What are you listening to now?

[Mirror Image]

Duly noted, Que.

- I'm a-orderin'-it.

Have you heard the Sinaisky recording on Chandos, Blair? My vote for the all-around best Liadov orchestral recording.

[North Star]

Ha.  Ha.  Ha.  Ha.  Ha.

One Vanska to fool them all,
One Vanska to thrall them,
One Vanska to string them all,
And with his artlessness bind them.

You stick to those cocktail interpretations, and I'll have my pure cold water Sibelius from Vänskä. 

[aligreto]

Vivaldi: La verita in cimento [highlights]....

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

VW Symphony # 7.  Freezing my buttuski off listening to this.  Unfortunately, recently finished reading Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness several days ago; that's not helping.

[Que]

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A "guilty pleasure", as the Amazon review aptly point out....
But a highly delectable one!

Q

[North Star]

Sibelius
Tapiola, Op. 112
Oceanides, Op. 73
Berglund & Helsinki Phil

[mc ukrneal]

You're so far ahead of me in all things Schwarzkopf.

I can't wait to hear this.

But this is even new to 'Greg Mitchell'- so I don't feel 'that guilty.' Ha.  Ha.  Ha. Ha.

I can second these - excellent performances. Schwarzkopf is sublime. DFD strikes me as a bit more declamatory (yet, always polished and sings with great warmth). They can be had in a separate double disc:

[Sadko]

Puccini

Butterfly

Callas, Gedda, Danielli
La Scala Orchestra
Karajan

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[Mirror Image]

You stick to those cocktail interpretations, and I'll have my pure cold water Sibelius from Vänskä. 

+1

[NikF]

Chopin: Piano Concerto 1 - Pollini/Kletzki/Philharmonia.

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[Mandryka]

Beauty Farm sing some of Nicolas Gombert's motets, CD 1 in fact.  The recording is close and the bass is prominent; the sound is rich and deep, suave; they sing forth with gusto, in an extrovert way; the overall impression is that the Marian motets are charged, wired, intense.   

The booklet says that they have created new  editions of  the music for the CD, and that these are responsible for the distinctive darkness and complexity of their interpretations. They also claim that the editions add accidentals to enhance the music/text relation. I still haven't paid attention to the text to see how sensitive they really are to meaning, I may do that tomorrow if I have time.

[Marsch MacFiercesome]

Have you heard the Sinaisky recording on Chandos, Blair? My vote for the all-around best Liadov orchestral recording.

I'm 'bleached-platinum-blonde, glazed-doughnut-facial-expression, deer-in-the-headlights' on that one, Mirror-y.

Yet another recording I'd like to hear.

In fact, the only thing I can recall having by Sinaisky is his Schrecker cd on Chandos. I might have others- but that's the only one that immediately comes to mind. . .

But you'd take Sinaisky's reading over Evegny-ovitch's?

I just love Svetlanov's whiplash sense of rhythm and his gorgeous musical line- 'so' stylish.

[Marsch MacFiercesome]

Puccini

Butterfly

Callas, Gedda, Danielli
La Scala Orchestra
Karajan

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^ I 'worship' that recording.

That is to say, if I can pick up my 'quivering-and-emotionally-devastated-self' after hearing it.

[Dancing Divertimentian]

Ha.  Ha.  Ha.  Ha.  Ha.

One Vanska to fool them all,
One Vanska to thrall them,
One Vanska to string them all,
And with his artlessness bind them.

I see Blair is having another breakdown...

[SimonNZ]

This superb disc starts with a most frolicsome and insouciant Die Forelle and ends with a truly demonic Erlkonig that sent shivers down my spine.

One of the finest Schubert lieder discs. Or rather: one of the finest anything discs by any composer.


playing now, on the radio:



Hummel's Trumpet Concerto - Håkan Hardenberger, trumpet, Neville Marriner, cond.

[Marsch MacFiercesome]

I can second these - excellent performances. Schwarzkopf is sublime. DFD strikes me as a bit more declamatory (yet, always polished and sings with great warmth). They can be had in a separate double disc:

<high-five dance>

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fA1T26k081E

(0:50+)

[Brian]

I see Blair is having another breakdown...

If these are breakdowns, they're the most harmless breakdowns on GMG!

I'm curious if MMF has a giant directory of all these actor pictures.

[Dancing Divertimentian]

If these are breakdowns, they're the most harmless breakdowns on GMG!

Yes, only juuuussstt missing the frisson of real television...

[North Star]

Stravinsky
Apollo
LSO
Craft

Sibelius
The Tempest
Lahti
Vänskä

'One Vänskä to Rule them all', or what was it, Marsch?
https://www.youtube.com/v/VPrDP0e3edU

[Marsch MacFiercesome]

I see Blair is having another breakdown...

I call it 'performance art,' myself.

At least when my friends have to pull me off of the restaurant table while I'm lip-sync-ing "Dancing Queen."



Sibelius VI time.