What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Opus106]

And to any and all Catholics and Anglicans,  have  a happy Circumcision.   

(Non Catholics, see the eighth day after December 25, remember that Jesus was a good Jewish boy, and then look up an older Catholic festal calender)

I'm not joking when I say that I'd been meaning to look up what this work was all about:

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I guess I know now.

TD: Getting to the transcription of the Op. 24 Preludes to vn & p just now.

[The new erato]

Finishing up the last two discs of this:

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[kishnevi]

I'm not joking when I say that I'd been meaning to look up what this work was all about:

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I guess I know now.

TD: Getting to the transcription of the Op. 24 Preludes to vn & p just now.

The Catholic Church has replaced it with another feast, but it used to be important, and still is for conservative Catholics; as one explained to me, it marks the first time Jesus shed his blood, and therefore  prefigures the Passion and Crucifixion.

[The new erato]

Then the V-W disc on this:

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Marvellous songs.

[Willoughby earl of Itacarius]

Christmas Cheer.

Musik zur Weinachtszeit.

A beautiful disc, recorded by NCA in 1995, which is a state of the art recording no less.

Janet Whitmore Johnson, Soprano.
Konrad Other, Violin.
Hans Joachim Scheitzbach, Cello.
Klaus & Rainer Feldmann, Guitars.

[Lisztianwagner]

Richard Wagner
Tannhäuser



Happy New Year to everyone!!

[Karl Henning]

Дмитри Дмитриевич [ Dmitri Dmitriyevich (Shostakovich) ]
Music for the Kozintsev film Hamlet, Op.116/Op.116a
Russian Philharmonic Orchestra
Дмитрий Альбертович [ Dmitri Albertovich (Yablonsky) ]

The CD cover art BTW is not from the film ; )

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[KeithW]

I caught Chailly's Bruckner 9 on the radio (Sirius Symphony Hal) - came home and dug out the Rattle recording

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Дмитри Дмитриевич [ Dmitri Dmitriyevich (Shostakovich) ]
Music for the Kozintsev film Hamlet, Op.116/Op.116a
Russian Philharmonic Orchestra
Дмитрий Альбертович [ Dmitri Albertovich (Yablonsky) ]

The CD cover art BTW is not from the film ; )

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Nice! I have this on the listening pile along with many other recordings that I haven't gotten to yet. You've spoke before of your admiration of this work or was it Macbeth, Karl?

[Karl Henning]

No, you're right, John: this one, Hamlet (1964), and King Lear (1970).

[Opus106]

Wagner laid bare (no, not what you're thinking)

http://www.youtube.com/v/9wpwL0EWSa0

Even though at one level this shouldn't be, this reduction is immensely 'listenable'. I don't mind the lack of mush at all (although mush is great where appropriate).

Please recommend recordings of piano transcriptions of Wagner (apart from the Gould, of course), if you would.

[Lisztianwagner]

Please recommend recordings of piano transcriptions of Wagner (apart from the Gould, of course), if you would.

Liszt's piano transcriptions from Wagner's operas are awesome. There's also an excellent arrangement of the prelude of Die Meistersinger played by Wilhelm Backhaus.

[SonicMan46]

Stradella, Alessandro (1639-1682) - Chamber Works w/ many performers - a re-issue of recordings from 1971; 4-CD set - purchase prompted by a review in the Am Record Guide (Jan-Feb 2013) which is attached; the reviewer's comments were nebulous at times but seemed to be recommending the package - 

I've been listening to these throughout the day, and really do not notice the issues in the review as being a problem; for 40+ yr recordings, the sound is excellent; these are the precursors of the violin trio sonatas to emerge so abundantly in the later Baroque, so certainly of historic interest.  Stradella (my first exposure) was largely a 'vocal' composer, the instrumental music here represents virtually all that he composed in this genre.  I would assume he would have written more, but he was an amorous chap who was murdered in his early 40s! 

[Conor71]

Ligeti: Requiem


Good morning all and happy new year - currently playing the ligeti work and after this I will play Disc 1 of the Varese set.

[listener]

Wagner laid bare (no, not what you're thinking)

Please recommend recordings of piano transcriptions of Wagner (apart from the Gould, of course), if you would.

Rather unexpected were Hugo WOLF's Die Meistersinger and Die Walküre paraphrases. (Hugaroton HCD 32 466), but performances on that disc are careful, not bombastic.  Michael Ponti recorded MOSZKOWSKI's Venusberg Bachanale and Isolde's Death, TAUSIG's Ride of the Valkyries and BRASSIN's Feuerzauber from Die Walküre.  (VOX BOX CDX 5047).
side note: There seems to be no recording of Saint-Saëns Paraphrase of Massenet's La Mort de Thaïs, even in the old Vox Boxes.

[Coopmv]

Now playing CD2 from the following set for a first listen ...

[PaulR]

on my new headphones....
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[Gold Knight]

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart--Symphony No.39 in E-Flat Major, K.543, Symphony No.40 in G Minor, K.550 and Symphony No.41 in C Major, K.551 {"Jupiter"}. All three works are performed by the Berliner Philharmoniker under Herbert von Karajan's baton.
Robert Schumann--Symphony No.4 in D Minor, Op.120, on this occasion once again featuring Maestro Karajan, this time leading the Vienna Philharmonic.

[Karl Henning]

Now playing CD2 from the following set for a first listen ...

Nielsen is a great way to ring in the new year!

[PaulR]

I guess I'll participate in the SQ month.....
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