The Classical Chat Thread

[amw]

Let the record show: I listened to this entire clip.

I'll let you know when I've completed my project to fit the complete works of Bruckner on one standard CD.

[Brian]

I'll let you know when I've completed my project to fit the complete works of Bruckner on one standard CD.

One time I was going for a walk somewhere and got bored and occupied my brain by mentally composing a brass quintet that was just a 15-minute mashup of all the big Bruckner fanfares. It was a hell of a lot of fun.

[EigenUser]

Hey, we can do that with computers now!

[audio]http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/32084883/06%20Mahler_%20Das%20Lied%20Von%20Der%20Erde.mp3[/audio]


Way better than the original

Haha . The sped-up vibrato sounds like she's singing through a fan, or underwater.

[Pat B]

I watched Mahler's 1st last night, the "Titan". Stirred up images depicting chilly oceans of methane .

Seriously, though, I loved it. All of it. The first movement has a very "Haydn-y" sounding melody, but it was late-romanticized.

The opening of Mahler 1 is very reminiscent of the opening of Beethoven 4. It's similar enough that I must assume it was intentional. Then there's another part that reminds me of Appalachian Spring (which was of course written much later, but which I knew before any Mahler). Interesting that you think of Haydn!

[Brian]

The Norwegian Radio Orchestra has signed a collaboration deal with Naxos. This will result in

• Archival NRO recordings being released digitally and/or on CD
• New recordings with the NRO and Miguel Harth-Bedoya, of Norwegian and Latin American composers (MHB is from Peru)

Miguel Harth-Bedoya's mother was, quote, "choral director for the airline Aeroperu." In case you were wondering which airlines have choirs.

[Karl Henning]

". . . something contrapuntal in the air . . . ."

[Pat B]

Miguel Harth-Bedoya's mother was, quote, "choral director for the airline Aeroperu." In case you were wondering which airlines have choirs.

https://www.youtube.com/v/v3rhQc666Sg

[EigenUser]

Today:
-Beethoven 4
-Beethoven "Missa Solemnis"
-Tchaikovsky 6
-Mendelssohn 3
-Bach D minor KC
-Haydn 103
-Haydn 1
-Haydn 32
-Volume of Haydn SQs (nice, hardbound critical edition)
-Francaix "Symphony d'Archets" (anyone familiar with this?)
-Faure "Requiem"
-A short biography of Mahler

Total price: $45 even. (The Faure alone is priced at $70).

[Ken B]

Today:
-Beethoven 4
-Beethoven "Missa Solemnis"
-Tchaikovsky 6
-Mendelssohn 3
-Bach D minor KC
-Haydn 103
-Haydn 1
-Haydn 32
-Volume of Haydn SQs (nice, hardbound critical edition)
-Francaix "Symphony d'Archets" (anyone familiar with this?)
-Faure "Requiem"
-A short biography of Mahler

Total price: $45 even. (The Faure alone is priced at $70).

How's the sound?

looks like a nice haul actually.

[EigenUser]

How's the sound?

I tried shoving a few scores into my car CD player on the way home, but it just made a bunch of scratching/hissing noises. So, perhaps like "Kontakte"?

[Ken B]

I tried shoving a few scores into my car CD player on the way home, but it just made a bunch of scratching/hissing noises. So, perhaps like "Kontakte"?

I downloaded Stimmung today! 

[EigenUser]

I downloaded Stimmung today! 

Which begs the question, why?

AI-EE-I-O-U-E-A-BA-NA-NA-BA-NA-NA-BA-NA-NANNAAA

Seriously, that piece irritates the hell out of me. I occasionally give "Cosmic Pulses" a listen, though. Have you heard that one? Perhaps it isn't music to me per se, but I like the sounds created in that piece -- especially in the first five minutes or so. It reminds me of a huge supercell thunderstorm forming over the plains. It's a far cry from the electronic-fart-music of the 1950s that resembles dial-up modems.

[Ken B]

Which begs the question, why?

AI-EE-I-O-U-E-A-BA-NA-NA-BA-NA-NA-BA-NA-NANNAAA

Seriously, that piece irritates the hell out of me. I occasionally give "Cosmic Pulses" a listen, though. Have you heard that one? Perhaps it isn't music to me per se, but I like the sounds created in that piece -- especially in the first five minutes or so. It reminds me of a huge supercell thunderstorm forming over the plains. It's a far cry from the electronic-fart-music of the 1950s that resembles dial-up modems.

It was free. I remember hearing it a few times long ago. Not that I liked it but it had some interest.
Modems were the death of electric music. One no longer needed the composer or performer. 

[EigenUser]

I heard the "Kyrie" and "Gloria" of the LvB MS. Alas, much of the Kyrie is starting to fall out of the score. Oh well, it looks ancient, and I got it for $10 so I can't complain. I think that the edition I have goes for well over $100 today.

You guys would make me embarrassed if I told you what Beethoven works I have heard.

[EigenUser]

Ken -- here's a good quote for you so that you can get your signature up and running again.
"The audience expected the ocean. Something big, something colossal, but there were served instead with some agitated water in a saucer." -Critic Louis Schneider on Debussy's "La Mer"

My obsession with that piece seems to have temporarily waned, so I won't mind.


On the score I have, I just realized that "Missa Solemnis" is spelt incorrectly as "Missa Solennis". Not once. Not Twice. Thrice.

[Ken B]

Ken -- here's a good quote for you so that you can get your signature up and running again.
"The audience expected the ocean. Something big, something colossal, but there were served instead with some agitated water in a saucer." -Critic Louis Schneider on Debussy's "La Mer"

My obsession with that piece seems to have temporarily waned, so I won't mind.

Congratulations. The first step to a cure is recognizing you have a problem.

[EigenUser]

Congratulations. The first step to a cure is recognizing you have a problem.

I thought I asked you, but I think I may have forgotten. Does that new symphony box of yours include the "Tarangleisle-Symphonie"?

[Ken B]

I thought I asked you, but I think I may have forgotten. Does that new symphony box of yours include the "Tarangleisle-Symphonie"?

Alas it does. I think this makes 127 versions I now own. Just like Mahler's 8, which I think I own 5 copies of (seriously).
The box includes a piece you should listen to, Hans Rott's Symphony. Which is not listed in the contents.
You have heard it before. You like it.
All will be explained when you hear it.

[EigenUser]

Alas it does. I think this makes 127 versions I now own. Just like Mahler's 8, which I think I own 5 copies of (seriously).
The box includes a piece you should listen to, Hans Rott's Symphony. Which is not listed in the contents.
You have heard it before. You like it.
All will be explained when you hear it.

I thought that you didn't like the "Tar-angle-isle Symphonie", though. I have to admit that the "Tar-Angle-Isle Symphonie" really grew on me. .

Isn't the Rott the one with the virtuosic triangle writing?

[Ken B]

I thought that you didn't like the "Tar-angle-isle Symphonie", though. I have to admit that the "Tar-Angle-Isle Symphonie" really grew on me. .

Isn't the Rott the one with the virtuosic triangle writing?

Hmm. I sense a hint there somewhere. 

Do give the Rott a listen ...