What are you listening to now?

[EigenUser]

Schoenberg's Piano Concerto. I really struggle with this work. This is probably my 5th listen. I feel like I should theoretically like it, but I don't (yet).
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[king ubu]

Albert Wolff was a French conductor, quite active at the Opéra Comique up to his death in 1970... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Wolff_(conductor)

Thanks, I eventually found that out myself ... but the info is indeed lousy, locations for half the tracks, years for three or four, conductors for two ... and the final selection (the finale from "Faust") sounds as if someone is holding up a microphone and bumping into it all the time. But still, more Guiot for me is reason to pop up a bottle of wine and enjoy!

[DavidRoss]

Day off. (Yippee!)

Much-needed yard work in the morning.

Then some early Pretenders and EMF to blow out the cobwebs.

And now:

[André]

Verdi: Requiem. Muti, EMI (Scotto, Nesterenko etc) . I didn't recall it was so good. Played at the proper volume level of course.

Szymanowski: Symphony concertante (symphony no 4). Artur Rubinstein (what a swell idea !), LA PO, Alfred Wallenstein.

Cherubini: Requiem in c minor. 3 versions: Muti, Toscanini, Rögner. The beginning of the Dies Irae is one of the most hair-raising moments ever in music. The rest is kinder, gentler. Still worth reviving from time to time.

[Ken B]

Bach: Brandenburg Concertos 1-6      Berliner Philharmoniker/Karajan

Errr....interesting.......

Oh dear god Moonfish warn me before you do that. I just ate.

[Ken B]

Schoenberg's Piano Concerto. I really struggle with this work. This is probably my 5th listen. I feel like I should theoretically like it, but I don't (yet).
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One the few later AS things I like.

Thread Bellini, Oboe Concerto then some baroque ones.

[Todd]

Schubert and Schumann done right.

[EigenUser]

One the few later AS things I like.

Thread Bellini, Oboe Concerto then some baroque ones.

I'll probably warm up to it. I heard it a second time today (after I made my post here) and it is slowly coming to me, I think. Out of curiosity, what are some later works of his that you don't like? I've yet to hear the VC or the Variations for Orchestra. I was so-so on the 4th SQ (I was expecting not to like it at all, but I thought it was okay). So far, I think his 1st chamber symphony is his best work. It's weird -- I was craving that piece all day today and I had one of its melodies stuck in my head. It maintains a great balance between aesthetic appeal and "calculated" complexity. Come to think of it, this is why I like Bartok, Ligeti, and Messiaen so much (among others).

[Ken B]

I'll probably warm up to it. I heard it a second time today (after I made my post here) and it is slowly coming to me, I think. Out of curiosity, what are some later works of his that you don't like? I've yet to hear the VC or the Variations for Orchestra. I was so-so on the 4th SQ (I was expecting not to like it at all, but I thought it was okay). So far, I think his 1st chamber symphony is his best work. It's weird -- I was craving that piece all day today and I had one of its melodies stuck in my head. It maintains a great balance between aesthetic appeal and "calculated" complexity. Come to think of it, this is why I like Bartok, Ligeti, and Messiaen so much (among others).

By "later" I mean after he hit puberty.

I like VN and some of the other early tonal stuff. Not Gurreliedersaurus.  I like some of the piano music, and especially the string quartets. None of it do I love or cherish. I wouldn't trade La Mer for his entire oeuvre if that helps give some perspective. 

[EigenUser]

By "later" I mean after he hit puberty.

I like VN and some of the other early tonal stuff. Not Gurreliedersaurus.  I like some of the piano music, and especially the string quartets. None of it do I love or cherish. I wouldn't trade La Mer for his entire oeuvre if that helps give some perspective. 

I'm not familiar with any piano works of his. Twelve-tone piano music scares me, probably because Boulez' Structures was the first of this genre I've heard (and the 2nd sonata). Of course, these are total serialist works instead of just Schoenberg's tonally serialist works, but it put me off the whole idea.

[lisa needs braces]

This, again. Love this work.

[listener]

PERAGALLO: De Ptofundis    DALLAPICCOLA: Canti di prigionia, Due cori di Michelangelo Buonarroti il Giovane  PETRASSI: Nonsense (settings of Edward Lear)
Monteverdi Choir Hamburg   Jürgen Jürgens, cond.
BARTOK:  Rhapsody no. 1 for violin and orch       BLOCH: Violin Concerto
Roman Totenberg, violin    Vienna State Opera Orch.   Maurice Abravanel, cond.

[kishnevi]

By "later" I mean after he hit puberty.

I like VN and some of the other early tonal stuff. Not Gurreliedersaurus.  I like some of the piano music, and especially the string quartets. None of it do I love or cherish. I wouldn't trade La Mer for his entire oeuvre if that helps give some perspective. 

Gurrelieder is not that bad.  It's just that if I want a Mahler-like choral work based on macabre medieval or faux medieval balladry,  I can listen to Klagende Lied. 

Nate, for the piano works, try Pollini.   

Truth to tell,  the only Schonberg work I love is Verklarte Nacht.  The rest is meh or worse.  It does not help that I find him emotionally chilly,  something I don't experience with Berg or Webern (which is why I like them better).

[amw]

I like S's 1897 String Quartet in D, then almost nothing until the Serenade Op. 24, the Suites Opp. 25 and 29, and the last two string quartets (among others). Most of the stuff in between is much too anguished and self-pitying for my tastes, like Mahler except even worse. Not a Mahler fan. For that reason I also tend to prefer his non-orchestral works, though CS2 is not bad, I guess.

[amw]

Op. 97

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Huh. This is light years better than their 1979 recording in every respect for me, but it seems the rest of the world disagrees.

[Que]

Beautiful music!

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[Que]

Just arrived:



I guess I am on a Heinichen binge, lately. 

Now I have yet another recording of Bach's Magnificat.... hope it will be at least a good one.

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[Que]

This seems an appropriate continuation: 

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[Wanderer]

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[mc ukrneal]

This seems an appropriate continuation: 

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One of the first discs I ever bought (and so well done) - really got me interested in the period.