What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Harry]

Hermann Bischoff.
Symphony No. 1 opus 16 in E major.
Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, Werner Andreas Albert.

I had forgotten how genial this Symphony really was, until I heard the introductionary notes, and from thereon I knew, this is simply a masterwork, every note of it. That he is largely forgotten is a bloody shame, for his brass writing is as beautiful as Bruckner's, and his string writing and melodic development like a very mature Brahms. Mixed together emerges a composer that has a colourful palette of infinite shades and impressions truly projected in a pure and honest fashion. Firmly on my map this guy! It is well played and recorded, and I will return very often to it. A firm recommendation for whomever it concerns.

[Lethevich]

A lot like Liszt's tone poems in their hugely compelling (and similarly hugely expansive), but not masterpiece qualities.

Edit: and now -



Handley's 6th doesn't tend to make many shortlists, but I love it for its clearheaded (but not limp) style. It doesn't seek to accentuate the work's differences, but more to reconcile it with what came before.

[DavidRoss]

A deviation from habit--opera on a weekday morning! 

Impeccable authority who must remain nameless lest his life be threatened assures me in a private missive so secret that I had to burn it before reading it that this disc contains irrefutable coded proof that Maria Callas was not really a singer, but the composer of all of Verdi's operas, as well as those by Puccini, Rossini, and Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber, and the proof is there for everyone to see in my forthcoming book to be published in September after I complete the super-secret researches necessary to write it, which fact proves it as true.

[karlhenning]

Impeccable authority who must remain nameless lest his life be threatened assures me in a private missive so secret that I had to burn it before reading it that this disc contains irrefutable coded proof that Maria Callas was not really a singer, but the composer of all of Verdi's operas, as well as those by Puccini, Rossini, and Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber, and the proof is there for everyone to see in my forthcoming book to be published in September after I complete the super-secret researches necessary to write it, which fact proves it as true.

There is so much that is compelling there!

Thread duty:

Again!

Wolferl
Symphony № 35 in D Major, K. 385 Haffner
Academy of St-Angus-in-the-Glen
Marriner

[bhodges]

Scriabin: Poem of Ecstasy (Sinaisky/BBC Philharmonic) - Quite absorbing, even gripping.  Love the effusive cheering from the audience after the final chord.

--Bruce

[Solitary Wanderer]

[bhodges]

Meant to comment yesterday: great cover.  Art and typography are simple but effective.

--Bruce

[Bogey]

Symphony No. 1

[Valentino]

That Schubert/Takacs-cover looks like something a death metal band could have put out. But that's ok. That quartet is just that. I wonder if there is a cover for the other work on the disc, the Rosamunde, in some vault.

Duty: Bach, English suite #3 in g minor BWV 808. I really like Perahia's klavierwork in Bach.

[Brian]

A lot like Liszt's tone poems in their hugely compelling (and similarly hugely expansive), but not masterpiece qualities.

I think my favorite Karlowicz tone poem is "Episode at a Masquerade," which is actually one of the longest (28 minutes in Wit's performance) but just bursts with wonderful ideas and hyperromantic emotion.

[bhodges]

That Schubert/Takacs-cover looks like something a death metal band could have put out.

--Bruce

[Solitary Wanderer]

Meant to comment yesterday: great cover.  Art and typography are simple but effective.

--Bruce

Yeah I agree. Great image 

That Schubert/Takacs-cover looks like something a death metal band could have put out.

My wife said the same thing 

[Drasko]

Welcome back!

Milos - great to see you back! Lookin' forward to your posting again - Dave 

Thank you both, gentlemen!




I'm not to keen on haute-contre Richard Duguay, too much falsetto too little body (can't speak for Niquet but he did replace him with Fouchecourt for volumes 2 & 3). Apart from that minor quibble, superb disc.

[jlaurson]

That Schubert/Takacs-cover looks like something a death metal band could have put out. But that's ok. That quartet is just that. I wonder if there is a cover for the other work on the disc, the Rosamunde, in some vault.

The original art proposal for:

Spinal Tap, Smell The Glove.

Seriously... for a second I thought someone here had faked it well and inserted some"Magic, The Gathering" or some-such card game picture onto it. 

Listening: Krenek, Lamentatio Jeremiae Prophetae.

[bhodges]

Listening: Krenek, Lamentatio Jeremiae Prophetae.

Cool!  A few years ago I had the great fortune of hearing that piece live.  Which recording are you hearing?  I have the one below, the RIAS Kammerchor with Marcus Creed. 

--Bruce

[Brian]

A little playlist I devised that is a bit confused: not quite all-Russian, not quite all-pastoral or all-major key, not quite all-descriptive of particular places, not quite all of anything really. 

MUSSORGSKY | Prelude to Khovanshchina (unknown orchestra, Sir Georg Solti)
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV | Prelude to May Night (Mexico City Orch, Enrique Batiz)
RIES | Piano Concerto No 8 "Salute to the Rhine" (Christopher Hinterhuber, NZSO, Uwe Grodd)
KALINNIKOV | Symphony No 1 (USSR orchestra of some sort, Yevgeny Svetlanov)

[DavidRoss]

The original art proposal for:

Spinal Tap, Smell The Glove.

Seriously... for a second I thought someone here had faked it well and inserted some"Magic, The Gathering" or some-such card game picture onto it. 

And then there's:



On deck:  Beethoven Symphony no. 4 in B♭Major, van Immerseel/Anima Eterna

[SonicMan46]

Well, still 'slogging through' my book on western musical history; now on the later Italian/German Baroque period, so put on some appropriate music this afternoon - ya know, listening to this stuff is much better than reading about it at times! 

Corelli, Arcangelo (1653-1713) - Concerti Grossi, Op. 6 w/ Roy Goodman & the Brandenburg Consort on an inexpensive Hyperion Dyad - have not listen to this set in a while, but quite outstanding (may be still available @ BRO?) - also have a nice Dyad of the Op. 5 works, but there seems to be little available of his earlier opus numbers (except for a superb looking Brilliant 'complete' box - any comments?).

Muffat, Georg (c. 1645-1704) - Armonico Tributo, Salzburg, 1682 - chamber sonatas w/ Roy Goodman & Petter Holman + the superb group the 'Parley of Instruments' - boy, I've not listened to this one in a while, but was completely captivated by the playing & quality of the sound (a recording that dates back to 1981) - this is the only Muffat disc that I own, but in searching Amazon & lookin' for reviews, the one below to the far right has been added to my 'wish list' - 


   

[owlice]

Inspired by the greatest 20th century symphonies thread, DSCH 10th.

(Whew! I have it, so that's another one I don't need to order!)

[Solitary Wanderer]