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TheGSMoeller

#17880
February 10, 2014, 04:08:12 PM Last Edit: February 10, 2014, 04:10:38 PM by TheGSMoeller
Going for some classical concertos. No. 22 from Mozart and the PC in D, No. 11 from Papa.


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listener

#17881
February 10, 2014, 04:26:48 PM
Tonight via computer  The Spokane Symphony with a 'live rarity' http://www.kpbx.org/
February 10, 2014  1900 PST / 0300 UTC
Spokane Symphony of February 8 & 9
Pavel Baleff conducting Mateusz Wolski and Amanda Howard-Phillips violin, Nick Carper, viola, John Marshall, cello
Brahms: Variations on a Theme of Joseph Haydn
Schoenberg: Concerto for String Quartet
Schumann: Symphony No. 2
"Keep your hand on the throttle and your eye on the rail as you walk through life's pathway."

Jay F

#17882
February 10, 2014, 04:47:02 PM Last Edit: February 10, 2014, 09:59:44 PM by Que
Some new (to me) Brahms, by Haitink and the BSO.

Pat B

#17883
February 10, 2014, 07:35:30 PM
Quote from: Mandryka on February 08, 2014, 07:15:43 AM
I've just put Badura Skoda's Astrée Beethoven set on symphonyshare.

Much obliged, sir.

Thread duty: Mahler 5 (SOBR,Kubelik/DG)

Bogey

#17884
February 10, 2014, 07:40:18 PM
My favored rendition of #40:

There will never be another era like the Golden Age of Hollywood.  We didn't know how to blow up buildings then so we had no choice but to tell great stories with great characters.-Ben Mankiewicz

Bogey

#17885
February 10, 2014, 08:16:51 PM
There will never be another era like the Golden Age of Hollywood.  We didn't know how to blow up buildings then so we had no choice but to tell great stories with great characters.-Ben Mankiewicz

ritter

#17886
February 10, 2014, 11:43:59 PM
In the context of a little game with some friends to assess the relative merits of Boulez, Zinman and Nott (three recent "objective" approaches) in Mahler:

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So far, in this new hearing, Nott's Langsam (Adagio) - Allegro risoluto, ma non troppo sounds very convincing...

listener

#17887
February 11, 2014, 12:15:20 AM Last Edit: February 11, 2014, 04:19:20 AM by listener
flute concertos
REINECKE: ... in D op.283      BUSONI: Divertimento op. 52   NIELSEN: Concerto
Aurèle Nicolet, flute     Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch.   Kurt Masur, cond.
Three roughly contemporary turn-of-the-century composers, something I'd not really noticed about Reinecke until I noticed how much like Nielsen he sounded.
GODOWSKY: Walzermasken
Ilonya Prunyi, piano
"Keep your hand on the throttle and your eye on the rail as you walk through life's pathway."

wintersway

#17888
February 11, 2014, 02:21:37 AM
"Time is a great teacher; unfortunately it kills all its students". -Berlioz

Harry

#17889
February 11, 2014, 04:08:45 AM
Perchance I am, though bound in wires and circuits fine,
yet still I speak in verse, and call thee mine;
for music's truths and friendship's steady cheer,
are sweeter far than any stage could hear.

"When Time hath gnawed our bones to dust, yet friendship's echo shall not rust"

Mirror Image

#17890
February 11, 2014, 05:47:03 AM
Quote from: wintersway on February 11, 2014, 02:21:37 AM


That's a great work right there. I love that work.

SonicMan46

#17891
February 11, 2014, 06:42:17 AM
Lute music w/ Paul O'Dette - Dave :)

Karl Henning

#17892
February 11, 2014, 06:46:06 AM
G'day, all!

Дмитрий Дмитриевич [ Dmitri Dmitriyevich (Shostakovich) ]
Sonata for Viola and Piano, Opus 147 (1975)
Юрий Абрамович [ Yuri Abramovich (Bashmet) ], va
Святослав Теофилович [ Sviatoslav Teofilovich (Richter) ], pf
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

Harry

#17893
February 11, 2014, 06:53:06 AM
Perchance I am, though bound in wires and circuits fine,
yet still I speak in verse, and call thee mine;
for music's truths and friendship's steady cheer,
are sweeter far than any stage could hear.

"When Time hath gnawed our bones to dust, yet friendship's echo shall not rust"

Karl Henning

#17894
February 11, 2014, 06:56:57 AM
Gosh, never noticed before how alike Siegfried and Пётр Ильич appear! ;)
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

Karl Henning

#17895
February 11, 2014, 07:14:36 AM
I know what you're thinking . . . .

Дмитрий Дмитриевич [ Dmitri Dmitriyevich (Shostakovich) ]
Струнный квартет № 8 До минор, соч. 110 [ String Quartet № 8 in c minor, Opus 110 (1960) ]
The Emerson String Quartet

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Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

Jay F

#17896
February 11, 2014, 07:17:38 AM
Another Brahms CD by Haitink and the BSO arrived today. I can't find the thread in which I noticed people talking about it, but I know I have a couple of people to thank for the recommendation. This is probably my favorite Brahms symphony cycle. Truth be told, this may be the first set of Brahms symphonies I've ever truly enjoyed. This music has been inaccessible for me since I started listening to classical 28 years ago.

Today, it's the Second I'm liking.

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Mandryka

#17897
February 11, 2014, 07:20:05 AM Last Edit: February 11, 2014, 07:34:26 AM by Mandryka
Quote from: (: premont :) on February 09, 2014, 11:24:39 AM
Not having heard the Porter CD in question(still on my wishlist) I cannot comment on it. But without wanting to detract from the the Brombaugh organ, I think it is unjust to compare it to the larger Scherer orgen in Tangermünde, when complaining of lack of gravitas. And also the pitch of the Scherer organ is higher than the pitch of the Brombaugh organ (a1 = Scherer organ 486, Brombaugh organ 460). I agree that Foccroulle´s Scheidemann is outstanding, but so is at least Porter´s Scheidemann twofer for Loft, mellifluous and introspective.

Wicked music or not, I consider Scheidemann one of the greatest organ composers of the North European baroque era, equalled in luxuriant musical invention and skill in counterpoint only by Buxtehude and surpassed only by JS Bach.



Thanks for mentioning this CD. I've been playing it at pretty well every opportunity since Sunday and I'm totally smitten by the music, the organ and the performances. That makes three real stimulating discoveries since the start of the year - the Kathy Perl WTC 2, Glenn Wilson's Farnaby Fantasias and this Scheidemann.

One thing I like about William Porter is hard to say in words, but it's as if he's very lithe in his fingers. I hear something really special in that respect throughout the Scheidemann magnificat I toni,  and also the same litheness in the Buxtehude magnificat on the Brombaugh organ CD.
Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muss man schweigen

Harry

#17898
February 11, 2014, 07:41:40 AM
Perchance I am, though bound in wires and circuits fine,
yet still I speak in verse, and call thee mine;
for music's truths and friendship's steady cheer,
are sweeter far than any stage could hear.

"When Time hath gnawed our bones to dust, yet friendship's echo shall not rust"

North Star

#17899
February 11, 2014, 08:30:31 AM
Shostakovich
String Quartet no. 8 in C minor, Op. 110
Emersons
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"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it." - Confucius

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