Just got a CD of Philip Glass music - "Metamorphosis" and some selections from Glassworks and the score to The Hours performed on harp by Lavinia Meijer. Pretty nice. Here's a bit of it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_54NQciqofU
― 誤訳侮辱, Saturday, 15 December 2012 17:38 (eleven years ago) link
To bring this thread (almost) full cycle - this is out a week today: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sibelius-Complete-Symphonies-Tapiola-Finlandia/dp/B0091JQH2Q/
― Terabytes of FLACS of screaming (Call the Cops), Monday, 31 December 2012 12:06 (eleven years ago) link
Oh that's great! Cheap too! Shame they are not including Kullervo but that Bournemouth recording has already been available for a while.
The Berglund/Bournemouth team is almost always worth hearing. Their Shostakovich 10 and 11, Vaughan Williams 4 and 6, and sibelius Kullervo are all close to top choices IMO. So I'll want to hear these Sib symphonies.
― ~farben~ (Jon Lewis), Monday, 31 December 2012 15:47 (eleven years ago) link
Is there a new thread? (long time reader, first time poster)
― flag this post and die (roxymuzak), Sunday, 6 January 2013 20:29 (eleven years ago) link
the 'an attempt at a...' thread is v active right now and for the last couple weeks!
― ~farben~ (Jon Lewis), Monday, 7 January 2013 17:31 (eleven years ago) link
Rued Langgaard's Music Of The Spheres for the first time--a new recording is out conducted by Dausgaard--and was bowled over
from the bowls of ILM, I resurrect this thread to say this is indeed an amazing piece. Watched a youtube of Per Norgard saying he'd slipped this score to Ligeti in 1968, without L's knowledge of Langgaard's music, and Ligeti immediately confessed to a sudden realization of seemingly having been "influenced" by it. Tone clusters, weird, repetitive motifs, harmony that goes even further than Debussy in its total disregard for typical tension/release. The only thing that really gives it away as being a kind of Romantic tone poem is Strauss-y/Wagnerian orchestration. (It also reminds me a bit of Sibelius' later stuff which might support further Norgard connections)
― Dominique, Wednesday, 2 December 2015 23:05 (eight years ago) link
Is it OK if I c&p this to the thread I just started: Rolling Classical (Late 2015-)
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Saturday, 5 December 2015 20:29 (eight years ago) link