What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Christo]

Good morning all

Still inspired by the Latvian composers thread:

           

[wintersway]

Good morn to you, also!    Please provide some comments on the Richter disc - thought that I had at least several solo piano discs of Peter T's music, but just have the Sonatas w/ Howard (pic added above) - not even sure 'how much' he even wrote for solo piano - 

Great disc with Richter playing a good selection of Tchaikovsky's piano compositions. Here's the back:



NP:

[Harry]

Still playing Louis Antoine Dornel. (1680-1765)

[Sergeant Rock]

I've got both the Handley and the Haitink, and I like them both very well.

While Boult EMI remains my favorite RVW cycle, I really enjoy Haitink, too, especially 1, 7, 8 and 9 ("intense and illuminating"--Gramophone).

There are two complementary sides to this, I think - for a Briton it is refreshing to hear the familiar defamiliarised, whereas the fascinated outsider wants authenticity.

This outsider wants both views 

Sarge

[Sergeant Rock]

I have another oddity which I'd like somebody to try to explain. After listening to Mussorgsky's Prelude to Act 1 of "Khovanshchina", I suddenly had an extraordinary urge to put on the third movement of Dvorak's Ninth (and therefore did so). Why would this be?

After listening to the Vivace movement of Havergal Brian's Gothic Symphony the other day, I had an extraordinary urge to hear Toni Braxton singing "Un-break My Heart."





Some things remain simply inexplicable, Brian. 

Sarge

[Henk]

First time I enjoyed this one.



VC. First time it really made an impression on me.

NP:

[orbital]

I don't know why I'm listening to this  It must be the hypnotic effect, I can't turn it off  What a pointless piece to record 

[johnQpublic]

LPs

Rossini - Overture to "William Tell" (Karajan/Angel)
Tchaikovsky - Roccoco Variations (Rostropovich/DGG)
Sibelius - Belshazzar's Feast Suite (Rozhdestvensky/Melodiya Angel)
Brahms - 7 Hungarian Dances (Dorati/Mercury)

[ChamberNut]

Carter

String Quartet No. 2

Julliard SQ
Sony

**I need extra strong coffee for this one.   

[Sergeant Rock]

Listened twice through to Haitink and the LPO's performances of RVW's Eighth and Ninth Symphonies (my favorites among his nine).

And now for someting completely different: Brahms op.2




Sarge

[ChamberNut]

Chopin

Nocturnes, Op. 37, Op. 48, Op. 55, Op. 62, Op. 72

Arthur Rubinstein
RCA Red Seal

*Needed to cleanse the palette after the Carter SQ 

[karlhenning]

An homogenised mess, probably.

A hit! A palpable hit!

[karlhenning]

I refuse to play in a chamber ensemble that would have them as a member.

The cellist comes up to me and says, "I'm afraid I'll wind up an old maid."

"Bring her in," I offer, "and we'll wind her up together."

[karlhenning]

Carter

String Quartet No. 2

Julliard SQ
Sony

**I need extra strong coffee for this one.

Nothing wrong with music you need take with strong coffee, lad!

[Henk]

Quinto Concerto
Invenzione concertata

Beautiful music, but certainly not easy to listen to. Am I the only one listening to Petrassi here?

[ChamberNut]

Nothing wrong with music you need take with strong coffee, lad!

Like Bartok, whose quartets I absolutely love now, perhaps the Carter quartets will grow on me over time also.

[karlhenning]

Earlier, commuting with the Sansa Fuze:

Sergei Sergeyevich
Piano Concerto No. 3 in C, Opus 21
Beroff
Gewandhausorchester
Masur

On old chestnut, it may be, but this recording reminds me of what excellent virtues it is amply possessed!

And now . . .

Dmitri Dmitriyevich
Incidental Music to King Lear, Opus 58a
Stanislav Suleimanov, bass
Berlin Radio Symphony
Misha Jurowski

The Fool's Ten Songs from Dmitri Dmitriyevich's earlier King Lear music (incidental to a stage production, though also a collaboration with Kozintsev) . . . straddle a sort of Offenbachian glibness, and sober flashes which recall the Opus 62 Romances on Verse of English Poets (which, of course, seems apt enough).

Fascinating comparison-&-contrast to be made with the music to the 1970 film, to be sure.

Thank you, oodles, Harry!

[Harry]

Carl Davidoff. (1838-1889)

Cello Concerto No. 1, opus 5 in B minor.
Cello Concerto No. 2, opus 14 in A minor.
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Tchaikovsky.

Variations on a Rococo Theme, opus 33.

Wen-Sinn Yang, Cello.
Latvian National SO, Terje Mikkelsen

Passionate, romantic, the Paganini on the cello, these concerto's are a great joy to hear, but the stress lies on the cello, for which Davidoff writes in a most genius way, longing with beautiful legato passages, slenderly played by this most gifted musician.
It is well recorded and performed and the Rococo variations are good but will never surpass the most favorite DGG recording, we all should have.

[Harry]

And now . . .

Dmitri Dmitriyevich
Incidental Music to King Lear, Opus 58a
Stanislav Suleimanov, bass
Berlin Radio Symphony
Misha Jurowski

The Fool's Ten Songs from Dmitri Dmitriyevich's earlier King Lear music (incidental to a stage production, though also a collaboration with Kozintsev) . . . straddle a sort of Offenbachian glibness, and sober flashes which recall the Opus 62 Romances on Verse of English Poets (which, of course, seems apt enough).

Fascinating comparison-&-contrast to be made with the music to the 1970 film, to be sure.

Thank you, oodles, Harry!

You are most welcome!

[Sergeant Rock]

More Grimaud, more Brahms:




Sarge