What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Papy Oli]

just discovering those works :

again...

[MN Dave]

[Valentino]

Good stuff!

This too:
Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde. Ludwig, Wunderlich, Philharmonia (New and old) Orch, Klemperer. EMI.

[Que]

Let us know what you think of this project Que!

Earlier comment:

I actually think that I like this free, direct and sharply articulated approach better than Staier's softer, polished take. Probably the instruments play a role as well: Staier plays a Broadwood, Mastroprimiano a copy after Dulcken, which is more suited IMO - The Broadwood sounds too fuzzy.

Let me ad that I think this is very worthy music from the Classical era - Horowitz was right: thumbs up for Clementi! An interesting fusion of the Italian style and the Viennese School. The performances are very satisfactory. I'm considering the follow the series or wait for the complete set.

Q

[bhodges]

Huang Ruo (b. 1976): To the Four Corners (Huang Ruo / Future In REverse [FIRE]) - Three of five "Drama Theaters," recorded for the first time, each using a mix of Chinese and Western instruments, and requiring the performers to play additional percussion.  (The first one calls for 18 beer bottles.)  An interesting, unconventional young composer.

--Bruce

[SonicMan46]

This looks like an interesting recording.   RE: Locatelli - Opus 4!

Stuart - not sure 'how much' Locatelli you own currently, but check out this thread from the old forum HERE - one that I started - have about 10 discs, most w/ Elizabeth Wallfisch in several different groups & Jed Wentz in the flute works, Op. 2 & 5.

However, I do not have the Op. 4 discs - will add to my 'wish list' - again, with Wallfisch - all are highly recommended!  As Gurn stated in an early post in that older thread: "Wow, Vivaldi on steroids!" - Dave 

[Daverz]

Shostakovich, Hamlet film music - Yablonsky on a Naxos hybrid SACD.  Gorgeous recording (I'm listening to the CD layer.)

[SonicMan46]

 

Dave - I have that Naxos disc on order & should arrive soon - just a superb review in the most recent issue of Fanfare (and a single excellent review on Amazon); the Jarvi set (above) has been on my 'wish list' for quite a while but I was hoping the pricing would drop - might end of switching to Vassily Sinaisky & the Malmo Symphony Orchestra if this first disc verifies the outstanding review?  Dave 

[MN Dave]

Dave - I have that Naxos disc on order & should arrive soon - just a superb review in the most recent issue of Fanfare (and a single excellent review on Amazon); the Jarvi set (above) has been on my 'wish list' for quite a while but I was hoping the pricing would drop - might end of switching to Vassily Sinaisky & the Malmo Symphony Orchestra if this first disc verifies the outstanding review?  Dave 

I believe it does, yes.

[karlhenning]

Shostakovich, Hamlet film music - Yablonsky on a Naxos hybrid SACD.  Gorgeous recording (I'm listening to the CD layer.)

I think mine is just plain vanilla CD, but yes, most lovely!

[Coopmv]

Stuart - not sure 'how much' Locatelli you own currently, but check out this thread from the old forum HERE - one that I started - have about 10 discs, most w/ Elizabeth Wallfisch in several different groups & Jed Wentz in the flute works, Op. 2 & 5.

However, I do not have the Op. 4 discs - will add to my 'wish list' - again, with Wallfisch - all are highly recommended!  As Gurn stated in an early post in that older thread: "Wow, Vivaldi on steroids!" - Dave 

I have about a dozen of Locatelli's CD's, though none is on Hyperion.

[Brian]

The Dvorak Marathon Continues!

DVORAK | Cello Concerto
Jean-Guihen Queyras
Prague Philharmonia
Jiri Belohlavek

DVORAK | Overtures "My Home" and "Hussite"
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Karel Ancerl

Antonín Leopold Dvořák
September 8, 1841
May 1, 1904

The Dvorak Birthday Marathon continues!

DVORAK | Symphonies 3 and 6
Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra
Stephen Gunzenhauser

The best performances by far from the Gunzenhauser cycle - fresh, vivacious, and utterly charming. The sound isn't perfect, but it's better than in some of the less successful recordings of the series. (If you're interested in a brief Gunzenhauser review: No 9 is not bad,  4 is more direct than usual but shoddily recorded, 2 is absolutely terrific [indeed maybe my favorite for that symphony], 1 is dull, 5 is acceptable but not special, and 7 and 8 absolutely stink. The Eighth's first movement in particular is a musical atrocity.)

[SonicMan46]

Mahler, Gustav - continuing on the box set below this evening; this is an outstanding set of recordings - 

Bach, JS - Musical Offering w/ one of my favorite groups; an older recording but sounding superb!

 

[Lilas Pastia]

This is one of the most curious cover art I've seen in a long while. Valen's music is anything but a bed of roses.

Willem Pijper: string quartets. Not finished listening to the whole lot (there's 5 of them), but mightily impressed so far. Anything else to recommend from this composer?

[Sid]

Huang Ruo (b. 1976)... An interesting, unconventional young composer.

I have his chamber concertos on Naxos. I agree that his music is an interesting blend of East & West. & I haven't come across many other composers who were born in the 1970's, which is quite young in the world of classical...

[MN Dave]

This is one of the most curious cover art I've seen in a long while. Valen's music is anything but a bed of roses.

What about the thorns? 

[Brian]

The Dvorak Marathon Continues!

DVORAK | Cello Concerto
Jean-Guihen Queyras
Prague Philharmonia
Jiri Belohlavek

DVORAK | Overtures "My Home" and "Hussite"
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Karel Ancerl

DVORAK | Symphonies 3 and 6
Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra
Stephen Gunzenhauser

Antonín Leopold Dvořák
September 8, 1841
May 1, 1904

The Dvorak Birthday Marathon continues!

DVORAK | Violin Concerto
Gil Shaham
New York Philharmonic
Gustavo Dudamel

[Brian]

DVORAK | The Noon-Day Witch and The Wild Dove
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Rafael Kubelik

[Brian]

DVORAK | American String Quartet
Vlach Quartet Prague

Now it's time for the last pieces in my Dvorak-a-thon...

DVORAK | Rondo in G minor and Silent Woods
Peter Bruns, cello
Staatskapelle Dresden
Michael Helmrath

And the surprise not-Dvorak encore!

SMETANA | Vltava
Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Antoni Wit

All told, I'll have listened to 4 hours 2 minutes of Dvorak, plus the Smetana encore.

EDIT: Mark your calendars! The next Birthday Music Marathon is on September 25, when we'll be celebrating Dmitry Shostakovich's 103rd!

[The new erato]

This is one of the most curious cover art I've seen in a long while. Valen's music is anything but a bed of roses.

No, but he had a hobby as a rose cultivator with a quite wellknown rose garden at his home.