What are you listening to now?

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Ken B

Quote from: karlhenning on June 04, 2014, 10:17:12 AM
Quote from: karlhenning on June 04, 2014, 09:36:33 AM
“Papa”
Symphony № 50 in C (H.I/50)
AAM
Hogwood


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"Papa"
Symphony № 59 in A « Fuego » (H.I/59)
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Hogwood


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As a former math teacher: You lose marks for skipping steps.

Karl Henning

When hopping around the Haydn symphonies, one never loses!
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

EigenUser

Quote from: Ken B on June 04, 2014, 10:19:22 AM

As a former math teacher: You lose marks for skipping steps.
Quote from: karlhenning on June 04, 2014, 10:21:34 AM
When hopping around the Haydn symphonies, one never loses!
Yeah, but you copied from the solutions manual. >:(

Currently, Boulez "Derive I". God, I love this piece. I wish that I could find more Boulez like it. I'm re-playing it.
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Beethoven's Op. 133 -- A fugue so bad that even Beethoven himself called it "Grosse".

king ubu

The Mozart (plus) disc by Hilde Gueden from Decca's Most Wanted Recitals series - contains these three albums:



Es wollt ein meydlein grasen gan:
Fick mich, lieber Peter!
Und do die roten röslein stan:
Fick mich, lieber Peter!
Fick mich mehr, du hast dein ehr.
Kannstu nit, ich wills dich lern.
Fick mich, lieber Peter!

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Mandryka

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Jean-Charles Ablitzer plays some music by Scheidemann. I don't find myself very moved by what he does, and the performances don't seem specially imaginative. I prefer how William Porter or Leo van Doesselar take the same music. Or, in the case of the one piece he hasn't recorded, Sebastian Knebel.
Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muss man schweigen

Sergeant Rock

Berwald Overture to Estrella de Soria and Symphony No.1 G minor "Sinfonie serieuse"




Sarge
the phone rings and somebody says,
"hey, they made a movie about
Mahler, you ought to go see it.
he was as f*cked-up as you are."
                               --Charles Bukowski, "Mahler"

Ken B

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Beethoven, PC 4
Wilhelm Backhaus
Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt
Wiener Philharmoniker



Update: This was my first Beethoven recording, still my fave. I like the piano, and I doubt it's a steinway. Bosendorfer? Something else?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JSN7Oo1_x0

Updater: Backhaus I learn had a strong preference for Bechsteins.

Sergeant Rock

the phone rings and somebody says,
"hey, they made a movie about
Mahler, you ought to go see it.
he was as f*cked-up as you are."
                               --Charles Bukowski, "Mahler"

Papy Oli

Received the Svetlanov cycle today. starting with the M2, what else !  :)

Olivier

Ken B

Quote from: Sergeant Rock on June 04, 2014, 12:00:20 PM
Are you asleep yet, Karl?  ;D


Sarge
Are you calling Hoggy Haydn boring Sarge??


ritter

The sound of the 1892 Érard piano requires some getting used to, but this recital of late Debussy pieces (including the Twelve Études) and homages by other composers to "Claude de France" published by La Revue Musicale in 1920 (including a fragment from Stravinsky's Symphonies for wind instruments on the piano) is superb!

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Ken B


André

Liping Zhang, soprano. Recital on EMI. Purportedly of Puccini, Verddi, Bellini and Donizetti. Don't bother.

Beethoven: symphonies 3, 4 and 8. Bruno Walter and the Columbia Symphony.  No 3 sounds massive, urgent yet a bit tired. 4 and 8 are among the best and surtout, the most characterful I have heard. It should be noted that the ColSO at that time was a pick up band made up of members of van Beinum's LA Phil and professional players from the Hollywood studios, some of whom were (pre-1938) members of german, austrian and hungarian orchestras. Beautiful sound. The band must have beeen about 60-strong, an ideal number for Beethoven.

Vivaldi: Orlando furioso (3 well-crammed discs set, Naïve). Lemieux, Jaroussky, Larmore etc. Nice work, lots of verbose recitativàes, followed by florid arias. Few set pieces or ensembles. I found Jaroussky to be the most interesting singer of the set.


EigenUser

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Stockhausen "Cosmic Pulses"
This is actually quite interesting to listen to. To me it is sound, but cool sound. It doesn't have that "fart-y" sound that I usually associate with electronic music (sorry snyprrr, I didn't mean to steal that adjective :-\). Very driving, in fact.


EDIT: A return to normalcy and double mensuration canons (you had to read that word twice, didn't you? :laugh: ;))
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Beethoven's Op. 133 -- A fugue so bad that even Beethoven himself called it "Grosse".

Ken B

#25154
Sibelius 6
Petri Sakari, Iceland Symphony Orchestra

Update: Outstanding performance and recording.

Updater: Now 7 from the same crew. So far also excellent.

Artem

First listen. This music reminds me of Feldman.
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ZauberdrachenNr.7

Nice avatar ya' got there, Ken!  I taut I taw a puddy tat.  I hope it's a puddy tat.


Mookalafalas

From the Baroque Masterpieces box (so, not $300 for one disc)
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It's all good...

Ken B

Threnody for Carlos Chavez, by Lou Harrison. Spotify.

Moonfish

CPE Bach: The Complete Works for Piano Solo    Markovina

cd 25 from:
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Marais/ Du Buisson/ Demachy / Sainte -Colombe         Ricercar Consort
Excellent (if you like Marias type of music in a HIP performance)

cd 1 from
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