What are you listening to now?

[aligreto]

Benedetto Marcello: Concertos Op. 1 Nos. 1-6....

[Karl Henning]

I can't help but love that when I first heard Sound Fields, a 99-year-old composer pulled the rug out from under my ears by having me fail to notice that it ends on a major triad.

Creating a musical context in which a consonance sounds funny.

[Tsaraslondon]

CD1.
Oboe concerto
Tuba concerto
Sinfonia antartica

The lovely Oboe concerto has Barbirolli's wife, Evelyn Rothwell as soloist, and the tuba concerto Philip Catelinet.

Limited mono sound, but excellent performances, especially the Sinfonia antartica, which is one of the most viscerally thrilling in the catalogue.

[Todd]

[Marsch MacFiercesome]

Now:





A scintillating performance.

Sinopoli's treatment of the music for the wind rushing up the face of the summit is positively 'MON-U-MEN-TAL.'

[Marsch MacFiercesome]

CD1.
Oboe concerto
Tuba concerto
Sinfonia antartica

The lovely Oboe concerto has Barbirolli's wife, Evelyn Rothwell as soloist, and the tuba concerto Philip Catelinet.

Limited mono sound, but excellent performances, especially the Sinfonia antartica, which is one of the most viscerally thrilling in the catalogue.

Absolutely.

Barbirolli's first and third movements of the Sinfonia Antarctica are terrifyingly and atmospherically awesome.

- Talk about someone who should have scored the Revenant. 

[Karl Henning]

Kernis
Musica celestis
Truls Mørk, vc
Minnesota Orchestra
Eiji Oue

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[Tsaraslondon]

Performances from the archives.

Schwarzkopf gets the lion's share of the DVD, and also makes the greatest impression, with a couple of songs with piano (Gerald Moore) and five more with orchestra (Berislav Klobucar). This is followed by a fully staged final scene from Der Rosenkavalier, from the Marschallin's solo through the duet with Octavian to the end of the act. Hertha Topper, the Octavian, is fine enough, but nowhere near Schwarzkopf's exalted level, and her intonation is occasionally suspect, contrasting with Schwarzkopf's precision. Both in terms of acting and singing, I never expect to see a more perfect Marschallin than Schwarzkopf. You feel she understands every fleeting emotion, every nuance. This is truly great interpretation, and I found it impossible not to shed a tear.

For the rest, Rita Streich gives us a charming rendition of Schlechtes Wetter and Irmgard Seefried sings five songs with orchestra. Two of them (Morgen and Zueignung) are also sung by Schwarzkopf, and one notices immediately something more specific in Schwarzkopf's art. Seefried's Morgen doesn't quite have that sense of inner rapture we hear in the Schwarzkopf performance. However there is something refreshingly direct about her singing, and she ends with a lovely, radiant performance of Standchen.

Aside from the two Schwarzkopf songs with piano, taped in 1970, these are all in black and white, and picture quality and sound are as one would expect for their period (the 1960s). This should not put anyone off seeing this historic document.

[North Star]

Test-drive Tuesday
Kernis
Musica celestis
Ensemble Symphonique Neuchâtel
Alexander Mayer
https://www.youtube.com/v/iS1d7s4YoAQ

[71 dB]

Louis-Nicolas Clérambault. Such an underrated composer.

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[Marsch MacFiercesome]

Kernis
Musica celestis
Truls Mørk, vc
Minnesota Orchestra
Eiji Oue

[asin]B00D7D3OIM[/asin]

I really like (one of) Mørk's Haydn Cello Concertos on Virgin- I forget if its the first or the second. Delightful first movement of whichever one it was.

[Marsch MacFiercesome]

Performances from the archives.

Schwarzkopf gets the lion's share of the DVD, and also makes the greatest impression, with a couple of songs with piano (Gerald Moore) and five more with orchestra (Berislav Klobucar). This is followed by a fully staged final scene from Der Rosenkavalier, from the Marschallin's solo through the duet with Octavian to the end of the act. Hertha Topper, the Octavian, is fine enough, but nowhere near Schwarzkopf's exalted level, and her intonation is occasionally suspect, contrasting with Schwarzkopf's precision. Both in terms of acting and singing, I never expect to see a more perfect Marschallin than Schwarzkopf. You feel she understands every fleeting emotion, every nuance. This is truly great interpretation, and I found it impossible not to shed a tear.

For the rest, Rita Streich gives us a charming rendition of Schlechtes Wetter and Irmgard Seefried sings five songs with orchestra. Two of them (Morgen and Zueignung) are also sung by Schwarzkopf, and one notices immediately something more specific in Schwarzkopf's art. Seefried's Morgen doesn't quite have that sense of inner rapture we hear in the Schwarzkopf performance. However there is something refreshingly direct about her singing, and she ends with a lovely, radiant performance of Standchen.

Aside from the two Schwarzkopf songs with piano, taped in 1970, these are all in black and white, and picture quality and sound are as one would expect for their period (the 1960s). This should not put anyone off seeing this historic document.

Beautiful breakdown, Greg. I'm definitely getting this.

Schwarzkopfiana and Marschalliana for-EV-a!

[Tsaraslondon]

Beautiful breakdown, Greg. I'm definitely getting this.

Schwarzkopfiana and Marschalliana for-EV-a!

I'm surprised you don't have it already.

[Marsch MacFiercesome]

I'm surprised you don't have it already.

I am too.

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[SimonNZ]

on the radio:

Beethoven's String Quartet Op.135 - Takacs Quartet

[Papy Oli]

1st listen to this version, hat tip to Sarge.

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[Brian]

After a day spent trying to find any good music among the works of Reger and Tubin, I desperately, badly needed to listen to some GREAT music.



3 + 4

EDIT: Stopped Kubelik and switched to Levine. I needed more fire and brimstone.

[Karl Henning]

Test-drive Tuesday
Kernis
Musica celestis
Ensemble Symphonique Neuchâtel
Alexander Mayer
https://www.youtube.com/v/iS1d7s4YoAQ

An exquisite piece, is it not, Karlo?

[North Star]

An exquisite piece, is it not, Karlo?

Yes indeed, Karl, I liked it very much.

[Marsch MacFiercesome]

Has anyone ever seen a cd incarnation of this incandescent live 1981 Tennstedt/Minnesota Symphony Orchestra Mahler's Third?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOmoUR8Yr00