What are you listening 2 now?

[Tsaraslondon]

Disc 2

Images pour Orchestre
Danse Sacrée et danse profane -with Alice Chalifoux - Harp

Cleveland Orchestra - Pierr Boulez

I still have a few niggling doubts about Boulez's CBS Debussy performances. Just a little too analytical for my taste.

[Papy Oli]

Leonard Bernstein - Serenade

Bernstein / Symphony of the Air / Isaac Stern

[JBS]

Whatever about the music making that is a most frightful cover.

The cover image actually makes sense given the CD title, Paradise Regained....Edenic innocence before "they knew they were naked".

TD
More symphonies from Brilliant's Michael Haydn. MH numbers 478 and 393 performed by Capella Savari under Pal Nemeth,
MH numbers 399 And 302 performed by Czech Chamber Philharmonic Pardubice under Patrick Gallois, with harpsichord continuo by Filip Dvorak.
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[aligreto]

Schubert: Symphony No. 8 [Maazel]





This is a thoughtful and thought provoking reading. It is neither, however, overly dark nor depressing.

[steve ridgway]

Scelsi: Complete Flute Music.

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[Traverso]

Whatever about the music making that is a most frightful cover.

"Unlike Mandryka", I'm horrified by the covers and the uncontested reference to sublimated suffering. I find the whole idea  an expression of bad taste.


I once walked into an old church and I saw a wooden statue of a saint and I immediately felt uncomfortable with the perverse facial expression it depicted.
Even a hidden reference to the glorification of suffering makes me sick.

[Papy Oli]

Brahms
Academic festival overture
Tragic overture
Serenade No.2
Haydn Variations

(Bernstein / NYP)

[San Antone]

"Unlike Mandryka", I'm horrified by the covers and the uncontested reference to sublimated suffering. I find the whole idea  an expression of bad taste.

I am with you: the covers of Beauty Farm and The Sound and the Fury are a huge distraction and I truly wish they would get it out of their system and change graphic designers.

TD

[Traverso]

I am with you: the covers of Beauty Farm and The Sound and the Fury are a huge distraction and I truly wish they would get it out of their system and change graphic designers.

TD

"Hear, hear"

[Mandryka]

"Unlike Mandryka", I'm horrified by the covers and the uncontested reference to sublimated suffering. I find the whole idea  an expression of bad taste.

Do you see sublimated suffering in that image, I didn't I must say but I may have missed it.

[andolink]

Historically informed, period instrument performances of these Brahms masterpieces which, given my predilection for all things HIP, I thought I would really like, especially after reading a very positive review (http://musicweb-international.com/classrev/2020/Jan/Brahms_clarinet_CRC3760.htm). But my reactions are very mixed for a variety of reasons, especially a sense of it all sounding rather effete. A more gutsy, red-blooded approach is more in line with what Brahms' music needs for my tastes.

[aligreto]

Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra [Reiner]

[prémont]

Do you see sublimated suffering in that image, I didn't I must say but I may have missed it.

Nor do I see any sublimated suffering in the picture, but rather someone who wants to excuse his presence at an embarrassing situation.

[ritter]

Cristóbal Halffter conducts the Spanish Radio-Television Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in his monumental Officium Defunctorum.

[SonicMan46]

Czerny, Carl (1791-1857) - continuing through my modest collection of the so-called 'Father of Modern Piano' - actually own the first two volumes w/ Martin Jones doing the piano sonatas (and just ordered volume 3 used on the Amazon MP) - Dave

     

[Traverso]

Do you see sublimated suffering in that image, I didn't I must say but I may have missed it.

Not directly but It refers to it with a wink .Listening to Gesualdo I do without reading the libretto,there is pain enough expressed already in the music,reading also the words makes it for me indigestible,but that goes too for Mahlers "der Abschied".

[vandermolen]

Boydell 'In Memoriam Mahatma Gandhi'.
Impressive.

[Traverso]

Nor do I see any sublimated suffering in the picture, but rather someone who wants to excuse his presence at an embarrassing situation.

I agree with you on that,.
It is not a matter of right or wrong,anyway  it was my immediate reaction to the picture. I cannot look to this kind of pictures without the context from which it stems
It is not my intention to give this further attention.
It may be sensitive to others.

[Traverso]

Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra [Reiner]

A famous one,enjoy it.

[Florestan]

The first disc of mazurkas,

Balm for my ears and soothing for my nerves which have been greatly strained this week because of some ongoing health problems in my family.