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kyjo

#1060
August 04, 2020, 08:34:25 AM
Quote from: Pohjolas Daughter on August 03, 2020, 09:48:43 AM
OT Favorite recording(s) of it?  :)

PD

Tim Hugh (Naxos) and Paul Watkins (Chandos) are both excellent. Yo-Yo Ma's Lyrita recording has its merits but he was quite young when the recording was made are there are some passages of technical insecurity. Raphael Wallfisch (Chandos) is perfectly fine but doesn't quite generate the emotional intensity of the others.
"Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music" - Sergei Rachmaninoff

Pohjolas Daughter

#1061
August 04, 2020, 08:52:05 AM
Quote from: kyjo on August 04, 2020, 08:34:25 AM
Tim Hugh (Naxos) and Paul Watkins (Chandos) are both excellent. Yo-Yo Ma's Lyrita recording has its merits but he was quite young when the recording was made are there are some passages of technical insecurity. Raphael Wallfisch (Chandos) is perfectly fine but doesn't quite generate the emotional intensity of the others.
The first recording I heard of it was on Supraphon with Jiri Barta (which I really enjoyed!).  I also have at least one (maybe 2?) with Janos Starker (Amazing!!).

PD

kyjo

#1062
August 04, 2020, 09:42:44 AM
Quote from: Pohjolas Daughter on August 04, 2020, 08:52:05 AM
The first recording I heard of it was on Supraphon with Jiri Barta (which I really enjoyed!).  I also have at least one (maybe 2?) with Janos Starker (Amazing!!).

PD

Wait whaaaaat? I'm not familiar with recordings of the Finzi concerto by Barta or Starker. More info please! :D
"Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music" - Sergei Rachmaninoff

Pohjolas Daughter

#1063
August 04, 2020, 12:35:26 PM Last Edit: August 04, 2020, 12:39:10 PM by Pohjolas Daughter
Quote from: kyjo on August 04, 2020, 09:42:44 AM
Wait whaaaaat? I'm not familiar with recordings of the Finzi concerto by Barta or Starker. More info please! :D
My goof! lol I had remembered saying "Another Kodaly fan!" and quoting you earlier; I had forgotten that we had also spoken of Finzi!  Apologies!  I have Tim Hugh's recording....which I fell in love with first listen.  That's the only one that I currently own.

I'll keep an eye out for the Paul Watkins one.  I don't believe that I've heard any of his recordings before now.

Best,

PD

kyjo

#1064
August 12, 2020, 09:33:53 AM
Quote from: Pohjolas Daughter on August 04, 2020, 12:35:26 PM
My goof! lol I had remembered saying "Another Kodaly fan!" and quoting you earlier; I had forgotten that we had also spoken of Finzi!  Apologies!  I have Tim Hugh's recording....which I fell in love with first listen.  That's the only one that I currently own.

I'll keep an eye out for the Paul Watkins one.  I don't believe that I've heard any of his recordings before now.

Best,

PD

Ahhhhh, that makes sense! :D No worries.
"Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music" - Sergei Rachmaninoff

Pohjolas Daughter

#1065
August 12, 2020, 10:35:38 AM
Quote from: kyjo on August 12, 2020, 09:33:53 AM
Ahhhhh, that makes sense! :D No worries.
I was starting to think that we were doing a musical version of "Who's on What Base?"!   ;D

PD

Christo

#1066
August 18, 2020, 01:15:10 AM
Quote from: Pohjolas Daughter on August 04, 2020, 12:35:26 PM
My goof! lol I had remembered saying "Another Kodaly fan!" and quoting you earlier;
The 'other Kodály fan' was me BTW.  ;)
... music is not only an 'entertainment', nor a mere luxury, but a necessity of the spiritual if not of the physical life, an opening of those magic casements through which we can catch a glimpse of that country where ultimate reality will be found.    RVW, 1948

Pohjolas Daughter

#1067
August 18, 2020, 03:05:57 AM
Quote from: Christo on August 18, 2020, 01:15:10 AM
The 'other Kodály fan' was me BTW.  ;)
Will do my best to find an unoccupied brain cell somewhere in my head to also file away that fact Christo.   :-[  ;)

PD

Christo

#1068
August 18, 2020, 03:17:35 AM
Quote from: Pohjolas Daughter on August 18, 2020, 03:05:57 AM
Will do my best to find an unoccupied brain cell somewhere in my head to also file away that fact Christo.   :-[  ;)

PD
No. 17 appears to be empty after you kicked another Dutchman out, there!  ???
... music is not only an 'entertainment', nor a mere luxury, but a necessity of the spiritual if not of the physical life, an opening of those magic casements through which we can catch a glimpse of that country where ultimate reality will be found.    RVW, 1948

