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Re: What are you listening to?
« Reply #35360 on: November 08, 2008, 11:10:56 AM »
Reading fast produced this: Concerto for Calvary, Kavakos ands Vänskä.  I realized  my mistake when I saw it quoted later...


It was Calvary for Harry's CD...  ;D
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Re: What are you listening to?
« Reply #35361 on: November 08, 2008, 11:59:38 AM »
Inspired by I think, Brian earlier in this thread, another try with John Antill, Corroboree (1946).

                   

In short: I find it basically the REMIX (*Extended Version*) of Mexican composer, Silvestre Revueltas' more spectacular (and concise) Sensemayá from 1938. I wonder if Antill knew that piece?
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Re: What are you listening to?
« Reply #35362 on: November 08, 2008, 01:41:52 PM »



Is it just me or is that a silly cover?

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Re: What are you listening to?
« Reply #35363 on: November 08, 2008, 01:46:00 PM »
You know, I typed "Jean Cras" into the eMusic search engine, and here's what I got:

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Re: What are you listening to?
« Reply #35364 on: November 08, 2008, 01:46:16 PM »
Is it just me or is that a silly cover?


It's just you.

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Re: What are you listening to?
« Reply #35365 on: November 08, 2008, 01:52:40 PM »
I thought so. It's much worse than silly, isn't it?

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Re: What are you listening to?
« Reply #35366 on: November 08, 2008, 01:55:18 PM »
now just started:

Mozart Serenade K 239
Academy of Ancient Music/Hogwood

good! :D

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Re: What are you listening to?
« Reply #35367 on: November 08, 2008, 02:42:39 PM »
Inspired by I think, Brian earlier in this thread, another try with John Antill, Corroboree (1946).

In short: I find it basically the REMIX (*Extended Version*) of Mexican composer, Silvestre Revueltas' more spectacular (and concise) Sensemayá from 1938. I wonder if Antill knew that piece?

Listening to the first movement of "Corroboree" I get a VERY strong Revueltas vibe. Critics like Hurwitz, Gramophone and some of the Aussie newspapers heard Stravinsky rather than Revueltas, did some inquiries, and found out that Antill had not even heard the Rite of Spring when he wrote "Corroboree". So I doubt very much that he'd heard Sensemayá...

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Re: What are you listening to?
« Reply #35368 on: November 08, 2008, 03:37:20 PM »
Mahler Symphony # 10 in the new version by Samale/Mazzucca  Arnhem Philharmonic Orchestra Martin Sieghart conductor. Recording of the first performance 2002. I am not sure about this version, nothing much new really and the extra percussion in the Adagio is not necessary at all.
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Re: What are you listening to?
« Reply #35369 on: November 08, 2008, 05:35:04 PM »
You know, I typed "Jean Cras" into the eMusic search engine, and here's what I got:


Hmm ???

Good Wikipedia article on Rear-Adamiral Jean Cras-the composer/sailor :)

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Re: What are you listening to?
« Reply #35370 on: November 08, 2008, 06:10:47 PM »


Britten ~ Four Sea Interludes

Getting ready for Peter Grimes HD Live at the Met tomorrow  :)
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Re: What are you listening to?
« Reply #35371 on: November 08, 2008, 06:28:40 PM »
Cras rules! At least in that beautifully put together Timpani set. I agree with the assessment that the Jeux Ämes d'enfants is simply adorable: this is one of those collections that etch in some remote and privileged corner of the musical memory.

NB: don't overlook his scrumptious piano concerto, also included in the Timpani set (Cras was a good soloist, and his is worth anybody's money).

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Re: What are you listening to?
« Reply #35372 on: November 08, 2008, 06:40:53 PM »
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Re: What are you listening to?
« Reply #35373 on: November 09, 2008, 12:05:08 AM »
Cras rules! At least in that beautifully put together Timpani set. I agree with the assessment that the Jeux Ämes d'enfants is simply adorable: this is one of those collections that etch in some remote and privileged corner of the musical memory.

