Current Listening Vol IX [2023]

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Art Rock

Discussion Starter · 5 mo ago

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Here we go again. In the past, this popular thread had to be re-started a number of times because the files got to big for the software used. The latest restart was with volume VIII, which accidentally practically coincided with the start of the new year 2022. Many members thought this was actually a good idea to pick a new year for a new thread, so with 2023 upon us (already or soon, depending on where you live), we are starting a new thread.

Links to previous Current Listening threads:
Current Listening Vol I
Current Listening Vol II
Current Listening Vol III
Current Listening Vol IV
Current Listening Vol V
Current Listening Vol VI
Current Listening Vol VII
Current Listening Vol VIII

A few suggestions (as if anyone bothers reading this):

Many members appreciate if you would not just post a CD cover or an embedded YouTube link. It would be helpful if you would post at least a short description (like composer, work, performers). This holds especially for videos, because not all YouTube videos can be seen in every country, and they tend to disappear over time.

It would be even better if you can post a little bit about your own take on what you are listening to. No need for extensive reviews, but a few lines would make the thread clearly more valuable to other members.

These are suggestions, not rules. They are not subject to intervention by the moderating team.

Have fun, Happy New Year, and enjoy listening to classical music as always!

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sqorda

· #11,821 · 2 mo ago

Salvatore Sciarrino (born 1947)
Shadow of Sound (2005)
for orchestra

Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, Tito Ceccherini
Recorded: 2006
Label: Kairos

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Tsaraslondon

· #11,822 · 2 mo ago

These two discs don't include all the RAI material that has survived. We don't get the early Ma dall'arrido stelo from Un Ballo in Maschera, but I think everything else is there, including what I find the least successful item, the Proch Variations. I believe Callas wanted to include it on her 1954 Lyric & Coloratura recital, but Serafin absolutely refused to conduct such an empty piece of vocal display. Apart from using it as a vocal exercise, I can't imagine why Callas ever wasted her time on such stuff. It's amazing her huge instriment negotiates the notes with such skill, but I can't say it affords me much pleasure and I think it's probably best left to piping soubrettes.

The rest is classic Callas, except perhaps for the severly truncated excerpt from Tosca, which is so mercilessly cut that neither she nor George London are really able to get into their stride.

All this material, and more, is included on Warner's digital download of all Callas's Live Concert material, though that is not likely to become available on CD. The sound on these two Gala CDs is actually pretty good.

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sqorda

· #11,823 · 2 mo ago

Martin Smolka (born 1959)
Semplice (2006)
for baroque orchestra and ensemble

Freiburger Barockorchester, Ensemble Recherche, Lucas Vis
Recorded: 2006
Label: Neos

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Art Rock

Discussion Starter · #11,824 · 2 mo ago

Julia Wolfe: Anthracite Fields (Bang on a Can All-Stars, Choir of Trinity Wall Street, Cantaloupe Music)

A contemporary classic by American composer and professor of music Julia Wolfe (1958), whose style has been described as folk rock infused minimalism. Anthracite Fields is an oratorio for choir and chamber ensemble, evoking Pennsylvania coal-mining life around the turn of the 20th Century. It was awarded the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Music. It is a fascinating eclectic piece, which swings between classical music and rock.

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Malx

· #11,825 · 2 mo ago

VitellioScarpia said:
Went back from the Tetlzaff/Tetlzaff/Vogt to the classic Beaux Arts Trio. Can't decide...

Just enjoy both.

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Open Lane

· #11,826 · 2 mo ago

Forehead Chin Eyebrow Human Tie

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Malx

· #11,827 · 2 mo ago

Mahler, Symphony No 8 - Arroyo, Spoorenberg, Mathis (sopranos), Hamari, Procter (altos), Grobe (tenor), Fischer-dieskau (bartitone), Crass (bass), Chor & Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Rafael Kubelik.

Over many years I have declared that Mahler's eighth is the symphony of his I like least. That remains the case but over the last couple of years I have played it more frequently and it is slowly starting to lose its 'runt of the litter' tag with me. I doubt if it will ever become a favourite but I no longer avoid it as I used to - progress of sorts I guess.

