple of years I have been bitter about paying the obligatory radio tax, since I use no radio services, but if it goes into work like this (not to mention other awesome recordings done by German radio orchestras)... I actually feel good about how it is used (even if a little inefficient) So far only freely distributed 320kbps MP3s that make my ears hurt a bit, but later this year a CD is supposed to come out. I hope that, just like both of the other recorded symphonies, they will end up on streaming services as well. And what is more, apparently the manuscript of the second symphony, which, among other qualities, has a very memorable theme worth of Bizet or Tchaikovsky, has only been found in June this year. I just read a post of the discoverer on another forum. Isn't it great to be able to witness such re-discoveries being made as we speak? SteveMc, Jurassic Shark and Yavar Moradi 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor 7,492 Posted September 14, 2019 Share Posted September 14, 2019 1 hour ago, Bespin said: Fucking troll. Wow, really? Because he corrected you from the humourous "Mess" to "Mass"? Jurassic Shark 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Illustrious Jerry 3,356 Posted September 14, 2019 Author Share Posted September 14, 2019 Please take any comments pertaining to trolls to the appropriate thread: Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,346 Posted September 14, 2019 Share Posted September 14, 2019 Hey Bespin take is easy will you? No need to lose your temper because you made a typo and someone noticed it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted September 16, 2019 Share Posted September 16, 2019 It's funny how Bernstein's absorption of Copland's 1925 suite, Music for the Theatre, as an influence is so complete that listening in 2019, the "Burlesque" movement just sounds like a Bernstein composition! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted September 17, 2019 Share Posted September 17, 2019 Copland looking remarkably like Stravinsky in this New York Times photo from 1965 And here's Leonard Bernstein at the same charity event Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,054 Posted September 17, 2019 Share Posted September 17, 2019 Yes, especially in that white dress! Fabulin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted September 19, 2019 Share Posted September 19, 2019 2x5 is definitely the coolest sounding piece Steve Reich has ever put together, for me. Those clean-sounding bass and electric guitars are superb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,054 Posted September 19, 2019 Share Posted September 19, 2019 1 hour ago, Disco Stu said: 2x5 is definitely the coolest sounding piece Steve Reich has ever put together, for me. He put it together especially for you? You lucky, lucky bastard! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted September 19, 2019 Share Posted September 19, 2019 Not to be a name-dropper but.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loert 2,511 Posted September 20, 2019 Share Posted September 20, 2019 Fabulin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Jurassic Shark 12,054 Posted September 21, 2019 Share Posted September 21, 2019 No wonder the forest is burning! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,480 Posted September 21, 2019 Share Posted September 21, 2019 Yesterday I listened to some piano favorites of mine. Not as fluid as I really like, but of one the best interpretations of these works we can find today. Jurassic Shark and The Illustrious Jerry 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,054 Posted September 21, 2019 Share Posted September 21, 2019 A great set of waltzes! Which one's your favorite? Mine's no. 11. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,480 Posted September 21, 2019 Share Posted September 21, 2019 Mine is Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,054 Posted September 21, 2019 Share Posted September 21, 2019 That's the boring textbook answer! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,331 Posted September 21, 2019 Share Posted September 21, 2019 I listened to something by Bach with recorders and string orchestra. People say Bach is cold and mathematical. While the latter might be true, the former certainly isn't. Bespin and SteveMc 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Bespin 8,480 Posted September 21, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted September 21, 2019 On 9/21/2019 at 7:30 AM, Alexcremers said: I listened to something by Bach with recorders and string orchestra. People say Bach is cold and mathematical. While the latter might be true, the former certainly isn't. There's no more joyous, sensible, luminous and and warmer music than the one of Bach. And "Something" is perhaps among his best works, nice choice! SteveMc, The Illustrious Jerry, A24 and 1 other 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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gkgyver 1,645 Posted September 21, 2019 Share Posted September 21, 2019 First act of Lohengrin. The prelude makes the universe audible. Incredible. Loert 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted September 25, 2019 Share Posted September 25, 2019 I have this video of a live performance of Copland's Third by Slatkin and the DSO from 2015 I think. The performance of the 2nd movement, the scherzo, is so gloriously cathartic I get really into it every time I watch, really swept along by the grandiosity of it all. And then the audience breaks into spontaneous applause as soon as it's done. Usually something of a no-no to clap between movements but you can tell the audience was just so overwhelmed they had to show their enthusiasm. It's fucking great. A real magical moment I'm so happy was on camera. SteveMc and The Illustrious Jerry 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted September 26, 2019 Share Posted September 26, 2019 I think I'd like Wagner operas more if they didn't have all that annoying singing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,513 Posted September 26, 2019 Share Posted September 26, 2019 On 9/14/2019 at 9:35 PM, Bespin said: Bach's big Mess in B Menor. Bach's big Mess! On 9/6/2019 at 2:22 PM, Disco Stu said: This new recording of Rautavaara's Vigilia is good "on the far edge of a hurricane" morning music. Both the work and the composer are new to me and it's very nice choral writing indeed. Stu, try his ANGELS series. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loert 2,511 Posted September 26, 2019 Share Posted September 26, 2019 3 hours ago, Disco Stu said: I think I'd like Wagner operas more if they didn't have all that annoying singing That's a bit like saying "I would enjoy flying more if airplanes didn't have wings". On a more serious note, sometimes the vibrato can get annoying...Older recordings don't suffer from this problem so much I've found. It also helps a lot if you understand what they are singing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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