What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[listener]

SHOSTAKOVICH arr. Levon Atovmyan    Ballet - (pastische)  The Lady and the Hooligan   (1963)
created from the Ballet Suites 1 & 4, The Bolt, The Limpid Stream, The Gadfly, songs and the cello sonata
                                                             Ballet Suite 2
Minsk Symphony Orch.    Walter Mnatskakanov, cond.
SHCHEDRIN:  Anna Karenina  - Ballet in 3 Acts (1971)
Bolshoi Theatre Orch.     Yuri Simonov, cond.
expensive to stage, requires an on-stage brass band and chamber orch.

[madaboutmahler]

Yes, it is very good, although I don't own any other recordings. The EMI box isn't coming yet, either, since there seems to be some trouble with Amazon and my bank account.

Then I highly recommend the Chailly to you. Really really excellent recording.

Hope your EMI box arrives soon!

[Lisztianwagner]

Now:
Symphony No.4

[Karl Henning]

“Il prete rosso”
Concerto for Viola d’amore in D, RV392
Concerto for Viola d’amore in d minor, RV395
Catherine Mackintosh, soloist & director
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

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[Drasko]

[madaboutmahler]

Finally, school exams over, for now at least! Finally free from revision, so am very keen to get back to listening and composing with my life!
Have a nice long list of things I want to listen to tommorow once back from the academy, but for now:
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Nocturne no.1 op 48 (the C Minor one)
Absolutely beautiful. Am learning to play it myself at the moment, so very difficult! One of my favourite Chopin nocturnes.

[Holden]

I'm in the other camp from Todd on this one as I think it is somewhat better than the DG he made ten years later. Better piano tone aside, this is far more thoughtful than its successor and apart from Op 10/1, just as technically brilliant. There are many similarities between it and Ashkenazy's first incarnation, also played as a very young man.

[North Star]

Then I highly recommend the Chailly to you. Really really excellent recording.

Hope your EMI box arrives soon!

The Chailly would be excellent for sure, but, and now don't take this personally , I think I could use my money more wisely than splurging on Mahler boxes before I've even listened to the ones I've already bought. Actually, the Chailly set would probably have been my box of choice, but I need the song cycles in the EMI set.

[Lisztianwagner]

Nocturne no.1 op 48 (the C Minor one)
Absolutely beautiful. Am learning to play it myself at the moment, so very difficult! One of my favourite Chopin nocturnes.

Great choice; Ashkenazy is really superb in Chopin

[nesf]

Beethoven - Serenade for Flute and Piano Op. 41




So, so much music I've never heard in this box. It's going to be good.

[Sadko]

First:



then:

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and now:

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[Conor71]

Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 In C Major, Op. 21


I've only listened to this cycle once since buying it over a year ago so time to revisit it - I will be enjoying this set throughout the weekend and next week I think!.

[Sadko]

Interesting.   What do you think of them?

I am just beginnig with Boris Tchaikovsky. The colourful cover of the Andersen tales caught my attention a little while ago, and I found the music very colourful too, and attractive.

After the next two disks I think I can say I caught fire, I find a lot of beauty in the music, it is so imaginative and keeps involving me. IMO the highlight on disk two is the "Murmuring Forest Suite". And I like Naxos' spacious but clear sound recording.

The Tchajkovsky piece on the first disk, "The Last Spring", is a cycle of poems for voice, flute, clarinet, and piano. Without understanding the words these pieces were less interesting to me, I would consider the Sviridov the major piece of this CD.

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Now listening to

Shchedrin: Anna Karenina (Simonov)

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Thanks to the reminder by listener

[nesf]

Symphony No. 6

[TheGSMoeller]

Listening to two new discs that just arrived...

 

[Bogey]

[TheGSMoeller]

Lieutenant Kije suite with baritone Andreas Schmidt singing on Romance and Troika movements, this is the only version I've heard with the baritone in the suite, it gives the suite such an added depth, not that it really needed it. This is the same performance in the Ozawa Symphonies set.

[nesf]

Concerto No. 5 "Emperor"



Have been trying to give this piece more time and subject it to some critical listening. It's a good test of my concentration and it's a nice piece to do this to.

[Mirror Image]

Indeed!

I saw the message, sorry for not having answered immediately; the set is really beautiful and impressive, Neumann seems to be completely inside Martinu's music, and the Czech Philharmonic is absolutely superb! Yesterday I listened to the first two symphonies in a row, and No.3 this morning; I'm looking forward to having a listen to the rest of the set too.
Thank you for suggesting me it!

Awesome, Ilaria! I'm glad you're enjoying the music!

[Mirror Image]

Now:

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Listening to Foreign Bodies. Great music and performance.