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LaciDeeLeBlanc

#7180
July 21, 2007, 03:49:45 PM


Symphony no. 7

bhodges

#7182
July 21, 2007, 04:02:14 PM
Zemlinsky: Lyrische Symphonie (Julia Varady/Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau/Lorin Maazel/BPO) - Love this piece...  (Not the greatest cover scan below, but the only one I could find.)

--Bruce

mahlertitan

#7183
July 21, 2007, 04:07:48 PM
Schumann's "Rhenish"

not edward

#7184
July 21, 2007, 05:03:42 PM
The three widely available recordings of Ligeti's Lontano. WP/Abbado is the slowest, and probably the best played, the clouds of notes really appearing imperceptibly. BP/Nott is I think the best-recorded, but the interpretation seems to me to be a bit too literal. Much older, but still my favourite, is Bour with the Baden-Baden radio orchestra, much faster than Abbado and arguably too aggressive in some of the instrumental entries, but with incredible tension.

I believe there are at least two rare recordings available (LAPO/Salonen and Concertgebouw/Haitink), but I don't have them.
"I don't at all mind actively disliking a piece of contemporary music, but in order to feel happy about it I must consciously understand why I dislike it. Otherwise it remains in my mind as unfinished business."
-- Aaron Copland, The Pleasures of Music

bhodges

#7185
July 21, 2007, 05:15:50 PM
Quote from: edward on July 21, 2007, 05:03:42 PM
The three widely available recordings of Ligeti's Lontano. WP/Abbado is the slowest, and probably the best played, the clouds of notes really appearing imperceptibly. BP/Nott is I think the best-recorded, but the interpretation seems to me to be a bit too literal. Much older, but still my favourite, is Bour with the Baden-Baden radio orchestra, much faster than Abbado and arguably too aggressive in some of the instrumental entries, but with incredible tension.

I believe there are at least two rare recordings available (LAPO/Salonen and Concertgebouw/Haitink), but I don't have them.

Great bit of comparative listening, there!  I have the first two but not the Bour.  Is the sound quality all right?  I'd be very interested in seeking that out. 

--Bruce

not edward

#7186
July 21, 2007, 05:31:35 PM
Quote from: bhodges on July 21, 2007, 05:15:50 PM
Great bit of comparative listening, there!  I have the first two but not the Bour.  Is the sound quality all right?  I'd be very interested in seeking that out. 

--Bruce
The sound quality is OK rather than great...Wergo did a pretty poor job on the remastering unfortunately (it sounds a lot better on LP). It's not very available in North America but jpc stocks it (the coupling is Palm and Gielen in the cello concerto--IMO superseded by the newer Palm recording due to its much better sound--and Elgar Howarth conducting the Double Concerto and San Francisco Polyphony).

While finding out about its availability on jpc I found a disc of Günter Wand conducting 20th century music including Lontano (the other works being the Stravinsky piano concerto with Nikita Magaloff, Fortner's Symphony for Large Orchestra and B. A. Zimmermann's Symphony in One Movement). Anyone heard this? I'd really like to hear Wand in Lontano, if only because I've always perceived it as in some sense a homage to Bruckner (no, I can't explain why, the sense of timing and colour just seems very Brucknerian to me).

Now listening to Gielen's Wergo recording of the Ligeti Requiem. Again, the sound isn't great (and the CD remastering is disappointing) but it's infinitely more spine-tingling a performance than the Ligeti Project one. I do wish the coupling were something other than Aventures and Nouvelle Aventures, pieces I find irritating and extremely dated.
"I don't at all mind actively disliking a piece of contemporary music, but in order to feel happy about it I must consciously understand why I dislike it. Otherwise it remains in my mind as unfinished business."
-- Aaron Copland, The Pleasures of Music

bhodges

#7187
July 21, 2007, 05:44:08 PM
Quote from: edward on July 21, 2007, 05:31:35 PM
While finding out about its availability on jpc I found a disc of Günter Wand conducting 20th century music including Lontano (the other works being the Stravinsky piano concerto with Nikita Magaloff, Fortner's Symphony for Large Orchestra and B. A. Zimmermann's Symphony in One Movement). Anyone heard this? I'd really like to hear Wand in Lontano, if only because I've always perceived it as in some sense a homage to Bruckner (no, I can't explain why, the sense of timing and colour just seems very Brucknerian to me).

Thanks for the Bour comments, and wow, there's a Wand performance -- that could be fascinating!  And very interesting couplings, to boot.  Appreciate your posting that!  (And I could imagine a Bruckner/Lontano connection...that's actually quite an interesting observation.)

--Bruce

Solitary Wanderer

#7188
July 21, 2007, 05:52:52 PM Last Edit: July 21, 2007, 08:08:03 PM by Solitary Wanderer


Symphonic Dances
'I lingered round them, under that benign sky: watched the moths fluttering among the heath and harebells, listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass, and wondered how any one could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth.' ~ Emily Bronte

George

#7189
July 21, 2007, 06:18:28 PM
Bach

WTC

Feinberg


NOW:

Bach

WTC

Gould

8)

Kullervo

#7190
July 21, 2007, 06:23:45 PM


The fifth

I'm really growing to love Martinů. Nietzsche once lamented that he wished for the "good old days" when a composer could write a real sprightly presto, and that music had become too bogged-down and "heavy." I think he would have appreciated Martinů.

Gurn Blanston

#7191
July 21, 2007, 06:29:34 PM
Krommer - Op 46 #1 Quartet in Bb for Bassoon & Strings - Hübner / Lüthy / Eaton / Latzko - on cpo. Nice disk that also has Mozart's Sonata for Bassoon & Cello in a very good recording.   :)

8)
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Gabriel

#7192
July 21, 2007, 06:34:37 PM
Well, that is an aspect of Krommer's production for winds that I don't know at all. I guess it must be delightful.

Gurn Blanston

#7193
July 21, 2007, 06:41:01 PM
Quote from: Gabriel on July 21, 2007, 06:34:37 PM
Well, that is an aspect of Krommer's production for winds that I don't know at all. I guess it must be delightful.

Quartets and Quintets for one wind and strings are my favorite genre. The Classical Period is replete with variety of these, and Krommer is among the best. He really works out the bassoonist!   :)

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George

#7194
July 21, 2007, 06:57:42 PM
Beethoven

Op. 111

Badura-Skoda (live, 1987)


Nice forward momentum and technique here. 8)

Solitary Wanderer

#7197
July 21, 2007, 08:09:08 PM
Wagner ~ Cantatas & Overtures Bamberger Symphony/Rickenbacher
'I lingered round them, under that benign sky: watched the moths fluttering among the heath and harebells, listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass, and wondered how any one could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth.' ~ Emily Bronte

Solitary Wanderer

#7198
July 21, 2007, 09:25:02 PM
Wagner ~ Complete Works for Piano Nina Kavtaradze

Disc.1.

Includes the wonderful Fantasia [30min] plus 11 shorter pieces.
'I lingered round them, under that benign sky: watched the moths fluttering among the heath and harebells, listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass, and wondered how any one could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth.' ~ Emily Bronte

Que

#7199
July 21, 2007, 10:43:53 PM
Good morning (afternoon/night) all!



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