What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Daverz]

Decided to do a survey of Concertos for Orchestra.  Started with Bartok (Reiner), then Joan Tower.  Now on Morton Gould.  Others I have:

Hermann Koppel
Hindemith
Gerhardt
Lutoslawski
Kodaly
Sessions
Tippett
Carter

[Peregrine]

Just been listening to a superb Mahler 6 - Haitink/BPO. Now listening to disc 1 from this set:

[Harry]

The Fourth installment of Weinberg's music on Chandos to me is a success. I played the 7th Symphony in C major for Harpsichord and Strings, that is dedicated to Rudolf Barshai.
A odd one out in the oeuvre of Weinberg I think. It takes some minutes to get into the idiom of this work, but after the first dip, its a gorgeous musical trip. Erik Risberg to me unknown, plays the harpsichord in a very subtle way, and has a good feel for the intention of the concert, well aided by the Gothenburg SO. This one is as successful as the first two issues, but recorded in a different way, not less appealing.



This disc contains two ballets from Constant Lambert, the second one on this disc is the last Lambert wrote, "Tiresias". It was not well received when performed, and after 8 performances, Lambert suddenly died 2 days later. Partly because the criticism was harsh and he suffered because of it, partly because he drunk excessively, and partly because of a neglected diabetes. Anyway, this ballet made me sit up. I did not recognize Lambert in it at all. I know all his works, but this was totally out of the normal witty things he wrote. Its a heavy going ballet, downtrodden, and not easy to grasp, harsh at times, melancholy, repeating itself many times, barely a tune holds for two bars. There is a unrest that permeates my equilibrium all the time, and makes me wonder whether I like the work or not. And that came as a surprise to me, because basically I like all I have from Lambert, and that is almost all.  It is recorded well, and the performance can not be faulted. I have to listen to it more, although I dread the moment I have to put this CD in the player.

[Scarpia]

The third installment of Weinberg's music on Chandos to me is a success.

Then you're missing one.  You are listening to the 4th.

[Peregrine]

First listening:

Phwoooar!!!

[Sergeant Rock]

Listening to a Chopin recital by Edna Stern, playing a 1842 Pleyel (same type of piano Chopin owned). Works include the Second Sonata, Second and Third Ballades, Trois Nouvelles Études, and several Waltzes and Preludes.




Sarge

[not edward]

A superlative lieder recital from the young Gerhaher. Gripping listening for the whole duration, despite the consistently dark emotional worlds of the music.

[Conor71]

Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 In E Minor, WAB 107, "Lyric"

[bhodges]

Exploring various versions of Nikolai Kapustin's concert etudes for piano on YouTube, after hearing them live a few weeks ago. 

--Bruce

[Antoine Marchand]

Reminds me of when I heard (and saw) David Oistrakh play the Brahms concerto in Copenhagen. I was very young, and do not remember many details, but I was deeply impressed.

I was pleased by the integrity of his approach: exciting, moving, but not sentimental.

Is that image in your avatar the last page of the AoF, Premont?

[MN Dave]

Some Brahms orchestral works. Boult

[Scarpia]

Some Brahms orchestral works. Boult

Tragic Overture?

[MN Dave]

Tragic Overture?

Hi, Scarp.

It was the Academic Festival Overture and Serenade No. 1.

[Coopmv]

Now playing CD7 - French Overture from this set for a first listen ...

[MN Dave]

More Brahms. Same dudes.

Rhapsody, op. 53

[Scarpia]

Hi, Scarp.

It was the Academic Festival Overture and Serenade No. 1.

Obviously it is this set



or a later issue of the same.  Tragic overture is a highlight, as I recall.

[MN Dave]

Obviously it is this set



or a later issue of the same.  Tragic overture is a highlight, as I recall.

Looks right. More recent cover.

[George]

Nocturnes

[MN Dave]

Dedicated to Scarpia, a spinning of the Tragic Overture.

[Antoine Marchand]

Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 / Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 27