What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[not edward]

Bruckner 7 (WP/Boulez aircheck). Great stuff, albeit in crappy radio sound: excuse me while I go throttle DG management for not releasing this on CD.

[bhodges]

Bruckner 7 (WP/Boulez aircheck). Great stuff, albeit in crappy radio sound: excuse me while I go throttle DG management for not releasing this on CD.

You are excused...please throttle away... ...then send them to me for more throttling...

--Bruce

[The new erato]

DG actually has management?

[bhodges]

DG actually has management?

 

--Bruce

[karlhenning]

Sanctus & Agnus Dei from the Mass in B Minor (Jochum, cond.)

Enjoyable, of course;  but somehow, not the thing for this morning in Boston.

[orbital]

Very nice music, mediocre playing. I have to get another recording of the elegies soon.

[Lethevich]

Cheerful things! I'm quite interested in that music, how do you feel about it?

Oops, sorry for the slow reply (it's hard to keep up to date with this thread ).

The music is not quite as dour as may be expected - the 'tractus: sicut cervus' section of the requiem for example is luminous (I also found the 3 lectios to be highlights - these should appear on more multi-composer compilations) and the collection is very strong and rich late renaissance vocal writing. He certainly isn't overshadowed by eg. Morales. The disc's acoustic is noticably churchy but not overbearing, actually, very well balanced.

[not edward]

Very nice music, mediocre playing. I have to get another recording of the elegies soon.

I'm not really impressed with Pontinen's Busoni series either. Comparing him with Petri in All'Italia is kinda painful.

[karlhenning]

That's a beauty, James!

[Harry]

Peter Philips. (1560/61-1628)

Complete Keyboard Works, Volume I. Total playing time, 71:27!

Siegbert Rampe, Harpsichord/Virginal/Clavichord/Organ.

Excellent!

[Lethevich]

Lutes are incredible, sometimes the tone borders on a guitar crossed with a harp - a very melodious instrument.

[Harry]

Lutes are incredible, sometimes the tone borders on a guitar crossed with a harp - a very melodious instrument.

That is a very fine disc, with very good sound, and excellent performances.

[PSmith08]

"Nur eine Waffe taugt" from Parsifal.

This is, probably, one of the better "recital" discs out there (the other being Ben Heppner's 2006 set), and Windgassen really showed what he was made of. He might not have been a traditional Heldentenor, but he was a great Wagnerian.

[pjme]

I had almost forgotten this Cybelia CD (1988) : Florent Schmitt's "Antoine et Cléopâtre" - six symphonic episodes, intwo suites after Shakespeare.(1920-1922) opus 69

Schmitt, who ,like Canteloube, was quite "wrong" during the second WW ( he wasn't afraid of showing his antisemitic feelings! ), is however an inventive composer with a strong feeling for the dramatic and exotic. Like in "La tragédie de Salomé" , the Psalm for soprano,organ,chorus & orch; and the filmscore for "Salammbô", he proves to have all the flair and technical abilities to make the orchestra shine and glitter. Big, bold, full of syncopated rythms (thank you Mr. Stravinsky) and sinuous quasi-oriental melodies...(quite schmalzy -thank you Mr Strauss)
If only he was a more sympathetic man....

Leif Segerstam conducts the Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland -Pfalz in Antoine et Cléopâtre - Le camp de Pompée ( a massive fanfare for brass & timpani) -La bataille d'Actium -Nuit au palais de la reine - Orgie et danses - le tombeau de Cléopâtre
Not bad at all .

[Mark]

Cantus in memory of Benjamin Britten for strings & bell (7'39)

Terrific disc, that. Track 3 is so sensual and darkly (even slightly perversely) seductive.

[Steve]

Brahms, Violin Concerto in D (Sony)

Isaac Stern (violin)
Leonard Rose

[beclemund]

Inspired by James's listening earlier in the thread, I listened to first one:



Tho' he and I are very different as I went through the entire album. I have followed it up with the second album. As it followed the Górecki in my iTunes library and I just got drawn in.

[bhodges]

Nielsen: Symphony No. 5 - (Osmo Vänskä / Minnesota Orchestra) - Archived concert broadcast on the orchestra's website, here.  I must say, this piece is right up Vänskä's alley, and the orchestra sounds great.  PS, principal percussionist Brian Mount did the snare drum solo, appropriately raucously.

--Bruce

[Kullervo]

Disc 2: No. 2 and No. 6 "Fantaisies Symphoniques"

[AnthonyAthletic]

Hey, why not?  Absolutely no idea what Bychkov's like doing the Shostakovich rounds, but I did like his Brahms cycle.

Worth a try