What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[George]

I am glad you like the avatar, Harry, and I'm glad to see that so many members have clicked on it and are enjoying it too! 

Hilde

We wish you a Merry Avatar!

[not edward]

Kondrashin's Mahler 6 & 7. I think I'll have to explore Kondrashin's Mahler some more...the 7th in particular seemed a very fine performance to me.

[Bogey]

Again with:

[Brian]

first movement

It's, uh, distinctive!

[hildegard]

We wish you a Merry Avatar!

Cute, George!

[George]

Cute, George!

I try. 

[Brian]

I'm listening to a trial run of a new playlist I made, for future CD burnage:

[for lack of a better title] The Best Music I Heard for the First Time in 2007
CHOPIN Ballade no 4 (Ivan Moravec)
KHACHATURIAN Gayaneh's Adagio (Khachaturian; Vienna Philharmonic)
CHINESE TRADITIONAL Sunshine on Tashkurgan (Chen Jun, erhu)
BEATLES If I Fell (Evan Rachel Wood; from the Across the Universe soundtrack)
CUBAN JAZZ Pa Gozar (Ruben Gonzalez)
ART TATUM Tiger Rag (Steven Mayer)
VILLA LOBOS/PRIMROSE Bachianas Brasileiras No 5 - Aria (Roberto Diaz, viola; Robert Koenig, piano)
GLAZUNOV Novelette No. 2 (Fine Arts Quartet)
BEATLES I Want You / She's So Heavy (from the Across the Universe soundtrack)
CASSADO Lamento do Boabdil (Maria Kliegel, cello; Nina Tichman, piano)
PIAZZOLLA Chiquilin de Bachin (Versus Ensemble)
BEATLES Hey Jude (original Beatles version)
KHACHATURIAN Lezghinka (Tjeknavorian; Armenian Philharmonic)
KHACHATURIAN Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia (Khachaturian; Vienna Philharmonic)
PIAZZOLLA Milonga de la Anunciacion (Versus Ensemble)


... I feel bad I didn't get to include Barber's Adagio or anything from La boheme  

[Dancing Divertimentian]

Beethoven

Op. 109 and 110

Richter

Live at Leipzig

Nice, George! As for me, partook in a little Op.111 just last night.

Right now though: turning to some Prokofiev, 9th piano sonata, Tokyo (1981). Marvelous!

[Harry]

Biago Marini, (1587-1663)

Curiose & Moderne inventioni, opus VIII.

Romanesca.

This for me totally unknown composer makes a strong impact with the compositions here presented. For its time it belongs high up in the quality scale, and "Romanesca" adds the truly wonderful interpretation to its many felicities. The recording is made as far as 1997, and it is very good indeed.
Marini epitomizes the Italian musical avant-garde of the first half of the seventeenth century. It is therefore somewhat odd, that he is so little recorded, or programmed into concerthalls, allthough Marini's place in musical history has been recognized by a century of textbooks, dictionaries and encyclopedias, which make great play of his numerous technical innovations as a violinist.
For me a firm recommendation.

[Florestan]

Biago Marini, (1587-1663)

Curiose & Moderne inventioni, opus VIII.

Romanesca.

For me a firm recommendation.

Thanks and good morning, Harry!

[Harry]

Thanks and good morning, Harry!

At your service Andrei!
Goodmorning to you too.
And is the Dussek to your liking?
I found it to be a exhilarating and refreshing antidote.

[Florestan]

And is the Dussek to your liking?
I found it to be a exhilarating and refreshing antidote.

It's absolutely delightful. Thanks again.

[Harry]

Franz Lehar.

"Fruhling"
Operetta in one act.
Libretto: Rudolf Eger.


Elfentanz, Concert Waltz.
Magyar Abrand, Hungarian Fantasy for Violin and Orchestra.

Stefanie Krahnenfeld & Alison Browner, sopranos.
Robert Worle, Tenor.
Markus Kohler, Bariton.

Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss/Johannes Goritzki.
Mark Gothoni, Violin.

What a wonderful operetta this is. Lehar wrote gorgeous music for it, well orchestrated, with contemporary text about the working class, and their adventures with love,... and more than excellent singers. Both sopranos are simply wonderful, and both man are in perfect form.
I had a excellent time listening to this. I am firmly hooked on operettas, so no rescue parties please.
Magyar Abrand makes my heart yearn for more gorgeously written music from Lehar.
Its is recorded in 2000, and its really good!

[johnQpublic]

Lamond - Overture from the Scottish Highlands (Brabbins/Hyperion)
Bowen - Suite for Piano 4-Hands (Posner & Gravelmann/Olympia)
Zemlinsky - Symphony #2 (Seipenbusch/Records International)

[Harry]

Christoph Bernhard. (1628-1693)

Geistliche Harmonien 1665, and other Sacred Concertos.

Soloists of Rheinische Kantorei.
Veronika Winter/Nele Gramss/Henning Voss/Henning Kaiser/Ekkehard Abele.

Das Kleine Konzert/Hermann Max.

This recording from 2004 is somewhat of a gem. Bernhard was unknown to me, but a pleasant surprise. This is fine music, well sung, apart from some unsureness in intonation with the soprano, and to much volume to push some notes out of her. Very well recorded and played.

[karlhenning]

You remind me that I need to send a disc to the Netherlands, Harry 

Listening to:

Dmitri Dmitriyevich

Three Fantastic Dances, Opus 5
Konstantin Scherbakov

October, Opus 132, symphonic poem
BBC Phil
Gianandrea Noseda

[greg]

Dvorak's 6th (Performed by Fedor I. Gluschenko)

this is an excellent symphony! Except they just have the first 3 movements... 
to me, Dvorak sounds like a shortened version of Bruckner.

[Wanderer]

That one {Bantock's Sappho}'s a cracker, ain't it?

Indeed, it is. In his vocal writing here, Bantock reminded me in places of Fauré. A most intriguing and refreshing work.

Listening to:

[karlhenning]

Alleluia in A-flat, Opus 33
St Paul's Choir

[sidoze]

excellent!