Pohjolas Daughter

#1069
August 18, 2020, 07:04:56 AM
Quote from: Christo on August 18, 2020, 03:17:35 AM
No. 17 appears to be empty after you kicked another Dutchman out, there!  ???
lol Sorry, but you're going to have to share the cell!  :D

PD

LKB

#1070
October 05, 2020, 01:27:37 PM
It's been a while, so my current top ten are:

Mahler
Bach
Beethoven
Schubert
Bruckner
Josquin des Prez
Tchaikovsky
Schumann
Shostakovich
Berlioz

Musing upon number eleven,

LKB

Mit Flügeln, die ich mir errungen...

MN Dave

#1071
October 05, 2020, 04:56:59 PM
Quote from: mn dave on July 08, 2014, 05:08:39 AM
BEETHOVEN
Bach
Brahms
CHOPIN
Schumann
Schubert
Prokofiev
Haydn
Alkan
Sibelius

Or something like that.

Still something like that, but not quite.
"The effect of music is so very much more powerful and penetrating than is that of the other arts, for these others speak only of the shadow, but music of the essence." — Arthur Schopenhauer

vandermolen

#1072
October 16, 2020, 10:54:16 PM
Today's list:
VW
Miaskovsky
Honegger
Bax
Shostakovich
Braga-Santos
Glazunov
Sibelius
Walton
Moeran
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

Symphonic Addict

#1073
July 31, 2021, 04:07:25 PM Last Edit: July 31, 2021, 06:56:28 PM by Symphonic Addict
This is an interesting list. I think 10 narrows you to be intelligent and practical, or emotional and academic, or viceversa, mixed, etc.

Beethoven
Nielsen
Brahms
Shostakovich
Vaughan Williams
Janáček
Martinů
Dvořák
Haydn
Sibelius
The current annihilation of a people on this planet (you know which one it is) is the most documented and at the same time the most preposterously denied. The terror IS REAL more than ever!

Christo

#1074
August 01, 2021, 05:42:48 AM
Today, possibly:

Arnold
Barber
Braga Santos
Falla
Holmboe
Kodály
Nielsen
Respighi
Tubin
Vaughan Williams
... music is not only an 'entertainment', nor a mere luxury, but a necessity of the spiritual if not of the physical life, an opening of those magic casements through which we can catch a glimpse of that country where ultimate reality will be found.    RVW, 1948

Mirror Image

#1075
August 01, 2021, 06:17:42 AM
Just a copy and paste from my 'Top 25' list:

Debussy
Mahler
Strauss
Bartók
Ravel
Sibelius
Shostakovich
Martinů
Stravinsky
Dvořák

foxandpeng

#1076
August 01, 2021, 12:25:51 PM
Currently... (final two because of how powerfully they have entered the game recently...)

Holmboe
RVW
Bax
Tubin
Arnold
Hovhaness
Rautavaara
Sibelius
Vasks
Shostakovich
"A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people ... then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbour — such is my idea of happiness"

Tolstoy

Karl Henning

#1077
August 01, 2021, 01:24:31 PM
Quote from: Christo on August 01, 2021, 05:42:48 AM
Today, possibly:

Arnold
Barber
Braga Santos
Falla
Holmboe
Kodály
Nielsen
Respighi
Tubin
Vaughan Williams

Johan! How are you doing?!
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

Karl Henning

#1078
August 01, 2021, 01:33:10 PM
10 is cruelly Procrustean, but, today:

JSB
Bartók
Chopin
Haydn
Hindemith
Nielsen
Shostakovich
Sibelius
Stravinsky
Weinberg

This is an old thread, and I've probably posted before. I should guess that Weinberg is a recent addition.
I do hate to have left Prokofiev out....
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

Mirror Image

#1079
August 01, 2021, 07:04:46 PM
Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on August 01, 2021, 01:33:10 PM
10 is cruelly Procrustean, but, today:

JSB
Bartók
Chopin
Haydn
Hindemith
Nielsen
Shostakovich
Sibelius
Stravinsky
Weinberg

This is an old thread, and I've probably posted before. I should guess that Weinberg is a recent addition.
I do hate to have left Prokofiev out....

A fine list, indeed. 8) Happy to see Bartók, Sibelius, Shostakovich, Stravinsky and Nielsen there. I'm a bit surprised about Weinberg. He must've grown on you in the past year or so? He's definitely a composer I should spend more time with, especially those SQs, which the first time around they didn't make much of an impression me like Shostakovich's did for example.
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