What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[springrite]

I keep coming back to this one! Why? Because its so bloody good, that's why.

Oh, really? I have the first symphony and it bored me to tears.


Now listening: George Crumb: Madrigals

[Harry]

Oh, really? I have the first symphony and it bored me to tears.


Now listening: George Crumb: Madrigals

Then send it to me Paul, I would love to have it!
The second is absolutely masterful, and a great addition to my collection, I am moved by it. I did not yet hear the first yet

[karlhenning]

Still enjoying this one Karl.  I believe you would enjoy it as well Corey.  Here is the line-up on this disc:

Canticum Canticorum l Surge, propera amica mea
Composed by Ivan Moody

Canticum Canticorum l Descendi in hortum meum
Composed by Ivan Moody

Canticum Canticorum l Ego dilecto meo
Composed by Ivan Moody

Splendid, Bill!

[karlhenning]

Karl, do you like that? I haven't listened to it in ages. Memory suggests me it was rather dishwater stuff.

I like it a good deal, André;  colorful scoring, footsure pacing.  It's a lesser work than the Seventh Symphony, but in its own scale, as fine a piece.

[karlhenning]

S. 3

Not a really powerful performance.

Well, it's a pastoral piece;  one doesn't want turbo-charging here.

[karlhenning]

Me neither...probably because I prefer my Sibelius Thirds to be " overblown, heated with Romantic excess."

Well, all right: we've found someone who wants it turbo-charged 

[Que]

Q

[Sergeant Rock]

Well, all right: we've found someone who wants it turbo-charged 

I didn't realize I wanted it that way until about six months ago. After dinner one evening, Mrs. Rock announced she wanted to hear the Third. I can't recall which I put on first...my newest acquisition probably...and she sat there with a scowl on her face throughout the entire first movement. When that movement ended she demanded we try another version. For two or three minutes she listened to the new one while maintaining the scowl. She didn't wait for the movement to end before demanding another version. Two more aborted attempts followed. Then I put on Ashkenazy. Her face took on an orgasmic glow and she let ths version play until the end...then demanded an encore. She'd found the perfect Third and I've come to agree with her.

Sarge

[karlhenning]

Chacun à son goût, mon vieux!

[Sergeant Rock]

I keep coming back to this one! Why? Because its so bloody good, that's why.

Hey, Harry. I like the symphony too (that first theme is gorgeous). I'm listening to it now. I don't have Barenboim's performance but keep meaning to order it. In the meantime I make do with Furtwängler's own, an interpretation that has to be definitive, and in reasonably good sound, but I want to hear that Barenboim.



Sarge

[Subotnick]

It does. It does.

So you can stop checking your medication.

I'm going to check it anyway. Want to make sure I've got enough...

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Then I put on Ashkenazy. Her face took on an orgasmic glow and she let this version play until the end...then demanded an encore.

"I'll have the Sibelius recording she is having."

[Harry]

Hey, Harry. I like the symphony too (that first theme is gorgeous). I'm listening to it now. I don't have Barenboim's performance but keep meaning to order it. In the meantime I make do with Furtwängler's own, an interpretation that has to be definitive, and in reasonably good sound, but I want to hear that Barenboim.



Sarge

The sound on the Barenboim is very good,, and the first theme is ravishing indeed, I am now in the last movement, so powerful.
Will get the above recording too.

[karlhenning]

I'm going to check it anyway. Want to make sure I've got enough...

Remember Brad Pitt's exhortation in Twelve Monkeys: Know your dosages!

[mahler10th]

Those grasshoppers and dung beetles are still at it.
My next target is Symphony No 10.

[Sergeant Rock]

"I'll have the Sibelius recording she is having."

[mn dave]

Alkan's Trois Grandes Etudes, op. 76

Live at Wigmore Hall

Hamelin

Bestowed upon me by a fine gentleman of this forum.

Into the beginning, and I feel this is a piece I'll be returning to.

[DavidRoss]

Me neither...probably because I prefer my Sibelius Thirds to be " overblown, heated with Romantic excess." Ashkenazy satisfies in that respect.

Exactly the version that came to mind!

[johnQpublic]

Schreker - Fantastic Overture (Seipenbusch/Marco Polo)
Korngold - Symphony (Welser-Most/EMI)

[karlhenning]

Holmboe
Symphony No. 6, Opus 43
Aarhus Symphony
Owain Arwel Hughes