What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

[wintersway]

Good morning/day to all!

[Henk]

disc 4 already.

[FideLeo]

The mass in c minor in the set is one hugely satisfying performance.  Barbara Schlick's thick
but fast vibrato is an acquired taste but her rendition of the big solo in Kyrie is simply moving
beyond description.  The chorus has weight but isn't oversized - ideal in this repertory for me.
Peter Neumann's conducting is hardly larger then life but his support of the singers is impeccable.

[johnQpublic]

Independence Day!!

Schuman - American Festival Overture (Slatkin/RCA CD)
Copland - Tender Land Suite (composer/RCA CD)
Joplin - The Rag Time Dance (Schuller/EMI CD)
Anon. - George Wshington's March (Darling/Williamsburg LP)
Gould - Columbia (Mester/Louisville LP)
Gershwin - Rhapspdy in Blue (Bernstein/Columbia LP)

[DavidRoss]

[Hector]

On this day I always contemplate the possibility of the North Americans staying British.

Elvis could have been knighted. Spielberg certainly would have been.

Gore would have been a lord.

Or the whole nation could have been...Canada

Meyerbeer's 'Les Patineurs.' Bonynge. Cannot get that tune at the end out of my head. Berg next?

[greg]

Sibelius 4th Symphony- Bernstein

After getting the score from IMSLP, I had to follow along this time. Definitely my favorite of his symphonies, especially the way it all starts out with the deep basses and cellos, where he kinda mixes up between relative Augmented Lydian and Melodic Minor modes (does he do this a lot? haven't really studied much of his scores). The second movement, oddly, almost seems like it has a development that just ends without a recap, and the third movement sounds like it has the weight of a late Tchaikovsky symphony.......

[karlhenning]

VC

How do you like the Schuman Violin Cto, Dave?

[karlhenning]

Sibelius 4th Symphony- Bernstein

Very pleased that you are enjoying this marvelous symphony, Greg!

[DavidRoss]

How do you like the Schuman Violin Cto, Dave?

Very much, Karl.  Modern, colorful, angular, virtuosic in parts, yet resoundingly lyrical in net effect.  I first heard it in performance with Gil Shaham and MTT/SFSO a couple of years ago and loved it.  Wish that performance were available on record.  Quint and company just don't have the passion, the edginess, or the sparks that flared between Shaham and the orchestra.

[George]

That's a nice L'estro armonico - very much alive and kicking! 

Q

Strongly seconded. I haven't heard a bad Biondi performance yet! I love what he and Podger and Carmignola have done with Baroque music!

[Bonehelm]

Sibelius 4th Symphony- Bernstein

After getting the score from IMSLP, I had to follow along this time. Definitely my favorite of his symphonies, especially the way it all starts out with the deep basses and cellos, where he kinda mixes up between relative Augmented Lydian and Melodic Minor modes (does he do this a lot? haven't really studied much of his scores). The second movement, oddly, almost seems like it has a development that just ends without a recap, and the third movement sounds like it has the weight of a late Tchaikovsky symphony.......

Wait a minute Greg, I thought IMSLP was being sued long time ago and forced to go down??

[mn dave]

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Wait a minute Greg, I thought IMSLP was being sued long time ago and forced to go down??

http://imslp.org/wiki/Main_Page

It's open for business again since July 1st!

[PerfectWagnerite]

Sibelius 4th Symphony- Bernstein

After getting the score from IMSLP, I had to follow along this time. Definitely my favorite of his symphonies, especially the way it all starts out with the deep basses and cellos, where he kinda mixes up between relative Augmented Lydian and Melodic Minor modes (does he do this a lot? haven't really studied much of his scores). The second movement, oddly, almost seems like it has a development that just ends without a recap, and the third movement sounds like it has the weight of a late Tchaikovsky symphony.......

What's a relative Augmented Lydian mode? Sibelius was not a "modal" sort of composer. The rising theme in the lower strings you hear at the beginning of the work over a C bass, the ascending C-D-F#-E are NOT harmonically related to the Lydian mode but rather spell out the tritone in C-major, even if the tritone in C major and the Lydian mode have the same four notes C-D-F#-E. The theme of this entire symphony is the tritone. In the end you will hear the strive for supremacy of C-major and E-flat major, a tritone apart. This is what causes the grinding dissonance and the sort of "avart-garde" feel in this work. Let's not trivialize it and say how "modal" it is.

[mn dave]

[Drasko]

Nouvelles Suites de pieces de clavecin

[CD not the LP, but couldn't find pict.]

[Maciek]

Szymanski's Film Music. PRNSO/Christopher Lyndon-Gee

Lyndon-Gee is, IMO, not the perfect Szymanski conductor, but I still can't get enough of this, as it brings back very fond memories of what the score originally sounded like (in the film, I mean). I sometimes think at least half of the appeal of Drygas's State of Weightlessness - one of the most mesmerizing films I have ever seen - came from the soundtrack. And, of course, there's absolutely nothing wrong with that.

[Maciek]

Now I understand those other covers!