What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[toledobass]

Watching/listening to the live Rattle/Berlin Phil performance of Brahms 3 from Aix-en-Provence that is available on Medicitv.  I haven't delved all that much into the Rattle output. He constantly seems to get slammed, but the few live recordings I've heard, I've thought to be excellent performances.  Perhaps his studio efforts are different though.  I find the 3rd to be the hardest symphony to interpret and Rattle's way with it is making me enjoy every note. 

Allan

[mn dave]

Watching/listening to the live Rattle/Berlin Phil performance of Brahms 3 from Aix-en-Provence that is available on Medicitv.  I haven't delved all that much into the Rattle output. He constantly seems to get slammed, but the few live recordings I've heard, I've thought to be excellent performances.  Perhaps his studio efforts are different though.  I find the 3rd to be the hardest symphony to interpret and Rattle's way with it is making me enjoy every note. 

Allan

Rattle is supposed to have one of the best German Requiems around. Or so I'm told...

[Harry]

Von Reznicek.

Symphony No. 2 & 5.
Berner SO, Frank Beermann.

[mn dave]

Kempff makin' with the Schubert.

[bhodges]

Are you serious? I would absolutely love to see that -- in fact I'd like to see that more than any other work (not including a Kemal Gekic recital). You pay more attention to this sort of thing than I do so if you ever catch word of it being performed in London please let me know. Hope you enjoy it. Who's putting it on?

It's the centerpiece of this year's Lincoln Center Festival, a production from the Ruhr Trienniale festival in Bochum, Germany.  The New York Times just reviewed the first performance from last Saturday night, here, with some good photos and even a video preview.  (I'm seeing it on Friday.)

I have no idea if this is going to travel further, given the site-specific production.  (Sounds like the space here is very similar to the one in Germany.)  But will of course post something if I hear anything, and will definitely report back on it next week.

--Bruce

[karlhenning]

Thank you Karl.

I like it.  It's a score he composed some few years before the "Muddle" editorial, and of late I've been especially interested in those "pre-smackdown" years;  highly imaginative.  Only superficially, of course, some of it reminds me a bit of Prokofiev's Lt Kizhe music.

[mn dave]

Bach

BWV 1080

Sokolov

[karlhenning]

Dmitri Dmitriyevich
Symphony No. 12 in D Minor, Opus 112, The Year 1917
Prague Symphony Orchestra
Maksim Dmitriyevich

[Papy Oli]

R. Strauss - Death & Transfiguration
Rudolf Kempe - Dresden Staatskapelle

[Lethevich]

Saint-Saëns chamber works (Nash Ensemble & Florestan Trio - Hyperion)



I tried to pronounce this guy's name in conversation a few days ago - it sounded like I was trying to regurgitate my tongue. I had to resort to the rather Asian sounding "san-sans". Despite that I still endorsed these works once I finally got the words out. They're of a high level of quality (although there is nothing to get really obsessed about) and they benefit rather than weaken the repertoire by their existence. The basson sonata is especially welcome

[Bogey]

While out on my morning jaunt:

Charles Gounod: Faust: Ballet Music
Toulouse Capitol Orchestra / Michel Plasson
EMI 54228 

I do not own this piece, but after listening, I will.

[Bogey]

I like it.  It's a score he composed some few years before the "Muddle" editorial, and of late I've been especially interested in those "pre-smackdown" years;  highly imaginative.  Only superficially, of course, some of it reminds me a bit of Prokofiev's Lt Kizhe music.

Thanks again.

[karlhenning]

A pleasure to be of any small service, Bill!

[Papy Oli]

R. Strauss - Four Last Songs

Tennstedt / LPO / Lucia Popp

[mn dave]

The Flying Dutchman overture.

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Sirius (1975-1977) for electronic music, trumpet, soprano, bass clarinet, bass
Cancer, Libra, Capricorn & Aries (94'31)

markus stockhausen (trumpet)
annette meriweather (soprano)
suzanne stephens (bass clarinet)
boris carmeli (bass)

Congrats on your 1000th posting, James!

[mn dave]

[mn dave]

LvB

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Toscanini/NBC

[Wanderer]

Von Reznicek.
Symphony No. 2 & 5.
Berner SO, Frank Beermann.

How do you like these, Harry?
My recent acquaintance with von Reznicek's Der Sieger left me quite impressed; I was thinking of exploring Schlemihl next.



Listening to:

[Christo]

The father of the Portuguese modern school, and, more importantly so, patron, father-figure and teacher of Joly Braga Santos, Luís de Freitas Branco. And it shows, in this First Symphony (1924), especially in the lyrical second movement. Beautiful performance by the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra under Alvaro Cassuto: