What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[karlhenning]

As long as you maintain that attitude, you will stumble upon and enjoy 21st century music eventually!

Nah....

Stumble upon and enjoy it? Why, Harry has actually sung it! 

[calvin]

James Levine - Tchaikovsky 6 Pathetique

[SonicMan46]

How many votes for this one, lol.

Harry - still on my 'wish list', but waiting for a bargain from BRO! 

Have a good day - Dave 

[Harry]

Stumble upon and enjoy it? Why, Harry has actually sung it! 

Right, you are right, I did that, and it where works written by you definitively 21th century...

[Harry]

Harry - still on my 'wish list', but waiting for a bargain from BRO! 

Have a good day - Dave 

I will never be a bargain, lol

[SonicMan46]

Boccherini, Luigi - Flute Quintets, Op. 19 w/ Auser Musici - never finished this one yesterday - 

Schubert, Franz - Violin & Piano Sonatas w/ Andrew Manze & Richard Egarr (on fortepiano) - 

Both of these discs received 'top' recommendations in the latest issue of Fanfare - currently enjoying the flute works; Schubert up next!

 

[Keemun]

[orbital]

[Harry]

Not in essence a big admirer of Britten, this disc, fabulously recorded and performed, is the exception on the rule.
His Cello Concerto, a dark work is nothing short than amazing, beginning with the downtrodden measure of the first movement "Allegro Maestoso", well brought about by cellist Wallfisch, and the orchestral parts filled in by Bedford who has a knack for Britten, obviously.
The suite Death in Venice holds many memories for me, for with this film began my classical interest.

[Bogey]

Haendel Apollo e Dafne
Judith Nelson/David Thomas
McGegan/Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra
Harmonia Mundi

Note the spelling of Haendel.  Also Händel or Handel.  Which is correct.  Anyone got a tombstone to look at.  

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

[Bogey]

 0:)

[orbital]

[greg]

Rimsky-Korsakov
Quintet in Bb for flute, clarinet, french horn, bassoon, and piano (1876)
Sounds of the Woods Ensemble
ugggghhhhhhhh unfortunately i can't get into this. Way too much repetition, for one......

[SonicMan46]

Johan - yes, I've seen that stone in Westminster Abbey, but can't remember the story behind the 1684 'birth year' - Handel was born in 1685 (same year as JS Bach & D. Scarlatti) - yes? 

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

It has to do, SonicMan, with the differences between the Gregorian and Julian Calendars, I think (or it was simply a mistake!). See this quote (http://gfhandel.org/chron3.htm):

Dates included below for British locations are represented in the Old Style (Julian) up until September 1752 and subsequently in the New Style (Gregorian or continental style). For locations on the Continent, the New Style was used as early as 1700 and in Italy prior to this date. According to the old Julian calendar the year changed on March 25 -- the Feast of the Annunciation. [For example, 31 March 1751 (new style) converts to 20 March 1751 (old style).]

AND THIS (http://www.history.org/almanack/resources/glossary/rsrcehg2.cfm)

Gregorian Calendar (1582), current calendar replacing the Julian calendar. In addition to new rules governing leap years, Pope Gregory XIII decreed that ten days be dropped from the year 1582 by designating October 5 as October 15 in order to correct inaccuracies in the Julian calendar. Although the Gregorian calendar (New Style) was technically superior, it was impossible for England (still embroiled in the intellectual and religious trauma of the Protestant Reformation) to accept a new calendar devised by the Catholic pope and adopted under the auspices of the Roman Church. England clung to the Julian (Old Style) calendar for another 170 years with the result that after 1582, English dates were ten days behind those used by other European countries.

The English calendar for much of the colonial period was further complicated by an anomaly that developed in medieval England when the clergy began dating the new year from the Feast of the Annunciation--or Lady Day as the English styled it--March 25, making the last few days of March the first few days of the new year; that is, the dates January 1 through March 24 were still part of the previous year in England but part of the new year in the rest of Europe. Thus dates between January 1 and March 24 often appear in colonial documents with both Old Style and New Style years separated by a slash (for example, February 18, 1701/2) though not everyone in England and the colonies used this convention.

An end was put to these confusions when a bill for the adoption of the Gregorian calendar passed Parliament. The act went into effect September 3, 1752 which was designated September 14 to correct for the now eleven-day difference that had accumulated between the old and new calendars. It also transferred the beginning of the new year in England from March 25 to January 1 starting in 1753.

[marvinbrown]

  Symphony No. 7  from this set:

 


  marvin

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Hm - re Handel's date of birth: the difference can never be a whole year... Still, interesting info all the same, don't you agree? 

[SonicMan46]

Hm - re Handel's date of birth: the difference can never be a whole year... Still, interesting info all the same, don't you agree? 

Yes, quite interesting!    Thanks for the information - amazing how long Julius Caesar affected the world!    Dave

[Keemun]

Brian: Symphony No. 27 (Mackerras/Philharmonia Orchestra)