What are you listening to now?

[Roehre]

Today:

Kodaly:
Theatre overture (1927)
A Summer Evening (1906)

Bargiel:
Adagio for cello and piano op.38 (1871) (R3: lunchtime concert)

Cherubini:
Démophon: Overture (1788) (R3: Ao3)

Holliger:
Schneewittchen (1997/’98)

[Sorrano]

Roehre, I notice that Kodaly has been frequently in your listening list. Are these new releases, by chance?

[Michael]

I will have to pay more attention to the Skyrim score; the game is a bit distracting from that.

Last night: Haydn's Theresia Mass. (Thanks, Michael!)

I didn't write it! Thank Haydn.

Just listening to Beethoven's variations on a theme by Salieri - really enjoyable.

[Sorrano]

I didn't write it! Thank Haydn.

Just listening to Beethoven's variations on a theme by Salieri - really enjoyable.

I should have specified Joseph Haydn and not Michael Haydn. My mistake!

[Roehre]

Roehre, I notice that Kodaly has been frequently in your listening list. Are these new releases, by chance?

Sorrano,
These recordings stem from the 1970s Decca 3LP-set of Kodaly's complete orchestral music, played by the Philharmonia Hungarica/Antal Dorati.
Most -but not all, as the 2 LPs exceed the 160 minutes- was put on a Philips/Decca 2CD-set around 2000, but this is a 4 CD set Decca 478 2303 released in 2010, in which the 2 "extra" CDs are filled with the complete Hary Janos, the Psalmus hungaricus and the other "missing" orchestral works.

As the original LP set is still one of my treasured sets, I was happily surprised to discover this CD-set in a 2nd hand shop.

Wholeheartedly recommended.

[Sorrano]

Sorrano,
These recordings stem from the 1970s Decca 3LP-set of Kodaly's complete orchestral music, played by the Philharmonia Hungarica/Antal Dorati.
Most -but not all, as the 2 LPs exceed the 160 minutes- was put on a Philips/Decca 2CD-set around 2000, but this is a 4 CD set Decca 478 2303 released in 2010, in which the 2 "extra" CDs are filled with the complete Hary Janos, the Psalmus hungaricus and the other "missing" orchestral works.

As the original LP set is still one of my treasured sets, I was happily surprised to discover this CD-set in a 2nd hand shop.

Wholeheartedly recommended.

Thanks! I will have to check that out. Kodaly and Bartok have been 20th Century favorites for some time.

[Preston]

I didn't write it! Thank Haydn.

I should have specified Joseph Haydn and not Michael Haydn. My mistake!

this is not ql, nor qlol, but LOL!

[Preston]

Roehre, are you familiar with any of Michael Kamen's work? If so, any thoughts?

[Roehre]

Today:

Finzi:
By Footpath and Stile. Opus 2 (1922) (R3: Saturday Classics)

Harty:
Fantasy Scenes on an Eastern Romance (1919) (R3: Saturday Classics)

Chick Corea:
The Brain
Waltz for Bill Evans
Converge
Vamp
(Chick Corea kbs; Woody Shaw tpt; Hubert Laws flute; Bennie Maupin ten-sax; Dave Holland bass; Horacee Arnold perc – date: 1970s; location ?)

Harvey (R3: Hear and Now):
Calling Across Time (1998)
Marahi (1999)
Forms of Emptiness (1986)
Madonna of Winter and Spring (1986)

[Roehre]

Roehre, are you familiar with any of Michael Kamen's work? If so, any thoughts?

I am sorry Preston, I am totally unfamiliar with any of his music.

[Preston]

I am sorry Preston, I am totally unfamiliar with any of his music.

do not be sorry. though, you definitely must be a recluse when it comes to 20th century music! though, i know little of him - he worked as a keyboardist and orchestrator of rock bands such as Pink Floyd, Metallica. and Guns n' Roses - at least that is about all i know.

if curious:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Kamen

[Roehre]

you definitely must be a recluse when it comes to 20th century music!

[Preston]

ql - you are indeed. so much so you do not even understand how. though, when i said 20th century music i did mean more of the mainstream - though that is why i was saying you were reclusive, or particular is probably the better word (well, quite particular, at least to my mind), because somehow you have missed a lot of history. i am imagining you would not like it that much anyway though?

[Chris]

I think Roehre is the most knowledgeable person here with regard to 20th century music. I've never even heard of most of the 20th century composers he listens to.

[Roehre]

Today:

Kodaly:
Hary Janos (complete Singspiel) op.15 (1926)

Tallis:
Salve intemerata
Kyrie Deus Creator
Missa Salve intemerata

Sibelius:
Fragments, sketches and incomplete works, i.a.:
Luonnottar op.70 -score sketch
Untitled orchestral fragment in A (1907/’10)
Piano sketches from Kullervo, Symphony 2 and 5
Kylikki op.41: 3 sketches and variants
2 Pieces for organ op.111: sketches/variants