What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Florestan]

Here's something you won't see often: Boieldieu's La Dame Blanche. It's conducted by Minkowski. Well, this is a marvel! The music is joy itself with a bit of dark magic thrown in. Tremendous fun! Choruses were strong. The music reminded me a lot of Rossini, just in French, so always inventive. Soloists were strong for the most part especially the women. Tenor was a bit nasel, but was mostly fine. So very light fare, but somehow irrisistable!


EDIT: What catchy tunes there are here too - one after another. It's infectious music.

Seconded. And with the libretto combining no less than five Walter Scott's novels, you're in for a feast of Gothic Rossiniade. 

Thread duty:

Dvorak

Piano Trio in B-flat minor op. 21

Borodin Trio

[Keemun]

Good morning, all.   

Schumann
Symphony No. 4
Bernstein
VPO

[Harry]

CD III from this amazing box with the complete Solo Piano Work by Sergei Rachmaninov. On this CD the following works.

Piano sonata No.2 in B flat minor opus 36, original version 1913.
Morceau de fantasie in G minor.
Song without words.
Piece in D minor.
Fughetta in F major.
Fragments.
Oriental Sketch.
Three nocturnes, 1887/88.
Four pieces, 1888.

Shelley is a very sensitive musician, that feels its way perfectly in the emotional turmoil called Rachmaninov. I love his approach. Well recorded.

[jlaurson]

Beethoven, Brahms, Bach, Chopin, Schumann
Sonatas nos.3 & 14,
Italian Concerto
Intermezzi op.118/6 in e-flat & op.116/4 in E, Rhapsody in b, op.79/1,
Fantasie in f, op.49, Nocturne in b-flat op.9/1, Scherzo in b-flat op.31
Carnaval op.9
Solomon
audite [RIAS tapes]
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Superb sound, actually. (Given the 50s vintage.)

[karlhenning]

Bah! I was just at Borders, but couldn't find the Tenth! Chap's going to call me, because their inventory shows that it's been received.

Meanwhile:

Дмитри Дмитриевич
Симфония № 5 d-moll, соч. 47
Royal Liverpool Phil
Василий Эдуардович

[Opus106]

Bah! I was just at Borders, but couldn't find the Tenth! Chap's going to call me, because their inventory shows that it's been received.

Meanwhile:

Дмитри Дмитриевич
Симфония № 5 d-moll, соч. 47
Royal Liverpool Phil
Василий Эдуардович

Coy. 43! Вале́рий Абиса́лович | Мариинский театр. Approaching the finale. (Sorry, Harry... this game is just too fun. )

[Harry]

From this box CD IV.

Sephardic Romances from the Age before the Expulsion of the Jews from Spain. (1492)

Hesperion XX, Jordi Savall.
Recorded in 1983.

I really like these time travels into the past, this CD no exception, its wonderful to travel in this way. Excellent performance and recording.

[karlhenning]

Coy. 43! Вале́рий Абиса́лович | Мариинский театр. Approaching the finale. (Sorry, Harry... this game is just too fun. )

Tee-hee!

I find Валерий Абисалович just too wilful and wayward in the Fourth. YMMV.

[Opus106]

Tee-hee!
I find Валерий Абисалович just too wilful and wayward in the Fourth. YMMV.

He introduced me to, I think, four of Дмитри Дмитриевич's Симфонияs. (1, 4, 8 and 13 = 1+4+8. ) I have heard the first and the last only once, and the others a couple of more times than that. I don't have a good data set yet to determine what my mileage actually is.

[springrite]

Simpson: Variations and Fugues on a Theme of Haydn
This is truly a masterpiece of the first order. Loved it!

Simpson: Symphony #10
This completes my Simpson cycle. A wonderful work though not necessarily his best. Simpson reminds me mostly of Nielsen. Interesting that I have a good on Nielsen written by Simpson.

[greg]

Bah! I was just at Borders, but couldn't find the Tenth! Chap's going to call me, because their inventory shows that it's been received.

Meanwhile:

Дмитри Дмитриевич
Симфония № 5 d-moll, соч. 47
Royal Liverpool Phil
Василий Эдуардович

Is Дмитриевич his middle name?

[karlhenning]

Is Дмитриевич his middle name?

Yes, the middle name is a patronymic, i.e., derived from the father's name. So he is Dmitri, son of Dmitri.

[Brahmsian]

Bah! I was just at Borders, but couldn't find the Tenth! Chap's going to call me, because their inventory shows that it's been received.

Meanwhile:

Дмитри Дмитриевич
Симфония № 5 d-moll, соч. 47
Royal Liverpool Phil
Василий Эдуардович

I just went in this morning and reserved a copy of the Petrenko 10th at McNally Robinson.  They say they get their Naxos shipments on Tuesday's, so I might be getting a call later today for it.

[Brahmsian]

First-listen, from the library!

Shostakovich

Preludes and Fugues, Op.87

Keith Jarrett
ECM Records

[Keemun]

First-listen, from the library!

The local public library has been a great source of music for me, as well.   

Now:

Sibelius
Symphony No. 1
Maazel
VPO

[karlhenning]

Practically a first listen:

Wuorinen
Archæopteryx for bass trombone & ten players (1978)
David Taylor, b tn
Orchestra of St Luke's
The composer conducting

Edit :: typo

[Brian]

I just went in this morning and reserved a copy of the Petrenko 10th at McNally Robinson.  They say they get their Naxos shipments on Tuesday's, so I might be getting a call later today for it.

In honor of Ray and Karl, and on Naxos Music Library...



SHOST 10 Liverpool Petrenko

I just noticed another thing that makes me love this performance. Mvt. iii, 1:06, that clarinetist sounds like he's been listening to some klezmer albums lately! For your handy reference, my single favorite moment is at mvt. ii, 00:26-00:32. Listen carefully and you'll hear something special*! 

*Or at least unique to the recordings I've heard (Barshai, Karajan '81, Skrowaczewski, Maxim Shostakovich, Kitajenko)

[karlhenning]

Дмитри Дмитриевич
Симфония № 5 d-moll, соч. 47
Royal Liverpool Phil
Василий Эдуардович

Very nice.  I think interpretatively, the last movement is fine . . . only it sounds to me like the strings are unsure of what to do with themselves in those repeated notes at the end . . . they're a little 'wooden' there, and it needn't be so.

[karlhenning]

Practically a first listen:

Wuorinen
Archæopteryx for bass trombone & ten players (1978)
David Taylor, b tn
Orchestra of St Luke's
The composer conducting

What does not surprise me in revisiting this piece, great fun; top-drawer Wuorinen.

[Brian]

Very nice.  I think interpretatively, the last movement is fine . . . only it sounds to me like the strings are unsure of what to do with themselves in those repeated notes at the end . . . they're a little 'wooden' there, and it needn't be so.

In agreement, Karl. That's my least favorite of the Petrenko series so far, even though it's still very good. The extra reverb in the sound didn't help.