What are you listening 2 now?

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NP:

Korngold
String Quartet No. 2 in E-flat, Op. 26
Aron Quartett

[Traverso]

Don't you just love prices set by algorithms?

I don't think so, I think that a seller should ask a fair price and should not always  ask the ultimate ( ridiculous) selling price.
Of course there is also the possibility to purchase a reasonably priced set and sell it for a higher price. All those grabbing hands that are always looking for a profit and derive their self-esteem from that.

Maybe Im just a Don Quixote 

[aligreto]

I did listen to some of them when I went through my "British phase".

I can't seem to make my mind up on his quartets though. I have found them before on the pleasant side (not in a sarcastic way  ) but every time I get into the second half of one, I start to feel like there is something lacking overall... just that bit of oomph missing. They just don't grab me like his rhapsodies do for instance (I did find his symphonies rather flat too, bar the Third "Irish".). I'll try the SQ8 tomorrow.

Yes, I understand.
I find SQ 8 to be a fine work. I hope that you enjoy it.

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Christa Ludwig In Memoriam

Mahler
Rückert-Lieder
Ludwig
Berliners
Karajan

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Miaskovsky: Concertino lirico Op. 32 [Svetlanov]





Yes, this is a wonderful and pastoral work. It is really interesting to hear the different tones and sonorities that are on display here. It is also very interesting to hear him in that sort of concertante mode, particularly given my regard for his symphonic wind writing. Behind all of this idyllic music there is also some very interesting and wonderful harmonic writing. Just listen to that final chord!


BTW I am not stalking Jeffrey, honestly   

I think that it's more a case of me stalking Fergus/Aligreto 

Am delighted that you like the Lyric Concertino - a fine work.

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In tribute to Christa Ludwig: Bernstein Symphony No.1 'Jeremiah'.
This remains my favourite work by Bernstein, although I've increasingly come to appreciate the 2nd Symphony 'The Age of Anxiety':

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Nikolai Miaskovsky.

Symphony No. 5 & 12.

State Symphony Orchestra of the Russian Federation, Evgeny Svetlanov.

How did you enjoy these works Harry?
No.12 has a lovely, entirely characteristic theme near the start of the first movement.

[Karl Henning]

Had to lisen again, the disc is so solid:

Lenny's "Schuman Sampler":

Symphony № 3 (1941)

Symphony № 5, for strings (1943)

Symphony № 8 (1962)
NY Phil
Lenny

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Had to lisen again, the disc is so solid:

Lenny's "Schuman Sampler":

Symphony № 3 (1941)

Symphony № 5, for strings (1943)

Symphony № 8 (1962)
NY Phil
Lenny

That's one of the best in that Sony LB series along with the CD featuring symphonies by Harris, Thompson and Diamond. I think that LB's earlier recording of Roy Harris's Third Symphony and William Schuman's 3rd Symphony are preferable to the later remakes for DGG. However, I prefer the later DGG recording of Copland's Third Symphony.

[Maestro267]

Bruckner: Symphony No. 5
Berlin PO/Karajan

[Harry]

How did you enjoy these works Harry?
No.12 has a lovely, entirely characteristic theme near the start of the first movement.

I was totally in awe listening to the first two movements of Symphony No. 5, almost out this world magic. The steady pace, and the message uttered, total balance, in expressing moods and colours. I was under its spell, when the third movement, Allegro Burlando pushed me back into reality. Symphony No, 12 I did not yet hear, I was disturbed by an urgent help request, but will listen tomorrow.

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NP:

Vaughan Williams
Oboe Concerto
Roger Winfield, oboe
Northern Sinfonia
Hickox

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Christa Ludwig In Memoriam

Mahler
Rückert-Lieder
Ludwig
Berliners
Karajan

Great recording from the Mahler lieder 

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Great recording from the Mahler lieder 

Yes, indeed. I quite like her Kindertotenlieder as well. At first, I didn't think I owned a lot of recordings with Ludwig, but it turns out I own more than I thought.

[Florestan]

This is the father of the other Fesca I've been listening to earlier. What a talented musical family they were and what a pity both of them died young from consumption!

Okay, while all works on this CD are beautiful --- a splendid Early Romantic symphony first and foremost --- the Overture op. 43 is a most beguiling work, with exceptionally tuneful and idiomatic wind writing.

TD, more Friedrich-Ernst Fesca:

[ritter]

Also Christa Ludwig in memoriam:


Act 1. Ludwig is the Marschallin, Tatiana Troyanos Octavian, and Theo Adam Ochs. Karl Böhm conducts the Vienna Philharmonic in this Salzburg Festival Performance from 27th July 1969.

[Florestan]

Scheduled for later this evening, in memoriam Christa Ludwig (may God rest her in peace)

[Brahmsian]

In memoriam

Christa Ludwig, contralto

Mahler

Das Lied von der Erde

Otto Klemperer
Philharmonia Orchestra

Fritz Wunderlich, tenor

EMI

[Que]

Well, there you have it! 



I'm very attached to his recording of the Wienawski no. 2, who knows something else...
Browsing through the notes, I was shocked to read that at the time of his death at 35 years old, Michael Rabin hadn't been recording or giving concerts for over a decade....

[Florestan]

I was shocked to read...

...and pleasantly surprised that he was of Jewish-Romanian origin. Yet another name in a long list.