What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Harry]

CD 1

[Harry]

So beautiful.......

[Brian]

Stern playing with his left hand. hehe. 

Whoa! That is weird!

[Brian]

So far this afternoon...

TCHAIKOVSKY | Symphony No 5
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Daniele Gatti

TCHAIKOVSKY | Symphony No 5
Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra; Evgeny Mravinsky

[Brian]

SLAVICKY | Three Moravian Dance Fantasias
SLAVICKY | Rhapsodic Variations
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Karel Ancerl

Wow! I am really loving this music. The Moravian Dances were savagely fun and foot-stompingly exciting; the opening of the rhapsody is mysterious and atmospheric in the best 20th century Czech way.

[Kullervo]

[M forever]

I remember hearing this LIVE in LA, about a year after the recording session, and buying the CD as soon as I saw it. Magnificent!

Great! I saw Giulini live regularly in the 80s, never with the LA Philharmonic though from which he resigned in 1984 or so because his wife was ill. He came to conduct the BP for several programs every season, and many of those concerts are among my greatest memories of musical performances I have, especially the last three Bruckner symphonies, but also other repertoire like the Fauré Requiem and Franck's symphony. His far too few recordings with the LA Philharmonic are all musically very good, including this one which is pure musical substance, no vain surface gloss, and very intensely played by the orchestra although there are some moments where the orchestral playing is a little smudgy and intonation is not always optimally secure in some sections. But what counts is the intensely lyrical and expressive quality of the music making.

[Brian]

My third listen to the Glagolitic Mass; each time I hear it, the piece rockets up my list of Favorite Things.

[bhodges]

Reich: Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices and Organ (Steve Reich and Musicians)
Dallapiccola: Tartiniana (James Ehnes, violin/BBC Philharmonic/Noseda)
Xenakis: Tetras (Arditti String Quartet)

--Bruce

[karlhenning]

My third listen to the Glagolitic Mass; each time I hear it, the piece rockets up my list of Favorite Things.

And a great, great account of that piece this is!

Myself, now:

[Kullervo]

(Concerto, Le Temps Restitué)

[Brian]

And a great, great account of that piece this is!

Myself, now:

I've been desiring that disc since hearing the Sinfonietta live a little while ago! Can't imagine that there are interpreters better suited for the piece than the Czech Philharmonic and Ancerl.

[Brian]

TUBIN | Symphony No 3
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi

Can't say I was expecting the Dies Irae quote in the first movement, but it's just as wonderful as I remembered from my first listen a couple years ago.

[Harry]

Carl Davidoff.
Cello Concertos No. 1 & 2, in B & A minor.

Pyotr ll"yich Tchaikovsky.
Variations on a rococo Theme, opus 33.
Wen-Sinn Yang, Cello.
Latvian National SO, <Terje Mikkelsen>
CPO recording 1197-1998.

Nice enough music with some extraordinary writing for the Cello. It is well recorded, and performed, but is not that memorable.
The works of Davidoff are not bad, neither that good, just middle of the road music. Tchaikovsky is done well enough, but it can not reach the already established recordings made of it. Yang is a good cellist, and produces a fine lucid yet warm tone, but the emotional involvement is somewhat on the cool side. It pays dividends in the sense of clear sight and well spaced out playing, but it hasn't the push, to turn this performance in such a way, that you want to play over and over again.
So better forget about this recording, unless it goes to the budget price.

[Harry]

Karol Lipinsky.

Rondo alla Polacca opus 13 in E major.
Violin Concerto No. 1 opus 14 in F sharp minor.
Variations de Bravoure sur une Romance militaire, opus 22 in d major.

Albrecht Laurent Breuninger, Violin.
Polish RSO, <Wojciech Rajski>.

The Polish Paganini is a apt description of this composer. Spectacular writing for Violin, and a somewhat lame scoring for Orchestra, but who minds with such compositions. The violin gets a beating alright, and every string is used from top to bottom. Breuninger is well up to the job, as he showed in countless other recordings with Violin concertos, like the Beriot disc I played recently. The man has a technique that is awesome. Some of the colors he gets  from this instrument are dazzling to behold. The Orchestra is doing well next to the soloist, but there is not much rewarding material to play, although the scoring is slightly better as in some of the Paganini concertos.
Well recorded in 2001-2002. Booklet presentation is impeccable.

[springrite]

Alkan: Preludes, op 31 (Martin, MARCO POLO)

Phillip Glass: Choruses from the Trilogy

[Harry]

Alkan: Preludes, op 31 (Martin, MARCO POLO)

Phillip Glass: Choruses from the Trilogy

Good day to you my friend!

How are the Alkan recordings on Marco Polo Paul?

[mozartsneighbor]

Schubert - String Quartet D804 "Rosamunde"
Emerson String Quartet

[Valentino]

What have they boxed you into, Harry?  


Mozart: Cosí fan tutte. Jacobs. Terrificissimo!

[Harry]

What have they boxed you into, Harry?  


Mozart: Cosí fan tutte. Jacobs. Terrificissimo!

Boxed me into what I wonder?