What are you listening 2 now?

[Karl Henning]

Mahler

Arrived......


Symphony No.1

Sweet!

[André]

I only wish the reverb was not so prominent. That seems to be a recurring feature of the recordings in that series.





Some excellent but rarely heard Schumann. Performances are tops.

[Traverso]

Sweet!

Sounds great, there's even a Vienna touch, doesn't sound clinical at all   

[Karl Henning]

Sounds great, there's even a Vienna touch, doesn't sound clinical at all   

I think I need to spring for this set.

[Traverso]

I think I need to spring for this set.

it is said that these Boulez renditions look forward and not to the past. There is even a certain sensuality present that melts my heart and that without the over emotional rendition that you hear with Bernstein. I have not heard the other symphonies yet but this one first one makes me very enthusiastic. You hear the scherz and humor and that especially without bombast. It is full of life.....

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony 3 Sanderling

[Mirror Image]

Celebrating Arnie's passing...

NP:

Schoenberg
Serenade, Op. 24
Variations for Orchestra, Op. 31
Prelude and Fugue in E flat major, BWV 552 (arr. A. Schoenberg)
Schmucke dich, O liebe Seele, BWV 654 (orch. A. Schoenberg)
Komm, Gott Schopfer, heiliger Geist, BWV 631 (orch. A. Schoenberg)
Stephen Varcoe (bass), Charles Neidich (clarinet), Alan R. Kay (bass clarinet), Peter Press (mandolin), David Starobin (guitar), Rolf Schulte (violin), Toby Appel (viola) & Fred Sherry (cello)
Twentieth Century Classics Ensemble & Philharmonia Orchestra
Robert Craft



And with more Arnie come!

[classicalgeek]

Lennox Berkeley
Symphony no. 1
*Symphony no. 2
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Norman Del Mar
*Nicholas Braithwaite
(on Spotify)



Good stuff!

[Traverso]

Celebrating Arnie's passing...

NP:

Schoenberg
Serenade, Op. 24
Variations for Orchestra, Op. 31
Prelude and Fugue in E flat major, BWV 552 (arr. A. Schoenberg)
Schmucke dich, O liebe Seele, BWV 654 (orch. A. Schoenberg)
Komm, Gott Schopfer, heiliger Geist, BWV 631 (orch. A. Schoenberg)
Stephen Varcoe (bass), Charles Neidich (clarinet), Alan R. Kay (bass clarinet), Peter Press (mandolin), David Starobin (guitar), Rolf Schulte (violin), Toby Appel (viola) & Fred Sherry (cello)
Twentieth Century Classics Ensemble & Philharmonia Orchestra
Robert Craft



And with more Arnie come!

Arnie and Arnie......

[Mirror Image]

Arnie and Arnie......

Yeah, definitely not that Arnie.

[JBS]

Random snippets of anything involving Melnikov, Faust or Queyras...

I might actually need to get up and list all of their Harmonia Mundi recordings to deal with this bout of insomnia.

This includes my favorite Kreutzer Sonata

[Traverso]

Yeah, definitely not that Arnie.

Arnie has proven that you can go very far in the US with muscle power. As a crazy criminal you can even become president and hold half the population in  your grip. Arnie wasn't that strong..

[Linz]

Mahler Symphony no. 2 with Loren Maazel and The Wiener Philharmonker

[Mirror Image]

Arnie has proven that you can go very far in the US with muscle power. As a crazy criminal you can even become president and hold half the population in  your grip. Arnie wasn't that strong..

Thankfully, Schwarzenegger was California's problem. The only good things to happen to California were the composers that moved there during WWII --- Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Korngold et. al.

[Todd]

Jed Distler's review of Gordis' Bach made me try her Scarlatti first.  The harpsichord sound rates among the least fatiguing, most pleasant I've heard, and in the opener and in several other sonatas, the resonance and microphone placement, instrument, and playing deliver conspire to deliver a harpsichord wall of sound.  Ms Gordis goes her own way.  Sometimes the rhythmic component is groovy, sometimes it seems AWOL, and she sees no reason to play Scarlatti merely quick.  She stretches K402 to well over 13', which rather handily exceeds any version I've heard.  Ms Gordis has ideas.  I will sample the Bach soon.  Maybe she can record some Rameau and Francois Couperin.

[Traverso]

Thankfully, Schwarzenegger was California's problem. The only good things to happen to California were the composers that moved there during WWII --- Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Korngold et. al.

Did you ever heard the Mahler/Maazel recordings with the Wiener Philharmoniker?

[Traverso]

Mahler Symphony no. 2 with Loren Maazel and The Wiener Philharmonker

What is your view on these Maazel recordings?

[Linz]

I have only listened to Maazel's 1st and I listened to that quite a while ago. and I am now listening to the second for the first time now and I find it is quite enjoyable

[Traverso]

I have only listened to Maazel's 1st and I listened to that quite a while ago. and I am now listening to the second for the first time now and I find it is quite enjoyable

I can buy the complete set  rather cheap,I'm doubting what to .do

[Madiel]

Arnie has proven that you can go very far in the US with muscle power. As a crazy criminal you can even become president and hold half the population in  your grip. Arnie wasn't that strong..

Arnie understood the US Constitution.