What are you listening to now?

[Mahlerian]

Schuman: Violin Concerto
Paul Zukofsky, Boston Symphony Orchestra, cond. Tilson Thomas

[Karl Henning]

Schuman
Symphony № 6 (1948)
Phila.
Ormandy

[Traverso]

Ah, that's been you all this time! I had no idea. Pjotr struck me as more chatty than Harry. Just my imagination?
TD:
  Presently working through this box

This box is exceptional , the music, the performance, the recordings and this  all for a affordable  price.

[aligreto]

Schubert: Five German Dances with seven trios and a coda, D. 90  [Kodály Quartet]

[aligreto]

Rhona Clarke: smiling like that
John Buckley: I am Wind on Sea





smiling like that is a most unusual fusion of Art Music and electronic music. It certainly has impact but I fear that is is too contrived and manipulated in the studio to be sustainable for me.
I am Wind on Sea is a work which involves very modern vocal techniques. Some may find this absorbing, appealing and captivating but it is not for me.

[Zeus]

For Japan...

Takemitsu: Orchestral Works
Carl St. Clair, Nexus & Pacific Symphony Orchestra
Sony

[asin] B0000029WL[/asin]

[Zeus]

For Colombia...

Guitar Music of Colombia
José Antonio Escobar
Naxos

[asin] B00PO9AFM0[/asin]

[Que]

What is your conclusion then?

[re: Rousset's Couperin]

Good stuff.... 

Q

[Kontrapunctus]

[NikF]

Gershwin: Catfish Row Suite - Michael Tilson Thomas/San Francisco Symphony.

[asin]B01B17C43G[/asin]

[Karl Henning]

Schubert: Five German Dances with seven trios and a coda, D. 90  [Kodály Quartet]

Tangentially, one of the first discs of Haydn quartets I heard, was the Kodály Quartet, and I was unimpressed. Maybe the hangup was mine.

Thread Duty:

Bruckner
Mass in f minor
Herreweghe

[Karl Henning]

Gershwin: Catfish Row Suite - Michael Tilson Thomas/San Francisco Symphony.

[asin]B01B17C43G[/asin]

Nice!

[Karl Henning]

Anonymous
Missa Sancta Maria
fr. The Leiden Choirbooks Vol. I

[André]

Karajan always held that work in the highest regard, recording and programming it multiple times. This 1982 recording is the third version to appear in the Karajan Sacred/Choral DG box. It is subtly but substantially different from the previous ones (WP 1965 and BP 1966|69). Whereas in the sixties Karajan reveled in the infinite instrumental, vocal and choral colours, this final return to Haydn's masterpiece reveals a deeper understanding of the intricate musical layers.

He obviously encourages the soloists to explore vocal and dramatic nuances, including a very large range of dynamic shading. This is strikingly apparent from the very begining, the bass' « Im anfange schuf Gott ». I was awestruck by Jose van Dam's sepulchral, otherworldly utterance. And so it goes with the other two soloists (Mathis sounding a bit too mature at first, but singing with great purity in the difficult melismas), and also the orchestra, especially the incredibly pure, sweet strings.

This is a liberated view of The Creation: wheras the older interpretations sound very tradition bound (in the best sense), this one elicits from the interpreters a rhapsodic vein, mixing the naïve with the joyous and the mystic. I love all three almost equally, but I have a feeling that the two WP versions are the most successful, each in its own way.

[Alek Hidell]

His Schumann is my reference set, also his recordings of various 2nd Viennese school things. As a composer he's in my top three or so, barring dead people. (him, Sciarrino and Rebecca Saunders would be the 3) Also he apparently plays some kind of wind instrument.

All right, all right - a guy can only take so much. With amw's imprimatur, I'm sold. Sigh - more to add to the burgeoning wishlist.

I love his compositions!

... and now I must check out his own music, too. Damn you!

[Daverz]

Martinu Symphony No. 1

[asin] B074V3CXH6[/asin]

The recording seems to have the ideal balance of spaciousness and detail.  Meister's more relaxed approach really pays off in the more lyrical moments.  The radio orchestra plays very, very well.

[Madiel]

Just listened to Rachmaninov Symphony no 1 performed by RPO,conducted by Andrew Litton. Curious to know why it was a flop at its premiere??? With a final movement like this work, can't understand!! The rest of it was lovely as well and was all beautifully performed.

As history understands it and as Karl explained, any performance you listen to now that is "beautifully performed" is most unlikely to give you an accurate impression of what the audience heard at the premiere.

I actually think it's right up there with some of Rachmaninov's best works. I do wonder what difference it might have made to his career if it hadn't been such a disaster at the premiere.

[springrite]

All right, all right - a guy can only take so much. With amw's imprimatur, I'm sold. Sigh - more to add to the burgeoning wishlist.

... and now I must check out his own music, too. Damn you!

What are friends for!  0:)

[Marc]

Not exactly the thing to be singing in hot Summer: nevertheless that's what we're doing:

I need to try that again.  That was the program on the only concert of Bach I have walked out of, in all my life.

Wow.

My soul hurt to reflect on it

Then I shall not ask why.

My first inner reaction when I first heard it live: OMG... I'm so happy! What is happening? (I think I was around 14 years old/young.)

[Que]

Morning listening - more good stuff:


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Q