What are you listening to now?

[Karl Henning]

Handel
Music for the Royal Fireworks, HWV 351
François Paillard & Orchestre de Chambre

[Mandryka]

Struck me as majorly MEH... but odd? Will check as I go through a whole Mozart stack...

Meh is an american word, right? Can you translate it into English for me? Is meh good or bad?  What is meh, the sound or the performance? Is it meh everywhere, or are there just pockets of mehness?

[Karl Henning]

Meh is an american word, right? Can you translate it into English for me?

Perhaps W.H. Auden could translate it for you.  (I took it for a Yiddish interjection, actually.)

[Brian]

Is meh good or bad?

No. Exactly in the middle.
"Indifference; to be used when one simply does not care."
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=meh

[Parsifal]

I have to explicitly remind myself I do not need every recording of this music ever made.  Will go back to Podger, maybe the first Milstein next.

[Karl Henning]

Venetian Wednesday

“Il prete rosso”
Concerto in a minor for Vc & strings, RV 421
Roel Dieltiens & Ensemble Explorations

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[Karl Henning]

Venetian Wednesday

“Il prete rosso”
Concerto in F for Vc & strings, RV 411
Concerto in d minor for Vc & strings, RV 407
Roel Dieltiens & Ensemble Explorations

[asin]B00AANRD0C[/asin]

[Mandryka]

I have to explicitly remind myself I do not need every recording of this music ever made.  Will go back to Podger, maybe the first Milstein next.

See what you think of this chaconne, live from Oleg Kogan just before he died

http://www.youtube.com/v/zyDDI1UYf2M

Or this straightforward one, which is somehow very eloquent I think, from Felix Ayo

http://www.youtube.com/v/Wf_q32OQiA4

[Karl Henning]

Well, as long as it was before he died, yes, it was live. (j/k)

[Karl Henning]

Venetian Wednesday

“Il prete rosso”
Concerto in F for Vc & strings, RV 411
Concerto in d minor for Vc & strings, RV 407
Roel Dieltiens & Ensemble Explorations

[asin]B00AANRD0C[/asin]

The d minor concerto (not surprising to any Spinal Tap fans) is particularly rockin'.

[bhodges]

The Opera Gala: Live from Baden-Baden (2008, DVD) - Sometimes these affairs can seem a little lightweight, but this one has some genuinely fine singing, especially from Ramón Vargas - what a voice.

[asin]B000UPSKO8[/asin]

--Bruce

[Brahmsian]

The Opera Gala: Live from Baden-Baden (2008, DVD) - Sometimes these affairs can seem a little lightweight, but this one has some genuinely fine singing, especially from Ramón Vargas - what a voice.

[asin]B000UPSKO8[/asin]

--Bruce

Hi Bruce, I agree regarding Ramón Vargas.  Amazing voice.  He was incredible in the Tchaikovsky Eugene Onegin production (with Fleming and Hvorostovsky) DVD.

[bhodges]

Hi Bruce, I agree regarding Ramón Vargas.  Amazing voice.  He was incredible in the Tchaikovsky Eugene Onegin production (with Fleming and Hvorostovsky) DVD.

Yes, yes, yes! I also love his recording of Verdi arias (Amazon has no photo, alas) and checking his discography, there are a few others I don't think I've heard, either.

--Bruce

[Parsifal]

See what you think of this chaconne, live from Oleg Kogan just before he died

http://www.youtube.com/v/zyDDI1UYf2M

If that' the live recording from the Concertgebouw, I have it on CD, but it hasn't had its turn in the player yet.  Judging from the youtube, I'm glad I bought it.  It gives the impression of being very deeply felt.

[Sergeant Rock]

Schnittke Requiem




Sarge

[North Star]

Perhaps W.H. Auden could translate it for you.  (I took it for a Yiddish interjection, actually.)

Most interesting, thanks for sharing, Karl!

Schnittke Requiem

Sarge

Pounds the table!!!
That's a wonderful work, Sarge!

Thread duty:
Copland
Appalachian Spring (original version)
Copland

[Brian]

First Listen to a GMG favorite!!

[stingo]

First listen

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[mahler10th]

Playing a list of just some of my favourite short pieces.

[North Star]

Playing a list of just some of my favourite short pieces.

But Prokofiev's Romeo & Juliet is well over 2 hours! 
Is that a suite or what?

Thread duty

Ives
Songs
Hampson & MTT, SFSO