What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[bhodges]

Mahler: Adagio from Symphony No. 10 (Tennstedt/LPO) - The performance that introduced me to this extraordinary piece, and still holds up very well.

--Bruce

[Harry]

Mahler: Adagio from Symphony No. 10 (Tennstedt/LPO) - The performance that introduced me to this extraordinary piece, and still holds up very well.

--Bruce

Yes, isn't that a fine interpretation, and so different from lets say Karajan, which is also in a class of its own.
Could not do without that on neither.

[Renfield]

It's been ages since I've posted here, but this deserves a mention.



Extraordinary (new) transfers for the 5th and 6th by Mark Obert-Thorn (hadn't he done the 5th before for Pearl?), while the 7th is by two people named Higginson, and is also very well remastered - though, between the source and the remastering, less aurally impressive overall.

[Brian]

Mahler: Adagio from Symphony No. 10 (Tennstedt/LPO) - The performance that introduced me to this extraordinary piece, and still holds up very well.

--Bruce

I think our friend Harry was listening to that just a page ago!

[bhodges]

Yes, isn't that a fine interpretation, and so different from lets say Karajan, which is also in a class of its own.
Could not do without that on neither.

Some of the chord changes give me chills, and that climactic one is shattering in Tennstedt's hands.

I think our friend Harry was listening to that just a page ago!

Yes, that's actually what prompted me!  Suddenly I couldn't get it out of my head (odd how that happens) so...

--Bruce

[ChamberNut]

TANEYEV

String Quartet # 1 in B flat minor, Op.4

Carpe Diem SQ
Naxos

[mahler10th]

Mahle

Some of the chord changes give me chills, and that climactic one is shattering in Tennstedt's hands.

Yes, that's actually what prompted me!  Suddenly I couldn't get it out of my head (odd how that happens) so...

--Bruce

Mahlers 10th is the only Orchestral piece that sent me into tears.  Kubelik conducting the BRSO, he has those violins pretty much CRYING towards the end of the Adagio.  They were crying for Mahler, methinks, in resonse to a symphony by a dying man.

Meanwhile:

Martinu
Symhony 5 & 6
N Jarvi
Bamberg SO

Yes.  Martinu is flavour of the month with me again. 

[Brian]

First Listen Friday

PENDERECKI | Fluorescences; Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima
Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Antoni Wit

[greg]

First Listen Friday

PENDERECKI | Fluorescences; Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima
Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Antoni Wit

Awesome pieces!  0:)


Right now, I've listened to MOST of Mahler 9 (Abbado, Berlin Phil. 2002 ). I'm extremely impressed with this- I'd say it ranks in there with Karajan and Bernstein as the best I've heard.

[The new erato]

Tonal, but not your usual pastoral Romanticism, as was so popular in this region - cool beans.

He lived right up the road from my home and I saw him several time at concerts. Both he and Grieg lived right around the corner.

[ChamberNut]

Mahler

Symphony No. 10 in F sharp minor - Adagio movement

Tennstedt
EMI

0:)

[ChamberNut]

Brahms

Piano concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15

(arranged for piano duo - two pianos)

Silke-Thora Matthies
Christian Kohn
Naxos

[CD]

[ChamberNut]

Oh, that's a very good CD!  I remember checking this one out at the library a few years ago, and it was my introduction to all of those works.

[ChamberNut]

Brahms

Piano concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15

(arranged for piano duo - two pianos)

Silke-Thora Matthies
Christian Kohn
Naxos

Can I make a wish for this work to be arranged in every possible combination of instruments?    Pretty please!  Ok.....I'll settle for the Adagio.  0:)

[SonicMan46]

Today, just received my BIG BOX from BRO of bargain Hyperion discs (if interested, checkout the Purchases Thread), so tonight just starting to listen to a few of the new arrivals:

Vivaldi, Antonio - Violin Sonatas, Op. 2 w/ Wallfisch, Tunnicliffe, & Proud - early works by the Red Priest; basically 'trios' w/ violin, cello, & harpsichord - this single CD includes 6 of 12 sonatas written - surprised that this group did not just record all as a 2-CD set?  But, a bargain anyway! 

Strauss, Richard - Piano Quartet et al w/ the Nash Ensemble - very full disc, i.e. about 77 mins!  Also includes a String Septet version of Metamorphosen (arranged recently) & Prelude to Capriccio, Op. 85, a String Sextet - this disc just adds to my Strauss 'chamber works' - he was quite good in this genre! 


 

[ChamberNut]

Strauss, Richard - Piano Quartet et al w/ the Nash Ensemble - very full disc, i.e. about 77 mins!  Also includes a String Septet version of Metamorphosen (arranged recently) & Prelude to Capriccio, Op. 85, a String Sextet - this disc just adds to my Strauss 'chamber works' - he was quite good in this genre! 

Dave, I've listened to this CD!  I really like this early piece by Strauss (the Piano Quartet).  VERY Brahmsian flavour.

[Coopmv]

Symphony No. 9 & Egmont opus 84.

Marvelous rendition. Never heard such a unusual one, it prompted me to get the Gardiner set out of my collection to be played soon.

Harry,  So you like the Hogwood's Beethoven Ninth?  I have had this set for a few years (got the Gardiner's set 2 months ago) but feel the tempo in the last movement appears to be a little off.

[Coopmv]

Today, just received my BIG BOX from BRO of bargain Hyperion discs (if interested, checkout the Purchases Thread), so tonight just starting to listen to a few of the new arrivals:

Vivaldi, Antonio - Violin Sonatas, Op. 2 w/ Wallfisch, Tunnicliffe, & Proud - early works by the Red Priest; basically 'trios' w/ violin, cello, & harpsichord - this single CD includes 6 of 12 sonatas written - surprised that this group did not just record all as a 2-CD set?  But, a bargain anyway! 

Strauss, Richard - Piano Quartet et al w/ the Nash Ensemble - very full disc, i.e. about 77 mins!  Also includes a String Septet version of Metamorphosen (arranged recently) & Prelude to Capriccio, Op. 85, a String Sextet - this disc just adds to my Strauss 'chamber works' - he was quite good in this genre! 


 

Good evening Dave.

My BRO box of 23 CD's arrived earlier this week and I will start listening to them this weekend.  The Vivaldi's CD on Hyperion looks very interesting.

[SonicMan46]

Dave, I've listened to this CD!  I really like this early piece by Strauss (the Piano Quartet).  VERY Brahmsian flavour.

Good evening Ray - I have a bunch of Strauss' chamber works and just not like the orchestral/operatic stuff of his at all, i.e. harks back to an earlier era and quite enjoyable for me - his Wind Music & Horn Concertos are just excellent - Dave