What are you listening 2 now?

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Papy Oli

Ned Rorem - Spring Music

From the Beaux-Arts Trio box
Olivier

Florestan

Quote from: SonicMan46 on February 06, 2023, 08:19:47 AMWell a new addition to my Czerny collection - Romantic Piano Fantasies, 4-hand piano works w/ Pei-I Wang and Samuel Gingher (who wrote the booklet notes) - description below and reviews attached if interested.  Dave :)

 

This is a fantastic recording.
Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind. — Rossini

Traverso


Todd

The universe is change; life is opinion. - Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

People would rather believe than know - E.O. Wilson

Propaganda death ensemble - Tom Araya

Linz

Hans Rott Had a short life Bruckner attended his funeral and was reported to say the world had lost a great composer He was also a friend of Mahler this disc has his Hamlet Overture, Suite in B flat major, Prelude to 'Julius Cäsar', Suite in E major and pastoral Prelude in F major

Dry Brett Kavanaugh

Hindemith, Strings and Brass. Boston Symphony Orchestra/William Steinberg.





Dry Brett Kavanaugh

#85526
Quote from: pjme on February 06, 2023, 02:29:25 AMEMI France issued this great disc in ca. 1979. For me the highlight is the suite from Mârouf, fun and light exoticism à la française.
But I confess...haven't listened to it in ages...



Rabaud/Bru zane



Love the music!

Dry Brett Kavanaugh

Quote from: Tsaraslondon on February 06, 2023, 01:24:21 AM



A bit of a mixed Stokowski bag, the recording quality being somewhat variable. The concluding Marche Slave is terrific though.


Why is Stokowski unpopular on GMG?

Tsaraslondon

Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on February 06, 2023, 09:06:21 AMWhy is Stokowski unpopular on GMG?

I wasn't aware he was. I was talking more about the recordings than the performances.
\"A beautiful voice is not enough.\" Maria Callas

Dry Brett Kavanaugh

Quote from: Tsaraslondon on February 06, 2023, 09:18:08 AMI wasn't aware he was. I was talking more about the recordings than the performances.

Perhaps I should've said 'non-popular.'

Tsaraslondon



Adams: Lollapalooza
Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
Bernstein: Prelude, Fugue & Riffs
Milhaud: La création du monde
Stravinsky: Ebony Concerto
Hindemith: Ragtime
Antheil: A Jazz Symphony
Raksin: Theme from The Bad and The Beautiful

A great compilation of jazz influenced works.
\"A beautiful voice is not enough.\" Maria Callas

Tsaraslondon

Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on February 06, 2023, 09:19:59 AMPerhaps I should've said 'non-popular.'

I don't know if that's the case or not. I'm a bit of fan myself.
\"A beautiful voice is not enough.\" Maria Callas

Roasted Swan


Dry Brett Kavanaugh

Quote from: Roasted Swan on February 06, 2023, 09:24:05 AMI wasn't aware he was either!

Perhaps I should've said I don't know what I'm talking about.

Papy Oli

Quote from: Tsaraslondon on February 06, 2023, 09:20:35 AM

Adams: Lollapalooza
Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
Bernstein: Prelude, Fugue & Riffs
Milhaud: La création du monde
Stravinsky: Ebony Concerto
Hindemith: Ragtime
Antheil: A Jazz Symphony
Raksin: Theme from The Bad and The Beautiful

A great compilation of jazz influenced works.

I'll have to stream that one, it's intriguing and all new for me, beside the Gershwin and the Milhaud.
Olivier

Lisztianwagner

The first part was very thrilling, frightfully beautiful; now, on youtube:

Luigi Dallapiccola
Ulisse, act 2^

Lorin Maazel & Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin


"Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire." - Gustav Mahler

Mandryka




I just think it is the most unbelievably refined, nuanced and delicate piano playing. I don't care about the interpretation, she can make great sounds come out of that piece of furniture. @Todd - try it!
Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muss man schweigen

Maestro267

So you do care about the interpretation. The comments you made are exactly about the interpretation.

Karl Henning

Quote from: Spotted Horses on February 06, 2023, 07:49:05 AMI think Todd recently reported listening to it and didn't hate it.

Thomson was my first exposure to the music, and I liked it enough to be hooked on Martinu. But when I heard Valek I found it brought out a lyrical, rhapsodic character in the music, which I enjoyed. Thomson puts an emphasis on dramatic aspects which, to my ear, makes the Martinu symphonies sound more conventionally symphonic. The other standard recommendation is Belohlávek/BBC, but I found the audio quality unsatisfactory, sort of artificial sounding to my ear. I'm looking forward to listening to Belohlávek/Czech Phil (although there isn't a complete cycle).
Most interesting, thanks.

TD:

CD 45

Tchaikovsky
Symphony № 5 in e minor, Op. 64

Philharmonic Society of New York (New York Philharmonic)

recorded 27 Mar 1954
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

Traverso

Ockeghem


Missa Maistresse
A solus ortus cardine
O sidus Hispanie
Gaude Maria
Venit ad Petrum
Missa Caput