What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[karlhenning]

Ravel
Rapsodie espagnole
Michel Béroff & Jean-Philippe Collard

[Homo Aestheticus]

[karlhenning]

Richard Wagner would have gasped at the exquisite art of Pelleas et Melisande  and  Prelude To The Afternoon Of A Faun.

That is science-fiction, Eric. Chances are, Wagner would not have cared for them in the least;  they reject most of his musical aesthetics.

[Homo Aestheticus]

That is science-fiction, Eric. Chances are, Wagner would not have cared for them in the least;  they reject most of his musical aesthetics.

True, he would not have cared for Massenet, Delibes or Charpentier... But this is Debussy and I really believe that Wagner would have been 'bowled over' by those works.

[Kullervo]

I've heard this tune before...

[M forever]

Michel Beroff calls himself Michel Beroff.

That was my point.

[Dancing Divertimentian]

That was my point.

[karlhenning]

Ravel
Rapsodie espagnole
Michel Béroff & Jean-Philippe Collard

As an orchestral piece, this is perhaps my favorite Ravel score.  (Heck, whenever I listen to Ravel, whatever piece I'm listening to is my favorite.)  I find the piano version enchanting, too.

[Kullervo]

Debussy fever!

[Solitary Wanderer]

[karlhenning]

Debussy fever!

Yes, I've been on a Debussy binge more severe than I have known in many a year.

[karlhenning]

Debussy
Pelléas et Mélisande, Acte V
Kurt Ollmann
Frederica Von Stade
John Bröcheler
Nicolai Ghiaurov
Abbado, conducting

[Kullervo]

Yes, I've been on a Debussy binge more severe than I have known in many a year.

Exquisite, one might say.

[karlhenning]

Exquisite, one might say.

If I'm following the words (as when reading the score), Pelléas keeps hold of me just fine.  Wonderful piece.

Of course, the later Debussy oeuvre is more wonderful yet;  Pelléas is a rare fusion of the composer's music and the source-drama . . . whether one could say such a thing absolutely, who knows, but it gives a powerful impression that Maeterlinck's 'anti-drama' and Debussy's musical setting are inseparable.

[Dancing Divertimentian]

Hopping on the Debussy bandwagon:

En blanc et noir, Argerich/Kovacevich.

[Solitary Wanderer]

[Homo Aestheticus]

[Dancing Divertimentian]

[Brian]

TCHAIKOVSKY | Symphony No 5
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Mariss Jansons

Don't know what my favorite recording of this symphony is. But between Mravinsky, Jansons, Gatti, Ormandy, Matacic, Gergiev and Muti, I am certainly more than spoiled for choice!

[The new erato]

Rachmaninovs Symphonic Dances (my favorite work of his) in the two piano version - my first encounter with this version. Glorious fun, like all of his music for two pianos.