What are you listening 2 now?

[Karl Henning]

The Strauss operas Salome and Elektra are not necessarily for the faint of heart, Karl. 

Good day to you too, good sir. It is a good one here. I hope that you are doing well. I will be in contact with you, privately, soon. 

It's a lovely day. All the fam at home.

[Karl Henning]

Oh, and this is exactly what my ears needed this morning, the BWV 534 in particular

[Mapman]

Yes, I believe that it is one of the better versions of this work that I have heard, Jan.
I will, some time in the future, do an A/B comparison between this Holliger version and that one with him under the baton of de Waart.

I hope you post the results of that comparison here! I have the version with de Waart, and I don't think it is one of my favorites. It's interesting to see how much everyone likes Holliger's other recording.

[Traverso]

Oh, and this is exactly what my ears needed this morning, the BWV 534 in particular

You must be in heaven....

[Karl Henning]

You must be in heaven....

Verily, Jan. Hope you're having a good day!

[Karl Henning]

"Papa"
String Quartet in D Op. 33 № 6, Hob. III:42
Festetics

JSB
BWV 20: Cantata № 20, « O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort »

[Lisztianwagner]

Sergei Rachmaninov
Symphonic Dances

[Todd]

More RVW from Previn.  The Second sounds quite lovely.  The accompanying works sound meh.

[Karl Henning]

Sergei Rachmaninov
Symphonic Dances

Nice, Ilaria!

[Karl Henning]

Why, yes, it's been entirely too long:

Bartók
String Quartet № 1, Op. 7, Sz. 40
The Keller Quartet

[Karl Henning]

JSB
BWV 21: Cantata № 21, « ich hatte viel Bekümmernis »

[Lisztianwagner]

Nice, Ilaria!

Good evening, Karl! Yes, Ashkenazy's Rachmaninov is absolutely incredible, no doubt.

Now:
Sergei Rachmaninov
Symphony No. 3

[VonStupp]

Frederick Delius
Sea Drift
Songs of Farewell
Songs of Sunset

Sally Burgess, mezzo / Bryn Terfel, baritone
Waynflete Singers / Southern Voices

Bournemouth SO & Chorus - Richard Hickox

For this afternoon:

Not much of a Delius fan, but thought I would give this recording a go. I last heard Janet Baker & John Shirley-Quirk in Songs of Sunset.

There is a wonderful quote in the liner notes which describes that Delius' music is for

"[...]musical isolates who are born decadents and life's melancholics at the same time" - Hans Hyams (1913)

It certainly sums up this music for me, although I think Sea Drift is particularly excellent.

VS

[Linz]

Brahms German Requiem Otto Klemperer

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Ernesto Halffter: Rapsodia Portuguesa. Leaper/Gran Canaria.



 

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Oh, and this is exactly what my ears needed this morning, the BWV 534 in particular

Nice!

[Que]

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Sonatas 22-26 by: Andrew Willis, Zvi Meniker, David Breitman, Tom Beghin and Bart van Oort.

[vers la flamme]

Gustav Mahler: Symphony No.3 in D minor. Bernard Haitink, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks

Amazing performance; probably my favorite.

[Madiel]

I've always wished l could have performed the work back when l was playing... and yet, the regret is tempered by the slightest sense of having ( possibly ) dodged a bullet, because of what happened to Bill Bennett, the long- time principal oboe of the San Francisco Symphony:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Bennett_(oboist)

The first phrase for the soloist is fifty-seven bars in length, with no written breaks. Most oboists simply insert breaths at natural points, though Holliger employed circular breathing in his first recording ( l haven't heard the present recording ).

Of course, it is probable that Mr. Bennett would have eventually met the same fate, while tending his garden, or shopping, or playing something utterly undemanding. But since l had to stop playing back in the '90's because of pain in my head, l've always wondered if l wouldn't have had something similar occur had l performed the Strauss...

As a teenage oboist I'm aware of the dangerous nature of the instrument...

[Karl Henning]

As a teenage oboist I'm aware of the dangerous nature of the instrument...

I Was a Teenage Double-Reed Player! With Sal Mineo & Jim Bacchus ....