What are you listening 2 now?

[AnotherSpin]

Op. 106

[Karl Henning]

Is it a Hearse?

Happily not!

[Spotted Horses]

I'm not sure when I first heard Chopin. (There's the odd chance that the c minor Prelude was the first Chopin I was aware of ... and a former girlfriend and Barry Manilow figure in there.) The Prelude to Die Meistersinger was an early classical piece I was aware of.

First Chopin heard was a transcription of the 1st Ballade performed by Itzak Perlman and some pianist, in public television. It remains my favorite piece by Chopin, although I am not much of a Chopin enthusiast.

[Todd]

Op 130, sans Op 133.

[Papy Oli]

Mozart
Piano Concerto #12
Perahia, English Chamber Orch.

 

[Mapman]

Boccherini: Symphony #23 in D Minor, G517, Op. 37/3
Pople: London Festival Orchestra

A bit too repetitive for me.

[Lisztianwagner]

Johannes Brahms
Symphony No. 3

Otto Klemperer & Philharmonia Orchestra

[VonStupp]

Richard Wagner
Polonia, WWV 39
Rule Britannia, WWV 42
Imperial March, WWV 104
American Centennial March, WWV, 110

Any of these marches could be cut in half, and still get the point across.

However, I was pleasantly surprised by the playing of the Hong Kong PO; I never know when trying out these Marco Polo reissues.
VS


Kaiser Wilhelm I, Gottlieb Bierman

[classicalgeek]

Franck
*Les Djinns
*Symphonic Variations
#Psyche
Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liege
*Cedric Tiberghien, piano
*Francois-Xavier Roth
#Gergely Madaras
(on CD)

Next up in this box:

[Cato]

Franck
*Les Djinns
*Symphonic Variations
#Psyche
Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liege
*Cedric Tiberghien, piano
*Francois-Xavier Roth
#Gergely Madaras
(on CD)

Next up in this box:

Today is Cesar Franck Day!   

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony No 5 in B Flat Minor, 1878 Version Ed. Leopold Nowak - No significant difference to Haas, Lorin Maazel, Wiener Philharmoniker

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Richard Wagner
Polonia, WWV 39
Rule Britannia, WWV 42
Imperial March, WWV 104
American Centennial March, WWV, 110

Any of these marches could be cut in half, and still get the point across.

However, I was pleasantly surprised by the playing of the Hong Kong PO; I never know when trying out these Marco Polo reissues.
VS


Kaiser Wilhelm I, Gottlieb Bierman

They recorded Mayuzumi and Glazunov as well.

[JBS]

I'm not sure when I first heard Chopin. (There's the odd chance that the c minor Prelude was the first Chopin I was aware of ... and a former girlfriend and Barry Manilow figure in there.) The Prelude to Die Meistersinger was an early classical piece I was aware of.

The first Chopin I remember hearing in my childhood was Barbra Streisand's version of the Minute Waltz. Fortunately that did not deter me from music. (Actually it's not that bad. But it is a good deal more Barbra than it is Chopin.)

TD

Literally timeless: the track listings lack timings. The previous issue in this serious did the same thing.

The Fourth Symphony comes across very well in this arrangement.

TD

[Karl Henning]

The first Chopin I remember hearing in my childhood was Barbra Streisand's version of the Minute Waltz. Fortunately that did not deter me from music. (Actually it's not that bad. But it is a good deal more Barbra than it is Chopin.)

TD

Literally timeless: the track listings lack timings. The previous issue in this serious did the same thing.

The Fourth Symphony comes across very well in this arrangement.

TD

Oh, that's the ticket,  the Minute Waltz makes an appearance in a Warner Brothers short with Bugs Bunny.

[Mapman]

Mahler: Symphony #1
Muti: Philadelphia

A nice performance of a great work.

[Brian]

They recorded Mayuzumi and Glazunov as well.

How is Mayuzumi? What would you compare him to?

The Fourth Symphony comes across very well in this arrangement.

How do they manage the intro? Does the piano play the first (wind) chord and then strings come in? Do the strings play the first chord since it has to be sustained?

Mahler: Symphony #1
Muti: Philadelphia

A nice performance of a great work.

Wow the fashion choices   

[JBS]

How do they manage the intro? Does the piano play the first (wind) chord and then strings come in? Do the strings play the first chord since it has to be sustained?

I don't remember precisely; but the introductory section is essentially the piano playing with comments and interjections by the violin and 'cello (mostly the violin).

TD

[SimonNZ]

[JBS]

I don't remember precisely; but the introductory section is essentially the piano playing with comments and interjections by the violin and 'cello (mostly the violin).

@Brian

Replaying that opening:
All three instruments participate in the first chord, with the strings holding their notes as the piano plays melody.
The piano is not quite as dominant in that first section as I remembered it.

[steve ridgway]

Stravinsky: The Rite Of Spring