What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

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Quote from: Dancing Divertimentian on February 04, 2013, 07:31:54 PM
Agree with that, MI. Monteux had a certain feel for Debussy. For Ravel, too. Such warmth and clarity. One thing I enjoyed immensely in the Images was how the famous Iberia movement opened with a touch of restraint, which at first I felt would handicap the overall thrill of the movement. But before long the music blossomed with such color and depth. Superb.

Yes, he was excellent in Ravel too. I still rate his Daphnis et Chloe highly. I need to revisit that recording at some juncture.

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Listening to Debussy's La Mer. A very solid performance.

Bogey

Quote from: Mirror Image on February 04, 2013, 06:59:00 PM
What is about this style of composition that is giving you so many problems?

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Listening to Sheherazade. Beautiful song-cycle.

The best tandem in classical music history?.....I would be ok with this statement. ;)
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Quote from: Bogey on February 04, 2013, 07:38:01 PM
The best tandem in classical music history?.....I would be ok with this statement. ;)

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Listening to Violin Sonata No. 3. Absolutely sublime. Lovely performance.

Gold Knight

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Gustav Mahler--Symphony No.3 in D Minor, featuring the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Women of the Chicago Symphony Chorus, soprano Marilyn Horne and the Glen Ellyn Children's Chorus, all under the baton of James Levine.
Anton Bruckner--Symphony No.4 in E-Flat Major {"Romantic", 1878-80 Haas Version}, performed by the Herbert von Karajan led Berliner Philharmoniker.

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Listening to Die Seejungfu. Excellent performance.

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Listening to Hekla and I'm going to let this stellar recording play on through.

mc ukrneal

I bought these Arnold Dances at one of the L'abeille sales a couple years ago. What delightful music. A wonderful way to start off the day...
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Conor71

Strauss (R): Aus Italien


I started back into my big box of Strauss last night and have continued through it today. I listened to Don Quixote and the Tanzsuite Nach Couperin this morning. I had to play the Don Quixote a few times as its a good one. Currently I am listening to the work Aus Italien which is followed up on this Disc by Macbeth. Tonight I am going to listen to the fine versions of Metamorphosen and the Alpensinfonie.


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Fafner

Janáček - Sinfonietta
Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Antoni Wit

"Remember Fafner? Remember he built Valhalla? A giant? Well, he's a dragon now. Don't ask me why. Anyway, he's dead."
   --- Anna Russell

Fafner

Quote from: Fafner on February 04, 2013, 11:26:13 PM
Janáček - Sinfonietta
Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Antoni Wit



And now playing the Glagolitic Mass as well. Why not, hmm?
"Remember Fafner? Remember he built Valhalla? A giant? Well, he's a dragon now. Don't ask me why. Anyway, he's dead."
   --- Anna Russell

val

SCHUMANN:   Piano Quartet       / FAURÉ:  First Piano Quartet                   / New York Quartet  (1953)

I had never heard of this Quartet, but some of its members are among my favorite musicians: Horszowski, Katims, Schneider ...

Their version of Schumann's Quartet opus 47 - a masterpiece deserving to be as famous as the Quintet - is and by far the best I ever heard of this work. I would prefer that instead of Fauré they had included in this recording the 3rd Piano Quartet of Brahms.

Fafner

Vaughan Williams - Symphony No. 6
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis


"Remember Fafner? Remember he built Valhalla? A giant? Well, he's a dragon now. Don't ask me why. Anyway, he's dead."
   --- Anna Russell

Willoughby earl of Itacarius

CD 5 from this box.

Alexander Agricola (1446-1506)

A secret Labyrinth



jlaurson

Quote from: Fafner on February 05, 2013, 01:05:27 AM

Ralph Vaughan Williams
Symphony No.6
Colin Davis, BRSO

BR Klassik

German link - UK link

Haven't listened to that after an initial, cursory spin... but let me take a guess:

Broad, genial, and not all that idiomatic?

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Othmar Schoeck
Das Stille Leuchten (The Silent Illumination)
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau / Hartmut Höll

Claves

German link - UK link

Another gorgeous song cycle from Schoeck... far more romantic and structurally looser than Notturno, this cycle to Conrad Ferdinand Meyer poems (the most famous among them "Der Römische Brunnen"; if you are into mathematics, you should check the mathematical formula of the poem's subject out here!) contains Schoeck at his most easily accessible, without the sweetness (for better or worse) of Elegie.

Anyway, this is beautiful stuff and FiDi, in 1988, still manages very well, singing as gently as required.


Aufsteigt der Strahl und fallend gießt
Er voll der Marmorschale Rund,
Die, sich verschleiernd, überfließt
In einer zweiten Schale Grund;
Die zweite gibt, sie wird zu reich,
Der dritten wallend ihre Flut,
Und jede nimmt und gibt zugleich
Und strömt und ruht.

rickardg

Goldberg variations (version for piano duo)
Bach/Rheinberger/Reger
Tal & Groethuysen



Not half bad, to my ears at least.

Willoughby earl of Itacarius

CD 3 of this set.

Antonio Vivaldi.
Concert for the Prince of Poland.
The Academy of Ancient Music, Andrew Manze.



Fafner

Quote from: jlaurson on February 05, 2013, 02:54:18 AM
Haven't listened to that after an initial, cursory spin... but let me take a guess:

Broad, genial, and not all that idiomatic?

I actually quite liked it, and I found it grave enough.  But I only have Bournemouth SO/Bakels on Naxos as reference and I still like that one better.
"Remember Fafner? Remember he built Valhalla? A giant? Well, he's a dragon now. Don't ask me why. Anyway, he's dead."
   --- Anna Russell

Karl Henning

Quote from: PaulR on February 04, 2013, 06:15:04 PM
Oh, I missed the month?

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Symphony #11 'The Year 1905"

Behold, I shew you a mystery: It's always the month! : )
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

Sergeant Rock

Mozart String Quartet #22 B flat K.589 played by the Quartetto Italiano




Sarge
the phone rings and somebody says,
"hey, they made a movie about
Mahler, you ought to go see it.
he was as f*cked-up as you are."
                               --Charles Bukowski, "Mahler"