What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[val]

BRUCKNER:         Symphony n. 7              / Frankfurt Radio Orchestra, Paavo Jarvi  (2006)

I never liked much Paavo Jarvi. So this CD was a surprise: it is a great, powerful interpretation, with a superb balance and a spirituality hard to find in todays interpreters.

Sometimes I would like more eloquence - the beginning of the development in the first movement - but in general this is a very beautiful version, that remembers me the old version of Eduard van Beinum.

[Harry]

Sitting in the waiting room in the hospital, I am listening to CD II of this box.
Have my mini laptop with me.

[karlhenning]

Encore une fois!

Messiaen
Couleurs de la cité céleste
Yvonne Loriod, pf
Groupe instrumental à percussion de Strasbourg
Orchestre du Domaine Musical
Boulez

Igor Fyodorovich
Symphonies of wind instruments
Members of the NY Phil
Boulez

Stravinsky: Pierre Boulez Edition Boulez conducts Stravinsky, Messiaen, de Falla, Dukas Sony 4 CDs

[Florestan]

Is it just me, or starting at 2:56 in this duetto one can hear the main theme of Beethoven's Fantasy for Piano, Chorus and Orchestra?

[karlhenning]

And, again, too:

Messiaen
Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum
Groupe instrumental à percussion de Strasbourg
Orchestre du Domaine Musical
Boulez

Stravinsky: Pierre Boulez Edition Boulez conducts Stravinsky, Messiaen, de Falla, Dukas Sony 4 CDs

[Valentino]

I downloaded it too, Lethe. Thanks. Shall report back.

Sold.
(Terpsicordes in Schubert SQ 13 & 14).

Listening to Das Rheingold, the Keilberth '55 Bayreuth recording. Fantastic stuff.

[Harry]

 

[karlhenning]

Yet again, actually:

Messiaen
Couleurs de la cité céleste
Yvonne Loriod, pf
Groupe instrumental à percussion de Strasbourg
Orchestre du Domaine Musical
Boulez

Igor Fyodorovich
Symphonies of wind instruments
Members of the NY Phil
Boulez

Stravinsky: Pierre Boulez Edition Boulez conducts Stravinsky, Messiaen, de Falla, Dukas Sony 4 CDs

These Messiaen works have really got in amongst me;  and of course the Symphonies of wind instruments (even in its 1947 revision) has always been a great favorite.

[Florestan]

[Florestan]

These are so Mozart-ish that I'm beginning to think that I've dismissed Newmann's theory too hastily...

[karlhenning]

Maiden-Listen Monday!

from Disc 9:

Britten
Rhapsody
Quartettino
Endellion String Quartet

Britten – The Collector's Edition EMI Classics 37 CDs

[springrite]

These are so Mozart-ish that I'm beginning to think that I've dismissed Newmann's theory too hastily...

Mozart's music is indeed very Myslivescekish.

[Harry]

Bernd Alois Zimmermann.
Symphony in one movement.
Bamberger Symphoniker, Ingo Metzmacher.

One word: Fabulous.

[karlhenning]

Maiden-Listen Monday!

from Disc 9:

Britten
Elegy for viola sola
Garfield Jackson, va

String Quartet in D
Endellion String Quartet

Phantasy for string quintet
Endellion String Quartet & Nicholas Logie, va

Britten – The Collector's Edition EMI Classics 37 CDs

[Lethevich]

This is new news to me, though not entirely shocking given the nano-second attention span most American business executives have and few of them have any long-term strategies for running successful business.  I just wonder what will happen to those wonderful labels such as Erato, TelDec, Finlandia, etc.  I hope these labels will be resuscitated and become viable again.

It's sad, Warner gutted those labels, especially niche ones like Finlandia. It's for the best that they are gone, but at least Warner will remain in the reissue game.

[Harry]

Karl Amadeus Hartmann.
Symphony No 2.

Such a great work and such a fine recording.

[Sergeant Rock]

M5, Kubelik




Sarge

[Harry]

Going to hear Metzmacher conduct The Rake's Progress tonight...

(Agree about his Hartmann recordings.)

Well I am certainly going to look forward to your findings.

[Harry]

Karl Amadeus Hartmann.
Symphony No. 5.

Igor Stravinsky.
Symphony in three movements.

[karlhenning]

Maiden-Listen Monday!

Disc 28:

Britten
Paul Bunyan, Opus 17
Soloists, Chorus & Orchestra of the Plymouth Music Series
Philip Brunelle
(Recorded in May, 1987, in St Paul, Minnesota, BTW.)

Britten – The Collector's Edition EMI Classics 37 CDs

The string chamber music is all lovely, but one disc at a time is about my ear's limit.