What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[karlhenning]

Currently in the CD player: Adams Shaker Loops.

Sextet, or string orchestra?

[Dana]

G.Rochberg, String Quartets 3 - 6
Concord Quartet
2 CDs, New World Music

(No.3, right now)
What magnificent music. Article on the composer coming up on WETA shortly.

Do you know when is that article being posted?

[owlice]

Karl, septet. (3 violins, 1 viola, 2 cellos, 1 double bass)

The tall child and I also listened to Phygian Gates and Chamber Symphony, and then spent an hour+ looking for missing textbooks (read: cleaning so we could look for missing textbooks) in the kid's room.

Next up: Alkan. I guess I'm in an A mood this evening.

[Brian]

Well, we're about to embark on a road trip to the Grand Canyon, and since it's a two-day drive each way, I needed some music to keep me company. So I loaded my iPod with the following playlist, entitled "Modernist Mayhem"   , and although it clocks in at 9 hours and 7 minutes, I aim to listen to the whole darn thing, no matter how many days' driving it takes. There will, of course, be requisite pauses between works to absorb. Two of the works (with asterisks*) are pieces I've never heard before; seven (with double asterisks**) are pieces I have only heard once (several of them live in concert).

Prokofiev - Highlights from Romeo and Juliet** [Ancerl]
Khachaturian - Concerto-Rhapsody for Cello and Orchestra** [Yablonsky/new on Naxos]
Janacek - Schluck und Jau** [Pesek/Naxos]
Shostakovich - Symphony No 5 [Kreizberg/PentaTone]
Prokofiev - Piano Concerto No 3 [Argerich/Abbado]
Sibelius - Symphony No 6 [Davis/LSO Live]
Khachaturian - Cello Concerto* [Yablonsky/new on Naxos]
Barber - Adagio for Strings [Alsop/Naxos]
Moeran - Sinfonietta** [Boult]
Martinu - Memorial to Lidice [Eschenbach/Philadelphia]
Kodaly - Dances of Galanta** [Jarvi/Chicago/Chandos]
Shostakovich - Symphony No 9 [Kreizberg/PentaTone]
Mahler - Symphony No 2* [yes, my first listen. Fischer & Budapest Festival Orch]
Atterberg - Symphony No 8** [Rasilainen]
Komei Abe - Symphony No 1 [Yablonsky/Naxos]
Prokofiev - Alexander Nevsky Cantata** [Ancerl]
Shostakovich - Piano Concerto No 2 [Maxim & Dmitri jr]
Shostakovich - Symphony No 10 [Karajan/BPO]

Also on the menu: Janacek Glagolitic Mass, Ravel Piano Concerto, Atterberg 3-6, Langgaard 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 13 [all maiden listens except 4], Revueltas La Noche de los Mayas [maiden listen], Sierra Symphony No 3 [maiden listen], Tjeknavorian Danses Fantastiques [maiden listen], Martinu Symphony No 4 [maiden listen], Braga Santos Symphony No 4, Dohnanyi Sextet [maiden listen], and as a bit of a nonsequitur, the Dvorak Stabat Mater [maiden listen].

[Dana]

      Listening to Shostakovich's 10th Symphony arranged for two pianos. At one piano is Moisei Vainberg. At the other is Shostakovich himself. This is an ethereal experience. The second movement clocks in at 3:47, and is like a cross between a speeding bullet and a train wreck.

[Brian]

     Listening to Shostakovich's 10th Symphony arranged for two pianos. At one piano is Moisei Vainberg. At the other is Shostakovich himself. This is an ethereal experience. The second movement clocks in at 3:47, and is like a cross between a speeding bullet and a train wreck.

Whoa! Where'd you find this?

[FideLeo]

[Que]

Listening to the reconstructions/transcriptions of concertos BWV 1055, 1060 & 1053 for oboe, from these:



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[Valentino]

A string orchestra's recording of AC/DCs You Shook Me All Night Long. 

Good morning!

[imperfection]

Searching for inner peace... 0:)

[Valentino]

How very contrapunctual. 

[Dana]

Whoa! Where'd you find this?

      The University of Michigan library. I've never seen it anywhere else, but the disc is rounded out with some of the op.34 violin preludes, in which Shostakovich accompanies Leonid Kogan.

[The new erato]

G.Rochberg, String Quartets 3 - 6
Concord Quartet
2 CDs, New World Music

(No.3, right now)
What magnificent music. Article on the composer coming up on WETA shortly.

Any data on where to find it?

[Wanderer]

Good morning, everyone! 

Just finished listening to Mackenzie's Violin Concerto (M.Stewart/RSNO/Handley) and Pibroch Suite (M.Stewart/RSNO/D.Davies), both newly reissued on Hyperion's Helios budget label; the concerto is quite lovely (it gives the impression of a toned-down, less passionate version of Elgar's concerto) and the suite even more so (mainly because it's a more vivacious affair). A good introduction to Bolet's Liszt that I'm listening to at the moment.  0:)

[jlaurson]

G.Rochberg, String Quartets 3 - 6
Concord Quartet
2 CDs, New World Music

(No.3, right now)
What magnificent music. Article on the composer coming up on WETA shortly.

Any data on where to find it?

Here.

Do you know when is that article being posted?

Now.

[The new erato]

Here.

Now.

Didn't mean to find yte article; you're long since bookmarked, but to buy the disc as my usual British suppliers don't seem to list it.

[jlaurson]

Didn't mean to find yte article; you're long since bookmarked, but to buy the disc as my usual British suppliers don't seem to list it.

Oops. Sorry. Must have gotten the better of my ego.

I found it on Amazon.co.uk -- both, the disc, and as a (cheap) download.


G.Rochberg, String Quartets 3 - 6
Concord Quartet
2 CDs, New World Music


G.Rochberg, String Quartets 3 - 6
Concord Quartet
mp3, New World Music

If you are into modern music--not scared of Berg--preview Part A of SQ4t No.3.
If you are more into Barber, preview Part B.
If you dig Bartok, preview Part C.
If you like Ligety, preview Fantasia of SQ4t No.4.
If you like Reger, preview Fuga of SQ4t No.4.

etc.  

[The new erato]

Oops. Sorry. Must have gotten the better of my ego.


If you are into modern music--not scared of Berg--preview Part A of SQ4t No.3.
If you are more into Barber, preview Part B.
If you dig Bartok, preview Part C.
If you like Ligety, preview Fantasia of SQ4t No.4.
If you like Reger, preview Fuga of SQ4t No.4.

etc.  

Thanks (sounds slightly derivative though). I think maybe I have part of this set on a LP bur certainly not all of it. Bartok, Ligeti and Reger is my thing.

[val]

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV:    Scheherazade                    / Concertgebow Orchestra, Kondrashin

The direction of Kondrashin is powerful but never shows the imagination or the poetry of Beecham. The orchestra and the solo violin - Herman Krebbers - are superb.

[jlaurson]

Thanks (sounds slightly derivative though). I think maybe I have part of this set on a LP bur certainly not all of it. Bartok, Ligeti and Reger is my thing.

Wouldn't call it derivative... except in the sense that he does not dare deny the music (and tools) that came before him.
If you have it on LP, then probably on RCA, which is where it was originally released. as ARL2-4198 (quartets 4-6) or on Nonesuch H 71283 (quartet no.3).