What are you listening to now?

[ritter]

From this fabulous set:

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Anton Bruckner: Symphony No.2 in C minor - Saarbrücken Radio Symphony Orchestra - Stanisław Skrowaczewski (cond.)

[Sergeant Rock]

Bruckner Symphony No.7, Barenboim, Berlin




Sarge

[TheGSMoeller]

Bruckner Symphony No.7, Barenboim, Berlin

Sarge

I listened to the one earlier, Sarge. Being a fan of Barenboim's Bruckner I like it.
And I just happened to be listening to another 7th at the moment, one that Drasko rec'd...

[Sergeant Rock]

I listened to the one earlier, Sarge. Being a fan of Barenboim's Bruckner I like it.

I do too. I think I've only heard it once before, many years ago, but I'm loving it. Time to do a blind comparison of the Seventh  I'm up for it...although I don't think we'll get many volunteers 

Sarge

[TheGSMoeller]

I do too. I think I've only heard it once before, many years ago, but I'm loving it. Time to do a blind comparison of the Seventh  I'm up for it...although I don't think we'll get many volunteers 

Sarge

I would run it if we had enough show up.  0:)

[Brian]

I would run it if we had enough show up.  0:)

I would show up.

[Karl Henning]

I'd make an effort to show up . . . .

[Karl Henning]

And you know we can count on Cato!

[TheGSMoeller]

Well heck, it's fun even with a low amount of participants as long as we are having fun, right guys? 

Perhaps a thread with a proposal of sorts for a Bruckner 7th BC will show up soon. 

[Brian]

Meanwhile...time to listen to the Sixth again!!

[ritter]

From this set:

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Arnold Schoenberg: Gurrelieder (original 1900/1901 version for soloists with piano accompaniment) - Melanie Diener (sop), Anke Vondung (ms), Markus Schäfer (ten), Urs Liska (piano)

Relistening to these proto-Gurrelieder after seeing the real thing in concert last Saturday. This "original version" amounts to little more than curiosity, IMHO, and the tremendous impact of the full score in its final version is lost here...

[Karl Henning]

From this set:

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Great stuff!

[ritter]

Great stuff!

Yep, but I needed the "real thing" as far as Gurrelieder is concerned, so am listening to The Wild Hunt of the Summer Wind from this recording (included in the big Boulez box):



...and then I'm off to bed. Good night, Karl and all GMGers!

[Karl Henning]

Yep, but I needed the "real thing" as far as Gurrelieder is concerned, so am listening to The Wild Hunt of the Summer Wind from this recording (included in the big Boulez box):



...and then I'm off to bed. Good night, Karl and all GMGers!

Sweet dreams!, and I am listening to that very The Wild Hunt of the Summer Wind, now, myself.

[André]

Haydn: "Sturm und Drang" symphonies. I listened to discs 1 and 2 of the Frans Brüggen box on Decca (nos. 47, 46, 26, 49, 50, 43, 58 and 59.  So far I have been disppointed by the 8 works from this partial compilation. Everything seems a mite slow and un-brusque. Not as stormy and stressful as Marriner for example  . I actuallu checked the timings of all those that are common between the two conductors, and Marriner is almost always faster. I used to have them on lp and cassette, and I recall them as vivid, brilliant readings, full of life and soul.

The HIP approach (Brüggen again) imparts a mincing quality to the phrasing. It pussyfoots where it shoud tear and grunt. I'm exaggerating of course, but the general feeling does point to a rather tame way of interpreting this often turbulent music.

[Ken B]

The reviews put me onto this, which I bought in July but haven't played til now.

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This review in particular

This is horrendous. Daniel Harding hasn't a clue about what Brahms should sound like, nor does he know how to render these symphonies even minimally expressive. He has the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen playing with a mechanical precision totally at odds with the sense of the music.
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Analytically clear recorded sound admirably conveys the desiccated string textures, clinically correct winds and brass, and cloddish timpani that combine to offer one of the most unmusical, unidiomatic, grotesque displays that this music has ever been forced to endure.

Yes, the Hurwitzer.

[Brian]

The reviews put me onto this, which I bought in July but haven't played til now.

This review in particular

Yes, the Hurwitzer.

I seem to remember hating that Fourth too. So you might love it??

[Ken B]

Well heck, it's fun even with a low amount of participants as long as we are having fun, right guys? 

Perhaps a thread with a proposal of sorts for a Bruckner 7th BC will show up soon. 

I might be tempted. But I'm still hoping for that Licht BC thread.

[Ken B]

The reviews put me onto this, which I bought in July but haven't played til now.

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An odd recording for sure, which has Brian channeling Hurwitz.

Did I enjoy it? Yes, certainly.
Did I like it? More difficult. Parts of it for sure. I like the feeling of experiment. I like the vigor of the third mvmt of 4, which Brian hated, immensely.  But there is something wrong. I know what it is, but maybe not how to say it. A musical phrase can be played legato or staccatto. I feel like on a larger scale this performance is all staccatto, no legato. Not in the way each phrase is played but in how they are assembled into the whole piece.

[TheGSMoeller]

An odd recording for sure, which has Brian channeling Hurwitz.

Did I enjoy it? Yes, certainly.
Did I like it? More difficult. Parts of it for sure. I like the feeling of experiment. I like the vigor of the third mvmt of 4, which Brian hated, immensely.  But there is something wrong. I know what it is, but maybe not how to say it. A musical phrase can be played legato or staccatto. I feel like on a larger scale this performance is all staccatto, no legato. Not in the way each phrase is played but in how they are assembled into the whole piece.

Short answer: It's no Harnoncourt.