What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[karlhenning]

Hmmm... If I'm not mistaken, the bells are supposed to be out of tune. I've never paused to think how out of tune they should sound, though. Sharp? Flat? I personally prefer when they sound real clangy and grotesque.

I didn't read Brian as saying out-of-tune high-pitched, but an octave or two displaced, high-pitched . . . .

[Fëanor]

Two favourite string quartets:

Alwyn:  String Quartet No. 2, Spring Waters

Ligeti:  String Quartet No.1, Métamorphoses Nocturnes

Though they obviously different in various respects, I was struck for the first time by their quite similar, angstful sentimentality.

[karlhenning]

Last night:

Barber
Adagio
RSNO
Alsop

[karlhenning]

Barber
Medea's Meditation and Dance of Vengeance, Opus 23a
RSNO
Alsop

[karlhenning]

Barber
Medea (Cave of the Heart) Suite, Opus 23
RSNO
Alsop

[Bogey]

Nice to see you listening to some Rachmaninoff, Bill. 

How did you like it?

His live 1981 Carnegie Hall performance on RCA of the same work (Rachmaninoff Piano Sonata 2) is incredible! The opening chords sound like thunder from the heavens! 

Always a pleasure to listen to Rach, George and Vladimir does him justice here.

[Coopmv]

Always a pleasure to listen to Rach, George and Vladimir does him justice here.

Bill,  You need to check this out.  Bach's Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland by Horowitz

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PzGf-_zKuM

[Brian]

Love the Memorial to Lidice - the performance on this disc is very different from any I've heard before - but this is my first time listening to the rest of this music, even the famous Bartok concerto!

I didn't read Brian as saying out-of-tune high-pitched, but an octave or two displaced, high-pitched . . . .

Yep.

[karlhenning]

First time you've listened to the Bartók Concerto for Orchestra, sans blague?

[karlhenning]

Thread duty:

Nielsen
Symphony No. 6 (Sinfonia semplice), FS 116
RSNO
Thomson

[SonicMan46]

John Field ( 1782-1837) - Piano Concertos et al w/ Miceal O'Rourke on the piano & Bamert w/ the London Mozart Players - an inexpensive box set (4-CDs) of wonderfully played music; Field, an Irishman, trained in England under the tutelage of Clementi; travelled to Europe as a teenager, then ended up settling in Russia in his early 20s - he was 'lionized' by the Russians and likely was the impetus for Russian piano players which of course continued into the present era!  The music is wonderful and played beautifully by O'Rourke - an enjoyable set - 

[hildegard]

The Russian Easter Overture

Favorite music for an Easter morning!

Can spring finally be far behind?

Orthodox Easter is next week, so you can have a repeat performance 

And we will, but this time with this rare and beautiful recording, a gift from an Orthodox friend.

[Dancing Divertimentian]

Just got it Friday, Don, so this was my first full listening. You have been touting this set for a long time, but after my disappointment getting snarked by importcds on the full set, I had been tardy about taking another stab at it.   Glad I did now. Also listened to the great 7th afterwards, right up there near Kleiber's.

Cool about the 7th, Gurn. Off to a good start.

[Brian]

First time you've listened to the Bartók Concerto for Orchestra, sans blague?

It's true! Have to say I will probably be playing the Memorial to Lidice more frequently (or at least that's how it seems to me as my listening taste stands at present...), but the Concerto had some mighty fine moments. My favorite movements were the inner three, particularly the fourth. 

Just finished listening to Daniele Gatti and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra playing Tchaikovsky's Fifth - not the famous harmonia mundi recording but a more recent live performance. If anything, the live version was more exciting, more vigorous, and revealed more detail in the first movement's fabulously complex second subject(s). And the finale was a real thriller. But the CD is most excellent too, and contains a horn solo too beautiful to believe...

[Opus106]

The video here seems to go really well with the opening of Overture to Rienzi. The Royal Promenade Orchestra perform under the baton of - I think - Charles Gerhardt.

[Christo]

A new find: Harald Truscott (1914-1992), his heartfelt Elegy for String Orchestra (1943) - a remarkable piece in line with e.g. the Tallis Fantasia and other great British pieces for Strings.

                               

(To be followed by the Symphony, later today.)

[Que]

Disc V: Music for the Divine Office, part 2

Q

[haydnguy]

Disc V: Music for the Divine Office, part 2

Q

How is it Q? Mine's on order. 

[Que]

How is it Q? Mine's on order. 

Posted some comment HERE.

NOW:



Q

[FideLeo]

Me too.  But I'm still waiting for that 9th on period instruments.
(Haven't heard Immerseel yet, but my cards are on a future recording by Bruno Weil)

Q

Didn't you like the Christoph Spering?  I did a search and saw you post it. 

I have not had much time to indulge myself in music, but I am glad to report another positive impression on Minkowski's new-ish Mass in b.