What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Lethevich]

I should check those concerto grossos, I like everything else I've heard by Bloch.

I'm holding out for Ginastera's quartets too, but I can at least claim to like his Variaciones concertantes, the strongest of the works I went through (and the most frequently recorded, it seems) - worth a try if you run across them.

np: Krenek Symphonies 1 & 5 (CPO)

[Bulldog]

premont,  where is your list of 140 Brandenburg Concertos?  Is your 8086 processor choking on a mere copy/paste of 140 Excel rows into the reply box?  I will list my 30 as soon as you have backed up your claim. 

When you boast about your number of versions, you can expect that another board member will blow you away.

[Coopmv]

When you boast about your number of versions, you can expect that another board member will blow you away.

Listen, I just want to see his list.  Is that asking too much?

[Coopmv]

Now playing CD6 from this set - the Polonaises ...

[Bulldog]

Listen, I just want to see his list.  Is that asking too much?

That's for Premont to decide.

[Coopmv]

Now playing CD1 from this set, which arrived early this week ...

[Coopmv]

Yep, all the way to Baghdad!

That is the problem when a country spent so much on defense that it has to find excuse to flex its military muscle ...   

[Lethevich]

Nice, finding a very listenable middle ground between conservatism and keeping up with the Joneses. It sounds neither old nor new, just fun.

[Coopmv]

Now playing CD10 from this set - one more CD to go ...

[listener]

BEETHOVEN   Piano Concerto 5  "Emperor"
          Murray Perahia     Concertgebouw Orch.      Haitink
Nice partnership in this performance, more "romantic" than "magisterial" perhaps, but clear playing by soloist and orchestra brings out details and keeps the interest level  up for repeated listening.

STENHAMMER    The Song    - cantata from 1921  S mS T Bar   Chorus, Children's Chorus & orch.
        Two Sentimental Romances   for Violin and orch
        Ithaca    for baritone and orch.
originally recorded in 1982, 1971 and 1981

[mc ukrneal]

STENHAMMER [/b]   The Song    - cantata from 1921  S mS T Bar   Chorus, Children's Chorus & orch.
        Two Sentimental Romances   for Violin and orch
        Ithaca    for baritone and orch.
originally recorded in 1982, 1971 and 1981

Hey, I had a coupon over at B&N and used it to get this. I hope it is good! What did you think?

[Brahmsian]

From the library....

Mahler

Symphony No. 2 in C minor, 'Resurrection'

Ivan Fischer
Budapest Festival Orchestra

Hungarian Radio Choir
Lisa Milne, soprano
Birgit Remmert, alto

Channel Classics

[kishnevi]

Now playing CD1 from this set, which arrived early this week ...

I've been tackling it in steady doses: I've got the St. Matthew Passion and four cantata CDs to go.    I've found one CD so far that  falls down on its face--CD 15, the Cantatas for Candlemas, with an unpleasant countertenor  tasked with an aria that last ten minutes, and a bass given responsibility for Ich habe genug who isn't bad, but isn't on the same level as my other recordings of that particular cantata (Lieberson, Quasthoff,  Dessay, Argenta, Bostridge, in approximate order of preference).   Everything else I've heard off this set ranges from "no obvious flaws" to "highest excellence".

[listener]

Hey, I had a coupon over at B&N and used it to get this. I hope it is good! What did you think?

re Stenhammer: The Song, Ithaca, 2 Sentimental Romances
odd coincidence for two of us to get this -  I found mine at my neighborhood b&m this afternoon.
Swedish choirs are excellent and the performance here is excellent.  If the pieces seem derivative of Nielsen and Berwald and English choral works,  that's a genre I like and I'm quite happy to keep this disc.  It sounds like Grieg every once in a while too.   Notes and text in English but not the Swedish text so it's not always easy to follow.

[Lethevich]

I lol at the Sea Reivers symphonic movement whenever I hear it. It's amazing. If a person ever required a demonstration of what orchestras sound like and why they are awesome, just ask them to lend 4 minutes of their life to you and play this. QED.

Such a fun composer, and this series contains some of the finest sounding recording jobs given to any obscure Romantic I've heard. Perhaps not as natural as Bis or distinctive as Chandos, but very impactful without sounding tinkered with. I was happy enough to find the music was superb, but the engineering just blows the rival Naxos disc out of the water like a 10 megaton bomb.

[The new erato]

re Stenhammer: The Song, Ithaca, 2 Sentimental Romances
odd coincidence for two of us to get this -  I found mine at my neighborhood b&m this afternoon.
Swedish choirs are excellent and the performance here is excellent.  If the pieces seem derivative of Nielsen and Berwald and English choral works,  that's a genre I like and I'm quite happy to keep this disc.  It sounds like Grieg every once in a while too.   Notes and text in English but not the Swedish text so it's not always easy to follow.

This disc seems to be totally and absolutely OOP unfortunately, and Caprice don't seem to have an effective reisssue program either.

[Wanderer]

[Christo]

(We're more or less changing grounds - your 19th and my 20th century ground, I mean  ). As I'm playing:

                         

[Sergeant Rock]

Still enchanted. This terrific set helps me rediscover Nielsen as an absolute personal favourite - especially the Third is a great performance, here.

                                 

Agree. It's the only version of the Third that rivals (for me) Bernstein.

Sarge

[Drasko]

Schicksalslied & Mahler's 1st