What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[M forever]

Now:

Anton Josefovich
Symphony No. 8
Orchestre des Champs-Élysées
Philippe Herreweghe


Live recording from the Musikfest Berlin 2008

[Que]

Diderik Buxtehude - Complete Organ Works Vol.6

Jean-Charles Ablitzer, historical organ Bielfeldt (1730-1736)
Sankt Wihadi Church, Stade, Niedersachsen, Germany

Q

[springrite]

Gustav Safinovich
Symphony #1 (Berstein, NY Phil)

[Daverz]

Nothing to be impressed by - I have access to the "internet", so it only takes a few seconds to look that up.

Yeah, I know, I took the time to check by Googling "vaughan williams father", but still...

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Seamus O'Vich, Symphonia Hibernia (Fergal McLoughlin/Chandos)

Sublime.

[val]

SIBELIUS:    Kullervo                / Soloists, Choir and Bournemouth Orchestra, Berglund

A very good version, in special in the Introduction and in the scene "Kullervo and his sister". The work is remarkable.

[Christo]

I am delighted that you like Cooke's 3rd

Do you know the 1st Symphony which is on another Lyrita disc, coupled with the Concerto in D for string orchestra and the Ballet Suite "Jabez and the Devil"?

Not yet - still waiting for a better offer of this CD at Amazon.co.uk (the second-hand and budget category, I mean). But I do know the playful Jabez and the Devil Suite, from the old Lyrita LP when it was coupled with the Third. My admiration for the Third stemming from those longforgone times, when I was still young and almost innocent ...   

[Que]

Listening to concertos by Francesco Antonio Rosetti, Ernst Wilhelm Wolf and Johann Gottlieb Naumann.

Q

[chankaiming]

The story actually has much more "depth" than it may appear at first. What distinguishes da Ponte's libretto is the psychological depth he gives the characters and their actions, the many layers of appearance and deception which was pretty groundbreaking in an age which didn't have any concept of "psychology" as we have it today. The general view was that people were basically either good or bad, honest or dishonest, moral or immoral, with a few shades of grey in between, but not much. Even though in the Age of Enlightenment, these views were becoming increasingly more complex, something like the multi-layered characters in this opera hadn't really been seen before on the opera stage.

Thank M forever for enlightneing me on the psychological side of this opera.

[karlhenning]

On the Sansa Fuze coming in to work:

Nielsen
Overture to Maskarade
Symphony No. 3 (Sinfonia espansiva)
SFSO
Blomstedt

[Christo]

On the Sansa Fuze coming in to work:

Take your time for a coffee, Karl, and then scroll down this thread and see what they did (M started) with your patronyms!

[karlhenning]

Take your time for a coffee, Karl, and then scroll down this thread and see what they did (M started) with your patronyms!

And you know, of course Nielsen was in origin a patronymic.

[Christo]

And you know, of course Nielsen was in origin a patronymic.

Come to think of it: the list of original patronyms would include composers like Adams, Anderson, Andriessen, Ives, Larsson, Mendelssohn, Simpson, Vaughan Williams. With Paterson/Petterson/Patterson etc. almost sounding as double patronyms...

[karlhenning]

Dmitri Dmitriyevich
Symphony No. 11 in G Minor, Opus 103 (The Year 1905)
Prague Symphony
Maksim Dmitriyevich

[Catison]

And you know, of course Nielsen was in origin a patronymic.

As is every Russian surname.

This morning

Josef Anton
Symphony No. 0
Ireland National Symphony Orchestra
Georg Bernhard

and

Olivier Eugène Prosper Charles
Éclairs sur l'au-delà...
Berliner Philharmoniker
Sir Simon Denis

[Que]

Q

[mn dave]

[mahler10th]

I am STILL going through moutains of Sibelius to identify what it is exactly that this set has to offer which so may favour over many other sets.  One thing is for sure, Maazel pulls out the 'big' orchestra sound with the VPO and his attention to detail and innuendo is exacting.  The difference between this set and my favourite (up until now) Ashkenazy set is palpable indeed - Ashkenazy seems to sustain very little, where Maazel stretches the music in a much wider, bigger way.  My interpretative difficulty is in assessing what Sibelius was trying to do with each symphony, and if the shorter attack style of Ashkenazy is a more appropiate than the wide and beautiful Maazel.  I have eight cycles which I'm working through (Sibelius has always been my main man), playing one off another, etc, so the jury for me is still out.
I still expect to repost on the Sibelius thread some comparisons and comments in the near future.

Maazel - Sibelius ... what a great seventh!

[karlhenning]

Dmitri Dmitriyevich
Symphony No. 7 in C Major, Leningrad Opus 60
iv. Allegro non troppo
Prague Symphony
Maksim Dmitriyevich

(Skipped right to the finale for investigative listening purposes.)

[mn dave]