What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Lisztianwagner]

Mahler appears to be dominating the listening thread!!!   

And to think the great Carlos Kleiber called Mahler's music a "neurotic mess".......

[North Star]

Janácek
Pohádka (Fairy Tale)
Christopher van Kampen (cello) & Paul Crossley (piano)
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[Sadko]

And to think the great Carlos Kleiber called Mahler's music a "neurotic mess".......

Although I don't agree I can understand someone thinking so

[Lisztianwagner]

Although I don't agree I can understand someone thinking so

[Ataraxia]

And to think the great Carlos Kleiber called Mahler's music a "neurotic mess".......

Smart guy.

[Karl Henning]

Did he say it, like it was a bad thing?

[Karl Henning]

Smart guy.

Wise guy ; )

[Sergeant Rock]

Yes, I suppose they would have chosen better recordings for the 6th symphony, the Bernstein or the Solti would have been the top for me...

I agree about the Abbado 6th too... not one of my favourites. I don't know the Sinopoli yet (the box set is still awaiting me on the listening pile...) but would rather assign the 6th to Solti, or Bernstein.

Yeah, those would be two of my top choices too (Solti has been, in the Rock household, number one for 40 years) but DG went for a different conductor for each symphony. That's why I simply swapped Sinopoli and Abbado, leaving Bernstein with 5 and Solti with 8.

Edit: Hmmmm....better yet: Abbado 7, Solti 6, Sinopoli 8. They should have had me on board 

Sarge

[Sergeant Rock]

And to think the great Carlos Kleiber called Mahler's music a "neurotic mess".......

Well, like Mahler himself, it kinda is (see my signature quote  )

Sarge

[madaboutmahler]

World domination!

YES!!!!! The day has come!!! 

And to think the great Carlos Kleiber called Mahler's music a "neurotic mess".......

And to think I once had great admiration and respect for that conductor.... 
(assuming he meant it in a bad way....)

Smart guy.

David?!!!!   

[listener]

FOERSTER 3 Piano Trios: no. 1 in f op. 8, no. 2 in B^b op. 38, no. 3 in a op.105
The Foerster Trio: Aleš Bilek, piano  Stanislav Srp, violin (1, 2), František Pospíšil violin(3), Václav Jírovec, cello
MASON Chanticleer - Festival Overture    PORTER Dance in Three-Time   CARPENTER Sea Drift
HADLEY Scherzo Diabolique
Albany Symphony Orch.    Julius Hegyi, cond.
There's an odd 2-page cut in the Carpenter (pages 15-16), not the toughest part of the work which calls for tempo changes in almost every other bar and 3 against 2 throughout so conductor and players have to be continually alert to each other.
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[Lethevich]

Ivo-Jan Van der Werff. Dat name. Dat name.

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A valuable disc, somebody needs to licence and reissue it.

[madaboutmahler]

Yeah, those would be two of my top choices too (Solti has been, in the Rock household, number one for 40 years) but DG went for a different conductor for each symphony. That's why I simply swapped Sinopoli and Abbado, leaving Bernstein with 5 and Solti with 8.

Edit: Hmmmm....better yet: Abbado 7, Solti 6, Sinopoli 8. They should have had me on board 

Sarge

A different conductor for each symphony? hmmm... better yet: no.5: Chailly, no.6: Solti, no.8. Sinopoli. and Bernstein for no.3.

[Ataraxia]

David?!!!!   

Someone has to play the Anti-Mahler. 

[Sergeant Rock]

A different conductor for each symphony? hmmm... better yet: no.5: Chailly, no.6: Solti, no.8. Sinopoli. and Bernstein for no.3.

Works for me. I prefer Chailly to Bernstein in 5...and Bernstein's 3 is one of the great ones 

Sarge

[madaboutmahler]

Someone has to play the Anti-Mahler. 

No they don't!

Works for me. I prefer Chailly to Bernstein in 5...and Bernstein's 3 is one of the great ones 

Sarge

Yes, Chailly is my favourite 5th. Bernstein's is great too though of course. Bernstein's 3rd is rather unmatched for me... I wonder who this would leave us for the 10th? Daniel Harding perhaps? That is on DG isn't it? I haven't heard it yet...

[Lisztianwagner]

Did he say it, like it was a bad thing?

And to think I once had great admiration and respect for that conductor.... 
(assuming he meant it in a bad way....)

Well, Kleiber didn't love Mahler's music very much, although he recorded Das Lied von der Erde.

[Sergeant Rock]

No they don't!

Yes, Chailly is my favourite 5th. Bernstein's is great too though of course. Bernstein's 3rd is rather unmatched for me... I wonder who this would leave us for the 10th? Daniel Harding perhaps? That is on DG isn't it? I haven't heard it yet...

Yeah, Harding is on DG with the Vienna Phil. I heard that combo live, actually, in Frankfurt. Liked it then but I haven't heard their recording. Since I'm not too fond of Chailly's Tenth, I wouldn't be sad to see it go.

Sarge

[Sergeant Rock]

Did he say it, like it was a bad thing?

Exactly...Mahler is messed up in a good way...like several women I dated in my youth

Sarge

[mahler10th]

I need to listen to more of Grainger. There's an attractive looking set on Chandos that I'll probably get. I remember The Warriors being a good work, but it's been quite some time since I heard it. By the way, Daniel, have you received any of the CDs you ordered yet? I'm looking forward to reading your reaction to that Schermerhorn VL set you bought, which I have really enjoyed.

I am not a huge fan of Grainger.  GMG mag illustrates another GMGer who feels the same way.  I think he's lightweight and just plain 'not good enough' - good, though, for writing television music or something.  Anyway, having lambasted Grainger, I'm listening to this:

Shostakovich 2
Haitink
RCO

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Very satisfying.