The Classical Chat Thread

[jlaurson]

Notes from the 2012 Salzburg Festival ( 1 )
Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra

http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2012/08/notes-from-2012-salzburg-festival-1.html

[jlaurson]

Breslik's Sweltering, Paradisical Müllerin


http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2012/08/bresliks-sweltering-paradisical-mullerin.html

[jlaurson]

Notes from the 2012 Salzburg Festival ( 2 )
Handel Tamerlano

http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2012/08/notes-from-2012-salzburg-festival-2.html



Notes from the 2012 Salzburg Festival ( 3 )
Christian Gerhaher Liederabend

http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2012/08/notes-from-2012-salzburg-festival-3.html

[jlaurson]

No Composer Left Behind
International Left Handers Day Contribution
http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2011/10/no-composer-left-behind.html

[jlaurson]

Notes from the 2012 Salzburg Festival ( 4 )
Beethoven Cycle • Hagen Quartet

http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2012/08/notes-from-2012-salzburg-festival-4.html

[Brian]

I'm thinking of creating a playlist of crazy/unusual/gargantuan piano waltzes. Some combination of:

Godowsky (J. Strauss): Kunstlerleben metamorphosis 14'
Ferrata: Second study on Chopin's Minute Waltz 2'
Moszkowski: Valse Op 34 No 1 8'
Liszt: Mephisto Waltz No 1 11'
Rodgers: Carousel Waltz 6'
Rihm: Brahmsliebewalzer 4'
Barber: Waltz Op 28 4'
Rudolf Hindemith: Des Kaisers Neue Kleider 5'
Saint-Saens: Etude Op 52 No 6, En forme de valse 6'
Szpilman: Paraphrase on a Waltz by Robert Stoltz 3'
Sudbin (Chopin): A la minute 5'
Ravel: La valse 11'

That's 79 minutes. What am I missing? I need one or two things in minor keys.

[jlaurson]

Notes from the 2012 Salzburg Festival ( 6 )
Salzburg contemporary 8
B.A.Zimmermann | Ecclesiastic Action

http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2012/08/notes-from-2012-salzburg-festival-6.html

[North Star]

I'm thinking of creating a playlist of crazy/unusual/gargantuan piano waltzes. Some combination of:

Godowsky (J. Strauss): Kunstlerleben metamorphosis 14'
Moszkowski: Valse Op 34 No 1 8'
Liszt: Mephisto Waltz No 1 11'
Rihm: Brahmsliebewalzer 4'
Rudolf Hindemith: Des Kaisers Neue Kleider 5'
Sudbin (Chopin): A la minute 5'
Ravel: La valse 11'

That's 58 minutes. What am I missing? I need one or two things in minor keys.

Well, these are just collections of smaller waltzes, but nonetheless:
Ravel's Valses nobiles et sentimentales and Brahms's Sixteen Waltzes, Op. 39

[jlaurson]

Notes from the 2012 Salzburg Festival ( 7 )
Salzburg contemporary 9
H.Holliger | E.Carter et al.

http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2012/08/notes-from-2012-salzburg-festival-7.html

[Ataraxia]

I own two Mahler recordings. I'm all about the Mahler.

[Karl Henning]

I own two Mahler recordings.

Both of them! Good on ya, mate!

[eyeresist]

I own two Mahler recordings. I'm all about the Mahler.

Hey, Mahler didn't make any recordings! 

[Opus106]

I own two Mahler recordings. I'm all about the Mahler.

One. Beat that!

Hey, Mahler didn't make any recordings! 

There's a video clip in YouTube that's supposedly of G. playing a piano reduction of the first movement of the Fifth.

[Ataraxia]

One. Beat that!

You're halfway there!

[Opus106]

You're halfway there!

Oddly enough I have twice as many recordings of Bruckner's music as of Mahler's.

[Ataraxia]

Oddly enough I have twice as many recordings of Bruckner's music as of Mahler's.

Oh, yes. I have many more Bruckners.

[Karl Henning]

Oh, yes. I have many more Bruckners.

Quite right!

[Brian]

Hey, Mahler didn't make any recordings! 

Actually one of the CDs MusicWeb had on its latest reviewer distribution list (I didn't request it) was Mahler piano rolls? Are those a thing? It definitely said "Gustav Mahler, piano".

But piano rolls aren't quite the same kind of "recording".

[North Star]

Actually one of the CDs MusicWeb had on its latest reviewer distribution list (I didn't request it) was Mahler piano rolls? Are those a thing? It definitely said "Gustav Mahler, piano".

But piano rolls aren't quite the same kind of "recording".

There are piano roll recordings of at least the first movement of 5th symphony, something from the 4th symphony, and the accompaniment to a song from fahrenden Gesellen.

I haven't got a note of Bruckner. however, if anyone believes they can convert me, feel free to do so.

[jlaurson]

Bayreuth 2012: Tannhäuser is a Gasser
Tannhäuser • Thielemann • Baumgarten

http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2012/08/bayreuth-2012-tannhauser-is-gasser.html




Bayreuth 2012: Parsifal, a Gift of Greatness
Parsifal • P.Jordan • Herheim

http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2012/08/bayreuth-2012-parsifal-gift-of-greatness.html