What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[karlhenning]

Again!

Elgar
The Spirit of England, Op.80
Teresa Cahill, soprano
Scottish National Orchestra Chorus
Scottish National Orchestra
Sir Alexander Gibson

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[Sergeant Rock]

Mrs Rock material?

Possibly. She often surprises me and this does sound like something she might like. But she's not here. She's having coffee and cake with a girlfriend this afternoon.

Sarge

[Lethevich]

Very listenable... 

Allan got soft in his old age! Maybe by the time we are all loving the 13th symphony, the composer's reputation for musical inpenetrability will finally be dispelled (I'll set the 9th aside or this sea-change might never happen)

[karlhenning]

Possibly. She often surprises me and this does sound like something she might like. But she's not here. She's having coffee and cake with a girlfriend this afternoon.

Sarge

Many is the piece I listen to when the missus is out on her own occasions . . . .

[Sergeant Rock]

Allan got soft in his old age!

He did get soft. My god, he suddenly goes all Hollywood in the middle of the thing! And he followed up the 15th with a very pleasant saxophone concerto! (Yeah, I know he called it a symphony but I don't buy that  )

Sarge

[Coco]

[karlhenning]

(Yeah, I know he called it a symphony but I don't buy that  )

Sloppy habit he'd got into . . . his head was so addled, he came to think that symphony meant any piece of music, really . . . .

[Opus106]

Many is the piece I listen to when the missus is out on her own occasions . . . .

You should call her the 'misses', then.

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Possibly. She often surprises me and this does sound like something she might like. But she's not here. She's having coffee and cake with a girlfriend this afternoon.

When the cat's away, Pettersson will play.

[Lethevich]

DAMN YOU JOHAN for mentioning that infernal song in the Daniel Jones thread

Every time I think of it, I must play it, even if only mentally.

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[karlhenning]

You should call her the 'misses', then.

Oh, if I played Pettersson, the missus wouldn't miss it, at all! : )

[karlhenning]

Oh, thou'rt naught, Johan!

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

DAMN YOU JOHAN for mentioning that infernal song in the Daniel Jones thread

Every time I think of it, I must play it, even if only mentally.

We aim to pl... ague. 

[karlhenning]

In the spirit of the revivified Shostakovich symphonies poll:

Дмитри Дмитриевич [ Dmitri Dmitriyevich (Shostakovich) ]
Симфония № 12 d-moll «1917 год», соч. 112 [ Symphony № 12 in d minor, Opus 112 "1917" ]
Moscow Phil
Кирилл Петрович [ Kirill Petrovich (Kondrashin) ]
Recorded in 1972

[North Star]

Mendelssohn: piano trio no. 2
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[Mirror Image]

  Now THAT is SPECTACULAR! My God I remember the first time I heard that recording. It is raw, gritty with so much tension!

  marvin

Yes, Marvin, this is a fantastic set and No. 6 is about as raw as it gets.

[Coopmv]

They have quite a pedigree:

The world premieres performed by the Gürzenich Orchestra include the following works:

Johannes Brahms, Double Concerto (1887)
Gustav Mahler, Symphony No. 3 (in collaboration with the Städtischen Kapelle Krefeld, 1902)
Mahler, Symphony No. 5 (1904)
Max Reger, Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Johann Adam Hiller for Orchestra (1907)
Richard Strauss, Don Quixote (1898)
Richard Strauss, Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks (1895)
Bernd Alois Zimmermann, Sinfonia prosodica (1964)

!!!!!!

Thanks Erato.  How many orchestras are there in Cologne?  Gürzenich Orchestra was not the orchestra Gunter Wand was associated with over his long conducting career.  I believe he was affiliated with the Cologne Radio Orchestra.

[The new erato]

There's been some discussion about the quality of some of the solo singing on this set compared to Minkowsky/McGegan (of which I also have the last); but the quality of the orchestral playing, as well as sound, is spectacular at least!

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Me like!!

[Mirror Image]

Now:

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Listening to Violin Concerto No. 2. Excellent. Bacewicz's second and third VCs are my favorites.

[Coopmv]

There's been some discussion about the quality of some of the solo singing on this set compared to Minkowsky/McGegan (of which I also have the last); but the quality of the orchestral playing, as well as sound, is spectacular at least!

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Me like!!

Minkowski has yet to win me over as a Handelian conductor while Alan Curtis got my vote years ago ...