What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Harry]

Beautiful.

O, dear, you and Sarah made me also to take this recording out of my collection and play it.
My listening notes from the past say a most excellent disc.

[Harry]

Emmerich Kalman.

"Die Csardasfurstin".
Operetta. (Highlights)
Soloists: Rudolf Christ, Lotte Rysanek, Else Liebesberg, Herbert Prikopa,
Choir and Orchester from the Wiener Volksoper, Franz Bauer Theussl.

A delightful mix of heartfelt melodies, and joyful elation. This is a very good selection, well performed, whit gorgeous voices. I begin to like Lotte Rysanek's voice more and more, especially when she sings the first introductionary notes from the song "Heia, Heia in den Bergen ist mein Heimatland". Wonderful.

[Lethevich]

Morning, folks. As I can't stand coffee, I need something else to wake me up this morning.



The Meistersingers overture is the most exquisite thing.

Sara - what do you think? I ended up buying all of his discs of this music (he also has an inexpensive box of Ravel's piano works which is wonderful) - Dave 

Other than a slightly clearer recorded sound, I'm not sure that I'm familiar enough with the works to make any sensible comparisons to the other Preludes set I have (Osbourne/Hyperion) - in fact, I found the two to be remarkably similar at times, which could just show that I need to listen a lot more

[haydnguy]

O, dear, you and Sarah made me also to take this recording out of my collection and play it.
My listening notes from the past say a most excellent disc.

Agreed. An absolute gem. 

[Harry]

Franz Lehar.

"Paganini"
Operetta. (Highlights)

Soloists: Else Liebesberg, Erika Mechera, Rudolf Christ, Kurt Equiluz.
Choir and Orchestra Wiener Volksoper, Franz Bauer Theussl.

O, dear I spoil myself with so many fine operetta's, and I have them all to myself, that's the beauty of it.
I can be sure of one thing, there will be not that many admirers of operetta that will own up to it, apart from Erato that is, he admitted liking operetta.
And despite what everyone seems to think, operetta is a fully grown music genre that has the same stature and impact as any other genre.
The music had in its time a huge impact on the people, on the masses so to say, which doesn't mean that the quality of the music is comparably low, just because so many people liked the music.
All layers of society liked the music. And it made people happy, because for many life was very hard.
It makes me happy.

[Harry]

Operetta in three acts by Victor and Leon Stein.
After personal directions by Johann Strauss, adapted for the stage by Adolf Muller jr.
New text from Gstanzeln, Hans Weigel.
Adapted for this recording by Robert Stolz & Fritz Ganss.
Complete recording 1965.

This is a absolute star cast, with a glorious Hilde Guden, Margit Schramm, Wilma Lipp.
The recording is superb, and the performance is as of old, marvelous.

[karlhenning]

Fantastic! It seems now almost a case where I might just enjoy any of Stravinsky's works.

That would come as no surprise in the least to this listener, Ray 

[Lethevich]

[Harry]

That reminds me, I have to listen to this box again.

[MN Dave]

Italic Harry. 

I heard a jazzy little waltz on the radio this morning by DSCH. I guess they used it in Eyes Wide Shut.

[karlhenning]

Joly Braga Santos
Concerto for Strings in D (1951)
Northern Sinfonia
Cassuto

[Lethevich]

That reminds me, I have to listen to this box again.

I'm surprised how fine even the first symphony is - I like how the composer kept it short while he was still finding his feet.

[ChamberNut]

Italic Harry. 

I heard a jazzy little waltz on the radio this morning by DSCH. I guess they used it in Eyes Wide Shut.

Yes!  The waltz from Jazz Suite # 2.  That was my first exposure to Shostakovich. 

[karlhenning]

Joly Braga Santos
Concerto for Strings in D (1951)
Northern Sinfonia
Cassuto

Nice jolly quintuple meter in the final Allegro ben marcato

[karlhenning]

Joly Braga Santos
Sinfonietta for Strings (1963)
Northern Sinfonia
Cassuto

[Keemun]

Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4 (Abbado/LSO)

[karlhenning]

Lovely, Keemun!

[Lethevich]

I still find myself surprised at how great this rather unknown orchestra sounds, coupled with a rather good recording job it really allows this music to shine. No.13 is bugging me a lot less than it used to - I had simply overdosed on the opening melody to the extent where it grated on me. Now I'm seeing this as one of Langgaard's more successful symphonies, and quite a nice counterpart to the 10th - both in similar formats, but with very different atmospheres.

[MN Dave]

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[springrite]

I still find myself surprised at how great this rather unknown orchestra sounds, coupled with a rather good recording job it really allows this music to shine. No.13 is bugging me a lot less than it used to - I had simply overdosed on the opening melody to the extent where it grated on me. Now I'm seeing this as one of Langgaard's more successful symphonies, and quite a nice counterpart to the 10th - both in similar formats, but with very different atmospheres.

You just reminded me to listen to this cycle again. I like much of Langgaard's music, but I have forgotten about each one, only remembering vaguely that I like 4-6 the best the first time around. I will have a week or so to recover from my surgery on September 28th. I think I will use the time to listen to a few cycles -- Langgaard, Bax, Alwyn, Arnold, Simpson...


PS: Oh, just for Harry, I will listen to a few operettas as well -- Merry Widow, Land of Smiles...