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SonicMan46

#65960
May 06, 2010, 03:22:46 PM
Quote from: Bulldog on May 06, 2010, 03:04:07 PM
Well, that's not quite correct.  I said that I enjoyed Schiff's ECM Goldbergs but was disappointed in his Decca release.  Anyways, I'm glad you're enjoying both Dinnerstein and Schirmer.

Don - thanks for the 'minor' correction, now I remember that you did like the 'new' Schiff recording; BTW, I was also a little incorrect, i.e. I decided to sell off my older Schiff recording; instead, I have yet another harpsichord recording of these works w/ Fabio Bonizzoni; so now have a couple of 'piano' versions, several harpsichord discs, and several transcriptions on harp & guitar - BOY, that's a variety!  Is there an accordion version that I should look into, also -  ;) ;D  Dave

DavidRoss

#65961
May 06, 2010, 03:53:43 PM
"Maybe the problem most of you have ... is that you're not listening to Barbirolli." ~Sarge

"The problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other people's money." ~Margaret Thatcher

Brahmsian

#65962
May 06, 2010, 03:54:53 PM
Brahms

Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op.68

Jaap van Zweden
Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra
Brilliant Classics

SonicMan46

#65963
May 06, 2010, 04:03:06 PM
Quote from: DavidRoss on May 06, 2010, 03:53:43 PM
Ask & ye shall receive: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-umVnk33MU0

These guys are better, but it's not the goldbergs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKd5dIPcWgs&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRMEKvgZNPw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VVFu8GQyWw&feature=related

David - LOL!  ;D  I knew there was PROBABLY a version on any number of instruments -  ;)   I was a teenage accordion player myself, so certainly know the 'versatility' of this instrument (although others may not?) - thanks for the links - enjoyed - Dave  :)

Dancing Divertimentian

#65964
May 06, 2010, 04:25:55 PM
Bach's second English Suite. Pogorelich can be a wildly uneven artist, but not here. Gorgeous.




Veit Bach-a baker who found his greatest pleasure in a little cittern which he took with him even into the mill and played while the grinding was going on. In this way he had a chance to have the rhythm drilled into him. And this was the beginning of a musical inclination in his descendants. JS Bach

SonicMan46

#65965
May 06, 2010, 04:26:27 PM
Beethoven, LV - Complete String Quartets w/ their 'newest' release by the Alexander SQ - just now listening to the 'middle quartets'; mostly the Razumovsky Set, i.e. Op. 59, Nos.1-3 - these are just superlative performances; the last disc on this middle set is Op. 74 & 95, i.e. 'The Harp' & the 'Serioso' - the Harp SQ was just wonderful - will continue on to the 'Late SQs' - BUT, to emphasize, this is certainly a 'complete' set to consider if you might want just one?   :D


jlaurson

#65966
May 06, 2010, 04:41:19 PM
Quote from: SonicMan on May 06, 2010, 03:22:46 PM
Don - thanks for the 'minor' correction, now I remember that you did like the 'new' Schiff recording; BTW, I was also a little incorrect, i.e. I decided to sell off my older Schiff recording; instead, I have yet another harpsichord recording of these works w/ Fabio Bonizzoni; so now have a couple of 'piano' versions, several harpsichord discs, and several transcriptions on harp & guitar - BOY, that's a variety!  Is there an accordion version that I should look into, also -  ;) ;D  Dave


Goldberg Variations Variations
http://www.weta.org/fmblog/?p=167

jlaurson

#65967
May 06, 2010, 04:41:46 PM


Reviewed, Not Necessarily Recommended: Schnittke, Sport & Soft Porn
http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2010/05/reviewed-not-necessarily-recommended_06.html
QuoteTake equal parts James Bond, 70s soft porn soundtrack, and Henry Mancini and you should get something akin to the concert suite derived from Alfred Schnittke's music to the 1970s film "Sport, Sport, Sport". "Sport"—mocking the exertions of sportive Russians in pursuit of athletic activity and excellence—won a sort of Soviet silver merit badge of film: it was immediately banned by the censors. (Gold would have gone to those eminently deserving censorship, but subtle enough to slip through.)...

Coopmv

#65968
May 06, 2010, 04:53:25 PM
Quote from: Dancing Divertimentian on May 06, 2010, 04:25:55 PM
Bach's second English Suite. Pogorelich can be a wildly uneven artist, but not here. Gorgeous.




Agree.  I have owned this excellent CD for probably 10-15 years.

Coopmv

#65969
May 06, 2010, 04:56:50 PM Last Edit: May 06, 2010, 05:08:36 PM by Coopmv
Now playing this SACD, which arrived from MDT a few weeks ago ...

