What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Lisztianwagner]

On Youtube, now:

Michael Tippett
Concerto for Double String Orchestra - Adagio

Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields
Neville Marriner

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Was the police siren in response to the profanity?

Ah, no apparently there was a riot scene with gun shots and then the police show up. The profanity was said earlier in the opera.

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On Youtube, now:

Michael Tippett
Concerto for Double String Orchestra - Adagio

Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields
Neville Marriner

Lovely ain't it?

[Conor71]

Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 1 In Db Major, Op. 10

Listening to Disc 1 of this set: Piano Concertos Nos. 1, 2 & 4

[franz65]

very interesting IMHO

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rBhkSrWGnM

[Lisztianwagner]

Lovely ain't it?

Definitely, it's a work of great beauty, rather impressive; I will look for the other movements too.

[classicalgeek]

I heard so many negative stories about performance and recording, that I refrained from buying, you obviously are not very enthusiastic either.

Yes - in general, I would say that this set isn't worth an expenditure, unless you can find it very cheap.  Some of Balakirev's piano music is worthwhile - there are better performances of the Scherzos and Mazurkas on Marco Polo by Joseph Banowetz.  And of course, there is Islamey, which is available from many different pianists!

[mc ukrneal]

Yes - in general, I would say that this set isn't worth an expenditure, unless you can find it very cheap.  Some of Balakirev's piano music is worthwhile - there are better performances of the Scherzos and Mazurkas on Marco Polo by Joseph Banowetz.  And of course, there is Islamey, which is available from many different pianists!

There were two discs on ASV performed by Nicholas Walker. It's not complete, but I think it's pretty good. And I like the covers too! Finding it may be a problem nowadays though. There was a recent disc just issued on Hyperion performed by Danny Driver - but I have not heard that yet.

[classicalgeek]

There were two discs on ASV performed by Nicholas Walker. It's not complete, but I think it's pretty good. And I like the covers too! Finding it may be a problem nowadays though. There was a recent disc just issued on Hyperion performed by Danny Driver - but I have not heard that yet.

Nice.  Both added to my wish list!

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Now:

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Listening to the Piano Concerto. A great work.

[TheGSMoeller]

Good afternoon all 

first listen to this work :

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Absolutely great music, and a great performance, what's you take on it, Papy?

Thread duty...just landed today for a first listen of this disc..

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I have better performances of these pieces, and the sound quality is suspect to distortion, mainly with the singers hitting in the higher range...but they are still very passionate and spirited performances, even with a little artistic freedom taken on some of the more well-known songs. The most interesting aspect is the use of The Virginal/Muselar. Most, if not all, of my Dowland recordings use a Lute or viols to either accompany or perform a piece. Much of this disc offers the Virginal/Muselar, sometimes on it's own and other times along side a Lute. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone looking for their first Dowland recording, but I'm still enjoying it.

[classicalgeek]

Winding down another work week with some Ives:

Charles Ives
Central Park in the Dark
Seiji Ozawa; Boston SO

[TheGSMoeller]

Winding down another work week with some Ives:

Charles Ives
Central Park in the Dark
Seiji Ozawa; Boston SO

That was the disc where I first heard the 4th, Ozawa's version may not be seen as the best (I personally prefer Dohnanyi/Cleveland for that title) but the third movement fugue is perfectly balanced, I like to really hear the trombones and clarinets cut through the strings in the final minute and they really do with Ozawa's.

[Todd]

Up to the penultimate disc (cello works by Debussy, Chopin, and Franck).  Notably above average stuff from a notably above average box set.

[Conor71]

Mendelssohn: String Quartet No. 3 In D Major, Op. 44/1

Performers: Bartok Quartet

[kishnevi]

tonight's Battle of the Big Bach Boxes  finds us listening to
St. Matthew Passion--Concentus Musicus Wien, et al.  Harnoncourt cond.

I thought that Rilling produced the better St John Passion, but tonight I'm finding that Harnoncourt has the better St. Matthew Passion,  both for emotional commitment and musical performance--

                      except

that Harnoncourt uses boy sopranos for both solos and choral movements.  I don't particularly like boy sopranos--it's the timbre, essentially, sounding too shrieky and shallow breathed for me--and that allergy to trebles impairs my enjoyment of this performance.  (And given how this set makes use of boy sopranos in the cantatas, I may find it heavy going there!)

[kishnevi]

Symphony no. 3, op. 27 "Song of the Night" (25:26)
for tenor solo, chorus & orchestra

Steve Davislim, tenor
Singverein der Gesellschaft
der Musikfreunde Wien
Chorus Master, Johannes Prinz
Wiener Philharmoniker
Pierre Boulez, cond.

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I had mixed feelings about that recording.  I'd be interested on your take, if you don't mind.

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Inspired by a post in the classical chat thread, now listening to:

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Listening to Butterworth's The Banks of Green Willow.

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Now:



Listening to VL's Uirapuru. A fine work.

[Sadko]

Apparently a promotional CD I found (added) in another CD box I bought:

Brahms

Paganini variations
Schumann variations

Colette Fernier

recorded: Paris 1986



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