What are you listening to now?

[North Star]

BIRTHDAY PARTY

First-ever listens to "Adagio in D minor" (1890) and string quartet in B flat (1890):

I'm planning to go all chronological, all day. 

Very nice. How far do you think you'll get?

[Karl Henning]

Well, she does alright in Beethoven, Liszt, Schumann and Stravinsky.

The last may be most helpful . . . I've been guilty of "Stravinsky tricks" lately . . . .

[Brian]

Very nice. How far do you think you'll get?

Well, we shall see. I'm going to a movie in the evening, so everything needs to be finished by 5.

I think an overview, like:
10:30 - Kullervo (1892)*
11:30 - Symphony No. 1 (1899)
12:15 - Swanwhite (1908)*
12:45 - Night Ride and Sunrise (1909)
1:15 - Voces intimae (1909)
1:45 - Luonnotar (1913)
2:00 - Symphony No. 5 (1915-19)
2:45 - Andante festivo, quartet version (1922)*
3:00 - Symphony No. 6 (1923)
3:30 - Symphony No. 7 (1924)
encore - Andante festivo, orchestra version (1938)
*will be first-ever listens for me, and Voces intimae will be a first-listen-since-college

And with time remaining, Folke Grasbeck's 2015 recital of Sibelius piano music on the Ainola piano??

[Sergeant Rock]

If there is ever a compact disc with my music, heaven help my sales if the cover should have a photograph of the composer!

I'm sure Maria could come up with an attractive and a provocative cover for your first CD, Karl. You just have to explain to the label that the music and artwork are a package deal 


Sarge

[Karl Henning]

I'm sure Maria could come up with an attractive and a provocative cover for your first CD, Karl. You just have to explain to the label that the music and artwork are a package deal 


Sarge

Just so!

[Sergeant Rock]

Sibelius En saga op.9, Ashkenazy conducting the Philharmonia




Sarge

[Brian]

I'm sure Maria could come up with an attractive and a provocative cover for your first CD, Karl. You just have to explain to the label that the music and artwork are a package deal 


Sarge

Beards are in right now!

[North Star]

Well, we shall see. I'm going to a movie in the evening, so everything needs to be finished by 5.

I think an overview, like:
10:30 - Kullervo (1892)*
11:30 - Symphony No. 1 (1899)
12:15 - Swanwhite (1908)*
12:45 - Night Ride and Sunrise (1909)
1:15 - Voces intimae (1909)
1:45 - Luonnotar (1913)
2:00 - Symphony No. 5 (1915-19)
2:45 - Andante festivo, quartet version (1922)*
3:00 - Symphony No. 6 (1923)
3:30 - Symphony No. 7 (1924)
encore - Andante festivo, orchestra version (1938)
*will be first-ever listens for me, and Voces intimae will be a first-listen-since-college

And with time remaining, Folke Grasbeck's 2015 recital of Sibelius piano music on the Ainola piano??

That's a lot of Sibelius. 
You've never heard Kullervo before? That explains why you only scheduled 60 minutes for it...


Thread duty
Sibelius
Sonata in F major, JS 178 (1889) for violin and piano
Jaakko Kuusisto
Folke Gräsbeck

[Todd]

How do you like this as compared with the famed Richter recording?

I assume you mean the '58 Sofia recital, in which case I prefer Kissin.  But then, I've never really warmed to the '58 recital.  Can't put my finger on it.  Sometimes I love Richter, sometimes not so much.

[Marsch MacFiercesome]

I have heard other similar opinions of those Oramo recordings. I'm sure he has improved a lot since then, but I'm not keen to hear the oldies. As for Mattila, well, she's no Soile Isokoski or Helena Juntunen, both do better in the work IIRC.

(I don't see any reason not to translate 'saari' to 'the island', BTW)

What 'would you' translate "Saari" to then? . . .

As far as Oramo's Sibelius goes, I think his virile and slightly-aggressive Third on Warner with Birmingham is great- as is his Pohjola's Daughter, which has an animating drive which I haven't heard anywhere else (aside from the old monaural Koussevitsky/Boston recording, which is shrill and austere sounding)- and is my all-time favorite.

He did a live Sibelius Fifth with the VPO that has a lot of elan vital to it- especially in the first movement- although I prefer the caressing contours of the 1960 Karajan/Philharmonia even more, as it has the same amount of energy to it- but with a more beautifully-balanced phrasing to it.

[Florestan]

From the big Heifetz box.

Sibelius, what else? 

[North Star]

What 'would you' translate "Saari" to then? . . .

I would translate "Lemminkäinen ja saaren neidot" as "Lemminkäinen and the maidens of the island".

[Brian]

You've never heard Kullervo before? That explains why you only scheduled 60 minutes for it...

Uh-oh.


EDIT: Here goes nothing!

[Sergeant Rock]

Sibelius Symphony No.7, Szell conducting the Cleveland, recorded live in Helsinki 1965




Sarge

[Marsch MacFiercesome]

I would translate "Lemminkäinen ja saaren neidot" as "Lemminkäinen and the maidens of the island".

Got'cha.

- I'll add that to my conversational Rolodex.

Thanks.

[North Star]

Your welcome, Marsch.


Sibelius
Four Pieces, Op. 78
Sonatina in E major, Op. 80
Nils-Erik Sparf (vn) & Bengt Forsberg (pf)

[Sergeant Rock]

Sibelius Valse triste op.44 and Tapiola op.112, Karajan conducting the Berlin Phil




Sarge

[Brian]

Uh-oh.


EDIT: Here goes nothing!

Dude, this music is super awesome! And I like it way better than Lemminkainen.

[GuybrushThreepwood]

So little Sibelius in my collection makes me feel sad, so sad I will have to expand the collections. 101 Sibelius recommendations?

[Sergeant Rock]

Dude, this music is super awesome!

Thank god. I can breathe again 

Sarge