What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

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Fafner

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Quote from: Scots John on February 14, 2013, 04:59:32 AM
I heard some Sibelius by John Storgards.  It was very...robust.  :o  I liked it.  Bet that Korngold is pretty 'robust' too.   ;D


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

"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

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

Regards,
Navneeth

DavidRoss

Bach violin concertos, Rachel Podger & Brecon Baroque



Typical of Podger, more dancing and joyful than grave and reverent -- thank God!   8)
"Maybe the problem most of you have ... is that you're not listening to Barbirolli." ~Sarge

"The problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other people's money." ~Margaret Thatcher

Wakefield

Quote from: Opus106 on February 14, 2013, 06:19:59 AM
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.  :)
"One of the greatest misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowards. They complain, keep quiet, dine and forget."
-- Voltaire

Opus106

Quote from: Gordon Shumway on February 14, 2013, 06:40:11 AM
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

;)
Regards,
Navneeth

Wakefield

Quote from: DavidRoss on February 14, 2013, 06:39:40 AM
Bach violin concertos, Rachel Podger & Brecon Baroque



Typical of Podger, more dancing and joyful than grave and reverent -- thank God!   8)

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.
"One of the greatest misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowards. They complain, keep quiet, dine and forget."
-- Voltaire

Wakefield

"One of the greatest misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowards. They complain, keep quiet, dine and forget."
-- Voltaire

DavidRoss

Quote from: karlhenning on February 14, 2013, 04:42:47 AM
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?
"Maybe the problem most of you have ... is that you're not listening to Barbirolli." ~Sarge

"The problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other people's money." ~Margaret Thatcher

DavidRoss

Quote from: Gordon Shumway on February 14, 2013, 06:45:19 AM
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!).
"Maybe the problem most of you have ... is that you're not listening to Barbirolli." ~Sarge

"The problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other people's money." ~Margaret Thatcher

Willoughby earl of Itacarius


Fafner

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

"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

Opus106

Dear John,
        We appreciate your complying with our request.

-
GCFFILM

:D


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.
Regards,
Navneeth

Wakefield

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Quote from: Opus106 on February 14, 2013, 08:19:13 AM

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.  8)

P.S.: My memories were wrong, Gould's performance destroys the entire movement.  >:(
"One of the greatest misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowards. They complain, keep quiet, dine and forget."
-- Voltaire

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

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Quote from: Gordon Shumway on February 14, 2013, 08:29:51 AM
This [BWV 1019/III] is the coolest movement for harpsichord ever composed by the genius. Not totally destroyed by Gould on the piano.  8)

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
Regards,
Navneeth

premont

#125636
Quote from: Gordon Shumway on February 14, 2013, 08:29:51 AM
This is the coolest movement for harpsichord ever composed by the genius. Not totally destroyed by Gould on the piano.  8)

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

Careful now, the man is a genius.  ;)
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Sergeant Rock

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




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"

PaulR


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
   
"Keep your hand on the throttle and your eye on the rail as you walk through life's pathway."