What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Harry]

I like Sibelius's violin concerto. I don't listen much to the rest.

Ouchhh again!

[Kullervo]

Good timing, huh? I'm listening to disc 2 (Symphony No. 2, Tapiola and Valse Triste).

[MN Dave]

[Harry]

Komei Abe.

Sinfonietta. (1964)

Russian PO/ Dmitry Yablonsky.

Also a impressive work, that urges me, to find more of his compositions.

[Drasko]

Sibelius 3 - my favourite of his symphonies (Davis/BSO)

Hear, hear!
Try Mustonen. Very interesting.




Le Basier de la Fee - Columbia SO/Stravinsky

[Kullervo]

Sibelius 3 - my favourite of his symphonies (Davis/BSO)

I love the third. I've always imagined the last movement as a train speeding across a landscape towards the rising sun — even before I heard Night Ride and Sunrise!

[MN Dave]

Ouchhh again!

I'll give him another shot soon, Harry.

[Lethevich]

Drasko: danke, I'll bookmark it's Amazon marketplace page and will snap it up if I see the price drop a little more.

I love the third. I've always imagined the last movement as a train speeding across a landscape towards the rising sun — even before I heard Night Ride and Sunrise!

It's a remarkable little thing, deceptively simple, and with a large range of feeling... It's a cliche, as this is what symphonies aim for, but every movement really does feel both cohesive yet completely different. I too love the surprisingly steady-as-she-goes finale, it's unusual to hear something like that taken to such a deliberately un-conflicted level, just pure atmosphere.

[Moldyoldie]

Barber: School for Scandal Overture; Symphony No. 1
Beach: Symphony in E Minor "Gaelic"
Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Neeme Järvi, cond.
CHANDOS
I've heard the Barber works performed more convincingly elsewhere, but the Gaelic Symphony of Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (d. 1944) is a real charmer with an exquisitely beautiful and affecting Lento third movement; the symphony could've ended there and I'd have been content. The orchestra sounds somewhat underpowered, but the playing is elegant and the recording is vivid and spacious in the Chandos tradition.

Schumann: Symphony No. 3 "Rhenish"
Vienna Philharmonic
Leonard Bernstein, cond.
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON (2 CD)
Bernstein's mannered rendition of the Rhenish Symphony starts well enough, but is twisted and pulled all out of proportion as it trudgingly progresses.  I can't say there's much at all in this performance that's ultimately affecting on first hearing.  The Spring Symphony from this set, which I heard yesterday, is very fine, however.

[Christo]

Having switched off Sibelius II in horror once again    0:), I'm happy to tell I enjoy Lilburn. What a great Sibelian he is!

                                     

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Schumann: Symphony No. 3 "Rhenish"
Vienna Philharmonic
Leonard Bernstein, cond.
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON (2 CD)
Bernstein's mannered rendition of the Rhenish Symphony starts well enough, but is twisted and pulled all out of proportion as it trudgingly progresses.  I can't say there's much at all in this performance that's ultimately affecting on first hearing.  The Spring Symphony from this set, which I heard yesterday, is very fine, however.

I think his performance of the Second Symphony is very good, though.

Having switched off Sibelius II in horror once again   0:), I'm happy to tell I enjoy Lilburn. What a great Sibelian he is!

Sibelius is obviously no great Lilburnian.

[Moldyoldie]

I think his performance of the Second Symphony is very good, though.

Agreed! As is No. 4.

[Hector]

Alkan's brilliant, breathtaking Concerto for solo piano.

Was this guy mad?

Hamelin on Hyperion (well, on my iPod, actually ).

[karlhenning]

Depends. I admire and often love symphonies 4 and 5, Tapiola, Luonatar. But I hardly care for nos 1-3 and should try nos 6-7 again for a final verdict.

Wow . . . perhaps we've had this exchange ere now, but . . . the Sixth is often my very favorite Sibelius symphony.

[karlhenning]

Alkan's brilliant, breathtaking Concerto for solo piano.

Was this guy mad?

Another piece I must make sure to listen to ere long 

[Keemun]

All this talk of Sibelius put me in the mood to listen to Symphony No. 6 from this.  Sibelius is a former favorite of mine, but as of late I rarely listen to his music. 

[Kullervo]

Drasko: danke, I'll bookmark it's Amazon marketplace page and will snap it up if I see the price drop a little more.

It's a remarkable little thing, deceptively simple, and with a large range of feeling... It's a cliche, as this is what symphonies aim for, but every movement really does feel both cohesive yet completely different. I too love the surprisingly steady-as-she-goes finale, it's unusual to hear something like that taken to such a deliberately un-conflicted level, just pure atmosphere.

Did you know Karajan never conducted it? I wonder if he either didn't understand it, or, what is more likely, just didn't connect with it.

[Wanderer]

[MN Dave]

Wand is awesome. How are those recordings, Wanderer?

I'm listening to Fleisher/Szell Beethoven.

Perfect.  0:)

[MN Dave]

chopin via sokolov...