What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[mn dave]

It's good to add another pianist to the MN Dave stable.

Michelangeli playing Scarlatti

[Drasko]

Cherkassy playing Franck (P,C &F)

Speaking of which.. any other pianists to look for in this piece? I already have Cherkassy, Sokolov, Richter and Bolet.

Rubinstein and Moravec.

[orbital]

Rubinstein and Moravec.

Duly noted, thanks Milos.

[pjme]

Boult conducts Butterworth, Howells, Hadley and Warlock - Lyrita . A great disc  -listened several times to A shropshire lad (Butterworth) and Howell's Merry - eye .
Then a Haydn pianotrio : nr 28 / Hob. XV - that snaky Allegretto second mov. is irresistable. Florestan trio :Jan Vermeulen fortepiano.

Peter

[mn dave]

[karlhenning]

Joly Braga Santos
Symphony No. 6 (1972), To my Daughter Maria da Piedade
Ana Ester Neves, soprano
Chorus of the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos
Portuguese Symphony Orchestra
Álvaro Cassuto



Texts by 16th-c. Portuguese poet Luís de Camões;  terrific piece!

[Renfield]

So far, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra have been making their presence known; not in a very good way, alas.

[Bonehelm]

Mahler: Symphony No. 3
Christa Ludwig, mezzo-soprano
New York Choral Artists
Brooklyn Boys Chorus
New York Philharmonic
Leonard Bernstein, cond.
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON
I decided to take a break this morning from my purposeful traversal of the Sibelian oeuvre and make a rare return to this "symphony that encompasses the universe" (or was that the Eighth?).   I must say, comparatively speaking and despite the plethora of written rhetoric concerning Mahlerian interpretation, the Symphony No. 3 sounds incredibly simplistic!   It's not that I don't like the Third; it's really quite enjoyable (and long!), but it's like listening to a b-movie -- emotionally transparent, texturally plain, and singularly melodramatic.  Howzabout I just leave it at that for now.  I've heard only two recorded performances in my lifetime, this one and my original LPs of the work with Horenstein/LSO.   Just for curiosity's sake, I've recently ordered a used copy of the more recent Boulez/VPO; let's see what he has to "say" about it.

Better run before M for Musicologist Forever comes in a set you up in flames...

[scarpia]

Mahler: Symphony No. 3
Christa Ludwig, mezzo-soprano
New York Choral Artists
Brooklyn Boys Chorus
New York Philharmonic
Leonard Bernstein, cond.
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON
I decided to take a break this morning from my purposeful traversal of the Sibelian oeuvre and make a rare return to this "symphony that encompasses the universe" (or was that the Eighth?).   I must say, comparatively speaking and despite the plethora of written rhetoric concerning Mahlerian interpretation, the Symphony No. 3 sounds incredibly simplistic!   It's not that I don't like the Third; it's really quite enjoyable (and long!), but it's like listening to a b-movie -- emotionally transparent, texturally plain, and singularly melodramatic.  Howzabout I just leave it at that for now.  I've heard only two recorded performances in my lifetime, this one and my original LPs of the work with Horenstein/LSO.   Just for curiosity's sake, I've recently ordered a used copy of the more recent Boulez/VPO; let's see what he has to "say" about it.

This is a "live" recording, no?  I believe I was at the concert (or one of them) which was a pretty poor effort.  There must have been a lot of patching from rehearsal and gain-riding to make that turd sound acceptable.

[Renfield]

So far, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra have been making their presence known; not in a very good way, alas.

Post- *grinding strings* -poned for *string and brass section not together by a long shot* tomorrow.

*more grinding strings*


Could be that I'm just not in the right mood for the 1955 VSO, tonight.


And since the Mahler 3rd is under discussion, I am contemplating a dose of Boulez-assisted VPO as an antidote.

[mn dave]

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Don't you mean Cut-offi? Ho ho ho...

You sound like a creepy Father Christmas, Corey... ! 

[orbital]

What's with the Argerich endorsement there? 

[mn dave]

What's with the Argerich endorsement there? 

I don't know, but if this is what she endorses, I want more, please.  0:)

[orbital]

I don't know, but if this is what she endorses, I want more, please.  0:)

the amazon playlist does not show the complete track list i think. What Schumann Schubert is he playing?

edit:  nevermind, I read Schumann (instead of Schubert) on the cover for some reason 

[Bogey]

Mozart Symphony No. 38 "Prague"
Suitner/NHK SO
Denon

[Lilas Pastia]

François Couperin, First Book, disc one of the Borgstede integral (a Brilliant Classics production). I'm accustomed to hearing Kenneth Gilbert in Couperin, but I have no problem welcoming Borgstede as a first-rate Couperin interpreter. Furthermore, his recording is much more recent (some 30-35 years?), and needless to say the harpsichord's overtones are much better captured in the more recent engineering. The harmonies acquire a three-dimensionality that is ear-opening.

I've had this set for over a year, but Couperin is a very special composer, whose music is infused with myriad tints and emotional twists and turns (Haydn, CPE Bach and Boccherini are other such  composers). It requires the right frame of mind for one to be receptive to its wonders. I respond to his vocal and chamber music much less than his harpsichord oeuvre, which I count as the most important instrumental corpus before Schubert's sonatas. There could be an interesting discussion about the prevalence of dyonisian features in his music (and schubert's), and of apollonian ones in Bach's and Beethoven's.

[Bogey]

A bit of radio listening this evening:

Beethoven Symphony #1
Gewandhaus Orchestra of Leipzig / Kurt Masur
Philips

[Que]

My apologies for making this picture bigger than usual, but some covers deserve to be seen.

Q

[Valentino]

Let me compensate, Que.



Goodmorning, all! I havent been in here a lot lately, but I have been listening, buying records, and upgrading my hifi in the meantime.