What are you listening to now?
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So friggin’ awesome. The best score of 2025. My review here.
Rather impressive score from last year, both small, intimate and weird and traditionally symphonic at the same time.
Concert from the Walt Disney Philharmonic Hall, the Los Angeles Philharmonic conducted by John Adams in a rivetting performance of Leonard Rosenman’s Suite for REBELL WITHOUT A CAUSE, among my all time favorite film scores.
Not for every day, but today isn’t every day. 2 and 1/2 hrs well spent. I’v even seen/heard this performed live once in L.A.
Firt time listen to the Pinnock recording today, via Qobuz.Embarassingly, I don’t think I own a single version of that work. Except the “Hallelujah Chorus”, of course, which I have all over the place.
But I have Bach’s “Matthäus Passion” in its entirety, which is also suitable for the current holiday. So that’s something.
But I have Bach’s “Matthäus Passion” in its entirety, which is also suitable for the current holiday. So that’s something.
Funny, I considered that too, before deciding on THE MESSIAH, which I probably haven’t heard in its entirety in 10 years or so.
But Bach’s Matthäus Passion was my second choice.Currently playing:
THE ARTIST didn’t wow me the way it wowed everybody else, but this was a highlight last year. Some comments here.
Sir John Rutter, best known for his arrangements of Fauré’s Requiem, and his own requiem and choral music has put together this fantastic album of very filmatic music. I strongly recommend.
I love Bach’s Goldberg Variations. Over the years, it’s become absolute “comfort food”, one of the greatest, most fascinating and intricate compositions ever made. Ever since I first heard it, it’s never failed to engage me. Sometimes I think if I could have only one album for the rest of my life, I might chose a recording of Bach’s Goldberg Variations… it would be high up on the list in any case.
I close tonight by listening to what is certainly one of its most famous and controversial recordings, Glenn Gould’s 1955 recording. Not necessarily the one I’d pick as “the one”, but certainly one great and historically significant album recording.It’s all fine. We’re so few active members here, there’s no point having separate “Now Playing” threads for separate genres yet, I think. But we do have the “All things rock, pop, electronic…” thread that started out as top lists, but has since turned into both general discussions on the genres in question, and a “Now Playing”-type thing if you so desire.
I thought this is just a thread of what we’re listening to at the moment, not separated by genre? In fact, it kicked off with classical music.
Now playing:
I thought this is just a thread of what we’re listening to at the moment, not separated by genre?
It is. We don’t have enough members, or activity, to have multiple “Now Playing” threads for multiple genres. When I play rock/pop, I tend to mix it up a bit. Sometimes I use this thread, sometimes the “rock, pop, electronic”.
I don’t have my music “segregated” by genre, and in fact, would prefer to assign several genres to my music albums, because I consider genres something that is categorizing from the outside, whereas each work of art has to stand on its own terms from the inside, so I have Anna Netrebko, Alex North, and Nine Inch Nails all under “N” on my shelf.
My music collection is just “Album Artist\Album”, not sorted by genre, regardless of CD shelf or ALAC file structure.
I thought this is just a thread of what we’re listening to at the moment, not separated by genre?
Sigh…it was just a joke pointing back to the FSM situation some years ago when the now playing thread got flooded with classical and jazz, and very little other things.
Desplat’s best score, in my opinion.
I’m Desplat-critical from here to high heaven, but still have some 8-9 titles of his, so there’s been SOME assessment improvement in recent years. I think I gave L’ODYSSÉE a go while sampling my way through Desplats to land on that small collection, and it can’t have made much of an impact then, but your glowing words means I must give it another chance.
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