What are you listening 2 now?

[Florestan]

Grimaud's another one.

Which recording?

[Mandryka]

Which recording?

Erato of course!

[Florestan]

Erato of course!

This one?



Is it consistently aggressive and angry all throughout?

[Mandryka]

^^^^^ Not to mention the extraordinary young Backhaus

https://www.youtube.com/v/0ZGXHbRoC_o&ab_channel=pianopera

[Mandryka]

This one?



Is it consistently aggressive and angry?

Of course not, not consistently, if it were it would be as one sided as Volodos's -- just the other side!

[Florestan]

^^^^^ Not to mention the extraordinary young Backhaus

https://www.youtube.com/v/0ZGXHbRoC_o&ab_channel=pianopera

Sampled it. We must have very different notions of "aggressive and angry". 

[Florestan]

Of course not, not consistently, if it were it would be as one sided as Volodos's -- just the other side!

Well, to each one's own. Bottom line, "aggressive and angry" is not how I think of Brahms' music, be it early, middle or late.

[Karl Henning]

CD 2
As our JBS reported, mainly divers oddments, the lengthier tracks being "orchestral potpourris" drawn from Carmen, Tannhäuser and Gounod's Faust. The vanguard of "opera without words"?

"between tracks" we get ambient scratchiness to give us the authentic turntable experience (it doesn't get in the way.) Also on the program is the Intermezzo from Cavelleria rusticana, which now always reminds me of A Midsummer Night's Dream with Kevin Kline & Stanley Tucci

Now:

CD 47 with guest Mischa Maisky

Tchaikovsky
Vars on a Rococo Theme, Op. 33
Lensky's Aria from Eugene Onegin
Nocturne, Op. 19/4
Andante cantabile
Souvenir de Florence, Op. 70

[Linz]

Another Bruckner 2 this time with Inbal with the Radio-sinfonie-orchester  Frankfurt Love these Covers for the individual recordings

[foxandpeng]

Another Bruckner 2 this time with Inbal with the Radio-sinfonie-orchester  Frankfurt Love these Covers for the individual recordings

+1

I really like the Inbal recordings. More Bruckner from Monday, picking up from #7, I think.

[Mandryka]

Sampled it. We must have very different notions of "aggressive and angry". 

What do you think of the Schnabel?  I just love it!

[vers la flamme]

What do you think of the Schnabel?  I just love it!

You didn't ask me, but it sounds amazing.

[Florestan]

What do you think of the Schnabel?  I just love it!

Me too, thanks for posting it --- fantastic performance! It's just that I don't find it "aggressive and angry" at all. Passionate, even passional, check. Red hot (sic!) romantic, check. Turbulent at times, check. Aggressive and angry, never.

Actually, I am not aware of any 19-th century composer whose music can be described as "aggressive and angry" all throughout any single work, be it a piano piece or a symphony and everything in between.

[Mandryka]

Sampled it. We must have very different notions of "aggressive and angry". 

Well of course, as a Brit this is my notion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fHSjT2er44&t=1120s&ab_channel=internet19199

[VonStupp]

PI Tchaikovsky
String Quartet 1 in D Major, op. 11
Endellion Quartet

VS

[Florestan]

Well of course, as a Brit this is my notion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fHSjT2er44&t=1120s&ab_channel=internet19199

That's not aggressive and angry, that's downright apocalyptic.

[Linz]

+1

I really like the Inbal recordings. More Bruckner from Monday, picking up from #7, I think.

Thanks Inbal is a great Brucknarian

[Mandryka]

Actually, I am not aware of any 19-th century composer whose music can be described as "aggressive and angry" all throughout any single work, be it a piano piece or a symphony and everything in between.

Wilde Jagd

[JBS]

[Florestan]

Wilde Jagd

Liszt?