SonicMan46

#65970
May 06, 2010, 04:57:40 PM
Quote from: jlaurson on May 06, 2010, 04:41:19 PM

Goldberg Variations Variations
http://www.weta.org/fmblog/?p=167

Jens - I'm well aware of your negative feelings toward Dinnerstein's Goldberg Variations, but you know, it is really a personal feeling toward the recording(s) - i.e. just because you feel her interpretations inferior has absolutely nothing to do with others who may enjoy them - even a 'professional' opinion may not dissuade one from acquiing a recording - for those of us who are not presumed paid reviewers, first listen to the recordings that you may like, and disregard the so-called professional toughts, if you indeed like them!  Just a peronsal observation from an amateur listerner -  :) :)

Coopmv

#65971
May 06, 2010, 06:38:01 PM
Now playing this CD from my Albinoni collection ...

greg

#65972
May 06, 2010, 06:59:05 PM
A very short "opera" by Uematsu (~13 min).

(someone mentioned it sounded just like Verdi)

Maria and Draco

Part A:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NC45S948ss&feature=watch_response
Part B:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJi6Hyu7-zo&feature=related

CD

#65973
May 06, 2010, 07:01:32 PM
Soundtrack for sitting today for a portrait my friend is working on:

listener

#65974
May 06, 2010, 08:17:14 PM Last Edit: May 06, 2010, 08:20:28 PM by listener
Constant LAMBERT
The Rio Grande (for chorus, piano and orch., like the Beethoven Fantasia in orchestration only)
       The Sacheverel Sitwell text is more allusory than meaningful, would be nice to have had it enunciated more clearly, but the text is supplied
Concerto for piano and 9 players   a memorial to Peter Warlock
Horoscope  Ballet Suite     -  includes the Palindromic Prelude which is not in the OUP score, and interchanges the Waltz for the Gemini and the Bacchanale
     Kathryn Stott, piano      BBC Concert Orch.       Barry Wordsworth

MILHAUD   Les Choréphores   
ROUSSEL   Symphony 3
HONEGGER   Pacific 231     Rugby
     New York Philharmonic     Leonard Bernstein
a gain with the CD, it's in stereo and my LP was a mono one.  A loss: the LP had the text and translation of the Milhaud printed on the record sleeve.
"Keep your hand on the throttle and your eye on the rail as you walk through life's pathway."

jlaurson

#65975
May 06, 2010, 11:00:13 PM
Quote from: SonicMan on May 06, 2010, 04:57:40 PM
Jens - I'm well aware of your negative feelings toward Dinnerstein's Goldberg Variations, but you know, it is really a personal feeling toward the recording(s) - i.e. just because you feel her interpretations inferior has absolutely nothing to do with others who may enjoy them - even a 'professional' opinion may not dissuade one from acquiing a recording - for those of us who are not presumed paid reviewers, first listen to the recordings that you may like, and disregard the so-called professional toughts, if you indeed like them!  Just a peronsal observation from an amateur listerner -  :) :)

The quoted post isn't actually particularly negative about her recording; certainly if *that's* the thrust you get from it, I've failed spectacularly... since I posted in response not to your Dinnersteen-liking but your curiosity about different varieties of Goldberg Variations (transcriptions). My favorite GV-s these days are actually those in the Rheinberger/Reger transcription for 2 Pianos. http://www.weta.org/fmblog/?p=1471

Drasko

#65976
May 07, 2010, 01:41:09 AM Last Edit: May 07, 2010, 01:42:57 AM by Drasko
Happy birthday Pyotr Ilyich!


Grand Sonata in G op.37

Was thinking of watching some movie tonight (after basketball - Partizan Belgrade playing final four of Euroleague, against all odds) but I think I'll switch to Dame Pique DVD, or perhaps one of two Onegins I haven't watched yet - Hvorostovsky/Fleming or Soviet lipsynched film.

Christo

#65977
May 07, 2010, 01:49:54 AM
Time for yet another wartime symphony, the Sinfonia in re (Symphony in D flat, 1943) by Norwegian composer Ludvig Irgens Jensen, last year's biggest `discovery' (for me) at the symphonic front.

                               
... music is not only an 'entertainment', nor a mere luxury, but a necessity of the spiritual if not of the physical life, an opening of those magic casements through which we can catch a glimpse of that country where ultimate reality will be found.    RVW, 1948

Sergeant Rock

#65978
May 07, 2010, 03:01:21 AM
Listening to Wagner, Tristan Prelude and Liebestod, Celibidache, Curtis Symphony Orchestra, 1984.

Sarge
the phone rings and somebody says,
"hey, they made a movie about
Mahler, you ought to go see it.
he was as f*cked-up as you are."
                               --Charles Bukowski, "Mahler"

DavidRoss

#65979
May 07, 2010, 04:16:11 AM
Eric Whitacre's Lux Aurumque performed by the virtual choir he assembled via the web
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7o7BrlbaDs
"Maybe the problem most of you have ... is that you're not listening to Barbirolli." ~Sarge

"The problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other people's money." ~Margaret Thatcher
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