What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Daverz]

Munch and the Boston SO                                                               [

[Harry]

Georg Philipp Telemann.

Musique de Table. Complete.
Volume I.

Overture in E minor, for 2 flutes, strings & B.C.
Quator in G major, for flute, oboe, violin, & B.C.
Concerto in A major, for flute, violin, violincello, strings, & B.C.

Camerata of the 18th century, conducted by Konrad Hunteler.

Played on original instruments.

Top dog recording and performance. But I said that before!
Nothing to add to that really.

[Harry]

Hans Huber.

Symphonische Einleitung zur oper"Der Simplicius"

Stuttgarter Philharmoniker/Jorg Peter Weigle.

Marvelous piece of music, well played and better recorded as the first symphony.
What joyous, and friendly melodious, great composer for pleasing music, well written IMO.

[Harry]

Hans Huber.

Eine Lustspiel overture opus 50.

Stuttgarter Philharmoniker/Jorg Peter Weigle.

Sumptuous, highly romantic extravaganza and great fun.
He knows how to score a piece such as this.
I like it very much.

[marvinbrown]

   Nice sunny day today in London, I felt Bach would be appropriate:
   
    Listening to these back to back, I am quite confident that Don would approve:
 
   
   


  marvin

[Harry]

You Marvin will get a 10 plus for playing these recordings from our friend Que!

[Harry]

Hans Huber.

Symphony No. 2, opus 115, "Bocklin-Symphonie"

Stuttgarter Philharmoniker/Jorg Peter Weigle.

This is a fine symphony, better structured and scored as the first impressive symphony. Better playing orchestra too, and the recording is indeed more lucid. It creates good and nice images as it should, from the Meeresstille to Prometheus, to the flotende Nymphe, etc. The object of telling a story with this work has succeeded with flying colors. It is filled to the rim with gorgeous melodies.
And always this friendliness and good cheer that surrounds his music like a warm blanket.

[wintersway]

Good morning/day all! Could not face going into the office today. So, I stay home and balm my flagging spirits with beautiful Mendelssohn!

[Harry]

Vagn Holmboe.

Symphony No. 3, "Sinfonia Rustica", opus 25/M126.

Aarhus SO/Owain Arwel Hughes.

In this ongoing search for new composers, I stumble through advice of other posters over this one. I am going through his Symphonies, and enjoying it very much His highly evocative and melodious third is a revelation for me, with such fine internal balance and a steady logical flow of notes, economical written, pleases my ears. I love this work.
Very good sound and a motivated orchestra and conductor.

[Harry]

Good morning/day all! Could not face going into the office today. So, I stay home and balm my flagging spirits with beautiful Mendelssohn!

Good morning my friend to you too!
Fine recording you have there, I like it very much, maybe not so poetical, but a well thought out reading.

[not edward]

[Haffner]

Andy, I really admire your honesty and your ability to say both good and bad things about a recording. These days I rarely love or hate anything completely, but rather have things I enjoy about a recording and things I do not. 

You are, as always, very kind George.


Watching and studying Wagner's "Siegfried" most of today, taking breaks with Kempff's overall-easier-to-listen-to-than-Schnabel renderings of LvB's early-ish-to-mid "name" sonatas.

[Harry]

Goodmorning Andy, hope you are well my friend, and your girl too!

[Choo Choo]

Nanut / LjubljanaSO  in Mahler #1.

Having first encountered this lot in their rackety and "interesting" - but highly enjoyable - Bruckner #8, I wondered if this might bring out their talents better.

[Harry]

Georg Philipp Telemann.

Musique de Table. Complete.

Trio in E flat major for two violins and B.C.
Solo in B minor, for flute and B.C.
Conclusion in E minor for 2 flutes strings and B.C.
Overture-Suite in D major, for oboe, trumpet, strings and B.C.

Camerata of the 18th century/Konrad Hunteler,

Played on original instruments.

Nuff said, bloody marvelous.

[Hector]

Vagn Holmboe.

Symphony No. 3, "Sinfonia Rustica", opus 25/M126.

Aarhus SO/Owain Arwel Hughes.

In this ongoing search for new composers, I stumble through advice of other posters over this one. I am going through his Symphonies, and enjoying it very much His highly evocative and melodious third is a revelation for me, with such fine internal balance and a steady logical flow of notes, economical written, pleases my ears. I love this work.
Very good sound and a motivated orchestra and conductor.

I have this disc, which was bought in an attempt to familiarise myself with the composer, and this is the most approachable music of the three symphonies.

I like him but he is, clearly, no Neilsen and I doubt that I will dip further into this cycle which, I think, has just been reissued by BIS as a complete set.

I cannot imagine better performances and I doubt whether there will ever be any more on CD.

As for me, a 'Danish' composer of a past generation, Kuhlau. German by birth and one-eyed he became one of Denmark's most feted.

This disc is of Schonwandt with the DNSO in the overtures. Lively and tuneful they fairly fly by and leave not one impression afterwards.

One of them is for his opera 'Lulu.'

Did you know the Danes are one of the happiest people on the planet.

Not because they are all spaced out on waccy baccy, either, I am reliably informed.

I shall listen to Bostridge and Pyatt in Britten's 'Serenade' after this. Incredible stuff!

This disc is Schonwan

[Haffner]

Goodmorning Andy, hope you are well my friend, and your girl too!

Best Morning Wishes, Harry and friends!


My Empress Jasmine got a bit overwhelmed by all the Wagner recently. But I'm really lucky, she's a good sport. Considering that she will be marrying a monomaniacal music-obssessive whom at times can also be a recklessly dismissive, impulsive dumbass (me).

[karlhenning]

It is well, Andy, that she knows that Wagner will be a part of the picture, before the wedding 

[Haffner]

It is well, Andy, that she knows that Wagner will be a part of the picture, before the wedding 

I've always admired Wagner in short bits, but I'm coming more into a "deeper" (I know, sorry for the hackneyed vocabulary!) appreciation for his work as a whole.

I made sure to make my way easier by admitted forthrightly to meine Geliebte that Wagner can be excruciatingly boring at times. But she sees also the phenomenal genius of the man.

Yesterday she bought me a wonderful bust of Joseph Haydn that doubles as a wind up music box! It plays one of his major key Serenades (I have actually forced myself not to cheat and figure out for myself which one!).



LvB "Waldstein" Sonata (Kempff)

[Bogey]

Beethoven Symphony No. 6 Furtwängler/BPO (Music & Arts/1944)

Good morning friends.