What are you listening 2 now?

[bhodges]

In honor of President Biden's visit to Philadelphia today, marking the 50th anniversary of Amtrak:

Honegger: Pacific 231 (Mikko Franck / L'Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France, live performance, October 4, 2019) - Haven't heard this in years, and for 7 minutes or so, loads of fun. Franck and the ensemble make a great case for it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xSAPzD79_I

--Bruce

[Mirror Image]

It was only for the dutch market.If you are interested......

This one is expensive

https://www.marktplaats.nl/l/cd-s-en-dvd-s/cd-s-klassiek/#q:entartete+musik

This one advertised as in mint condition




https://www.bol.com/nl/p/entartete-musik/9200000049706803/?bltgh=lgxGYe9s8knSOVF8ZKZAfA.2_9.20.ProductImage

Thanks a lot, Jan. Looking over the contents of the set and I already own most of it already. I'm missing a few of these recordings, though.

[Traverso]

Thanks a lot, Jan. Looking over the contents of the set and I already own most of it already. I'm missing a few of these recordings, though.

In other words,   "Your mental health is restored" 

[Mirror Image]

In other words,   "Your mental health is restored" 

Hah! Yes, indeed, but only temporarily I'm afraid.

[Mirror Image]

NP:

Schoenberg
String Trio, Op. 45
Trio Zimmermann

[Stürmisch Bewegt]

Just rolled a double six :

[Chaszz]

Just happened to land on WSHU, a great western Connecticut FM classical station,
91.1, during a Symphony Concertante by Carl Ditters Von Dittersdorf for Viola and Two Double Bass, that is very good. Well, the  Adagio is not as good as the first Allegro, but that movement is excellent. Go, Ditters. Third movement sounding good, too. And for sure, a soloist combination very rarely used, if ever, outside this work. Fourth movement is fine also. A listen will be well rewarded.

[JBS]

  This thread must surely rank as one of the greatest Miaskovsky love-in's of history!  Future scholars may look back on this moment as a turning point in NM's fortunes!


Playing in a non-Miaskovsky haven somewhere in Albion:



Tippett: String Quartet No.3

A really extraordinary work, which might be summarised as three fast movements predominated by wave upon wave of breathless counterpoint (the third more placated), punctuated by two slow movements of a rare, intense beauty. Tippett at the height of his powers I think, and an essential visit for any C20th chamber music fan.

Who are the performers?

I have the Tippett Quartet recordings on Naxos, and agree that anyone interested in 20th century SQs should hear these works.

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Who are the performers?

I have the Tippett Quartet recordings on Naxos, and agree that anyone interested in 20th century SQs should hear these works.

You didn't ask me, but those performances are with the Lindsay Quartet.

[bhodges]

The Concertgebouw, with Daniel Harding, are knocking it out of the park in Stravinsky's Apollon Musagète, livestreaming now (will likely be archived). Coming up: the orchestra's winds, brass, and percussion in Messiaen's Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kdubFfr7ZI

[JBS]

Just happened to land on WSHU, a great western Connecticut FM classical station,
91.1, during a Symphony Concertante by Carl Ditters Von Dittersdorf for Viola and Two Double Bass, that is very good. Well, the  Adagio is not as good as the first Allegro, but that movement is excellent. Go, Ditters. Third movement sounding good, too. And for sure, a soloist combination very rarely used, if ever, outside this work. Fourth movement is fine also. A listen will be well rewarded.

Registers hearty applause of this on behalf  of 71dB

[JBS]

TD

[JBS]

You didn't ask me, but those performances are with the Lindsay Quartet.

Thank you!

[Mirror Image]

  This thread must surely rank as one of the greatest Miaskovsky love-in's of history!  Future scholars may look back on this moment as a turning point in NM's fortunes!


Playing in a non-Miaskovsky haven somewhere in Albion:



Tippett: String Quartet No.3

A really extraordinary work, which might be summarised as three fast movements predominated by wave upon wave of breathless counterpoint (the third more placated), punctuated by two slow movements of a rare, intense beauty. Tippett at the height of his powers I think, and an essential visit for any C20th chamber music fan.

I think I'll join you, but from this set:

[Iota]

Who are the performers?

I have the Tippett Quartet recordings on Naxos, and agree that anyone interested in 20th century SQs should hear these works.

I see you now know it's the Lindsay Quartet, sorry, remiss of me not to put the name in the first place.

I will say that I think the Tippett Quartet are also excellent in this, particularly thrilling in the many passages of frenetic counterpoint, though perhaps on balance I prefer the Lindsays for what feels like an even greater intensity in the slow movements. But both excellent.

[Iota]

I think I'll join you, but from this set:

Oh yes, I've heard good things about that recording. Will see if I can track them down when I next come round to Tippett.

[ritter]

Una serata italiana in casa di ritter....

Listening to this disc of orchestral works by Luigi Dallapiccola, while reading (for the first time) some poetry by Salvatore Quasimodo.


This CD,  beautifully played by the BBC Philharmonic under Gianandrea Noseda is a good overview of the composer's career, spanning from the early Partita to the late Three Questions with Two Answers.

I really like Dallapiccola's music! 

[Roasted Swan]

I'm merely offering a different perspective and when you're talking about two favorite composers of mine, I have the right as anyone else here to comment. Of course, you're 'done with me'. You've said this to me years ago and ended up talking to me anyway. I think you're being too sensitive, Harry. Anyway, I think what it is is you simply dislike anyone who disagrees with your opinion and when it becomes too much for you, you say "I'm done with you", which, in reality, just makes you look like a fool, but, hey, who am I to stand in the way of progress! Carry on, good sir!

I must admit I rather agree with Mirror Image here.  The "original" version of Seejungfrau is actually a version never sanctioned by Zemlinsky and it adds little to our overall appreciation of the work.  Storgards is not as fluent or nuanced as Chailly or Beaumont I feel and the Sinfonietta offered on this disc is another spurious edition that adds nothing to our knowledge of the original work.  Useful for chamber orchestras to perform in concert in small venues but irrelevant on CD for me.  Since that pioneering Chailly disc Seejungfrau has been pretty well served on disc but I do find this new edition a bit of a red-herring.

[Mirror Image]

Oh yes, I've heard good things about that recording. Will see if I can track them down when I next come round to Tippett.

Sounds like a plan, Iota.

[Mirror Image]

I must admit I rather agree with Mirror Image here.  The "original" version of Seejungfrau is actually a version never sanctioned by Zemlinsky and it adds little to our overall appreciation of the work.  Storgards is not as fluent or nuanced as Chailly or Beaumont I feel and the Sinfonietta offered on this disc is another spurious edition that adds nothing to our knowledge of the original work.  Useful for chamber orchestras to perform in concert in small venues but irrelevant on CD for me.  Since that pioneering Chailly disc Seejungfrau has been pretty well served on disc but I do find this new edition a bit of a red-herring.

Thanks for the support! But, really, I'm just opining what I think and what I think is Die Seejunfrau is fine just the way it is and there's a good reason why Zemlinsky revised it.