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bhodges

#19080
February 19, 2008, 10:17:38 AM
Quote from: ChamberNut on February 19, 2008, 10:13:17 AM
???

[Meaning, he really, really likes it.  ;D]

--Bruce

not edward

#19081
February 19, 2008, 10:24:41 AM
Quote from: Lethe on February 19, 2008, 08:57:35 AM
I think this set is great too. Norrington is a good hell-raiser who still manages to provoke diverse reactions with this cycle.
Meh. I so need to get around to acquiring this. My hell-raising Beethoven is mostly confined to Scherchen (whose best performances certainly raise hell).

I just gave the Arnold 7th another spin, and am getting a proper hold of it this time. It'd certainly be a good piece to counteract the popular image of Arnold as practically a light music composer: this is certainly a very dark, unpredictable, angry work, effectively orchestrated.
"I don't at all mind actively disliking a piece of contemporary music, but in order to feel happy about it I must consciously understand why I dislike it. Otherwise it remains in my mind as unfinished business."
-- Aaron Copland, The Pleasures of Music

Solitary Wanderer

#19082
February 19, 2008, 10:51:54 AM


My first exposure to Liszts Faust Symphony  :)
'I lingered round them, under that benign sky: watched the moths fluttering among the heath and harebells, listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass, and wondered how any one could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth.' ~ Emily Bronte

Haffner

#19083
February 19, 2008, 11:07:26 AM
Quote from: Solitary Wanderer on February 19, 2008, 10:51:54 AM


My first exposure to Liszts Faust Symphony  :)



Have this on vinyl. Very good!

Sergeant Rock

#19084
February 19, 2008, 11:33:06 AM
Just finished this VW 5th



and moving on to this one:




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"

BachQ

#19085
February 19, 2008, 12:31:36 PM
Brahms, String Quintet op. 111 (Nash +1)

For a brief moment, all of the mysteries of life were revealed to me ......... the meanings of happiness and understanding were coupled with an eternal longing and searching ......... A glimpse of transcendent greatness mightier than the Holy Grail beckoned for my embrace .......... And I did embrace, and I was united with ecstasy ........

Thank you, Brahms.


Keemun

#19086
February 19, 2008, 12:54:37 PM
It's been a while since I listened to this symphony.  :)

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. - Ludwig van Beethoven

Sergeant Rock

#19087
February 19, 2008, 01:05:02 PM
Listening to Vaughan Williams Symphony #5, Bryden Thomson and the LSO, courtesy of a generous forumite (not sure if he would want me to reveal his name).

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"

Ephemerid

#19088
February 19, 2008, 01:13:11 PM
OK, I'm on board now too!  ;D



My first listen, and not a close one yet (which I'm saving for when I get home tonight) but I like what I'm hearing so far...

J.Z. Herrenberg

#19089
February 19, 2008, 01:35:06 PM Last Edit: February 19, 2008, 01:54:02 PM by Jezetha
Quote from: Ephemerid on February 19, 2008, 01:13:11 PM
OK, I'm on board now too!  ;D

My first listen, and not a close one yet (which I'm saving for when I get home tonight) but I like what I'm hearing so far...

Ephemerid - you have a message...

Listening, for the first time, to

Rautavaara, Third Symphony (Max Pommer, Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra)
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything. -- Plato

not edward

#19090
February 19, 2008, 02:38:31 PM
Monteux conducting the LSO in Bolero and La Valse. Wonderful stuff.
"I don't at all mind actively disliking a piece of contemporary music, but in order to feel happy about it I must consciously understand why I dislike it. Otherwise it remains in my mind as unfinished business."
-- Aaron Copland, The Pleasures of Music

Sergeant Rock

#19092
February 19, 2008, 02:46:32 PM
Quote from: Drasko on February 19, 2008, 02:44:43 PM


I'll have to show Mrs. Rock that cover. Castles turn her on  ;)

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"

Benji

#19093
February 19, 2008, 02:48:34 PM
That's a corker of a castle. Anyone like to enlighten me as to where it is?

Ephemerid

#19094
February 19, 2008, 02:52:12 PM
Quote from: Jezetha on February 19, 2008, 01:35:06 PM
Ephemerid - you have a message...

Listening, for the first time, to

Rautavaara, Third Symphony (Max Pommer, Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra)

Thanks, Johan!   :)

There's been an epidemic of RVW breaking out here  ;)

Great stuff! 

Tonight is a RVW night!  About to put on RVW 3rd symphony, then the 2nd (Hickox) which I also just downloaded, and the the 5th (again, thank you, Johan)

bhodges

#19095
February 19, 2008, 03:06:28 PM Last Edit: February 19, 2008, 03:30:07 PM by bhodges
Quote from: Ephemerid on February 19, 2008, 02:52:12 PM
There's been an epidemic of RVW breaking out here  ;)

Nothing wrong with that!  Personally, I think RVW is one of the most underrated symphonists around, at least in terms of how often his symphonies appear on concert programs. 

Right now: just listened to Gustavo Dudamel's segment on 60 Minutes (here)--very, very impressive, as is virtually everything I've seen about him.  It's about 13 minutes long, shows him with his Venezuelan group in the end of the Beethoven 9th, then flashes back to 2004 when he won the Mahler Conducting Competition, then later rehearsing the Mahler 1 with the Vienna Philharmonic, and ends with he and the Venezuelans in a bit of Bernstein's West Side Story, at Disney Hall. 

--Bruce

Sef

#19097
February 19, 2008, 03:34:16 PM
Of course I'm cheating by listening to a ripped MP3 of this LP at work. Part of the triplet of symphonies (6, 7, & 8) that should be on everyone's list to hear, though not one after another if you don't want to end up slitting your wrists. Having said that though, I am a firm believer that the intended message in these works is hope rather than despair or resignation (see the sleeve notes on this LP for instance), but sometimes it appears to depend on your mood at the time. In fact if you listen dispassionately (if that is possible) then the theme of bringing order out of chaos springs to mind in all three, and your "feeling" depends on how you interpret that order, and how you arrived at it - does that make sense?



"Do you think that I could have composed what I have composed, do you think that one can write a single note with life in it if one sits there and pities oneself?"

SonicMan46

#19099
February 19, 2008, 04:57:03 PM
Sammartini Brothers - Woodwind Concertos w/ Camerata Koln - these are wonderful!  :D

Stanford, Charles - Piano Quintet & String Quintet w/ Vanbrugh Quartet & Piers Lane/Garth Knox - just discovering this late 19th/early 20th century British composer, so far impressed!  :)

 
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