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janwillemvanaalst

· #11,828 · 2 mo ago

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Maurice Ravel (1875-1937): Daphnis et Chloé, M.57 (1912), as recorded in 2006 by the Bordeaux opera chorus & Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine, conducted by Laurent Petitgirard.

Perhaps my favorite work by Ravel.

From Wikipedia about this work:
Daphnis et Chloé is a ballet in one act with three parts (scenes) by Maurice Ravel described as a "symphonie chorégraphique" (choreographic symphony). The scenario was adapted by Michel Fokine from a romance by the Greek writer Longus thought to date from around the 2nd century AD. The story concerns the love between the goatherd Daphnis and the shepherdess Chloé.
Ravel began work on the score in 1909 after a commission from Sergei Diaghilev. It was premiered at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris by his Ballets Russes on 8 June 1912. The orchestra was conducted by Pierre Monteux, the choreography was by Michel Fokine, and Vaslav Nijinsky and Tamara Karsavina danced the parts of Daphnis and Chloé.
At almost an hour long, Daphnis et Chloé is Ravel's longest work. In spite of the ballet's duration, four discernible leitmotifs give musical unity to the score. The music, some of the composer's most passionate, is widely regarded as some of Ravel's best, with extraordinarily lush harmonies typical of the impressionist movement in music.

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Lisztianwagner

· #11,829 · 2 mo ago

Erkki Melartin
Symphony No.2

Leonid Grin & Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra

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Bourdon

· #11,830 · 2 mo ago

Mozart

sonatas pour violin et piano
K 403
K 404
K 454

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sqorda

· #11,831 · 2 mo ago

Wolfgang Mitterer (born 1958)
Crush 1–5 (2012)
for orchestra, organ and electronics

Wolfgang Mitterer (organ), Bavarian RSO, Peter Rundel
Recorded: 2013
Label: Neos

A little bit of this, a little bit of that. Action-packed.

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Merl

· #11,832 · 2 mo ago

A fine disc (if a little over-brightly engineered) but any release that champions these quality works is fine by me.

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Malx

· #11,833 · 2 mo ago

Final play of the departing string quartet of the week.
Haydn, String Quartet Op76/4 'Sunrise' - Quatuor Mosaïques.

From this treasured box.

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littlejohnuk1

· #11,834 · 2 mo ago

More Mozart for me - symphony no 39

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haziz

· #11,835 · 2 mo ago

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 1 in G minor, Op. 13 'Winter Daydreams'

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko

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elgar's ghost

· #11,836 · 2 mo ago

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Paul Hindemith - various keyboard works, a cappella choral works,
songs etc. part four for this afternoon.

Piano Sonata no.1 (1936):
Piano Sonata no.2 (1936):
Piano Sonata no.3 (1936):

Organ Sonata no.1 (1937):
Organ Sonata no.2 (1937):
Organ Sonata no.3 (1938):

Sonata for piano duet (1938):

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Kreisler jr

· #11,837 · 2 mo ago

Kodaly, solo sonata
Jerry Grossman, cello (Nonesuch 1984)

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Vasks

· #11,838 · 2 mo ago

Flechtenmacher - Moldavian National Overture (Litvin/Olympia)
Liszt - Die Ideale (Halaz/Naxos)
Chopin - Nocturne in E minor, op. 72, No. 1 (Arrau/Philips)
Smetana - Shakespeare Festival March, Op. 20 (Kuchar/Brilliant)

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HenryPenfold

· #11,839 · 2 mo ago (Edited)

Malx said:
Mahler, Symphony No 8 - Arroyo, Spoorenberg, Mathis (sopranos), Hamari, Procter (altos), Grobe (tenor), Fischer-dieskau (bartitone), Crass (bass), Chor & Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Rafael Kubelik.

Over many years I have declared that Mahler's eighth is the symphony of his I like least. That remains the case but over the last couple of years I have played it more frequently and it is slowly starting to lose its 'runt of the litter' tag with me. I doubt if it will ever become a favourite but I no longer avoid it as I used to - progress of sorts I guess.

I'm pretty much in the same boat but I might be turning the corner of late. Incidentally, that Kubelik CD was a very early purchase for me, strongly influenced by the fact that it's on just one CD and the others were on two and unaffordable for me back then.

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OCEANE

· #11,840 · 2 mo ago

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Lute music by Nigel North

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