What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[karlhenning]

Yes, I should try something more subtle next time. How did she like the concerto?

She likes it;  of course, she's heard a lot of my own clarinet writing first, so Nielsen has a certain classical charm, in comparison : - )

[Catison]

She likes it;  of course, she's heard a lot of my own clarinet writing first, so Nielsen has a certain classical charm, in comparison : - )

Yes, I have always found that the fastest way to get someone to like Schoenberg is to suggest that we could listen to Nono.

[Keemun]

Scriabin: Symphony No. 4 (Muti/Philadelphia)

[Bogey]

Beethoven
Piano Sonats 1-3, Op. 2/Rondo in A, WoO49/and something about being hacked off over a misplaced penny
Schnabel
Pearl

[UB]

Today I have been listening to a wide variety of music including:

Wolfgang Rihm - "die Hamletmaschine" which is one of my favorite operas. Right up there with Berg's 'Wozzeck', Strauss's 'Elektra', and Zimmerman's 'die Soldaten.'

Matthijs Vermeulen - Symphonies 2, 5 & 6. Excellent symphonies from a little known Dutch composer who I have enjoyed for 25 years. It is too bad that his complete sets from Donemus are so expensive.

Aho and Lindberg - Clarinet Concertos. Both are worth getting to know but I think they are a little long for what they have to say. Neither is as good or as fresh sounding as Nielsen's.

Edward Top - Thanks to Concertzender I got to hear a good selection of his music from 1995 to 2005. I found his Red Thirst for ensemble the best of what I heard.

[Bogey]

Mozart
Cassation KV 63 and KV 99
Kurpfälzisches Kammerorchester Mannheim/Heyerick
Brilliant

Mozart
Divertimento KV 251
Neues Musicum, Burkhard/Glaetzner
Brilliant

[Catison]

Today I have been listening to a wide variety of music including:

Wolfgang Rihm - "die Hamletmaschine" which is one of my favorite operas. Right up there with Berg's 'Wozzeck', Strauss's 'Elektra', and Zimmerman's 'die Soldaten.'

Matthijs Vermeulen - Symphonies 2, 5 & 6. Excellent symphonies from a little known Dutch composer who I have enjoyed for 25 years. It is too bad that his complete sets from Donemus are so expensive.

Aho and Lindberg - Clarinet Concertos. Both are worth getting to know but I think they are a little long for what they have to say. Neither is as good or as fresh sounding as Nielsen's.

Edward Top - Thanks to Concertzender I got to hear a good selection of his music from 1995 to 2005. I found his Red Thirst for ensemble the best of what I heard.

Welcome back Bill!

[Brian]

JUNGLE DRUMS
Morton Gould
and his Orchestra!

Great music to distract me from studying 

[Bogey]

Richard Strauss
Symphony for Winds in E Flat major "Happy Workshop"
Münchner Bläserakademie/Sawallisch
Ofero

If you enjoy Karl's wind music, I would be very surprised if you did not find this favorable as well.

[Lilas Pastia]

Coincidentally, some Wolfgang Rihm here too: 4 works for soloist and orchestra - not exactly concertos, at least not in the conventional sense. One work was for oboe (deceptively titled Musik für Oboe und Orchester), where practically nothing happens in the orchestra over a surprisingly long period of time - the oboe is quite effectively and gracefully displayed, though. But a concerto it ain't.

Another one is for violin (liked it best), then one for viola, and Lethe ( ) for cello. Honestly this one was a trial. Not a single moment of that plangent, vocal caramel voice the cello usually yields, but 25 minutes of agitated scraping on the solo cello strings that grated both my nerves and the instrument. I don't dismiss any of it, will give it another try soon, but I still wonder what it's all about. A Hänssler release, with big names giving Rihm the royal treatment.

Havergal Brian symphonies 22, 23, 24, 26 and Elegy for orchestra. Driving down to Burlington (Vt) airport to pick up my visiting sister-in-law, I had time to listen twice to that program. It was difficult to listen to those five works in succession as it sounded like five servings of the same plate. But then again, this means the composer speaks with one voice, right? Good thing.

At the second go I could make out differences between the works. I definitely root for 24 more than the other works. I note that this is the only one that is labeled with a tonality (D major), and not surprisingly it's the only one that has a real romantic 'moment' - about halfway through. All are short works, the whole 'program' lasting some 71 minutes. Another go at the whole thing again this week. At least I know I've never heard something like that before.

[UB]

Hi Brett - Did you graduate since I was here a few years ago and are you still studying your head off in Texas?

This evening I have been listening to:

David Popper - Requiem for 3 Cellos and Piano - a wonderful work that I heard for the first time at a funeral on Monday.

Kagel - Sankt-bach-passion - Probably my favorite work by Kagel. Beautiful and powerful.

Jorg Widmann - Octet for clarinet, bassoon, horn, 2 violins, viola, cello and double bass - Widmann is both a fine clarinetist and composer. It is too bad that he is not heard as much in the US as in Europe.

[scarpia]

"UB" is that short for "Utah Bill?"

[UB]

Yes....

[Lilas Pastia]

Ohoh ! Well, welcome, welcome!

[Ugh!]

[Harry]

Good morning fine fellows and gals.

I start this morning with Haydn's SQ, opus 64, played by the Buchberger Quartet, that is recording the complete SQ, and have landed in their 8th Volume. I always get a kick hearing the slightly dissonant fourth movement from the first quartet in C major, which is done in this recording in a subtle way. The Buchbergers are consistent in their approach, somewhere in the middle of the most famous performances we all know. A welcome addition in price and artistry. The recordings from Brilliant are good also, lucid yet firm.
If you need a inexpensive cycle, this might well prove to be a very good choice. I would prefer it above the Kodaly Quartet on Naxos, simply because there is more spielfreude, and better judged tempi, that somehow also reach the fun article in this music, something that I am missing at times with the Kodaly. A serious minded quartet, but nevertheless paramount in having.
Simply try it.

[springrite]

Bach French Suites (Gould)

[karlhenning]

Good morning (or, as may be appropriate, day), all!

Think I'll start the day off with the . . .

Irreplaceable Doodles (March '07 performance)

Hearing the "Port Authority Bus Terminal acoustics" sound of the St Paul's house-mic's, makes me appreciate yet more the fine recording job my friend Shauna did with the June recital of this year.

[The new erato]

"UB" is that short for "Utah Bill?"

I thought it was 'uffalo Bill....

Now playing Richard Wetz Requiem on cpo. Well worth a listen for fans of Brahms' Deutsche Requiem (to give a general impresson of the style). Fine recording IMO.

[Catison]

Hi Brett - Did you graduate since I was here a few years ago and are you still studying your head off in Texas?

Graduated yes, but now I am getting a PhD.  So several more years of school for me.

I am looking forward to your posts again.