What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Mirror Image]

I find Slatkin's RVW interpretations to be emotionally flat and directionless, especially after coming from listening to Thomson, Andrew Davis, Previn, or Boult.

But then again, I've never liked that much Slatkin anyway. I don't think I own one recording by him that I wasn't disappointed in, which why I own very few of his recordings.

[The new erato]

Dic 1; Soler sonatas now. Spirited playing, music in the D Scarlatti mold.

[listener]

clearing these so I can listen to the newly arrived CD's
CORRETTE Messe du 8^e ton
Raymond Daveluy       Beckerath organ    St. Joseph's Oratory,  Montréal
RAISON    selections from the Mass in the 6th tone and  Mass in the 8th tone
DANDRIEU selections from the Magnificat in e and Suite in C
André Chauvin        organ at the St.-Louis Chapel, La Flèche Prytanée Militaire
SZYMANOWSKI    Symphony 3 "Song of the Night"
Litany to the Virgin Mary, op. 59         Stabat Mater   op. 53

[Papy Oli]

good morning all 

[val]

VAUGHAN-WILLIAMS:         Hugh the Drover            / Tear, Armstrong, Charles Groves

A nice ballad opera, based on folkloric melodies (authentic or not).
Remarkable interpretation with the splendid direction of Groves and the presence of Robert Tear and Sheila Armstrong. 

[Lethevich]

I find Slatkin's RVW interpretations to be emotionally flat and directionless, especially after coming from listening to Thomson, Andrew Davis, Previn, or Boult.

I don't rate the disc highly, but my main gripe is the absurdly high volume level that the final movement of the 6th is recorded at - as loud as all of the other movements. I don't know if just a limited amount of issues have this tinkering, as I can't recall anybody else commenting on it...

[Coopmv]

Now:



I've got ol' Rimsky on my mind tonight. Listening to Symphony No. 3 right now. Such magical orchestration.

A decent recording IMO ...

[Coopmv]

Another Bach kind of day - have listened to these:




This up next :

Sound minds think alike.  I have all these recordings as well ...

[Coopmv]

Dic 1; Soler sonatas now. Spirited playing, music in the D Scarlatti mold.

Is this set any good in terms of SQ?

[Coopmv]

Morning all.

Now playing SACD for a first listen, part of the 100 or so BIS CD's bought last month ...

[The new erato]

Is this set any good in terms of SQ?

Yes. At least as far as the two first discs are concerned.

[Coopmv]

Yes. At least as far as the two first discs are concerned.

I have been enjoying my SACD's of Grieg works on BIS performed by your hometown orchestra ...     

[Lisz]

In Commemoration of September 11th



Haydn's Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross in remembrance of the events of September 11th. In March 2002, the Vienna Philharmonic performed this in a memorial concert at St. Patrick's Cathedral in NYC. The remembrance closed with a moving and beautiful rendition of Mozart's Ave Verum Corpus by the Cathedral Choir as 2,000 of us filled the Cathedral with lit candles. Three thousand world citizens lost their lives that day.

[Coopmv]

Brahms Requiem was performed by Kurt Masur and the NYPO a few days after that terrorist attack ...

[Lisz]

Judith Clurman, conductor of the Juilliard Choral Union, led a community commemorative sing of the Mozart Requiem, a year later in which I participated. 

[Lisz]

http://www.youtube.com/v/6KUDs8KJc_c

Conducted by Leonard Bernstein in 1990 at the Waldsassen Basilica, Germany.

[Coopmv]

Now playing this SACD for a first listen...

[DavidRoss]

Lovely, brilliant, beautiful playing from all involved.  I love the sprightly tempos in the fast movements, the jaunty rhythms, the tasteful ornamentation, the secure intonation, the interplay between soloists and orchestra, the meditative but not somber, achingly lovely inner movements.  A wonderful antidote to the stodgy, bewigged, soporific Bach that many of us grew up with.

[Harry]

Remember 9/11, all those souls that were forced to leave this world. Music is a great healer.

Roger Ducasse.
Orchestral Works, Volume II.
Prelude to a Ballet.
In Marguerite's Garden.
French Suite.
Epithalame, Symphonic Poem.

Rheinland-Pfalz Philharmonic, Leif Segerstam.
Recorded 1987.

A pupil of Faure, a talented impressionistic composer, unjustly forgotten. If you like Faure's orchestral works, you will like this. Its beautifully performed and recorded. 56 minutes in a world of magic.

[Harry]

Lennox Berkeley.
Simphonies No. 1 and 2.
London PO, Norman Del Mar/Nocholas Braithwaite.
Recorded 1975 & 1978.

I can say after listening to these works that I am enslaved to this composer. His sound world is quite unique, his scoring invigorating and the power behind the music is enormous. Take for instance the impressive third movement of the second Symphony "Lento". It took me by suprise, such dept, such powerful emotions running through the veins of this great body of music. The rhythms Berkeley employs are highly affecting, and kept me constantly at the pulse of the music. Marvelous!
The recordings is most excellent, and the performance leaves nothing to be desired.