What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Conor71]

many GMGers cringe when mentioning either Perlman and Barenboim

Not me - love these Guys!

[Conor71]

Stockhausen: Wach


Continuing with the modern classical this evening - these works are probably at about the limits of my appreciation

[dyn]

Electroacoustic stuff.



It's good. will analyse when not so completely lost in it. >.>
(Rios del Sueno in particular simply drowns you in sound, to the point where it's almost impossible to think about anything else...)

[Conor71]

Ligeti: Aventures


Ive grown to like this work - very original and witty! Also on this Disc: Cello Concerto and Chamber Concerto.

[Opus106]

Electroacoustic stuff.

Here we have dyn listening to din.



TD... sort off: Just finished listening to Berg's VC (van Keulen).

[Karl Henning]

Listening to Falstaff. I'm still trying to grasp this work. Barbirolli is the man for the job.

Ah, so you grasp the work now, then? ; )

[Lisztianwagner]

Franz Schubert
Symphony No.8

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[TheGSMoeller]

Good morning, friends.

Elgar seems to a hot topic lately, I think I'll keep the debates running and bring these two on the road with me.

[Karl Henning]

Here we have dyn listening to din.

But is the din dyn's?

[Karl Henning]

Happy New Year, all!

Elgar
Falstaff, Op.68
LSO
The composer conducting
Recorded in Nov 1931 & Feb 1932

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[TheGSMoeller]

Happy New Year, all!

Elgar
Falstaff, Op.68
LSO
The composer conducting
Recorded in Nov 1931 & Feb 1932

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Probably safe to take the string off that case now, Karl. 
And Happy New Year, friend.

[The new erato]

But is the din dyn's?

How about the moniker Gunga Dyn?

"It was "Din! Din! Din!     You limping lump o' brick-dust, Gunga Dyn!  "

[listener]

a pair of Louisville LP's just acquired:
mono - TANSMAN Capriccio   BOROWSKI The Mirror    DAHL The Tower of Saint Barbara
and newer, in stereo: SCULTHORPE Sun Music III  WIDDOES Morning Music
HOVHANESS Avak the Healer  for soprano, trumpet and strings
glad I paid so little for them.  The Hovhaness sounds like everything else he wrote (more of the same)
generic covers, only the sticker changes, so one illiustration will sufice

[Lisztianwagner]

Josef Strauss
Die Soubrette

http://www.youtube.com/v/_evNkmhhNEo

[Karl Henning]

Дмитри Дмитриевич [ Dmitri Dmitriyevich (Shostakovich) ]
Symphonic Movement, unfinished (1945)
Polish National Radio Symphony
Mark Fitz-Gerald

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Cross-posted from the Shostakovich Symphony Month thread:

The real find here is a portion of the original first movement to the Symphony No. 9. David Fanning located it--321 bars in an untitled manuscript--pressed within the autograph score of The Gamblers at Moscow's Shostakovich Archive. This, along with ink and handwriting similarities, made for a tentative identification. The clincher was Fanning's discovery of three duplicate pages in a folder of unarranged Shostakovich autographs at the Glinka Museum of Musical Culture, bearing a January 15, 1945, date. That matched to the month the point at which the composer began work on his Ninth. What we get is the full manuscript, lasting shy of seven minutes, with eight bars Fitz-Gerald provides for a final cadence.

[Karl Henning]

'Tis still the month!

Дмитри Дмитриевич [ Dmitri Dmitriyevich (Shostakovich) ]
String Quartet № 1 in C, Op.49
The Mandelring Quartet

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[Fëanor]

'Tis still the month!

Дмитри Дмитриевич [ Dmitri Dmitriyevich (Shostakovich) ]
String Quartet № 1 in C, Op.49
The Mandelring Quartet

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I found the sound quality on the Manderlings irritating so I gave them away. 

[Karl Henning]

Oh! Sorry.

[Brian]

I decided today would be well-spent surfing Naxos Music Library and finding music that I didn't even know existed! Like Englund's Concerto for 12 Cellos:



So far, it's awesome.

[Mirror Image]

Ah, so you grasp the work now, then? ; )

I understand it a lot better than I did, but I'm still baffled by it. I don't think there's anything quite like it in Elgar's oeuvre.