What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[scarpia]

Seems like I've got everyone listening to V-W these days.   0:)

[Don]

Seems like I've got everyone listening to V-W these days.   0:)

Not everyone.

[karlhenning]

Some of us are listening to Henning . . . .

[Haffner]

Beethoven op. 135


Emerson Quartet


The EQ set is better with the later quartets than the early and mid.

[Don]

Rontgen's "Right Through the Bone" on RCA.  No VW today.  Actually, I haven't listened to any of his music for at least a few months.  Lately, when I want British music, I go for Bliss, Britten, Bridge and Bax; I do seem to be stuck on B.

[mozartsneighbor]

1. Soler: Sonata in F sharp major
2. Granados: Valse poeticos
3. Albeniz: Evocacion
4. Albeniz: Triana
5. Mompou: Pajaro triste
6. Mompou: La barca
7. Mompou: Secreto
8. Mompou: Gitano
9. Longas: Aragon
10. Debussy: La soiree dans Grenade
11. Debussy La serenad interrompue
12. Debussy La Puerta del Vino
13. Ravel/Dumesnil: Piece en forme de Habanera
14. Albeniz/Godowsky: Tango
15. Scharwenka: Spanishches Standchen
16. Niemann: Evening in Seville
17. Hough: On Falla

[mahler10th]

Big tree have strong root!

Strong root?  Nothing this can't handle...watch your tubers, Andy!

[bhodges]

1. Soler: Sonata in F sharp major
2. Granados: Valse poeticos
3. Albeniz: Evocacion
4. Albeniz: Triana
5. Mompou: Pajaro triste
6. Mompou: La barca
7. Mompou: Secreto
8. Mompou: Gitano
9. Longas: Aragon
10. Debussy: La soiree dans Grenade
11. Debussy La serenad interrompue
12. Debussy La Puerta del Vino
13. Ravel/Dumesnil: Piece en forme de Habanera
14. Albeniz/Godowsky: Tango
15. Scharwenka: Spanishches Standchen
16. Niemann: Evening in Seville
17. Hough: On Falla

How is this?  The program looks great and I like Hough in general.

--Bruce

[Bogey]

One of my favorite box sets on the shelf:


Disc 3

Now only $23 for this 4 disc set! Gurn, Harry and others enjoy them as well.

http://www.amazon.com/Beethoven-Chamber-Music-Winds-box/dp/B00000JMZ0/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1221182040&sr=8-7

[Gurn Blanston]

One of my favorite box sets on the shelf:


Disc 3

Now only $23 for this 4 disc set! Gurn, Harry and others enjoy them as well.

http://www.amazon.com/Beethoven-Chamber-Music-Winds-box/dp/B00000JMZ0/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1221182040&sr=8-7

Indeed we do, that was one of my favorite purchases, in retrospect. Some uncommonly heard music there, and wind music fans need to have a go at it.

This Savall is interesting too. I really like this little notturno (serenade), and it is nicely played here.



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Listening to:
Le Concert Des Nations, Jordi Savall - K 269a 286 Notturno in D for 4 Orchestras 3rd mvmt - Menuetto - Trio

[Drasko]

[George]

Indeed we do, that was one of my favorite purchases, in retrospect. Some uncommonly heard music there, and wind music fans need to have a go at it.

I just added it to my wishlist, but I'm thinking it might be best to wait until spring to get this one, as I am sure it is wise to have a window open while it's playing. All that wind in a small apartment... 

[SonicMan46]

One of my favorite box sets on the shelf:


Disc 3

Bill - thanks for the reminder!  I have just one disc from this set, but for the price quoted for the entire box set is certainly a bargain - will put on my wish list! Dave 

[ragman1970]

I wouldn't go as far as that, but she certainly does not have much to "tell" us about the Sibelius concerto. It is more a display of good technique and some musical mannerisms, mostly uniform polishing. That in itself is all happening on a high level, but there are so many good violinists out there, there is really no reason why she has the status she has except for marketing and hype. The same goes for the superficial and featureless accompaniment. Really a superfluous product.

@M forever,

I can agree with this statement. 

[sound67]

Lets say, playing what is written on the paper.

It's what good musicians do. Otherwise, they'd be hacks.

BTW, there is no "depth" to Paganini. It's facile circus music. 

Thomas

[M forever]

It's what good musicians do. Otherwise, they'd be hacks.

Like you. Since you can't play music yourself and form your own opinion about what it good music making and what isn't. There is much more to music making than just "playing the notes". Funny, just recently, you complained about people who reduce music making to "upbow and downbow", which is pretty much the same as "just playing the notes". But again, you wouldn't know that since you lack the ability to play music on a high level yourself. The insights this brings aren't something you can learn from books or in classes. Which shows time and time again in your posts here.

BTW, there is no "depth" to Paganini. It's facile circus music. 

No one who can play Paganini well would need to appear in a circus. The music may not have that much "depth", but it is musically more complex and nuanced than you can grasp (or that your textbooks tell you). So it does have room for a soloist to display his/her musical wit and flexibility. Or not.

[eyeresist]

Tchaikovsky
Symphonies 1, 2 & 3 [from the boxset]
Bournemouth SO/Litton
Virgin

It's just good clean fun!

[sound67]

But again, you wouldn't know that since you lack the ability to play music on a high level yourself.

Neither can you, apparently.  0:) Otherwise, why would you're working in that demeaning job your're doing now? 

Playing "beyond" the notes is just straying into self-indulgence, as any GOOD orchestral and chamber player would tell you. It's all there in the score.

Thomas

[Wanderer]

Medtner: Sonata Reminiscenza (Gilels).

[eyeresist]

Playing "beyond" the notes is just straying into self-indulgence, as any GOOD orchestral and chamber player would tell you. It's all there in the score.

I disagree with this. Why else would we so often use the word "interpretation"?  A machine can "just play the notes" as well as a person can, but it can't express what the music is meant to say (or what it is capable of saying). It doesn't know how or when to be lyrical, or melancholy, or exuberant, or ironic, or cold, nor would it try to highlight harmonic relationships by subtle emphasis on certain notes, or to get slightly ahead of or behind the beat as a deliberate effect.

Of course, we also talk about "over-interpretation", which may be what you are actually referring to.