The Classical Chat Thread

[Henk]

It seems ages ago since I have listened to Henning.

[SurprisedByBeauty]

Every month we intend to publish two Playlists: One with all the classical pieces in the concerts we present the following month -- and one with the World & Jazz bits.

Here's the classical list for the Month of November. Where possible, the artists actually playing the works are chosen, but usually that's not the case. What recordings might you have chosen to present a given work from its best side??


Spotify Playlist November 2014 (Classical)


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[Ken B]

Every month we intend to publish two Playlists: One with all the classical pieces in the concerts we present the following month -- and one with the World & Jazz bits.

Here's the classical list for the Month of November. Where possible, the artists actually playing the works are chosen, but usually that's not the case. What recordings might you have chosen to present a given work from its best side??




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What a good idea. Thanks.

[kishnevi]

[Karl Henning]

Word (still tentative) is that there is a chance the Thursday concert will go on;  there's not much chance that the RVW Sea Symphony could be anything like ready then, so even if there is a concert, I do not know what the program will be.

[TheGSMoeller]

Word (still tentative) is that there is a chance the Thursday concert will go on;  there's not much chance that the RVW Sea Symphony could be anything like ready then, so even if there is a concert, I do not know what the program will be.

Hasn't been signed yet, but knowing that ASO goes through their own Board and the Woodruff Arts Center Board it could still be a hurdle. But here's hoping for a quick resolution.

[TheGSMoeller]

Hasn't been signed yet, but knowing that ASO goes through their own Board and the Woodruff Arts Center Board it could still be a hurdle. But here's hoping for a quick resolution.

And it's done...

http://artsculture.blog.ajc.com/2014/11/08/atlanta-symphony-musicians-management-agree-to-four-year-deal-concerts-to-start-nov-13/

[Henk]

Rameau, the perfect background music (imo).

[TheGSMoeller]

Rameau, the perfect background music (imo).

Also makes great foreground music. 

[Karl Henning]

Also makes great foreground music. 

(* frappant la table *)

[Karl Henning]

And it's done...

http://artsculture.blog.ajc.com/2014/11/08/atlanta-symphony-musicians-management-agree-to-four-year-deal-concerts-to-start-nov-13/

Will you go Thursday?

[TheGSMoeller]

Will you go Thursday?

Probably Saturday, son has Tae Kwon Do that night. You still around by Saturday? The program is now Beethoven's 9th.

[Henk]

Also makes great foreground music. 

Unfamiliar with that term. Can you explain?

[TheGSMoeller]

Unfamiliar with that term. Can you explain?

It's the opposite of background.

[Henk]

Ok, only background for me.

[jochanaan]

Every orchestra, in my experience, plays in the black--even if they run a deficit.  Colored suits--what orchestra would risk it?

[Karl Henning]

Probably Saturday, son has Tae Kwon Do that night. You still around by Saturday? The program is now Beethoven's 9th.

Flying back to Boston Saturday (Lord willin' and the creek don't rise).

See you Wednesday!

[Brian]

I don't enjoy Michael Cookson's reviews for MusicWeb (too much summarizing the music's history, not enough reviewing), but man, the guy can absolutely nail an interview. People open up to him. This week Magdalena Kozena confesses that she's annoyed with husband Sir Simon for not bothering to learn Czech.

[jlaurson]

11 Recordings To Remember Lorin Maazel By



"Aren't you afraid I will kick the bucket?" When he was appointed as music director of the Munich Philharmonic
starting in 2012/13—a mildly contentious appointment in the wake of Christian Thielemann being bungled out
of town—Lorin Maazel told the audience at the press conference (to much laughter) that he had posed this
pointed question to the musicians and officials who lured him to town. They weren't, and he didn't seem
particularly worried, either. Fit, energetic, and with good genes—his father, as he often pointed out, lived to
106 and in fact passed on just in 2009—Lorin Maazel struck anyone who met him as having another decade
or more in him. It turned out to be only...

[North Star]

I approve, what with the Vienna Sibelius & the Ravel operas included.