What are you listening to now?

[SimonNZ]

Pray tell, where does it go?    Greg Mitchell (under a different name) has been an obvious Callas fan(atic), posting insightful and interesting thoughts on his favorite singer, for at least nine years here. So far there have been no negative consequences. I don't know what happened at TC but here we're usually more civilized and open-minded    I cannot understand why a couple of Callas champions would make you leave a group. Care to explain? (Personally, in the great Tebaldi vs Callas debate, I side with the pretty voice  ...but I certainly respect Callas' artistry.)

Sarge

Answered by PM, Sarge.


playing now:



Barsanti Concerti Grossi - Banchetto Musicale

[aligreto]

Dvorak: Slavonic Dances....

[Sergeant Rock]

Answered by PM, Sarge.

Got it. Thanks.

Sarge

[Todd]

The second volume of the Carnegie recital.  A bold, big Third Sonata paired with a healthy selection of surprisingly nuanced Mazurkas.

[Mookalafalas]

Rachmaninoff The Isle of the Dead, Ashkenazy conduring the Concertgebouw


Sarge

Hi, Sarge, Nice to see you back .  I was afraid you were MIA.

TD.
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Rachmaninoff The Isle of the Dead, Ashkenazy conduring the Concertgebouw




Sarge

Wonder work, wonderful performance. Cheers, Sarge!

[SimonNZ]

Dzhabrail Haupa's Symphony No.3 "Crying Over Water" - Michail Golikov, cond.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnsPA7ylzOg

[listener]

Kurt WEILL: Der Kuhhandel  (Arms and the Cow)
Vienna Volksoper production on DVD
An arms dealer, simple country couple, 'Ruritania' and Kurt Weill - the combo sounds predictable to someone who went through the art films period with a bunch of lefties for whom a foreclosed mortgage and evil landowner were de rigeur for Significance.
Listening to a cd version at least spared you the effect of a close-up view of singers projecting in a stage performance.
It's not objectionable and a lot of people will like this, I'm just too old now and this is too familiar.

[Wanderer]

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[The new erato]

Kurt WEILL: Der Kuhhandel  (Arms and the Cow)
Vienna Volksoper production on DVD
An arms dealer, simple country couple, 'Ruritania' and Kurt Weill - the combo sounds predictable to someone who went through the art films period with a bunch of lefties for whom a foreclosed mortgage and evil landowner were de rigeur for Significance.
Listening to a cd version at least spared you the effect of a close-up view of singers projecting in a stage performance.
It's not objectionable and a lot of people will like this, I'm just too old now and this is too familiar.

And the music? 

[Florestan]

CD 2 Hummel, Dussek, Onslow

[king ubu]

first spin, sounds wonderful:

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[Tsaraslondon]

Pray tell, where does it go?    Greg Mitchell (under a different name) has been an obvious Callas fan(atic), posting insightful and interesting thoughts on his favorite singer, for at least nine years here. So far there have been no negative consequences. I don't know what happened at TC but here we're usually more civilized and open-minded    I cannot understand why a couple of Callas champions would make you leave a group. Care to explain? (Personally, in the great Tebaldi vs Callas debate, I side with the pretty voice  ...but I certainly respect Callas' artistry.)

Sarge

Thanks, Sarge. My thoughts exactly.

Incidentally, though I obviously side with the Callas drama, I have a lot of admiration for Tebaldi. There aren't many (any?) voices like hers around today, and, in Verdi at least, they are sorely missed.

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

A wonderful friend of mine sent me this recording recently, so I've just started listening to it, starting at no. 1!



I'm loving the sound on this one. And I think Solti gets the strings to play measured tremolos at the start of the 7th, which makes this recording sooo much more awesome than most! Epiiiiic

[listener]

And the music? 

re Kuhhandel
like uninspired outtakes from Mahagonney, predictable if you've been exposed to enough of his stage music.
Confession: I had to discontinue part way through, I'm on a strong medication for gout, will resume in the morning and add:
MILHAUD: Symphoniette for Strings, Cortège funèbre and Concerto for Marimba and Vibraphone and Orch., RADANOVICS: Introversion
Nebojša Jovan Živkovič, marimba/vibraphone  Austrian Chamber Orch.  Ernst Theis, cond.

[The new erato]

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This is a very fine work, conforming my already high opinion of Caldara. The recording is sumptuos, the MI ensemble plays wonderfully (and I don't miss gut strings one bit), a couple of the singers occasionally overdoes the vibrato without seriously hindering my enjoyment, in all -very fine!

[The new erato]

  re Kuhhandel
like uninspired outtakes from Mahagonney, predictable if you've been exposed to enough of his stage music.
Confession: I had to discontinue part way through, I'm on a strong medication for gout, will resume in the morning and add:

I find the Capriccio version of ths pretty spirited and more "operetta" kind of fun (I'm pretty sure this was meant as a lighthearted work) than a serious political piece.

However; wish you a speeedy recovery!

[Harry]

After an initial listen to disc one, I thought the various works sounded somewhat samey. Which however doesn't mean the individual works aren't very fine, or that the singing is less than wonderful. Sampled one or two at a time, this is very good.

I played all the discs in one go, and wished there was even more of it. Sameness? For me, not at all.  So I played the Petrarca Madrigals afterwards, they are probably more to your liking.

[The new erato]

I played all the discs in one go, and wished there was even more of it. Sameness? For me, not at all.  So I played the Petrarca Madrigals afterwards, they are probably more to your liking.

They are more varied indeed, that is in the nature of a madrigal I think.

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

Derives. Two beautiful pieces of music I surely can't live without. <3