NB: don't overlook his scrumptious piano concerto, also included in the Timpani set (Cras was a good soloist, and his is worth anybody's money).


Duly noted.  8)

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Re: What are you listening to?
« Reply #35374 on: November 09, 2008, 03:10:50 AM »


disc 2: Burleske. I like it.



disc 5: Vivaldi - Double and Triple Concertos
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Re: What are you listening to?
« Reply #35375 on: November 09, 2008, 03:44:49 AM »
 

And a very good morning to all! :)

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Re: What are you listening to?
« Reply #35376 on: November 09, 2008, 06:58:56 AM »
Kempff's Schubert.

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Re: What are you listening to?
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Re: What are you listening to?
« Reply #35378 on: November 09, 2008, 07:19:18 AM »
Tchaikovsky

Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64**

Philharmonia Orchestra
Riccardo Muti

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**My initiation into this wonderful work!  Hearing a live performance tomorrow.   :)

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Re: What are you listening to?
« Reply #35379 on: November 09, 2008, 07:27:01 AM »
Over the past few days:

Composer Mendelssohn
Work A Midsummer Night's Dream (Complete)
Performers Philharmonia Orchestra/Ambrosian Singers/Neville Marriner
Medium and Label CD/Philips 411 106-2
Date of performance 1983

A bit of old school:


Composer Brahms
Work Symphony No. 1
Performers North German Radio Orchestra/Furtwängler
Medium and Label CD/Music & Arts 4941(4)
Date of performance 1951

Composer Haydn
Work Music for Winds-Divertimento for 2 Oboes, 2 Clarinets, 2 Horns and 2 Bassoons in E flat major, H 2 no Eb13
Partita for 2 Oboes, 2 Clarinets, 2 Horns and 2 Bassoons in E flat major, H 2 no Eb12
Performers Prague Wind Quintet members and Miami Wind Quintet members
Medium and Label CD/ Helicon Records 1043
Date of performance 1998

Composer Krommer
Work Music for Winds-Partita for 2 Clarinets, 2 Horns and 2 Bassoons in C minor
Performers Prague Wind Quintet members and Miami Wind Quintet members
Medium and Label CD/ Helicon Records 1043
Date of performance 1998

Composer: Schumann
Work: Piano Concerto in A Minor
Performers Lipatti/Philharmonia Orchestra/Karajan
Medium and Label: CD/EMI Classics References 0777 769792 2 9
Date of performance: London, No. 1 Studio, Abbey Road, 1948

Composer Charles Avison
Work 12 Concerti Gossi (1774) after Sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti
Ensemble The Brandenburg Consort/Roy Goodman
Medium and Label CD/Hyperion 22060
Date of performance 1994
One of our favorite baroque recordings (2cds) on the shelf.

Composer Ravel
Work String Quartet in F major
Ensemble Emerson String Quartet
Medium and Label CD/DG 427 320-2
Date of the performance 1986
Licked it up like a cat at a saucer of milk. The amount of Ravel I have on the shelf is pathetic considering that I have thoroughly enjoyed everything I do have from this composer. I need to definitely expand here.

Composer Rosetti
Work Clarinet Concertos 1 & 2
Ensemble Performer: Dieter Klöcker (Clarinet)/Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra/Holger Schröter-Seebeck
Work Concerto for 2 Horns and Orchestra
Ensemble Sarah Willis (French Horn), Klaus Wallendorf (French Horn)/Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra/Holger Schröter-Seebeck
Medium and Label CD/CPO 999 621-2
Date of the performance 1998

This:


Composers Vivaldi/Sammartini/Telemann/Handel
Works Recorder Concertos
Performer Michala Petri/ASMF/Iona Brown
Medium and Label CD/Philips 400 075-2
Date of performance 1980

Composer Dvořák
Work Cello Concerto
Performer(s) Mstislav Rostropovich/Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra/Herbert von Karajan
Medium and Label CD/DG 413 819-2
Date of performance 1969

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