What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Fafner]

I heard some Sibelius by John Storgards.  It was very...robust.    I liked it.  Bet that Korngold is pretty 'robust' too.   

Yes, it is quite... 'robust'. This is my first listen to the symphony and I am impressed. This is definitely a work I am going to come back to and I'll buy it on CD (either this recoding, Albrecht on PentaTone or the premiere Kempe).

Thread duty:

E.W. Korngold - The Adventures of Robin Hood
Warner Brothers Studio Orchestra

[Opus106]

Dear John,
         It is imperative that you show us you features when listening to Haydn.

-
The GMG Council for Facial Features Induced by Listening to Music (GCFFILM)

Thread Duty: FC | Scherzo, Op. 20 | Pollini

[DavidRoss]

Bach violin concertos, Rachel Podger & Brecon Baroque



Typical of Podger, more dancing and joyful than grave and reverent -- thank God!   

[Wakefield]

Thread Duty: FC | Scherzo, Op. 20 | Pollini

I had to take a few seconds to discover who this guy was. Maybe because when I was a child the sound "CH" was still the fourth letter of the Spanish alphabet. Actually, it was until 2010. 

[Opus106]

I had to take a few seconds to discover who this guy was. Maybe because when I was a child the sound "CH" was still the fourth letter of the Spanish alphabet. Actually, it was until 2010. 

Srry, I was to la

[Wakefield]

Bach violin concertos, Rachel Podger & Brecon Baroque



Typical of Podger, more dancing and joyful than grave and reverent -- thank God!   

I love this girl. A great violinist and so feminine and lovely (just like Hilary Hahn). There are some interviews on YouTube, where she speaks about music.

[Wakefield]

Srry, I was to la

[DavidRoss]

Our Brian is partly to "blame" in this, but I've been living with this for a couple of days:



Wonderful, penetrating stuff.

I like his partnering of Faust in Beethoven and Dvořák and have had that wishlisted for months but have yet to hear it. Worth taking a flyer on, you think?

[DavidRoss]

I love this girl. A great violinist and so feminine and lovely (just like Hilary Hahn). There are some interviews on YouTube, where she speaks about music.

She's a radiant spirit, indeed, full of joie de vivre (et musique!).

[Willoughby earl of Itacarius]

[Fafner]

MENDELSSOHN / MOZART / BACH, J.S.: Violin Concertos
(Oistrakh, Ormandy) (1955)

[Opus106]

Dear John,
        We appreciate your complying with our request.

-
GCFFILM




Thread duty:

BWV 1019 - Gould-Laredo

http://www.youtube.com/v/820VBcJqTLQ

It's okay, I'm only going to listen to the third movement. 0:) I was particularly taken by this movement this morning. I was listening to Koopman then.

[Wakefield]

Thread duty:

BWV 1019 - Gould-Laredo

This is the coolest movement for harpsichord ever composed by the genius. Not totally destroyed by Gould on the piano. 

P.S.: My memories were wrong, Gould's performance destroys the entire movement. 

[Leo K.]

Listening to Ravel's Ma Mere L'Oye on the Martinon set, amazing stuff.

[Que]

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The most interesting disc of this beautiful set IMO!

CD 4:
Charles Henri Valentin Morhange (1813 - 1888) Charles Valentin Alkan
Nocturne alla Field in B flat

Friedrich Wilhelm Kalkbrenner (1785 - 1849)
Les Soupirs de la Harpe Eolienne
Nocturne in A flat Op.121 No.1
Nocturne in F Op.121 No.2 (à trois mains)

Clara Josephine Wieck-Schumann (1819 - 1896)
Nocturne in F Op.6 No.2 (Soireés musicales)

Louis James Alfred Lefèbure-Wély (1817 - 1870)
Nocturne in D flat Op.54 'Les Cloches du monastère'

Edmund Weber (1766 - 1828)
Nocturne in D flat Op.1 'Première pensée'

Charles Henri Valentin Morhange (1813 - 1888) Charles Valentin Alkan
Nocturne in B Op.22
Notturnino innamorato in F sharp minor Op.63 no 43

Mikhail Ivanovitsj Glinka (1804 - 1857)
Nocturne in E flat

Maria Agata Szymanowska (1789 - 1831)
Nocturne in A flat 'La Murmure'

Ignacy Feliks Dobrzynski (1807 - 1867)
Nocturne in G minor Op.21 No.
Nocturne in E flat Op.21 No.2
Nocturne in F minor Op.24 No.1
Nocturne in D flat Op.24 No.2
Nocturne in G minor 'Pozegnanie'

[Opus106]

This [BWV 1019/III] is the coolest movement for harpsichord ever composed by the genius. Not totally destroyed by Gould on the piano. 

P.S.: My memories were wrong, Gould's performance destroys the entire movement. 

Yes, it was a let down of sorts on first listen, I must admit.


This, with Bruno Canino, sounds more like what I was after:

http://www.youtube.com/v/8whko5LA0wE

[prémont]

This is the coolest movement for harpsichord ever composed by the genius. Not totally destroyed by Gould on the piano. 

P.S.: My memories were wrong, Gould's performance destroys the entire movement. 

Careful now, the man is a genius. 

[Sergeant Rock]

Havergal Brian Symphony #2 E minor (1930-31), Mackerras conducting the BBC




Sarge

[PaulR]

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[listener]

lp session
HANDEL: The Ways of Zion Do Mourn
Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra   John Eliot Gardiner cond.
- takes a while to discover they are singing in English
LOPES MORAGO: Te Deum, 2 motets  and other religious music from 16th -17th century Lisbon
Gulbenkian Foundation Choir, Pierre Salzman, cond.
no texts, probably familiar enough to Catholics of 60 years ago
JOLIVET: Air de Bravoure   Bertold HUMMELL: Trumpet Sonata in C  IBERT: Impromptu for trumpet and piano   STEVENS: Trumpet Sonata   KENNAN: Trumpet Sonata
James Darling, trumpet    Genevieve Sidoti, piano