What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[karlhenning]

Wuorinen
Chamber Concerto for Cello & Ten Players (1963)
Fred Sherry
The Group for Contemporary Music
Wuorinen conducting

[rubio]

A very fine 8th by Sanderling/Berlin SO.

[karlhenning]

Wuorinen
Ringing Changes for Percussion Ensemble (1969-70)
The New Jersey Percussion Ensemble
Wuorinen conducting

[marvinbrown]

Now (in solidarity with Marvin, :

Dmitri Dmitriyevich
Symphony No. 4 in C Minor, Opus 43
Bavarian Radio Symphony
Jansons

....and so it must be....and so it can only be......

It is very difficult to put this boxset away once I've delved into it.  Currently listening to Symphony no.6 in B minor, first movement,  played ever so perfectly by the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra.  Such a dark, ominous and sad opening, are we at a funeral here??....we must be at a funeral here!!

 
 
 marvin

[karlhenning]

Wuorinen
Missa brevis (1991)
Choir of St Ignatius of Antioch
Harold Chaney, conductor

[Harry]

One of my Purchases from JPC, that cost me 6 euros, and was sold two days later for 19,95. My luck I guess.
Anyway a very good performance and fine music.

[ChamberNut]

Sibelius

Symphony No. 2 in D, op. 43

Boston Symphony Orchestra
Sir Colin Davis
Philips

[Harry]

From this box disc IX.

Waldszenen opus 82.
Sonate No. 3, opus 14.

Most excellent.

[rubio]

I've plunged into this 8CD set of recordings by Klemperer/WP. First up is Bruckner 5th, and this is majestic and very well-played. Bruckner is definately at home in the Musikverein. Tuttis and brass are strong, and I only miss a little more melancholy in the 2nd movement. It's up there with my favourite 5th's.

[ChamberNut]

Sibelius

Symphony No. 3 in C, op. 52 **

Boston Symphony Orchestra
Sir Colin Davis
Philips

**My premiere listen to this Sibelius symphony.   

[Lethevich]

**My premiere listen to this Sibelius symphony.   

Lucky

[Drasko]

[rubio]

Bruckner 9th by Jochum/SD. A enjoyable, veritable brass fiesta! Virtuosic playing by the SD.

[Brian]

CHARLES VILLIERS STANFORD
Symphonies Nos 6 "In honor of the life-work of a great artist: George Frederick Watts"
and No 3 "Irish"

Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
David Lloyd-Jones

The Irish symphony has a fabulous scherzo, absolutely wonderful, although the Irishness of the slow movement is somewhat marred by repeated quotes from Brahms' Fourth Symphony. This isn't on Brahms' level, but it is quite enjoyable nonetheless, a lovely CD for background music, I suppose, but with some distractingly good moments. Didn't realize David Lloyd-Jones is so old; thought he was a relative newcomer to disc, but he began conducting 50 years ago!

[karlhenning]

Bartók
Gyermekeknek (For Children), Sz 42 (vol. II)
György Sándor

[Brian]

BRAHMS | Symphony No 4
Philadelphia Orchestra; Eugene Ormandy

Superb!
Absolutely superb.

[Lilas Pastia]

I didn't know Ormandy's Brahms was available ?

This afternoon: the second (Johannes' of course) played by the BRSO under Joseph Keilberth. Caught on the wings just a few minutes into the first movement. I found its identity just after. I wouldn't have guessed the players. Under Keilberth (late sixties, excellent stereo broadcast sound) the orchestra sounds beefier than usual with forward horns, emphatic timpani and a strong emphasis on legato and rythmic accents. A potent mix. I have no idea of its provenance, but it did set the adrenalin racing.

[Solitary Wanderer]

Don Juan & Till Eulenspiegel

[Dundonnell]

CHARLES VILLIERS STANFORD
Symphonies Nos 6 "In honor of the life-work of a great artist: George Frederick Watts"
and No 3 "Irish"

Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
David Lloyd-Jones

The Irish symphony has a fabulous scherzo, absolutely wonderful, although the Irishness of the slow movement is somewhat marred by repeated quotes from Brahms' Fourth Symphony. This isn't on Brahms' level, but it is quite enjoyable nonetheless, a lovely CD for background music, I suppose, but with some distractingly good moments. Didn't realize David Lloyd-Jones is so old; thought he was a relative newcomer to disc, but he began conducting 50 years ago!

What d'ya mean "so old"?? He's only 74 next month! That makes him a youngster amongst the long list of conductors who have graced the podium
Wait till he becomes an octogenarian before you say things like that and even then......

Just you wait! Young students!!....(mutters disagreeably into his coffee mug)

[Gustav]

You mean 譚盾：
三種音色的間奏?

Simplified 漢字 is a shameful part of your culture. Don't use it.

A little prick like you don't even know what you are talking about. you probably don't even know the history of the development of the simplified Chinese. So, stop bullshitting about things that you don't have a clue about!!

Be it Traditional or Simplified, they are both important parts of the Chinese culture. What's so shameful about it? The traditional Chinese simply fell out of usage, because of the difficulty associated with it. The implementation of the simplified Chinese is actually one of the few things that the communists party did right in the early days.
Plus, it is more advantages to learn simplified Chinese because people who learned simplified Chinese can read both simplified and traditional Chinese; while people who have only knowledge of traditional Chinese can't read the simplified Chinese.

Personally speaking, I like both. But, why would I be ashamed of the simplified? What would an idiot like you know anything about the Chinese language? Just because you 'know' some traditional Chinese, it automatically makes knowing simplified "shameful"? What kind of screwed up logic is that?

you ought to apologize to the people you've offended. Springrite for one. Btw. Tan Dun is from mainland China too, so he uses the simplified script.