What Music are you looking for or listening to this week? (20/08/2023)

G'day Guys and Gals,

Time for another one.

The general outline is below (Copied from r/rock and slightly modified)

1. Post whatever you've been listening to lately, whether its a piece you've been listening to a lot, or a new piece you've discovered, it doesn't matter, post it.
2. This is where you can post all requests and recommendations.
3. If you're looking for a recommendation give a description/music link/composer so that other people will know what you want.
4. Example: "I want to hear an composer that sounds like Tchaikovsky" (you can get more specific but this is usually enough) - and then hopefully someone will respond with recommendations X, Y, and Z.
5. You can also leave a top level comment recommending an composer/school that you think others might like if they like X, Y, and Z.
6. The more descriptive you guys are, the easier it is to help you find what you want. Just stating a composer's name isn't that helpful since you might only like one specific aspect of that composer's music.

As usual I'll start the convo.

Ive been listening to quite a few symphonies this week including:

Beethoven's 3rd 

Mendelsohn's 4th

And Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique

I also listened to this beauty

Listening to this selection of Scheidemann's music

(Thanks gsarci for doing my request)

Really recommending this baroque composer's organ works. Simplistic but nice.

I have been listening a lot to the Krull score by james horner.

What's amazing is that he had 3 weeks to compose 1 and a half hour of music and it's a masterpiece of film music.

I also bought the score and study it a few times.

Amazing film score.

In my opinion it's probably his greatest score of all time. 

Edited August 20, 20232 yr by Bjarke

Hey Arjuna,

I'm continuing with Bach's organ music this week:

Just Magnificent.

This is such a grand one!! All the numbers are related to trinity: 3 subjects, 3 sections, key in 3 flats, bars ratio 36:45:36, 3 bar structure.

I only know now that the famous Toccata and fugue is probably not composed by Bach.

A beautiful one!

The famous little fugue in G minor which @Bjarke arranges lately!

I know now why it's such a great piece. Peter Williams speculates that the fugue composed first and Bach took the theme to be ostinato in the Passacaglia.

Henry

I've been checking this album out again. Les Claypool of Primus and Sean Lennon (John Lennon son), among others

I have been mining for off- the- beaten -path Piano Quartets---

   Found a youthful fragment worked into a four movement piece, by Schumann.  Actually very interesting anD informative-- you can hear the struggle with form, harmonization, technique...  He was 16 or so.

  Also a piece --Opus 30 by Thieriot--- well composed solid romantic piece by another unjustly forgotten composer, established in his day if not celebrated.

Edited October 27, 20232 yr by Rich