What are you listening 2 now?

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Mapman

Maiden-Listen Monday, and American music for the 4th:
Carpenter: Skyscrapers
Klein: LSO

This is a fun piece. It seems somewhere between Stravinsky and Gershwin in style.


VonStupp

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Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on July 04, 2022, 11:56:04 AM
Karl, (and anybody), what are your top 5-10 records conducted by Lenny? Just curious.

As the anybody named, I find Bernstein's own works are best done by Lenny himself (and usually Columbia/Sony NYP). They might not be his greatest recordings of all time, but I swear by him in his own music.

VS
"All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff."

Mapman

More American music for the 4th:
Schuman: New England Tryptich
Ives/Schuman: Variations on America
Slatkin: St. Louis


Karl Henning

Quote from: Mapman on July 04, 2022, 05:02:43 PM
More American music for the 4th:
Schuman: New England Tryptich
Ives/Schuman: Variations on America
Slatkin: St. Louis



Classics!
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

Mapman


Symphonic Addict

Rzewski: Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues

Recommended by old Dave, I enjoyed this. A mesmerizing piece.





Nikolai Tcherepnin: Le Destin - Symphonic Fragments on a Ballad by Poe

An interesting late-Romantic piece. The orchestration and rhythmic vitality were the elements I felt stronger. Worth a listen.

Part of the tragedy of the Palestinians is that they have essentially no international support for a good reason: they've no wealth, they've no power, so they've no rights.

Noam Chomsky

Dry Brett Kavanaugh

Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on July 04, 2022, 12:12:09 PM
Shostakovich Leningrad Symphony with the CSO.
Haydn Masses with the NY Phil & al.
Haydn Die Schöpfung, Wiener Philharmoniker & al.
Hindemith, Symphony in Eb, NY Phil
Copland, Pf Cto with the composer as soloist.
If I don't stop here, I may go on and on ...

TD:
US Music Weekend continues!

Antheil (the Brat from Trenton)
A Jazz Symphony & Ballet Mécanique

I will check the Haydn recordings!


Quote from: VonStupp on July 04, 2022, 03:09:00 PM
As the anybody named, I find Bernstein's own works are best done by Lenny himself (and usually Columbia/Sony NYP). They might not be his greatest recordings of all time, but I swear by him in his own music.

VS

You sound right. I will revisit these recordings soon.


Symphonic Addict

Widor: Symphony No. 3 in E minor, Op. 69 (with organ)

Sounds rather anonymous, pedestrian, forgettable. Meh.

Part of the tragedy of the Palestinians is that they have essentially no international support for a good reason: they've no wealth, they've no power, so they've no rights.

Noam Chomsky

Symphonic Addict

Tabakov: Cello Concerto

Intensity is a word that comes to mind when the composer's music is concerned. Fascinating.

Part of the tragedy of the Palestinians is that they have essentially no international support for a good reason: they've no wealth, they've no power, so they've no rights.

Noam Chomsky

Operafreak







Schubert: String Quartet No. 14 in D minor, D810 'Death and the Maiden'/Schubert: String Quartet in E major, D353, op.post.125, no.2


    Melos Quartet (string quartet)

 
The true adversary will inspire you with boundless courage.

Operafreak






Farrenc - Piano Trios & Sextet- Linos Ensemble

The true adversary will inspire you with boundless courage.

Operafreak






John Adams: Naive and Sentimental Music & Absolute Jest- Doric String Quartet, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Peter Oundjian

The true adversary will inspire you with boundless courage.

Papy Oli

Good afternoon all,

Sibelius - symphony no.1 (Vānskä)
From the Essential box
Olivier

vandermolen

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Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on July 04, 2022, 11:56:04 AM
Karl, (and anybody), what are your top 5-10 records conducted by Lenny? Just curious.
Roy Harris: Symphony No.3 NYPO (Sony/CBS)
Bernstein: 'Jeremiah Symphony' (CBS/Sony) (on the same LP as the Harris)
VW: Symphony No.4 (CBS/Sony)
Shostakovich: Symphony No.5 NYPO (CBS/Sony)
Bernstein: 'Facsimile' (Dutton, with another fine version of 'Jeremiah')
Bernstein: Symphony No.2 'The Age of Anxiety' (Israel PO DGG)

I like his Mahler recordings as well.
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

Tsaraslondon



I'm not that keen on the choral version of Vaughan Williams' Serenade to Music but this is a fantastic version of the Sinfonia Antartica in spectacular sound.
\"A beautiful voice is not enough.\" Maria Callas

Irons

Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on July 04, 2022, 06:21:14 AM


Mennin, not a composer I am familiar with. Thanks for posting, will listen to the other symphony later.
You must have a very good opinion of yourself to write a symphony - John Ireland.

I opened the door people rushed through and I was left holding the knob - Bo Diddley.


Irons

Quote from: vandermolen on July 05, 2022, 02:40:32 AM
Roy Harris: Symphony No.3 NYPO (Sony/CBS)
Bernstein: 'Jeremiah Symphony' (CBS/Sony) (on the same LP as the Harris)
VW: Symphony No.4 (CBS/Sony)
Shostakovich: Symphony No.5 NYPO (CBS/Sony)
Bernstein: 'Facsimile' (Dutton, with another fine version of 'Jeremiah')
Bernstein: Symphony No.2 'The Age of Anxiety' (Israel PO DGG)

I like his Mahler recordings as well.


Stravinsky and Copland for me. After hearing on "Record Review" the Storm in Britten's Grimes Interludes which blows your socks off, that too.
You must have a very good opinion of yourself to write a symphony - John Ireland.

I opened the door people rushed through and I was left holding the knob - Bo Diddley.

Papy Oli

Nielsen - symphony no.1
(Dausgard/masterworks box)
Olivier

VonStupp

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Franz Liszt
Dante Symphony, S. 109
Dante Sonata, Après une lecture du Dante: Fantasia quasi Sonata

Berlin PO - Daniel Barenboim (piano)


I have never really taken to Liszt's Dante Symphony, having really only heard Jesús López-Cobos from the 70's with the Suisse Romande (below), but it struck me rather well this time around with Barenboim.

The Dante Sonata is a bit of slow-going spectacle, found on YouTube in Bayreuth with Barenboim.

VS



"All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff."