What are you listening to now?

[André]

Symphony no 9. I would have liked more forceful, interventionist timpani in the big climaxes. Still, Schuricht has the measure of this leviathan.




Concerto no 20.


Schmidt tears into the big Beethoven cadenzas with gusto.

[listener]

They sort of look related but come together this morning randomly
DAQUIN:  Le Livre d'Orgue  (12 Noëls)
Pierre Bardon, organ at Saint-Maximin in Provence
BRUCKNER: Mass in f
Karita Matilla, Marjana Lipovšek, Thomas Moser, Kurt Moll     SATB
Bavarian Radio Orchestra and Chorus       Colin Davis, cond.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Thanks, here's Jacobs performing Debussy's Estampes:

https://www.youtube.com/v/MgdYVilrxdQ

https://www.youtube.com/v/QKzam_2YOs4&t=0s&list=OLAK5uy_mZgVy9_EMMDl3NmBthJHxak_kktf7C-W0&index=6

https://www.youtube.com/v/sRMSmpL1PJA&list=OLAK5uy_mZgVy9_EMMDl3NmBthJHxak_kktf7C-W0&index=6

Thank you for those embedded videos; I quite enjoyed them!  Will keep an eye out for his Nonesuch LPs.   

My listening earlier today:



Looking through my LPs, I noticed that I have both the stereo and mono versions; alas, the stereo copy doesn't look very nice.  I cleaned off the mono one and played it instead.  Great performance!  I don't know Mahler's symphonies well at all so it was nice to dip into them.

Best,

PD

[Karl Henning]

Shostakovich,
Symphony #1 in f minor
RCO,
Solti

[Mandryka]

I think this is an absolutely fabulous Waldstien. I've listened to all of them by him, from the Columbia 1949 through to this in 1984, I've even listened to the 80th Birthday concert. And this is the only one which is a success, the only one where the vision becomes poetic. It's like he was striving to say something, to find something, for half a century and then succeeded.

Same for Horowitz in Der Dichter spricht.

[Karl Henning]

Earlier, a sprightly clarinet sonata of which I have the pleasure to be the dedicatee:

https://www.youtube.com/v/si9aZiUPdp8

[Karl Henning]

Shostakovich
Symphony #5 in d minor
RCO
Kurt Sanderling

[Florestan]

Earlier, a sprightly clarinet sonata of which I have the pleasure to be the dedicatee:

https://www.youtube.com/v/si9aZiUPdp8

http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,26269.msg1201821/topicseen.html#msg1201821

Cheers, my friend!

[JBS]

Yes, I know all that.

This is an English language board, so English usage is at least relevant even if it's at odds with what happens in native usage. What English people call "Danishes" or Danish pastries are not considered Danish in Denmark.  And let's not get into the peculiar history of how the people that English speakers call "Dutch" are not speakers of "Deutsch".

EDIT: And the fact that the English somehow took the Danish word for cloud and mucked up its meaning is an embarrassing indictment of English weather. That word being "sky".

And let's not forget that the Pennsylvania Dutch were never Dutch, but German (Deutsch).

[Florestan]

And let's not forget that the Pennsylvania Dutch were never Dutch, but German (Deutsch).

As the first President of post-1989 Romania used to say, "the ducks come from the trucks".

What he meant was that the Dacians come from the Thracians --- only he said it using the Romanian pronouncing of both "Dacian" and Thracian" to which he added the English plural.  . And he was as wrong as he got in that Dacians did not come from Thracians, they were simply a branch of the latter.

[vandermolen]

I know, but just as an example of what may be perfectly clear to someone with at clear understanding of the structure of GB (ie a local), to many outsiders may be totally confusing. As a parallell to Scandinavia. Perhaps Ireland may have been a better example of confusion!

To the Finns here; are you Scandinavian?

Yes I agree - there is often confusion between what exactly meant by Great Britain compared with the United Kingdom for example.

[vandermolen]

First listen - Miss Marple  0:) - symphony No.4 in B (1945-46)

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in the middle of a gorgeous second movement right now (Lento Tranquilo) 

Yes, it's great and an even greater achievement bearing in mind that it was written between solving all those complex murder mysteries.

[Florestan]

there is often confusion between what exactly meant by Great Britain compared with the United Kingdom for example.

UK is England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, while Great Britain is all of the above plus the rest of the Commonwealth. Is this right?

[JBS]

UK is England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, while Great Britain is all of the above plus the rest of the Commonwealth. Is this right?

Half correct.  Great Britain is England, Scotland, and Wales.  Which is why the full name of the UK is United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

There's also the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands.  Not sure if they count as Great Britain or not (more likely yes for the Isle of Man and no for the Channel Islands).

[JBS]

Thread duty

Screaming baby in the library who no one seems able to quiet.

[NikF4]

Prokofiev: Cinderella Suite No. 1 - Bychkov/Orchestre de Paris.

[Florestan]

Half correct.  Great Britain is England, Scotland, and Wales.  Which is why the full name of the UK is United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

There's also the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands.  Not sure if they count as Great Britain or not (more likely yes for the Isle of Man and no for the Channel Islands).

I reckon there was a time when Great Britain also implied 13 colonies across the Atlantic. 

Be it as it may, GB / UK is now only a pale and laughable shadow of her former self. Sic transit gloria mundi.

[Florestan]

Screaming baby in the library who no one seems able to quiet.

Been there, done that. 

[Kontrapunctus]

No.28. I didn't care for his clipped phrasing in the second movement; otherwise, it was pretty good.

[NikF4]

Schmitt: La Tragedie de Salome - Martinon/ORTF.

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