What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[vandermolen]

Stale Kleiberg(born 1958) is a Norwegian composer of whom I had never heard until a few days ago. Thank you, J.

This magical cd should be a must buy if you can find it!!

Two symphonies-No.1 "The Bell Reef" and No.2 "Kammersymfoni"-and a 'Lamento-Cissi Klein in memoriam'(a short moving memorial to a 13 year old Jewish girl deported from Trondheim to die in Auschwitz).

Kleiberg's music is a revelation! The best word I can use to describe it is pellucid. There is a gorgeous crystalline clarity which is a wonderful mixture of Debussy and Bax(particularly in "Bell Reef"  Symphony) but refracted through the prism of a gentle post-modern expressionism. As the review below says, there are even a few passages which recall Moeran!

http://www.musicweb-international.com/classRev/2004/Jan04/Kleiberg.htm

Strongly recommended!

Colin,

Your mailbox is full so I am replying here with my three points:

a) Are you trying to bankrupt me?

b) Is this revenge for my Walton 'derailments'?

c) I think I should be told.

Jeffrey 

[Sean]

I just have never gotten the Dutilleux bug, despite trying. He always comes across as a more-style-than-substance type of composer.

Metaboles is a nice piece, though.

The VC has its moments but will most be remembered for another stake in the ground charting art's demise.

[Bogey]

[Dundonnell]

Colin,

Your mailbox is full so I am replying here with my three points:

a) Are you trying to bankrupt me?

b) Is this revenge for my Walton 'derailments'?

c) I think I should be told.

Jeffrey 

(Mailbox is now available again. Sorry!)

a) Of course not! Anyway, I know how well schoolteachers are paid in Great Britain

b) Would I stoop so low

c) I have just done so

I blame J with his (recently posted) huge list of recorded Scandinavian symphonies. If you recall-my lists were made up of unrecorded symphonies

[vandermolen]

(Mailbox is now available again. Sorry!)

a) Of course not! Anyway, I know how well schoolteachers are paid in Great Britain

That Kleiberg CD is £25 for a single CD - so no way at the moment. Still, have ordered Arthur Butterworth from Dutton and look forward to receiving that and the D Matthews.

[ChamberNut]

Haydn

String Quartet in E flat, Op. 20/1
String Quartet in C major, Op. 20/2
String Quartet in G minor, Op. 20/3

Kodaly Quartet
Naxos

[Dundonnell]

That Kleiberg CD is £25 for a single CD - so no way at the moment. Still, have ordered Arthur Butterworth from Dutton and look forward to receiving that and the D Matthews.

Hah! Maybe there is another way that you might be able to hear the music Give me a little time!

[Jay F]

Tennstedt. Note to Russell: this is probably my favorite M9 after Bernstein's on CBS/Sony.

Then more of Marriner's Mozart. I am really enjoying this, to the point where I feel as if I am discovering the music again. I only got these sometime this year, having stopped at Hogwood and Bohm years ago, and not liking Bernstein's much at all.

[George]

Tennstedt. Note to Russell: this is probably my favorite M9 after Bernstein's on CBS/Sony.

Then more of Marriner's Mozart. I am really enjoying this, to the point where I feel as if I am discovering the music again. I only got these sometime this year, having stopped at Hogwood and Bohm years ago, and not liking Bernstein's much at all.

Mozart's music is great, so consistent, with great balance and beauty. I love what Szell does with the symphonies.

[Opus106]

Happy 185th, Bedřich!

Má vlast
Cleveland SO/Rafael Kubelik

Recorded at Severance Hall, December 9 1976

[SonicMan46]

Benda, Franz (1709-1786) - Violin Sonatas w/ Anton Steck (baroque violin) & Christian Rieger (harpsichord) - have a number of discs w/ Steck - he's just phenomenal; but my first exposure to this composer, who work along side CPE Bach at the court of Frederick the Great; his brother was Georg Benda (and own a number of recordings of his works) - however, check out F. Benda's output HERE! Have no idea 'how much' of this is extant or recorded?

Lipinski, Karol (1790-1861) - Violin Concertos 2-4 w/ Albrecht Breuninger on violin; Rajski conducting the Polish RSO - coming up next and another new composer for me - 

 

[Todd]

Lazar Berman and Carlo Maria Giulini in the Liszt piano concertos.  This combo really works for me.  Berman dazzles as appropriate, especially in the first concerto, and Giulini adds weight and warmth not always present in these works.  The second concerto is grander and more Romantic than normal.  Superb stuff.  No, it doesn't quite match up with Richter/Kondrashin or Janis/Kondrasin, but it's close enough for me.

[Kullervo]

Delving further into the Janacek box with the Sinfonietta and Taras Bulba -- the former I knew and loved already, and the latter is nearly as stunning. I was surprised at how "advanced" it sounds even though it is not one of his later works for which he is mostly known (afaik). Brilliant piece.

Also had a first listen to the Nash Ensemble's two-fer of chamber music by Debussy and Ravel -- so far I've listened to the disc of Debussy. The violin sonata and the sonate en trio both get sensitive and nuanced readings. I think I actually prefer them to my Melos ensemble disc. The cello sonata I had not heard before -- a wonderful, exotic and occasionally brooding piece. The music of the Chansons de Bilitis is lovely, but it seems to be more narration than music -- which is rather useless to me as I don't speak French and the disc comes with no texts.

[Kullervo]

Hello val, you still there eh? Dutilleux is overrated like the rest of his generation, but we can agree to disagree.

Or you could stop trying to pretend to know what you're talking about. The symphony 'Le Double' is a bonafide masterpiece, so says I.

[karlhenning]

The symphony 'Le Double' is a bonafide masterpiece, so says I.

What a delight it was to hear that live at Symphony!

[bhodges]

DUTILLEUX:   Timbres, Espace, Mouvement / Symphonie 1    / Lyon Orchestra, Baudo

Timbres, espace, mouvement is one of Dutilleux supreme masterpieces. Excepting Bartok, no composer has such a magic inspiration regarding the night.
The Symphony has a very personal orchestration but, in my opinion, it is not at the same level of the 2nd or "Timbres, espace mouvement".

A good interpretation of Baudo, with an orchestra of remarkable quality.

Great piece, and I'd put Dutilleux among the greatest composers working today. 

Hello val, you still there eh? Dutilleux is overrated like the rest of his generation, but we can agree to disagree.

  Sigh...

Or you could stop trying to pretend to know what you're talking about. The symphony 'Le Double' is a bonafide masterpiece, so says I.

Yes, I'd agree with that. 

--Bruce

[mahler10th]

Rautavaara.
This is PROFOUND.
The one movement Symphony No. 5

[Keemun]

Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 (Tennstedt/BSO - Live, 1974)

[karlhenning]

Sibelius
Symphony № 3 in C Major, Opus 52
SFSO
Blomstedt

[The new erato]

Hello val, you still there eh? Dutilleux is overrated like the rest of his generation, but we can agree to disagree.

What generation is that? Seeing he was born in 1916, that seems to rule out (roughly) Britten, Barber, Messiaen, Ligeti, Shostakovich, Simpson, Schnitke to mention a few.....rather a sweeping generalisation, I'd say.