What are you listening to now?

[Fafner]

Good stuff, that. But I'm not sure whether it benefits any more from the noisy office than the RVW...

Indeed. Actually, I aborted that as well and I am now listening to this:

BRAHMS, J.: Symphony No. 1 / BEETHOVEN, L.: Leonore Overture No. 3 / STRAUSS, R.: Salome: Dance of the Seven Veils
Concertgebouw Orchestra, Karajan (1943)



It sounds a little more robust.

[North Star]

How do you like it?

I've heard it with three different orchestras (WPh, MPhil, NDRSO) in concert... always to great effect... but never equaled the recorded experience... which made me cry during the Ghost Variations. My Best of 2010 Top Choice. http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2010/12/best-recordings-of-2010-1.html

http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2012/01/ionarts-at-large-schumanns-ghost.html

http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2010/03/dip-your-ears-no-101.html

http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2010/08/notes-from-salzburg-festival-11.html

Hi, Jens! Your writings made me get it - and I like it very much indeed. 

[Sadko]

It's available on Spotify if you want to give it a listen, Sadko. 

Currently I'm very busy with work, I put it on my remind list.

[Karl Henning]

Mariss Jansons with Bavarian Radio SO is also great.

I do need to revisit that 'un.

What Did I Listen To Last Night?

Bruckner
Symphony № 6 in A
Cincinnati Symphony
Jesús López-Cobos

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[Sadko]

How is López-Cobos' Bruckner? I liked some of his interpretations, and I always wanted to hear some of his Bruckner.

[Karl Henning]

How is López-Cobos' Bruckner? I liked some of his interpretations, and I always wanted to hear some of his Bruckner.

I was almost hoping no one would ask : ) . . . I think it's mostly all the recordings of the Shostakovich Fourth I've been immersed in of late, which are throwing my ears' expectations off (and the wonderful Haitink account of the Bruckner Sixth which may make a punishing comparison).  I enjoyed the López-Cobos, if (for probably the reasons just detailed) it all struck me as a bit polite. I don't mean that for a final word, and the band sound very fine.  I want to go back to it when my palate is fresh, so to speak.

[jlaurson]

After a fine lunch with Mieczysław Weinberg as the topic:


W.G. Mozart
Complete Piano Concertos*
M.Uchida / J.Tate / ECO
Philips (9 CDs)
German link - UK link
* limited to Echt-Mozart for no more than one instrument

K482 & K488

Lovely in the supreme.


Now:


"Moisei Vainberg" (+ DSCH + Y.Levitine)
Cello Concerto(s)
M.Drobinsky / F.Mansurov / Russian Movie Orchestra ("State Cinematographic")
Classic TALENT
German link - UK link

[Sergeant Rock]

Haydn Symphony #6 D major "Le matin"  Hogwood conducting the AAM




Sarge

[TheGSMoeller]

I was almost hoping no one would ask : ) . . . I think it's mostly all the recordings of the Shostakovich Fourth I've been immersed in of late, which are throwing my ears' expectations off (and the wonderful Haitink account of the Bruckner Sixth which may make a punishing comparison).  I enjoyed the López-Cobos, if (for probably the reasons just detailed) it all struck me as a bit polite. I don't mean that for a final word, and the band sound very fine.  I want to go back to it when my palate is fresh, so to speak.

Polite might be a good way to reference many of Lobez-Cobos/Cin.SO recordings. But not in a negative way. I have many of their recordings that properly give justice to the music, it also helps that they had a fine group of players, especially Peter Norton on bass-trombone who could really cut through with minimal effort. Their Respighi disc with Church Windows is a fine example.

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[Karl Henning]

Thanks, Greg. For I did not mean polite as a dismissal! : )

And after the Shostakovich Fourth, practically any traditional piece will sound polite . . . .

[Karl Henning]

Дмитри Дмитриевич [ Dmitri Dmitriyevich (Shostakovich) ]
Симфония № 4 c-moll, соч. 43 [ Symphony № 4 in c minor, Opus 43 ]
Mariinka (Kirov)
Валерий Абисалович [ Valery Abisalovich (Gergiev) ]

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Better than I seemed to remember it. Still, two or three odd liberties here and there which, in my personal auditory caprices, take it out of the running ; )

[TheGSMoeller]

And after the Shostakovich Fourth, practically any traditional piece will sound polite . . . .

[Mirror Image]

How is López-Cobos' Bruckner?

Like oil and water trying to mix together. I heard his 6th a few years ago and I remember laughing at how he really has no grasp at Bruckner's idiom.

[Fafner]

HAYDN, J.: Symphony No. 96, "The Miracle" and No. 97
(Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra, Beinum) (1952)

[Karl Henning]

I've been rediscovering the Tchaikovsky symphonies for the past few days, and given my current mania for Bernstein/NY, this has lead the way.

I've not heard Lenny in these, Joe, but I certainly join you in enthusiasm for the Tchaikovsky symphonies! : )

[Brian]

Random question for anybody: MusicWeb just got a CD to review, which is called "Bartok: Trumpet Concerto, Trombone Concerto." Is my confusion justified?

[mahler10th]

Listening to the sounds of early Baroque from Venice, the time when Venice and not Vienna was the place to be if you fancied making it big in music.  Perhaps more renaissance than baroque.   
In fact, I am no longer in the mood for it at all, all this Dominus Sanctus Gloria stuff is not riding my wild horses...
Time to put on Rossini overtures or something...

Random question for anybody: MusicWeb just got a CD to review, which is called "Bartok: Trumpet Concerto, Trombone Concerto." Is my confusion justified?

No.  It is a magic instrument with super brass morphability.  Not only can it play the sounds of a trumpet and a trombone, it can also mimic the bagpipes.  It was developed in the late 1800's by Friedrich Hornblower McTavish in the Tyrol mountains, and he called his new instrument "Bartok".   

[Lisztianwagner]

Jon Leifs
Fine II

http://www.youtube.com/v/evnlQqegpiM

[TheGSMoeller]

Ben Johnston: String Quartet No. 10 (1995)
Kepler Quartet

[Fafner]

Time to put on Rossini overtures or something...

Rossini overtures are not something to frown upon.   

EDIT:

I actually fancy some Rossini myself right now: