What Classical Music Are You Listening To?

[Referentzhunter]

[soulpope]

50 minutes ago, Referentzhunter said:

As good as it gets ....

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Earlier today .... :

[Referentzhunter]

1 hour ago, soulpope said:

As good as it gets ....

[Referentzhunter]

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Thereafter .... :

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[Peter Friedman]

Brahms - Symphony No.2

[HutchFan]

Beethoven's Missa solemnis, as performed by Colin Davis, et al:

[Chuck Nessa]

On 8/12/2019 at 6:32 PM, JSngry said:

Damn...

I am enjoying your posts about this set. I haven't had the time to delve into the box but remember some of the recordings from lps.

While working at HNH we issued a wonderful disc of Boccherini Quintets - I should search for a reissue of that.

[JSngry]

HNH? Was not aware of this part of your career. What/when/etc, please?

[Larry Kart]

Partial listing of HNH recordings:

https://www.discogs.com/label/365742-HNH-Records

I got a lot of them and learned a lot from them, especially about 20th Century English composers --  e.g. Bridge, Finzi. Rawsthorne, Berkeley.

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[Referentzhunter]

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Before .... :

[mikeweil]

Yesterday:

A rare double CD of Laura Alvini playing Domenico Scarlatti sonatas on a copy of a Cristofori/Ferrini gravicembalo col piano e forte. and then:

[Peter Friedman]

Op.10/1, Op.10/2 and Op.10/3

[Larry Kart]

Interesting composer. Without being all that "modern" in style (his initial model-mentor was Alan Rawsthorne), Hoddinott's music is exceedingly hard for me to get a grip on. Forceful gestures, often brass-dominant, in one direction are followed, often abruptly by other similar gestures in another direction, and then by swatches of introspective woodwind and strings "night-music," etc., etc. -- all typically organized in arch-like shapes. There are times when I think Hoddinott (I have two more CDs of his work)  just has a disordered mind or vocabulary, but then the next time through I'm close to being convinced that it's all as it must be. In any case, given all the "modern" music that I've listened to over the years, it's quite strange for me to encounter a non-"far-out" composer this side of an outright eccentric like Havargal Brian or Rude Langaard or Mathias Vermeulen whose musical language I can't quite grasp.

[Д.Д.]

2 hours ago, Larry Kart said:

Interesting composer. Without being all that "modern" in style (his initial model-mentor was Alan Rawsthorne), Hoddinott's music is exceedingly hard for me to get a grip on. Forceful gestures, often brass-dominant, in one direction are followed, often abruptly by other similar gestures in another direction, and then by swatches of introspective woodwind and strings "night-music," etc., etc. -- all typically organized in arch-like shapes. There are times when I think Hoddinott (I have two more CDs of his work)  just has a disordered mind or vocabulary, but then the next time through I'm close to being convinced that it's all as it must be. In any case, given all the "modern" music that I've listened to over the years, it's quite strange for me to encounter a non-"far-out" composer this side of an outright eccentric like Havargal Brian or Rude Langaard or Mathias Vermeulen whose musical language I can't quite grasp.

Sound intriguing, will give him a listen

[Marzz]

On 8/14/2019 at 4:21 PM, Chuck Nessa said:

While working at HNH we issued a wonderful disc of Boccherini Quintets - I should search for a reissue of that.

Chuck, I (think) I have the CD of these Quintets? This one, recorded in Spain (Girona) 1975 and issued via Ensayo.

https://www.discogs.com/Boccherini-Quinteto-Boccherini-Three-Quintets-For-Strings-La-Musica-Notturna-Di-Madrid-Minuetto-From/release/10374297

But I've never heard the HNH LP. Was it this one? - https://www.discogs.com/Quintetto-Boccherini-Boccherini-Quintets/release/9651952

 

Here's another partial listing listing of HNH https://www.discogs.com/label/602645-HNH-Records-Incorporated

 

[Marzz]

Hindemith - Mathis der Maler / Symphonic Metamorphsis / Trauermusik (Blomstedt & San Francisco Symphony) (Decca)

[Marzz]

Hindemith - Ludus Tonalis (Kabi Laretei) (Philips / Eloquence)

Edited August 16, 2019 by Marzz

[soulpope]

2 hours ago, Marzz said:

Hindemith - Mathis der Maler / Symphonic Metamorphsis / Trauermusik (Blomstedt & San Francisco Symphony) (Decca)

Excellent ....