What are you listening to now?

[Brian]

Probe is the German for rehearsal.

Danke!

[ritter]

Spanish National Radio broadcast the concert given in New York's Central Park in early August of this year by the piano duo formed by twin sisters Christina and Michelle Naughton. The first piece I caught was John Adam's Hallelujah Junction. This hearing confirms that this music is as distant as can be from my tastes and aesthetic beliefs  ... My loss, probably, but I really have no inclination whatsoever to explore this repertory any further....

[Ken B]

Probe is the German for rehearsal.

So those aliens are rehearsing abductees?  That sounds a lot less unpleasant.

[Pat B]

Probe is the German for rehearsal.

The cover says "Rehearsal - Probe," but it is carried out in French. I expected Dutch (not that I know either language). I think I was able to understand most of what he was getting at, just from his vocalizations.

Thread duty: up next: Scriabin, Prokofiev, and Rachmaninov, the last disc of the Sokolov on Naive set.

[EigenUser]

Messiaen's Et Exspecto Resurrectionem Mortuorum may be one of the most powerful works I know of and still remains my favorite Messiaen work, though others come very close (most recently Des Canyons aux Etoiles and Visions de l'Amen).
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[EigenUser]

CAPRICORN
for bass & electronic music

Bass: Nicholas Isherwood / Realisation of the
electronic music: Karlheinz Stockhausen

Woah, that's a coincidence! I was just about to post this, which I'm currently playing: Stockhausen's Cosmic Pulses. A cool piece.

[EigenUser]

Good evening, Oli & Sarge!

Fresh from the mailbox

Messiaen
Réveil des oiseaux (The Awakening of the Birds) (1953) *
Oiseaux exotiques (1956)
Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum (1964)
La Transfiguration de Notre-Seigneur Jésus-Christ (1969)
Roger Muraro (pf)*
SWR Baden-Baden und Freiburg
Cambreling
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I've yet to hear La Transfiguration.... How is it?

Actually, I haven't heard Reveil des Oiseaux, either. How does it compare to the Oiseaux Exotiques?

[Sergeant Rock]

Pounds the table! Yes!

Oh yeah, it's a fabulous piece (pieces) of music...and now that I know there's a Mahlerian hammer!...well,  it really soars in my estimation. I wish he'd written two more pieces, though, just so he would equal Arnie and Anton 

Sarge

[North Star]

I've yet to hear La Transfiguration.... How is it?

Actually, I haven't heard Reveil des Oiseaux, either. How does it compare to the Oiseaux Exotiques?

I enjoyed both a good deal (well, all three) but will need to listen to them again before commenting with any depth.

[Mirror Image]

Oh yeah, it's a fabulous piece (pieces) of music...and now that I know there's a Mahlerian hammer!...well,  it really soars in my estimation. I wish he'd written two more pieces, though, just so he would equal Arnie and Anton 

Sarge

Absolutely, Sarge. That particular recording you're listening (w/ Dorati) was one of the earliest recorded performances of this work was it not? I know there weren't many recorded performances before this one, but I could be wrong of course.

[Sergeant Rock]

Absolutely, Sarge. That particular recording you're listening (w/ Dorati) was one of the earliest recorded performances of this work was it not? I know there weren't many recorded performances before this one, but I could be wrong of course.

I don't know the work's recording history but the Dorati is a great performance, whether the first or not. My best, and oldest friend, had an LP copy in the mid-60s. I heard it often on his family's great (for the time) stereo system. I imprinted on it.

Sarge

[Mirror Image]

I don't know the work's recording history but the Dorati is a great performance, whether the first or not. My best, and oldest friend, had an LP copy in the mid-60s. I heard it often on his family's great (for the time) stereo system. I imprinted on it.

Sarge

Wow, the mid-60s. I didn't realize this recording was this old. I have this recording, too. I might need to get it and have a listen to it.

[Sergeant Rock]

Wow, the mid-60s. I didn't realize this recording was this old.

The Berg Three Pieces was recorded in 1962.

Sarge

[Mirror Image]

The Berg Three Pieces was recorded in 1962.

Sarge

It seems this Dorati performance predates Boulez's earlier Berg recordings for Columbia. Nice.

Thread duty:



Listening to Symphony No. 3. Such a great work.

[EigenUser]

Another instance where a recording could never do justice. This one is SO complex & dense that it is perception overload, it would be virtually impossible to hear everything .. it is one of those pieces that is designed for an octophonic set-up  .. live under ideal conditions it is supposed to quite an unforgettable experience .. like being within the center of a tornado!

Yeah, I know. It becomes so dense about 7 or 8 minutes in. I'd definitely like to see it live.

[André]

Elgar: Coronation Ode. Philip Ledger (EMI).

The Wiener Philharmoniker conducted by their old friend Zubin Mehta in a 1985 Salzburg Festival concert. Schubert: symphony no. 9 and Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring. Both very well played, the Schubert rather more than that.

Bruckner: the Eight symphony in one of the best played, engineered and conducted performances I know of: the Berlin Radio S. O. under Heinz Rögner. That, too, is from 1985, but it sounds a lot more immediate and beautiful.

[Mirror Image]

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Listening to Symphony No. 5. You're absolutely right about it, Paul. Nobody could touch Kondrashin in this symphony. Such an intense performance.

[psu]

This took me by surprise. Very "traditional" sounding (vs. HIP).

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[Mirror Image]

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Listening to Symphony No. 3. I really, really hope this series on Chandos continues and the same with Naxos.

[Brian]

Listening to Symphony No. 3. I really, really hope this series on Chandos continues and the same with Naxos.

It is one series which they are dividing responsibility for. So collect every volume because there will be no box set!