What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Benji]

Maybe Slatkin/St. Louis? 

Yeah, nearly! I love that recording mainly because it's Rodeo in it's entirity and though it might only be an extra few minutes of music over the usual dance episodes, but it most definitely adds to the character of the music. That wee intro with the boogie woogie piano before the Saturday Night Waltz is a blast!  

On the Zinman, is there any choral, though very brief, episode like on the MTT, Benji?

Choral?   You mean the big ol' hootin' of the orchestra members in the final dance? No, there's no such craziness under Zinman's watch. I like that MTT's lot did that, it makes me grin like so  

[Bogey]

Yeah, nearly! I love that recording mainly because it's Rodeo in it's entirity and though it might only be an extra few minutes of music over the usual dance episodes, but it most definitely adds to the character of the music. That wee intro with the boogie woogie piano before the Saturday Night Waltz is a blast!  

Yes, the notes refer to it as a "dubious piano" I believe....

Choral?  You mean the big ol' hootin' of the orchestra members in the final dance? No, there's no such craziness under Zinman's watch. I like that MTT's lot did that, it makes me grin like so 

That would be it.  Listened to it for the first time in my car and almost wrapped it around a pole when I heard it. 

[karlhenning]

Is it The Apocalypse?!??

[Bogey]

Anyone know if that "hootin" was in the original notes by Copland, or is that what he and Copland are laughing about here?

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[Benji]

Yes, the notes refer to it as a "dubious piano" I believe....

In my imagination at least, the player of the piano in that saloon is very dubious!  

[Brian]

BRAHMS | Symphony No 4
Philadelphia Orchestra
Eugene Ormandy

[karlhenning]

Sergei Sergeyevich
Здравица (Hail to Stalin), Opus 85 (1939)
Russian State Symphonic Cappella
Russian State Symphonic Orchestra
Valeri Polyansky

[George]

Chopin
Andrei Gavrilov
Ballades
EMI

[karlhenning]

Sergei Sergeyevich
Flourish, Mighty Land, Opus 114 (1947)
Russian State Symphonic Cappella
Russian State Symphonic Orchestra
Valeri Polyansky

[Benji]

Anyone know if that "hootin" was in the original notes by Copland, or is that what he and Copland are laughing about here?

I hope so, though I imagine convincing a whole orchestra to abandon their self-conciousness for such wooping is no easy task! Perhaps someone has the score handy?    

[ChamberNut]

Chopin
Andrei Gavrilov
Ballades
EMI

George, you must have been reading my mind, or my log book!  I was listening to Chopin's Ballades about an hour ago.    (Rubinstein/RCA)

[Benji]

And here's a recording of Rodeo that can give MTT a challenge (no wooping, though    ): The Detroit SO - Doráti.



Copland - Dance Symphony. Detroit Symphony Orchestra - Antal Doráti.

[George]

George, you must have been reading my mind, or my log book!  I was listening to Chopin's Ballades about an hour ago.    (Rubinstein/RCA)

I told you, were were separated at birth. 

[orbital]

Chopin
Andrei Gavrilov
Ballades
EMI

Nice. Did Gavrilov also record the scherzi, or am I dreaming?

[Brian]

Chopin
Andrei Gavrilov
Ballades
EMI

How is it?!

[Brian]

BRAHMS | Symphony No 4
Philadelphia Orchestra
Eugene Ormandy

Call me unoriginal, but I'm playing this again.

[ChamberNut]

Wagner

Gotterdammerung - Prologue

Reiner Goldberg - Siegfried
Hildegard Behrens - Brunnhilde
First Norn - Helga Dernesch
Second Norn - Tatiana Troyanos
Third Norn - Andrea Gruber

James Levine
Metropolotan Opera Orchestra and Chorus
DG

[George]

How is it?!

Just a first spin and under way less than ideal conditions. Noisy city, low level recording on my walkman. I liked what I could make out though. Sounded like a very different Gavrilov than the one who recorded the Etudes. More restrained, more poetic, softer touch, etc.

[Bogey]

[aquablob]

I like this disc; listened to it just a few weeks back.