What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[PerfectWagnerite]

My mistake. 
It is, of course, Chailly.

I wasn't sure since Masur DID record a Schumann cycle, but with the Londo Philharmonic, and I don't think he used the Mahler edition.

[springrite]

I wasn't sure since Masur DID record a Schumann cycle, but with the Londo Philharmonic, and I don't think he used the Mahler edition.

Just to think we could have sent you scrambling and search the globe for a CD that does not exist.




(That could have been fun, too.)

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

The posting by Hector is one of the many I have read, and even people PM ing me, to tell me how terrible his music is. People often talk about Hans Huber and having heard only a few fragments.

I can't understand why someone should go to the trouble of PM'ing. If I don't like something, I don't waste any words on it. I commend Hector for speaking his mind in public.

Funny that those fragments were enough to convince me of Huber's quality!

[Don]

Please, please, I beg of you not to contaminate the names of Strauss and Elgar with this bland bore.

Count me as another person who does not find Huber's music in the least boring.  Yes, there's nothing adventurous about it and Huber didn't seem to advance musically as his career progressed.  Still, I find his works compelling and rousing.  I'm thinking of getting a Huber disc of his piano quintet and piano quartet on the Musiques Suisses label; haven't yet heard any of his chamber works.

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Here are some reviews I just found of Huber symphonies.

[Ephemerid]

Just downloaded this lovely Goldberg Variations transcription for strings by Dmitry Sitkovetsky.  I REALLY like this!

http://www.amazon.com/Bach-Goldberg-Variations-Transcription-Strings/dp/B000005J2R/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1203964859&sr=1-4


I think I may follow it up by listening to Stravinsky's Apollon musagetes. 

[bwv 1080]

Just downloaded this lovely Goldberg Variations transcription for strings by Dmitry Sitkovetsky.  I REALLY like this!

http://www.amazon.com/Bach-Goldberg-Variations-Transcription-Strings/dp/B000005J2R/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1203964859&sr=1-4


I think I may follow it up by listening to Stravinsky's Apollon musagetes. 

I like this version quite a bit

[orbital]

Listening to this as I get ready to hear him do Images with CSO this evening.

[Papy Oli]

Good evening All,

now listening to Bruckner's 9th - Jochum/SD/Brilliant.

I have scarcely given Bruckner a spin in the last couple of months, actually making this a nice refreshing listen

[Brian]

BRAHMS | Symphony No 3
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Marek Janowski

If this symphony is any indication, we at last have a really superb digital Brahms cycle on our hands.

[Brian]

BRAHMS | Symphony No 2
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Marek Janowski

After the superb Third, I have high expectations for this one!

[Harry]

Here are some reviews I just found of Huber symphonies.

Thanks Johan, fine links.

[Brian]

BRAHMS | Symphony No 2
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Marek Janowski

After the superb Third, I have high expectations for this one!

An absolute must. A brilliant performance from start to finish, with a coda that challenges even Toscanini on the thrill-o-meter!

[sidoze]

[BachQ]

Bruckner 5 (Jochum/Dresden)  0:)
Brahms PC 1 (Cliburn/Leinsdorf)  0:)
Brahms Horn Trio (Tuckwell)

[Drasko]

[Kullervo]

[Don]

sidoze:

Not on a piano?  Are you a changed man?

[Timmyb]

[Brian]

Complete lyric pieces ...