What are you listening 2 now?

[Lisztianwagner]

Again:

Schoenberg
Serenade, Op. 24

Which recording?

[DavidW]

Atterberg's Piano Quintet for a relisten:


My favorite Schubert 9 (old numbering obviously)... well this is interesting.  I'm used to listening to it on Supraphon.  Idagio doesn't have that version, but a 2023 remaster on a label I've never heard of.  The recording was clearly not a remaster but a needle drop.  I then did some research and found that label was a naughty pirate label that releases needle drops of recordings they don't have the rights to nor are in the public domain.  For shame!  I will be writing Idagio so that they know about that oversight.  I've found it confirmed on four different music forums including this one (that the label is suspect, not the specific recording).



And the legit one which is available on Qobuz and Spotify:

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Haydn Op 50 "cd 1" Festetics Q:


From my little FiiO player.  Festetics Q is my favorite, but I was looking forward to playing Kodaly Q which I really thought was loaded on my little player.  Must have ran out of room!

I haven't heard of that quartet before.  When have they recorded (not much in Wiki about them)?  And is the Kertesz any relation to the conductor?

PD

[DavidW]

I haven't heard of that quartet before.  When have they recorded (not much in Wiki about them)?  And is the Kertesz any relation to the conductor?

PD

They are a PI ensemble.  Their Haydn is warm and relaxed.  My introduction to them was Mozart's piano quartet with Badura-Skoda.  I think they recorded mostly in the 1990s.  I have no idea if the two Kertesz' are related, but I bet someone else on the forum knows.

[Karl Henning]

Which recording?

Robt Craft, 20^th c. Classics Ensemble.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

They are a PI ensemble.  Their Haydn is warm and relaxed.  My introduction to them was Mozart's piano quartet with Badura-Skoda.  I think they recorded mostly in the 1990s.  I have no idea if the two Kertesz' are related, but I bet someone else on the forum knows.

Thanks for the information.

PD

[Linz]

Mahler Symphony No. 1 in D Major, Yannick Nézet Séguin, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks

[Henk]

S. 3
Concerto for Orchestra

[Pohjolas Daughter]

They are a PI ensemble.  Their Haydn is warm and relaxed.  My introduction to them was Mozart's piano quartet with Badura-Skoda.  I think they recorded mostly in the 1990s.  I have no idea if the two Kertesz' are related, but I bet someone else on the forum knows.

It seems like, at least from what I read here, that they probably aren't related, but I don't know:  https://www.discogs.com/artist/2825657-Istv%C3%A1n-Kert%C3%A9sz-2

PD

[Peter Power Pop]

Pascha: Christmas Mass, Christmas Carols

[SimonNZ]

[Bachtoven]

Not listening to them simultaneously...

[foxandpeng]

I have very much enjoyed this symphony....

[Madiel]

The Great War my a$$, if you'll excuse my Walloon. What is so great about a senseless butchery in which the rank and file of each side thought (or rather, were conditioned to think) that they fight for the good and their country and that the enemy was a barbarian? Not that any other war was any better, mind you, but whenever I hear about the Great War is feel like puking. Far from having anything to do with greatness, war is the lowest, basest level humankind ever attained. The fact that it is a constant of history and not likely to disappear until Judgment Day is all the more cringe-inducing.

The word "great" has a number of meanings. It does not necessarily mean good. Especially not over a century ago when those events were taking place, the meaning of liking something is rather more modern.

[Brian]

Indeed, I think the term "Great War" was meant to indicate how terrible it was. Similar to the word "awesome," which used to mean awe-inspiring and therefore grandiose or even monstrous, but it now just means "good."

[Mookalafalas]

Indeed, I think the term "Great War" was meant to indicate how terrible it was. Similar to the word "awesome," which used to mean awe-inspiring and therefore grandiose or even monstrous, but it now just means "good."

  You mean The Great Chicago Fire wasn't good The Great San Francisco Earthquake? The great flood that destroyed all life on earth except for what Noah had in his ark? Great was just an synonym for big, I think, like "All creatures great and small."

As for listening:

[springrite]

Harbison's 2nd Symphony. Written in 1987. Reminds me of Frank Zappa's late stuff, which would have come out earlier, I believe. Fun, chromatic, surprising.

It is my favorite Harbison work by far.


Now: Bruckner Symphony 7, Furtwanger

[steve ridgway]

Ravel: Daphnis Et Chloé

[AnotherSpin]

The Great War my a$$, if you'll excuse my Walloon. What is so great about a senseless butchery in which the rank and file of each side thought (or rather, were conditioned to think) that they fight for the good and their country and that the enemy was a barbarian? Not that any other war was any better, mind you, but whenever I hear about the Great War is feel like puking. Far from having anything to do with greatness, war is the lowest, basest level humankind ever attained. The fact that it is a constant of history and not likely to disappear until Judgment Day is all the more cringe-inducing.

In Russia, the term Great Patriotic War 1941-1945 (Великая Отечественная война) is used. That is, the war for the USSR, according to the only allowed view, began on 22 June 1941, when Hitler attacked his former ally Stalin. As if there had not been an attack by the USSR on Poland, Romania, the Baltic States, and Finland shortly before that. The official ideology has never recognised that Russia has attacked anyone. Everyone wants to attack Russia, but Russia is a peaceful country and has never attacked anyone. They declare this with serious faces and without blinking.

It is forbidden in Russia to use word war in relation to the current war unleashed against Ukraine. It is a special military operation (СВО, специальная военная операция). People were imprisoned for using the word war. A country of fucking idiots.

[Irons]

on the radio: Nocturnes

About to pull the trigger on an earlier recording Boulez made of Nocturnes and Rhapsody for Clarinet.