What are you listening to now?

[SimonNZ]

on the radio:

Tavener's The Protecting Veil - I Fiamminghi

[Marsch MacFiercesome]

Stravinsky
Apollo
LSO
Craft

Sibelius
The Tempest
Lahti
Vänskä



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

You can have your Vanska, North Star. I love that it makes you happy- and I love that you love Sibelius.

Its just not 'Blair-Level' Sibelius.

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[Marsch MacFiercesome]

Wow, I had been wanting to comment that I thought she looked like Blair from The Facts of Life. 

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Point: Chamber Nut.

[Dancing Divertimentian]

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."

Lip-syncing? Bite your tongue...(no pun intended).

[Marsch MacFiercesome]

Lip-syncing? Bite your tongue...(no pun intended).

Well, my Bach is worse than my bite.

Besides, its the job of others to be witty, and clever, and to entertain me.

My job is just to be gorgeous.

[aligreto]

Schubert: Die Winterreise [Schreier/Schiff]....

[ritter]

From the big Stravinsky box:



This is the first of Stravinsky's two recordings of Perséphone, from 1957 (not previously transferred to CD AFAIK). It was released on LP in mono only, and  according to the booklet it is offered here in a stereo version never previously available.

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[Marsch MacFiercesome]

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.

- as many as I can get my manicured hands on.

I just wish the first four seasons of the Facts of Life would come out on Blu-ray.

[North Star]

You can have your Vanska, North Star. ... and I love that you love Sibelius.

Right back at you.

Thread duty - happy 150th birthday

Sibelius
Valse triste
Helsinki Philharmonic
Paavo Berglund

Andante festivo
Finnish RSO
Sibelius (New Year's Eve Radio Broadcast, 1939)
https://www.youtube.com/v/vgXI8tnibmI

[Sergeant Rock]

Thread duty - happy 150th birthday

I can't start celebrating for another forty minutes.

Sarge

[North Star]

I can't start celebrating for another forty minutes.

Sarge

He wasn't born in your timezone, you know.  0:)

[SimonNZ]

on the radio:

Balakirev's Symphony No 1 - James Loughran, cond.

[Dancing Divertimentian]

Well, my Bach is worse than my bite.

Besides, its the job of others to be witty, and clever, and to entertain me.

My job is just to be gorgeous.

I envy you your position...I think...

[Henk]

Some Palestrina. Brilliant Classics box set.

[ritter]

Well, Perséphone is definetely not one of my favourite works by Stravinsky (and this listen hasn't helped improve my opnion of the piece  )...so, I've now jumped to one of my all-time favourites, Agon  :

[Tsaraslondon]

Puccini

Butterfly

Callas, Gedda, Danielli
La Scala Orchestra
Karajan

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The most shattering recording of Madama Butterfly ever put on disc, its peroration almost too painful to listen to.

The recent Warner transfer is quite an improvement on all those that went before.

[Mirror Image]

Now:



Listening to 2 Pieces, Op. 6. Great stuff.

[Marsch MacFiercesome]

The most shattering recording of Madama Butterfly ever put on disc, its peroration almost too painful to listen to.

The recent Warner transfer is quite an improvement on all those that went before.

. . . quite an improvement on everything. . . . . . . except for the cover.

[Todd]

From the big box.  Revisiting one of my favorite Pictures.  The Glinka/Balakirev and Bach/Busoni are superb, too.

[SimonNZ]

Henze's "Elogium Musicum" for choir & orchestra - Riccardo Chailly, cond.

Live: April 21, 2013, Concertgebouw, Amsterdam

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBS83kf14Dk