What are you listening 2 now?

[Mirror Image]

I don't mind the sound. The main reason I got the Abbado was to have a version in the Andante-Scherzo order, which the earlier recording does not have. Though I do really like the Abbado/Chicago Mahler 7.

I'm one of those fans who doesn't really care what order the Andante or Scherzo is in when it comes to Mahler's 6th, although I do think the Scherzo in the second movement sounds good (to these ears). I support both thoughts. The 6th is a difficult symphony to bring off as it is and Abbado's earlier account is amazing.

[Traverso]

I think Brendel made two traversals on the Schubert piano music for Philips, analog then digital. Do you find them equally satisfying?

I have a preference for the first recordings,the second  is very good but  sound more academic so to speak.
This is the one to get

[Ratliff]

I have a preference for the first recordings,the second  is very good but  sound more academic so to speak.
This is the one to get

I've got this!

[vers la flamme]

I'm one of those fans who doesn't really care what order the Andante or Scherzo is in when it comes to Mahler's 6th, although I do think the Scherzo in the second movement sounds good (to these ears). I support both thoughts. The 6th is a difficult symphony to bring off as it is and Abbado's earlier account is amazing.

Now that I've heard the Abbado with the Andante-Scherzo order, I agree. It can be pulled off no matter which order is used. I support leaving that call up to the conductor.

[Mirror Image]

Now that I've heard the Abbado with the Andante-Scherzo order, I agree. It can be pulled off no matter which order is used. I support leaving that call up to the conductor.

[j winter]

Debussy orchestral works, Haitink.   Oldie but a goodie...

[Traverso]

Hugo Wolf

What about her haircut, it looks like a helmet, but what comes out of her mouth is beautiful.
Great singing from both.

[Traverso]

I've got this!

  Well,that's a nice box,you have everything.I have so much already that  I was not interested,there are so many recordings that are pulling my attention....buy me buy me.   

[aukhawk]

You know you can listen to the tracks on your CD in whatever order you choose?

I don't believe in that. Call me old school if you must.

Whatever you do, you're not necessarily going to replicate the order in which the music was recorded (unless there are some very obvious live performance cues) nor the order in which it was conceived.  I think it's unlikely that the music-making in the 3rd movement is informed by the music in the 2nd.

[San Antone]

Weigl : Chamber Music

[steve ridgway]

Scelsi : Suite No. 8. This piano music is growing on me, it can stay in my music player.

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[SonicMan46]

Czerny, Carl - Piano Sonatas V.3 w/ Martin Jones - just arrived to complete the 3 volumes (2 CDs each) of Jones' perusal of piano works in my collection.  Dave

[Ratliff]

Whatever you do, you're not necessarily going to replicate the order in which the music was recorded (unless there are some very obvious live performance cues) nor the order in which it was conceived.  I think it's unlikely that the music-making in the 3rd movement is informed by the music in the 2nd.

Unless you're hearing the work for the first time you already know all four movements and their relation to each other.  The order would be more important to an audience hearing the work for the first time.

I generally think the scherzo is more natural coming third. It is rhythmically somewhat similar to the first movement and if it directly follows it is "more of the same," whereas following the slow movement it is a return to vigorous music.

[Symphonic Addict]

Symphony No. 3

It's mildly interesting, the powerful moments are certainly urgent, and I like that, but I feel it lacks much momentum, paradoxically. There are some too discursive parts, but when it's energetic, it gets it.

No.4 is next.

[Traverso]

Desprez

Missa Pange Lingua & Motets

[Symphonic Addict]

Impressive, indeed. The orchestration and vocal writing are incredibly strong and many a composer who are in their prime would be lucky enough to compose a work on this scale and of such mastery. I think Mahler was 19 when he composed this work, which is remarkable. The same thing apples to Langgaard and his first symphony. Didn't he compose it when he was 15 yrs. old? I think I recall reading that somewhere and he even had the good fortune of having it premiered by the Berliner Philharmoniker. Now that is no small feat!

I was thinking of Langgaard's 1st Symphony too, started in 1908, so, effectively, at 15 years old. Thunderous utterances by two composers whom I admire profoundly, each expressing different emotions and sentiments in quite different ways.

[Traverso]

Debussy orchestral works, Haitink.   Oldie but a goodie...

Very goodie goodie 

[steve ridgway]

Schnittke : Concerto Grosso No. 1. It flies around all over the place and sounds like it's about to come off the rails at any moment. Love it .

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[Symphonic Addict]

I'm one of those fans who doesn't really care what order the Andante or Scherzo is in when it comes to Mahler's 6th, although I do think the Scherzo in the second movement sounds good (to these ears). I support both thoughts. The 6th is a difficult symphony to bring off as it is and Abbado's earlier account is amazing.

The order, for me, is definitely Scherzo-Andante. Somehow makes much more sense to me. A kind of relaxed movement that prepares us to the cataclysmic and heavier last movement.

[steve ridgway]

Birtwistle: Night's Black Bird / The Shadow of Night / The Cry of Anubis.

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