The Classical Chat Thread

[Ken B]

Kidding?  Jacob Obrecht was one of the greatest Renaissance composers.

I meant Hjalmar Horace Greeley Obrecht, noted kazoo composer.

[EigenUser]

No, I like Takemitsu. I have no idea why you thought otherwise.

Oh, I meant to ask that to Ken, not you...

[Ken B]

Oh, I meant to ask that to Ken, not you...

I'm not a great fan, but I think he deserves a box. And I think many here would like it.

[Green Destiny]

There is already a box of Takemitsu's Film Music:

[asin]B000E1KNC0[/asin]

Its OOP though and is very expensive from private sellers.
If this set was re-issued I would certainly get it.

[North Star]

Oh, I meant to ask that to Ken, not you...

The world makes sense once again. 

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

News from NPR on Matthew Aucoin's opera, The Crossing, based on Walt Whitman's Civil War nursing experience :  http://www.npr.org/sections/deceptivecadence/2015/06/04/412000449/a-25-year-old-opera-composer-who-does-it-all

[Karl Henning]

Good for him!  That sort of publicity is golden.

[EigenUser]

I listened to Ravel's L'Enfant et les Sortileges on a long drive today. What a piece! I love the plot, too. I can't help but think of my favorite childhood book "Where the Wild Things Are" (boy gets in trouble with mom, sent to room, loses temper, etc.).

Millimetre, centimetre, decimetre, decametre, hectometre, kilometre, megametre, gigometre!

[jlaurson]

Fresh from Forbes:



JUN 12, 2015
Boxing Classical Music: Claudio Abbado On Sony/RCA

The preamble to this review—a cursory glance at the state of the state of box sets in classical music—
precedes the first of what will be three (the orchestral works conducted by Ferenc Fricsay's on Deutsche
Grammophon) This second installment takes Claudio Abbado's recordings for Sony/RCA as its example.

Having covered Ferenc Fricsay box set, let's turn to the Abbado Box that Sony put forth. It covers his
output for that label spanning 22 years (1976-1997) and his most important orchestral stations (including
La Scala, 1971-1986, the LSO, 1975-1987, Vienna State Opera, 1986-1991, and Chicago, where he was
the principal guest conductor for three years in the 80s) up to and including (some of) his taking steward-
ship of the Berlin Philharmonic (1989-2002)...

[jlaurson]

Fresh from ionarts:



JUN 12, 2015
Ionarts-at-Large: Heinz Holliger, Haydn-Master

If anyone can elicit great—or even just respectable—Haydn from the Vienna
Chamber Orchestra at a musician-unfriendly 10.30am, I should think it'd be
Heinz Holliger. Ever since hearing the septuagenarian conduct the Camerata
Salzburg at the Mozartwoche in Salzburg some years back (review here), I've
considered him the finest living Haydn conductor I know of. Perhaps some-
thing to do with him being a composer and thus communicating from one
bird of a feather to the other?

To hear Holliger in Haydn was consequently the main reason to go to the
Mozart-Saal of the Wiener Konzerthaus, the building's gem of a hall and
probably as ideally suited to this kind of music—if not more so—than their
neighbor's more famous Goldener Saal.

The first look at the program hurt and baffled, though...

[Karl Henning]

Actually, 10:30 AM isn't at all bad, is it? 

[jlaurson]

Actually, 10:30 AM isn't at all bad, is it? 

Is there something worse? 

[Karl Henning]

07:30, surely 

[North Star]

03:30 AM is my pick. . .

[Karl Henning]

Some are just getting warmed up then, Karlo.  G'day!

[mc ukrneal]

I think 4:30-5AM is the worst. Too early to get up, but not enough time to really get a good sleep.

[Sergeant Rock]

Fresh from ionarts:

"Sorry, the page you were looking for in this blog does not exist."

  ....I'll try again later.

Sarge

[North Star]

"Sorry, the page you were looking for in this blog does not exist."

  ....I'll try again later.

Sarge

This one should do it:
http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2015/06/ionarts-at-large-heinz-holliger-haydn.html

[jlaurson]

"Sorry, the page you were looking for in this blog does not exist."

  ....I'll try again later.

Sarge

Fixed!

Fresh from ionarts:



JUN 12, 2015
Ionarts-at-Large: Heinz Holliger, Haydn-Master

If anyone can elicit great—or even just respectable—Haydn from the Vienna
Chamber Orchestra at a musician-unfriendly 10.30am, I should think it'd be
Heinz Holliger. Ever since hearing the septuagenarian conduct the Camerata
Salzburg at the Mozartwoche in Salzburg some years back (review here), I've
considered him the finest living Haydn conductor I know of. Perhaps some-
thing to do with him being a composer and thus communicating from one
bird of a feather to the other?

To hear Holliger in Haydn was consequently the main reason to go to the
Mozart-Saal of the Wiener Konzerthaus, the building's gem of a hall and
probably as ideally suited to this kind of music—if not more so—than their
neighbor's more famous Goldener Saal.

The first look at the program hurt and baffled, though...

07:30, surely 

That does not compute.

I think 4:30-5AM is the worst. Too early to get up, but not enough time to really get a good sleep.

For the starting time of a concert? You are all nuts. 

[North Star]

Some are just getting warmed up then, Karlo.  G'day!

Or already then. G'day, Karl!