What are you listening to now?

[knight66]

The sound is a bit rough, the label is defunct; Ponto. I also got the Scottish Opera Cosi Fan Tutti with Baker and Gibson. They advertised that they had melded two different performances of The Trojans with Baker as Cassandra AND Dido....but right then, they went out of business. A major bummer.

Mike

[knight66]

Thanks so much for the courteous regard, Mike- I definitely will. . . and if I really like it, I will, no doubt, collapse into an ecstasy of appreciation. . .

How did Gibson build up those Alps-like Bruckner climaxes? Which symphonies did you hear him do?


P

We are going back a very long time; over 40 years. I heard the 4th and the 9th. I was in the Te Deum which was being used as a '4th' movement and I had never heard the 9th before. I was sitting on the backstage platform listening to it. The hall was undersized for the piece. Even behind the organ screen it was a stunning pile-up opf sound, awesome. I felt the lower string sound travel up through the wooden platform and through me. We then provided an aural assault with the Te Deum.

Mike

[Marsch MacFiercesome]

Move over, Metallica. Sit down, Slayer.

Ecco La Diosa!


This has to be the most incandescent singing I've ever heard- probably that's why I'm so perennially fixated on it. Ha.  Ha.  Ha.  Ha.

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





"She witch who burn you by standing there."

- Renata Scotto

http://www.gramilano.com/2013/12/renata-scotto-maria-callas-greater-us/

[Marsch MacFiercesome]

We are going back a very long time; over 40 years. I heard the 4th and the 9th. I was in the Te Deum which was being used as a '4th' movement and I had never heard the 9th before. I was sitting on the backstage platform listening to it. The hall was undersized for the piece. Even behind the organ screen it was a stunning pile-up opf sound, awesome. I felt the lower string sound travel up through the wooden platform and through me. We then provided an aural assault with the Te Deum.

Mike

'The earth-quaking footprint' of live Bruckner with a good conductor- God, I 'live' for that stuff. Awesome, Mike.

[Marsch MacFiercesome]

The sound is a bit rough, the label is defunct; Ponto. I also got the Scottish Opera Cosi Fan Tutti with Baker and Gibson. They advertised that they had melded two different performances of The Trojans with Baker as Cassandra AND Dido....but right then, they went out of business. A major bummer.

Mike

I'll look for both of them, merci beaucoup on that. . .

Yeah, why couldn't have Colin Davis just have been ten years older and have done Troyens with a very young Baker as Cassandra and with La Callas as Dido in Her prime?- Shame on him for not having the good grace to choose older parents before he was born.

Paradise Lost on that one. Ha. Ha.  Ha. Ha.

(I'm pretending to laugh. I'm actually crying.)

[SonicMan46]

Some very pleasant music by a composer of whom is said that he was as good as Haydn.....

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2016/02/pleyel-ignaz-josef-1757-1831-symphonies.html?spref=tw

Hi Harry - I have about 10 CDs of Pleyel's music, both chamber & orchestral - he was certainly quite prolific and popular in the early 1800s - the offering you discuss is shown below, first image - the price was quite good on Amazon USA for 2-discs but then reading further there is only 80 minutes of music available - so now not as interested - 

BUT, as I was perusing the composer on Amazon noticed nearly 20 offerings by Ars Produktion - some shown below in the second pic - now I do own one of those volumes (#15), i.e. String Quintets w/ the Janáček Quartet + one; much of the orchestral volumes are performed by a group called the Camerata Pro Musica - just curious if you or others have any comments on these CDs from this company and orchestra - thanks.  Dave

 

[knight66]

I'll look for both of them, merci beaucoup on that. . .

Yeah, why couldn't have Colin Davis just have been ten years older and have done Troyens with a very young Baker as Cassandra and with La Callas as Dido in Her prime?- Shame on him for not having the good grace to choose older parents before he was born.

Paradise Lost on that one. Ha. Ha.  Ha. Ha.

(I'm pretending to laugh. I'm actually crying.)

I went to an Edinburgh Festival performance of the opera with Baker. I attended the pre-theatre lecture by somne ancient French woman who taked ONLY and for ages, about what it would have been like had Callas been around to sing it....she was rude to offhand about Baker. All a tinsy bit pointless. I learned nothing about the opera.

There is a live relay from Covent Garden with Baker/Vickers/Davis available in poor sound from somewhere in the US called something like Opera House. But the seller manages to reverse the order of some scenes.....

Mike

[NikF]

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

^Cute as a button- music, costume, and choreography.

I'll have to remember that tennis move from 01:23-01:25- but to really turn heads, you have to do it at work, when its completely unexpected. Ha.  Ha.   Ha. 

I love the Louise-Brooks-type of tennis outfit too.

