What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Choo Choo]

The Jochum brothers?

Yup.

[karlhenning]

I like that Scherzo in the Vaughan Williams, but I must say that it mostly plays like a march, and not like any nocturne.

[karlhenning]

Yup.

Mammy Jochum must be proud.

[Florestan]

[Sergeant Rock]

Continuing to listen to the K.A. Hartmann symphony set on Wergo. Playing now, Symphony #6 fur großes Orchester (there's a part for the mandoline, und viel Schlagzeug...Hartmann knew the Mahler Seventh?); Kubelik conducts the SOBR.

Next up, Symphony #7, Zdeněk Mácal conducting.

Sarge

[Drasko]

I meanwhile am (still) working my way through this:

Oh my, The Pink Cat is back, what a pleasant surprise! Got bored in wilderness?

So, was missing Worst-Than-Most at St.Florian a good decision or not?

[karlhenning]

Continuing to listen to the K.A. Hartmann symphony set on Wergo. Playing now, Symphony #6 fur großes Orchester (there's a part for the mandoline, und viel Schlagzeug...Hartmann knew the Mahler Seventh?); Kubelik conducts the SOBR.

Before Metzmacher led the BSO strings in the Fourth a couple of years back, the Sixth had been the only Hartmann symphony played here in Symphony Hall (and no, none too recently, at all, at all).

[Lilas Pastia]

Great to see you back, ChooChoo ! Hope you post often in the Bruckner Abbey!

Yesterday's listening included the Eroica, a 1962 SWF Baden-Baden recording under Pierre Boulez. Starts atypically, with the opening chord broken (shades of a much older school of conducting). The Funeral March is very moving and powerful, the Scherzo very jolly (the Baden-Baden horns esp. scrumptious here), and an excellent finale. This is distinguished by typical Baden-Baden playing: very warm, with the bottom half of the sonic spectrum particularly rich. Altogether a very satisfying reading. Decent, rather muffled sound.

Pierné's magnificent Cello Sonata coupled with Charles Koechlin's Cello sonata and Chansons bretonnes (a set 11 cello and piano pieces) . A superb program on Hyperion. The Koechlin works are very rewarding, in their quite different way.

Ropartz, symphonies 2 and 5 (Orch. symph. et lyrique de Nancy, Sebastian Lang-Lessing). Typical Ropartz: fresh, concise, delicately scored. Very well played and recorded. This is the orchestra Ropartz was reponsible of in his 25 years at the helm of the Nancy Conservatoire. A Timpani release.

Georges Auric: two ballet scores. Phèdre, and Le Peintre et son modèle. Absolutely magnificent playing and recording, by the Orchestre philharmonique du Luxembourg, on Timpani. The music is excellent (the Phèdre score in particular is immensely dramatic, as befits the subject), but the sheer aural pleasure is so great that it  could have been less good and still make an impression. This has to be the best recorded orchestral disc I've heard in years. Phèdre was produced in Paris under Cocteau, with Serge Lifar dancing the male lead.

[Florestan]

with Arthur Grumiaux Trio.

IMHO that's one of the best Mozart recordings ever.

[karlhenning]

Britten
Death in Venice

[karlhenning]

Whoo! Cool timpani licks!

[Sergeant Rock]

Before Metzmacher led the BSO strings in the Fourth a couple of years back, the Sixth had been the only Hartmann symphony played here in Symphony Hall (and no, none too recently, at all, at all).

Not surprising, I suppose, given the fact he's rarely programmed in Germany either. Listening to the Fourth right now; Kubelik back on the podium.

Sarge

[bhodges]

Verdi: Arias (Ramón Vargas)
Kaleidoscope (Marc-André Hamelin)
Harvest Home (Dale Warland Singers) - Taped from their final performances in 2003 and 2004.  American folk songs in impressive arrangements by Carol Barnett, Norman Luboff, Stephen Paulus and others.



--Bruce

[Daverz]

Lps

KA Hartmann, Symphonies 8 & 4 - Kubelik/BRSO on DG.
Arriaga, Symphony in D - Lopez Cobos/English Chamber Orchestra
R. Strauss, Also Sprach Zarathrustra - Mehta/LAPO

[Harry]

Continuing to listen to the K.A. Hartmann symphony set on Wergo. Playing now, Symphony #6 fur großes Orchester (there's a part for the mandoline, und viel Schlagzeug...Hartmann knew the Mahler Seventh?); Kubelik conducts the SOBR.

Next up, Symphony #7, Zdeněk Mácal conducting.

Sarge

Goodmorning/afternoon to all!

He Sarge, I am really interested in your thoughts here, so if you please my friend.

[Harry]

Great to see you back, ChooChoo ! Hope you post often in the Bruckner Abbey!

Yesterday's listening included the Eroica, a 1962 SWF Baden-Baden recording under Pierre Boulez. Starts atypically, with the opening chord broken (shades of a much older school of conducting). The Funeral March is very moving and powerful, the Scherzo very jolly (the Baden-Baden horns esp. scrumptious here), and an excellent finale. This is distinguished by typical Baden-Baden playing: very warm, with the bottom half of the sonic spectrum particularly rich. Altogether a very satisfying reading. Decent, rather muffled sound.

Pierné's magnificent Cello Sonata coupled with Charles Koechlin's Cello sonata and Chansons bretonnes (a set 11 cello and piano pieces) . A superb program on Hyperion. The Koechlin works are very rewarding, in their quite different way.

Ropartz, symphonies 2 and 5 (Orch. symph. et lyrique de Nancy, Sebastian Lang-Lessing). Typical Ropartz: fresh, concise, delicately scored. Very well played and recorded. This is the orchestra Ropartz was reponsible of in his 25 years at the helm of the Nancy Conservatoire. A Timpani release.

Georges Auric: two ballet scores. Phèdre, and Le Peintre et son modèle. Absolutely magnificent playing and recording, by the Orchestre philharmonique du Luxembourg, on Timpani. The music is excellent (the Phèdre score in particular is immensely dramatic, as befits the subject), but the sheer aural pleasure is so great that it  could have been less good and still make an impression. This has to be the best recorded orchestral disc I've heard in years. Phèdre was produced in Paris under Cocteau, with Serge Lifar dancing the male lead.

Thank you for letting us know about these recordings, they are pronto on my list now.
Ropartz/Auric, are relatively new to me, but well within my interest sphere!

[Harry]

with Arthur Grumiaux Trio.

IMHO that's one of the best Mozart recordings ever.

I know, I have it, had it for years......................

[Harry]

Not surprising, I suppose, given the fact he's rarely programmed in Germany either. Listening to the Fourth right now; Kubelik back on the podium.

Sarge

Badly in need of listening notes, atttention, attention, will Sarge please write his thoughts.

[Sergeant Rock]

Badly in need of listening notes, atttention, attention, will Sarge please write his thoughts.

Will do, Harry, probably tomorrow once I've finished listening to the complete set. This is very dark, disturbing music and I can't listen to more than a disc or two at a time.

Sarge

[Harry]

Will do, Harry, probably tomorrow once I've finished listening to the complete set. This is very dark, disturbing music and I can't listen to more than a disc or two at a time.

Sarge

After hearing the SQ, I well understand that Sarge, so I wait until you have your thoughts together.
Thank you in advance!