What are you currently listening to (Classical)?
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Mr. Bolle passed this April from Parkinson's disease. In 1966 he started the Monadnock Music Festival. Which this selection of his works was recorded at in 1996.
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Downloaded, FLAC 24/96 only 11 usd, thank you.A wonderful new recording. Very intense/passionate playing and excellent sound.
My 2 other weekend downloads WAV 24/96 (which I prefer) from Qobuz: CPE Bach with Cello Concertos and discounted Alpha recording on their 20 years anniversary. Pictures of cover arts are too large, sorry.
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Jean-Baptiste Lully: Grands Motets - Dies Irae, Miserere
La Chapelle Royale, Philippe Herreweghe
Henri Dumont's Memorare is also in here. Skipped it as it's a repeat from the Dumont grands motets album from yesterday.
Jean-Baptiste Lully: Petits Motets
Les Arts Florissants, William Christie
I have gone through both the full version of this and video of the Opéra-Comique production. The latter is jaw dropping to say the least. Stéphanie d'Oustrac is particularly impressive, going from high and mighty goddess to giggling little girl to really pissed and brutal to deeply regretful. Curtain call is a solid 10min! Youtube has the whole thing. Check it out:
La Chapelle Royale, Philippe Herreweghe
Henri Dumont's Memorare is also in here. Skipped it as it's a repeat from the Dumont grands motets album from yesterday.
Jean-Baptiste Lully: Petits Motets
Les Arts Florissants, William Christie
I have gone through both the full version of this and video of the Opéra-Comique production. The latter is jaw dropping to say the least. Stéphanie d'Oustrac is particularly impressive, going from high and mighty goddess to giggling little girl to really pissed and brutal to deeply regretful. Curtain call is a solid 10min! Youtube has the whole thing. Check it out:
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Jean-Baptiste Lully: Grands Motets - Dies Irae, Miserere
La Chapelle Royale, Philippe Herreweghe
Henri Dumont's Memorare is also in here. Skipped it as it's a repeat from the Dumont grands motets album from yesterday.
Jean-Baptiste Lully: Petits Motets
Les Arts Florissants, William Christie
I have gone through both the full version of this and video of the Opéra-Comique production. The latter is jaw dropping to say the least. Stéphanie d'Oustrac is particularly impressive, going from high and mighty goddess to giggling little girl to really pissed and brutal to deeply regretful. Curtain call is a solid 10min! Youtube has the whole thing. Check it out:
Will do...thx.
Title work is from Bartok's years of highly active concert giving on the piano where he actively explored the kernel folk music springs outwards from. Rather wild stuff with lots of room for the performer to engage the interests of an audience.
Both the label and artist were an enjoyable discovery pulled out of the large pile awaiting listening I dug through this weekend. Not specifically, generally, I think this fulfilled the interesting album photography quotient accwai and Kal Rubinson have weighed in on.
Both the label and artist were an enjoyable discovery pulled out of the large pile awaiting listening I dug through this weekend. Not specifically, generally, I think this fulfilled the interesting album photography quotient accwai and Kal Rubinson have weighed in on.
This opera was revamped into his Symphony No. 7 (Insect Symphony) following it's failure to secure placing in the Savonlinna Opera Festival competition. Photo is taken from the first (only?) staging of "Hyönteiselämää (Insect Life)"by the Finnish National Opera.
Scarlatti: Sonatas, Kk 392 - 409
Scott Ross
Came across a rather interesting album cover photo on Lully's Persée by Les Talens Lyriques/Christophe Rousset:
Essentially a word play on something directly related to the plot of the opera. For comparison, here are my own attempts:
Works by the great Guido Mocafico would be much better of course:
Scott Ross
Came across a rather interesting album cover photo on Lully's Persée by Les Talens Lyriques/Christophe Rousset:
Essentially a word play on something directly related to the plot of the opera. For comparison, here are my own attempts:
Works by the great Guido Mocafico would be much better of course:
I hated this when I first heard it, but I decided to give it a second chance--it didn't improve! I'm sure it's very difficult to play (just look at that score excerpt!), but it's damn near impossible to listen to for me! The boxy, dry sound doesn't help. I normally like that violinist very much, but this is too modern for my taste.
Jean-Baptiste Lully: Grands Motets - Dies Irae, Miserere
La Chapelle Royale, Philippe Herreweghe
Henri Dumont's Memorare is also in here. Skipped it as it's a repeat from the Dumont grands motets album from yesterday.
Jean-Baptiste Lully: Petits Motets
Les Arts Florissants, William Christie
I have gone through both the full version of this and video of the Opéra-Comique production. The latter is jaw dropping to say the least. Stéphanie d'Oustrac is particularly impressive, going from high and mighty goddess to giggling little girl to really pissed and brutal to deeply regretful. Curtain call is a solid 10min! Youtube has the whole thing. Check it out:
Bill Christie is still quite active, performing with his Les Arts Florissants which we saw a few years ago, performing on a US tour in Berkeley. We also saw Bill conducting the Orchestra for the Age of Enlightenment in the Cavalli opera Hipermestra at Glyndebourne in 2017.
Although not as well known for its music program as its other academic programs, Harvard has produced several well known musicians. Bill was a year ahead of me in college, but had not yet attained any fame. Interestingly, another now famous composer, John Adams, was two years behind me, and conducted the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra as a student. The forte pianist and musicologist Robert Levin was a year behind me and lived across the hall. We could hear him practice his piano in his room quite often - playing all of the Beethoven piano sonatas! He returned to Harvard as a professor in the '90's. Of course, they are now all in their '70's (like me!). (Bernstein and Ma were also Harvard grads, but not of my generation).
Larry
I hated this when I first heard it, but I decided to give it a second chance--it didn't improve! I'm sure it's very difficult to play (just look at that score excerpt!), but it's damn near impossible to listen to for me! The boxy, dry sound doesn't help. I normally like that violinist very much, but this is too modern for my taste.
I can imagine this music for film soundtracks...fantasy horror films...neo-noir genre.
It's for a niche, a cult ... not the masses. Cool that you shared it ... I listened to couple tunes from that album.
I like plenty of modern music...Penderecki, Schnittke, Gubaidulina, et al, but their music has at least a shred of melody and recognizable structures. I suppose parts of the 2nd movement of that Violin Concerto are almost tolerable!
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