Yeah. Good stuff. 

Perhaps you're already aware of it, but 'The Match' is in a similar vein. I don't know how to embed video, but it can be viewed here http://youtu.be/vkKQ9_L9PVc - this is is the version featuring the great Ekaterina Maximova and her husband. 
There's also a more recent performance with Osipova - https://youtu.be/3u34pqrxVe4

On (listening) topic...
The Art Of The Prima Ballerina: Bonynge/London Symphony Orchestra.

My girlfriend has developed an interest in ballet (including taking one of those leisure ballet lesson evening classes) and enjoyed 'The Fairy Doll' by Bayer. Unfortunately the music from the pas de trois wasn't on the Naxos CD, however forum member pjme kindly identified the piece and we found where she could buy it -

[asin]B00E2276X6[/asin]

edit:  Lezhnina as the fairy doll  http://youtu.be/OSH7E5tSi_A

[Marsch MacFiercesome]

I went to an Edinburgh Festival performance of the opera with Baker. I attended the pre-theatre lecture by somne ancient French woman who taked ONLY and for ages, about what it would have been like had Callas been around to sing it....she was rude to offhand about Baker. All a tinsy bit pointless. I learned nothing about the opera.

There is a live relay from Covent Garden with Baker/Vickers/Davis available in poor sound from somewhere in the US called something like Opera House. But the seller manages to reverse the order of some scenes.....

Mike

An absolutely inexcusable and unspeakable discourtesy afforded to Dame Janet- I mean, I have my Mariolatry 'afflictions,' but even I have my limits to the Callas gush. . . .

Thanks for the Opera House reference.

[Todd]

Disc 10.  Proper Beethoven and Schubert works for violin and piano.

[Marsch MacFiercesome]

Yeah. Good stuff. 

Perhaps you're already aware of it, but 'The Match' is in a similar vein. I don't know how to embed video, but it can be viewed here http://youtu.be/vkKQ9_L9PVc - this is is the version featuring the great Ekaterina Maximova and her husband. 
There's also a more recent performance with Osipova - https://youtu.be/3u34pqrxVe4

On (listening) topic...
The Art Of The Prima Ballerina: Bonynge/London Symphony Orchestra.

My girlfriend has developed an interest in ballet (including taking one of those leisure ballet lesson evening classes) and enjoyed 'The Fairy Doll' by Bayer. Unfortunately the music from the pas de trois wasn't on the Naxos CD, however forum member pjme kindly identified the piece and we found where she could buy it -

[asin]B00E2276X6[/asin]

edit:  Lezhnina as the fairy doll  http://youtu.be/OSH7E5tSi_A

So stellar, NikF- thanks for the ear-and-eye candy. I'll definitely watch the videos and order the Art of Prima Ballerina cd- right up my alley.
Wonderful.

[Camphy]

Symphony 1

[Marsch MacFiercesome]

I love the scene where the Empress is having her hair combed while gazing in the mirror to the choral singing of the angelic children. Bohm does this scene more lushly gorgeous than any Frau ohne Schatten I've heard.



Kempe's horn flourishes for "A Hero's Deeds in Battle" are full-tilt charge!



"Coronation Music," "Battle of Valencia"

[SonicMan46]

The 4-CD box was posted recently, so today I decided to enjoy some of Felix's juvenilia, i.e. works written between 1821-23 (Mendelssohn being born in 1809) - Concerto Köln is a favorite group of mine - on disc 4, Andreas Staier is on a fortepiano (Johann Fritz, Vienna, c. 1825) and Rainer Kussmaul on a 1724 violin (Stradivarius, Cremona) - Dave

[SimonNZ]

Giacomo Carissimi motets - Vittorio Zanon, cond.

[Camphy]

String Quintets Op. 14 (with added cello) & Op. 16 (with added viola)

[Todd]

More of Indjic's Chopin.  Indjic's largely direct, classical stylings work superbly for this disc, which is on par with his Schumann DBT/Kreisleriana.  Sound is too close and fatiguing, though. 

[ritter]

Tonight:

[SimonNZ]

Tonight:

Interesting. I wasn't aware of that recording. What's it like?


Also: that Naxos Carissimi disc I just played was superb, if anyone has the chance to hear it (if they haven't already)

[ritter]

Interesting. I wasn't aware of that recording. What's it like?
...

Well, it ain't HIP by any means, but it isn't in the "grand old manner" either (it was recorded in 1965). I mean, the chorus and orchestra don't sound huge or particularly heavy. The soloists, I think, are "just" OK, i.e. not up to their reputations (any of them). Anna Reynolds (a singer I hold in high esteem) has an anglicized latin pronuncitaion which is slightly annoying.

So, OK (but nothing to write home about IMHO).