What are you listening 2 now?

[Mirror Image]

Do the choruses sing in Russian or English in this recording?

Russian from what I recall.

[Mirror Image]

Elliott Carter: On Conversing with Paradise. Leigh Melrose, Oliver Knussen, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group

Lesser known work from another of my country's finer composers. I would like to get more from this Bridge series.

I own that entire Bridge series and you remind me I need to get back to it, but it'll be awhile yet. I like some of Carter's music, but his music isn't something I'd take to the desert island with me that's for sure.

[vers la flamme]

I own that entire Bridge series and you remind me I need to get back to it, but it'll be awhile yet. I like some of Carter's music, but his music isn't something I'd take to the desert island with me that's for sure.

Perhaps revisiting the Clarinet Quintet or Horn Concerto in this set might not be a bad place to start; I expect you'll enjoy both greatly.

[VonStupp]

Russian from what I recall.

I can remember the first time I heard Fritz Reiner in Alexander Nevsky, and to my surprise it was in English. Of course, that was a long time ago, and it's why I ask, although I can investigate further.

[Mirror Image]

Perhaps revisiting the Clarinet Quintet or Horn Concerto in this set might not be a bad place to start; I expect you'll enjoy both greatly.

I've heard a good swarth of his music. The Clarinet Quintet rings a bell. I will go on record in saying that I don't think much of his SQs. I know many people praise them as the best since so and so composer, but I find them impenetrable. His Piano Sonata and Elegy are the works I favor the most out of all the ones I've heard so far.

[Mirror Image]

I can remember the first time I heard Fritz Reiner in Alexander Nevsky, and to my surprise it was in English. Of course, that was a long time ago, and it's why I ask, although I can investigate further.

Yeah, I'm not fond of works that aren't sung in their original text --- as fine as the performance may be.

[Sergeant Rock]

Music for the Fourth. Morton Gould conducting his Symphonic Band




Sarge

[vandermolen]

It sure is as is this one (coupled with an equally inspired Alexander Nevsky):

+1

Now playing - Vaughan Williams 'Flos Campi' (or 'Camp Flossie' as he sometimes referred to it):

[SonicMan46]

Lefèvre, Jean-Xavier (1763-1829) - Clarinet Sonatas, Quartets, & Concertos from a 4-CD Spotify playlist, 3 discs with Eduard Brunner - shortened edited bio below - he lived in an exciting time for the development of the clarinet from an instrument w/ limited keys to ones that foreshadowed the evolution of the modern clarinet, although he showed some resistance to these changes (see second quote); reviews of the Brunner recordings attached for those interested.  Dave

Jean-Xavier Lefèvre was a Swiss-born French clarinetist, composer and teacher, who started out as a teenager in the band of the French Guards, which during the revolution became the French National Guard. He is generally credited with creating or popularizing the clarinet's sixth key. He was one of the first staff members of the Paris Conservatoire. He wrote a clarinet method in 1802 which includes a set of twelve progressive clarinet sonatas. The sonatas reflect popular French style of the time, attractive melodically yet developing the musical material to only a limited degree. Lefèvre's illustrations and fingering charts show that the clarinet was still played in France with the reed against the top lip. Lefèvre's Clarinet Quartets are quite accomplished pieces. Lefèvre composed many other works for the clarinet, e.g. six clarinet concertos, concertante symphonies, duos and trios, hymns, and--from his time with the band--revolutionary, military marches. (Source - edited)

Swiss-born, French-assimilated composer Jean Xavier Lefèvre (1763–1829) was a highly regarded clarinet virtuoso who, in his capacity as instructor of the instrument at the Paris Conservatory, taught a number of prominent students, among them Bernhard Crusell. He also authored what was perhaps the earliest clarinet tutorial, the Méthode de clarinette, in 1802, and he also improved the versatility of the instrument by adding a sixth key. It seems, though, that he was already behind the curve and resistant to innovations occurring around him for, by 1815, Iwan Müller had added another seven keys for a total of 13, and had made significant modifications to the key pads, advances that Lefèvre rejected as causing too radical a change in the clarinet's tonal quality. (Dubins review attached)

[kyjo]

Paul Creston SY2. Theodore Kuchar.

Pounds the table! One of the great American symphonies IMO. I'm sure this performance is fine, but do try to hear the Järvi/Detroit one on Chandos if you can.

[kyjo]

Beethoven: String Quartet Op.59/3

Quatuor Ebene


Jumping aboard the wagon for this one and was very impressed indeed. Listening to Op.59/3 had the welcome effect of reawakening some Beethoven feelings, for some while absent. Fantastic playing and agree with Kyjo upthread about the knockout final movement.

Excellent! Glad you enjoyed it. Not only do the Ebene Quartet play with tremendous fire, precision, great ensemble, and flawless intonation, but they give Beethoven's music a sense of humanity and warmth that I find lacking from some other recordings of his music.

[VonStupp]

Music for the Fourth. Morton Gould conducting his Symphonic Band



Sarge

I'm not too certain regarding gold body-sock lady's cymbal technique...

[Traverso]

Sousa

I like the Daughters of Texas 

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Pounds the table! One of the great American symphonies IMO. I'm sure this performance is fine, but do try to hear the Järvi/Detroit one on Chandos if you can.

Yes the Ives/Creston is vg. Wonder why other people do not want to record the Symphony.

[ritter]

Perhaps revisiting the Clarinet Quintet or Horn Concerto in this set might not be a bad place to start; I expect you'll enjoy both greatly.

Even if it was not directed at me, I'll follow vers la flamme's suggestion and listen to Elliott Carter's Horn Concerto (Martin Owen, horn, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Oliver Knussen, cond.) and Clarinet Quintet (Charles Neidich, clarinet, Juilliard String Quartet), from this set:



Some American music on the national day of the US. Happy July 4th to our friends across the Atlantic! 

[Karl Henning]

Their full set of Mendelssohn's string quartets includes both the recording of the Octet itself and a DVD film of "the making of..." the octet recording, which involved a lot of preplanning and tape splicing. It wasn't a mere "record four parts and then dub the other four over them".

Most interesting!

[Sergeant Rock]

Tovey Symphony in D




Sarge

[Sergeant Rock]

I'm not too certain regarding gold body-sock lady's cymbal technique...

Yeah, and it looks a bit dangerous 

Sarge

[Karl Henning]

One last work for the night:

Rachmaninov
The Bells, Op. 35
Aleksei Maslennikov, Galina Pisarenko, Sergey Yakovenko
Yurlov Russian State Academic Choir
USSR State Symphony Orchestra
Svetlanov

I believe I may have that very recording.

TD:

CD 7

Bartók
Pf Cto № 3, Sz. 119
Martha, pf
Claus Peter Flor

Dallapiccola
Liriche Greche
Lucy Shelton, sop
Reinbert de Leeuw

Messiaen
Trois petites Liturgies de la Présence Divine
Hamelin, pf
Jean Laurendeau, ondes martenot
Chas Dutoit

[Sergeant Rock]

Sousa

I like the Daughters of Texas 

My favorites are El Capitan and The U.S. Field Artillery March whose Trio became The Army Song 

Sarge