What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

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Brian

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Thanks for all the various birthday wishes  :D ! Come on over, friends, and try some of my white chocolate chip & fudge cookies  ;D

Quote from: George on August 24, 2008, 04:47:44 PM
Happy Birthday!!  :D

Mine is in 9 days.  :)
Yeah fellow Virgos!  8) 8) 8)

Now on to an all-time personal favorite ... the Dvorak Cello Concerto.




Brian

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M forever

Just listened to this:



Complete waste of time. Mediocre orchestra, conceptless conducting, badly balanced sound - the sound engineering matches the conducting well in that there is no coherent concept for either. A really superfluous product.

Subotnick

Morning!

My recent interest in Schubert shows no signs of abating. I am starting the day with his String Quintet In C as performed by The Lindsays.



TTFN.
Me.

J.Z. Herrenberg

Quote from: Brian on August 24, 2008, 02:20:11 PM
A little cheery music to celebrate my birthday!

                                                                    


                                                                         

Happy Birthday, Brian!
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything. -- Plato

val

SCRIABIN:   Symphony n. 2 / Poem of Ecstasy          / Russian State Orchestra, Svetlanov


Superb versions of both works, intense, deeply engaged.

I prefer the First Symphony to the 2nd (I think that the central movement of the Second is too long and diffuse and the Finale not very inspired) but the work has some beautiful moments, in special the first two movements.

J.Z. Herrenberg

For those interested: Franz Schmidt, Symphony No 4 (Zubin Mehta/Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra)


http://rapidshare.com/files/139952716/Franz_Schmidt_-_Symphony_No_4__Mehta_.rar
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything. -- Plato

springrite

Quote from: Brian on August 24, 2008, 06:40:16 PM

Yeah fellow Virgos!  8) 8) 8)




Virgos of the World, unite!!!


Now listening: Berg Violin Concerto, Mutter, Chung, Stern versions

karlhenning

Quote from: Corey on August 24, 2008, 06:02:49 PM
You're right. But you understood what I meant anyway.  8)

I'm sure I didn't  8)

karlhenning


orbital


ChamberNut

Good morning  :)

Last night, listened to:

Mahler

Symphony No. 2 in C minor, Resurrection

London Philharmonic Orchestra
Klaus Tennstedt

Edith Mathis, soprano
Doris Soffel, mezzo-soprano
London Philharmonic Choir

Made a great impression on me, when in the past it left me cold.  I was very much moved by this symphony.  :)



ChamberNut

Mahler

Symphony No. 4 in G

London Philharmonic Orchestra
Klaus Tennstedt

Lucia Popp, soprano

ChamberNut

Franck

String Quartet in D major

Fitzwilliam Quartet
Decca

mahler10th

Quote from: ChamberNut on August 25, 2008, 04:10:57 AM
Mahler

Symphony No. 4 in G

London Philharmonic Orchestra
Klaus Tennstedt

Lucia Popp, soprano


Tennstedt is my favourite Mahler for sheer brilliance and emotion and force.  I like other interpretations for different reasons.  I am very glad indeed that you're enjoying Tennstedt's Mahler, he has given me hours and hours of sheer magic.   ;D ;D ;D

Keemun

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. - Ludwig van Beethoven

Kullervo

Quote from: karlhenning on August 25, 2008, 03:38:19 AM
I'm sure I didn't  8)

Would you prefer "sublime"?  ;D

Listening: Mozart SQs 14, 15 (Mosaïques)

ChamberNut


ChamberNut

Quote from: mahler10th on August 25, 2008, 05:06:17 AM
Tennstedt is my favourite Mahler for sheer brilliance and emotion and force.  I like other interpretations for different reasons.  I am very glad indeed that you're enjoying Tennstedt's Mahler, he has given me hours and hours of sheer magic.   ;D ;D ;D

It's taken awhile with Mahler, but also very rewarding.  The same goes with Bruckner and Wagner, although it didn't taken as much time with them.   :)

karlhenning

Well, sublime and melismatic are . . . strikingly unrelated adjectives  0:)