What are you listening 2 now?

[Que]

Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov, death scene (Boris Christoff, bass). After I watched the entire opera a few weeks ago, a friend sent me this clip from 1956, which is quite touching.

Beautiful. Which performance did you watch? 

[AnotherSpin]

If it's any consolation: this has been the only issue I have encountered in the series that I consider to be a dud...

Apart from the fact that I avoided the cello concertos by Christophe Coin. I'm not a big fan and there are other good alternative recordings around.

What do you think of Christophe Coin's recordings of Bach Cantatas?

[hopefullytrusting]

Following the Viola da Gamba path,

Graun's Concerto for Viola da Gama in A major: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52mqODi2hEU
Gamba Rivalry (de Machy, Forqueray, Marais): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUlChTX_I80
Lange's Viola da Gamba No. 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-pBSifT2pU

[Mandryka]

Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov, death scene (Boris Christoff, bass). After I watched the entire opera a few weeks ago, a friend sent me this clip from 1956, which is quite touching.

The last time I saw this, it was really intense at that point  -- one of the most magical operatic moments I've experienced, the whole theatre, 2,200 people,  rapt intensely. And then, right the peak of introspection and emotion, erect hairs on  the back of everyone's neck, some sort of alarm on the phone of a person behind me went off.

[Madiel]

Just starting, we'll see if I can do the whole thing:



It's more than 5 years since I last listened to the Hyperion version, so there won't be a sense of direct comparison. It was funny to discover, though, that the liner notes about the piece are written by the same person and almost identical.

The Naive version spills across 3 discs because it's a little longer, so they can't manage a neat split between Parts one and two of the work. Ah well.

[brewski]

Beautiful. Which performance did you watch? 

Oh, the Dutch National Opera with some group called the Concertgebouw in the pit (     ). A few weeks ago they released this performance on OperaVision — not live, but recorded in July. The production is fantastic, a technical marvel, but I wasn't as moved by the death scene as I was in that 1956 film excerpt. PS, I know there are a few different versions of the opera, and don't know which one the DNO used; I gather the endings vary considerably.

[Que]

Oh, the Dutch National Opera with some group called the Concertgebouw in the pit (     ).

Does ring a bell, vaguely... 

It is much to their credit that they do occasionally these opera productions. The members of the orchestra seem to hugely enjoy it.

Thnx for that! 

PS I've now seen a couple of productions with this "doll house" staging. It does get a bit old...

[brewski]

Does ring a bell, vaguely... 

It is much to their credit that they do occasionally these opera productions. The members of the orchestra seem to hugely enjoy it.

Thnx for that! 

PS I've now seen a couple of productions with this "doll house" staging. It does get a bit old...

Yes, I imagine some of the musicians might have never played the score before. In a similar musing, I love hearing the MET Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, where they play things they never get to perform at the opera house. ("Yay, we finally get to play a Brahms symphony.")

In any case, in this "Boris," both they and the singers are superb, with Vasily Petrenko leading the charge.

And I know what you mean about this staging concept, which does seem to be cropping up a lot lately. That said, this one offered an impressive level of detail. Within each of the little cubicles, designed to evoke small apartments, were individual lighting fixtures, working TVs, and other items — really, the electrical crew must have had their hands full.

[Mister Sharpe]

Craved a hearing of Fauré's Cantique de Jean Racine. Most of my CDs are boxed-up and inaccessible right now, so ventured to YouTube and found Voces8's splendid performance.  Not my favorite, but so beautifully done and with such astonishing clarity, I feel I may be making a mistake about that! I discovered this work more than thirty years ago, immediately fell in love and to such an extent that I copied out Racine's elegant words and tucked them into my wallet where they still reside though little more than woodpulp now! Miraculously, no conversion occurred... The comments from folk who wonder why they've never heard this are amusing; if they lived in France they surely would have.     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g16zSj6Ynko&list=RDg16zSj6Ynko&start_radio=1

[Linz]

Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 8 in C Minor, 890 Version. Ed. Leopold Nowak
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Eugen Jochum

[Linz]

Joseph Haydn Symphonies Volume  6 CD 1
Symphony No.26 in D minor 'Lamentatione'
Symphony No.42 in D major
The Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood

[Linz]

Théodore Gouvy Symphony No. 1 in E flat major, Op. 9
Symphony No. 2 in F major, Op. 12
Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern, Jacques Mercier

[DavidW]

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Ravel piano works. Larissa Dedova.

[Lisztianwagner]

Gustav Mahler
Rückert-Lieder

Christa Ludwig (mezzo-soprano)
Herbert von Karajan & Berliner Philharmoniker

[Linz]

Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, 1868 Linz version - Ed. Thomas Roeder
Staatskapelle Dresden, Christian Thielemann

[Linz]

Dimitri Shostakovitch Symphony No. 8 in C minor, Op. 65
Dresdner Philharmonie, Michael Sanderling

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Beethoven Sy 5 and 8. Markevitch.

[Linz]

Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, 1894 Original Version. Ed. Leopold Nowak
RIAS-Sinfonie Orchester, Georg-Ludwig Jochum

[Karl Henning]

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