What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[mc ukrneal]

Some more Copland today:
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This is great music. I particularly like Bernstein's way with Billy the Kid, which I find much more persuassive than the MTT version I have. Both do an outstanding Rodeo though. Bernstein has a high level of energy all the way through. I find the occassional rawness of the orchestra actually adds to the impact too, creating a feeling of wild abandon for me. Nice full sound, considering its vintage.  Outstanding!

[Willoughby earl of Itacarius]

A very good example of Boris Tchaikovsky's art.

[karlhenning]

It has one of the most memorable tunes out of any movie!

Oh! Izzat the one with "Mambo Italiano"? ; )

[Lethevich]

A very good example of Boris Tchaikovsky's art.

Weird - I swore I typed out a reply to this but it disappeared. Hehe. Anyway, I am grateful for Hyperion recording this repertoire - much of the composer's music is on Russian labels which can be hard to obtain in the west.

Edit: nope, it was in another tab. All hail the onset of senility

[Willoughby earl of Itacarius]

Mozart.
Symphony No 34 in C major, KV 338
Concerto for Flute and Orchestra in G major, KV 313.

Konrad Hunteler, Transverse.
Cappella Coloniensis, Georg Fisher.

Well performed and recorded, albeit not the last word in refinement and recording.

[Conor71]

Beethoven: Violin Concerto In D Major, Op. 61

[Willoughby earl of Itacarius]

A very good disc, as all in the series. Both wrote very well for the Violin.

[Gurn Blanston]

A very good disc, as all in the series. Both wrote very well for the Violin.

Yes, indeed it is. Although it is the only one of the series that I have, it makes a nice first impression!

Bach (JS), Suites for Solo Cello (senza Basso); Wieland Kuijken. Excellent disks, delighted to have them despite the fact that Ionly have about 1 or 2 times per year to listen to them.

[TheGSMoeller]

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Good morning friends... Alban Berg's Sonata, Op.1

[karlhenning]

One mighty fine disc, Greg! And good morning to you!

[TheGSMoeller]

Now:



I don't listen to Mahler much anymore, but, when I do, I seem to reach for Symphonies 5, 6, 7, & 9 the most. Symphony No. 7 is one of those symphonies that didn't mean much to me when I first heard it, but it slowly revealed itself with repeated listening. This Rattle recording is still one of the best I've heard of this symphony along with Abbado's.

Morning, MI.
"slowly revealed itself" is a reason why I've always enjoyed the 7th, with every listen I discover more about the piece. This is a symphony that I feel requires multiple recordings to explore it completely, I have Bernstein, Boulez & MTT and they all sound as if they have different score notations.

[DavidW]

Yes, indeed it is. Although it is the only one of the series that I have, it makes a nice first impression!

Bach (JS), Suites for Solo Cello (senza Basso); Wieland Kuijken. Excellent disks, delighted to have them despite the fact that Ionly have about 1 or 2 times per year to listen to them.

Not S. Kuijken?

[not edward]

Morning, MI.
"slowly revealed itself" is a reason why I've always enjoyed the 7th, with every listen I discover more about the piece. This is a symphony that I feel requires multiple recordings to explore it completely, I have Bernstein, Boulez & MTT and they all sound as if they have different score notations.

The recording I've found most revealing of all recently has been a slightly surprising option: Staatskapelle Berlin/Barenboim. It's certainly not a 'mainstream' view of the work, and to some extent seems influenced by Scherchen's interpretations (as well as Barenboim's love of Furtwangler), but it brings out a lot in the work that is often glossed over. Definitely one of my touchstone Mahler interpretations, as is the recording I listened to last thing last night...

Chailly's 10th (Cooke II), with the DSO Berlin. I learnt this work from the first Rattle recording, so got used to a view of the work which certainly didn't emphasise understatement. Hence why Chailly's recording didn't click for me at first, as it certainly avoids overplaying the lyricism and the climactic dissonances. Instead, I hear a clarity of line that helps show just how radical some aspects of the work were (and makes Mahler-the-musical-ancestor-of-Webern even more obvious), and a remarkable account of the finale where the gentle, tender, unexaggerated playing in the lyrical passages sets off the catastrophic elements all the better, and makes the unexpectedly positive ending utterly convincing.

[Willoughby earl of Itacarius]

This is a fine disc, could not wish for better advocacy.

[karlhenning]

First Listen!

Xenakis
Antikhthon
New Philharmonia
Elgar Howarth

[Brahmsian]

Schumann

String Quartets, Op. 41 (1-3)

Fine Arts Quartet
Naxos

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And now:

Tchaikovsky

Complete string quartets, and String Sextet 'Souvenir de Florence'

Borodin String Quartet
Genrikh Talalyan - viola II
Mstislav Rostropovich - cello II

Chandos

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[mc ukrneal]

A very good disc, as all in the series. Both wrote very well for the Violin.

For all my advocating of Arensky, I don't actually have this disc! Hmmm, must do something about that!

[Willoughby earl of Itacarius]

For all my advocating of Arensky, I don't actually have this disc! Hmmm, must do something about that!

O, dear, its one of the finest recordings around Neal, how is it possible you do not have it.?

[Brahmsian]

Harry, you mean.....you don't look like Tchaikovsky?      At least you should have a beard, mon ami. 

[DavidW]

My Tchaikovsky SQs/Sextet set arrived the other day... I should have a listen to some of those works after my Bach.