What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[George]

[Drasko]

[Lilas Pastia]

Orchestral works by Gösta Nystroem. Symphonies 4 and 6, Viola concerto, Sinfonia Concertante for cello and orchestra, and Ishavet (Arctic Ocean), possibly his best-known work.

Nystroem is a giant of the orchestra. There's no other music like his. It's chock full of original ideas, huge climaxes, brilliant orchestration and yet everything is concise and condensed. 25 minute works that make you feel you've gone through a whole hour worth of music.

[Lilas Pastia]

Giya Kancheli.

Symphony No. 7 "Epilog"

RSO Berlin/Michail Jurowski

It gets better and better. I love this music, for me its a earthquake.
Wonderful, marvelous hard hitting music, which causes a plethora of pain and elation, smashing.
I crave for this kind of passion. Salvation time!
Well another addictive composer.

Welcome to the club!

[orbital]

I will check him out again. I just think that they don't have a feel for the rhythm and most of them play it way too fast or too slow.

Wish you were in search of Op32/12. I think I have about 50 or so of them  . Got them off someone who is probably crazy about the piece.

[sidoze]

That's because you did not include Sokolov in there  . But, it works better as a whole with other preludes since it is a live account.

I think Ashkenazy is very good here too  btw

The best 23/1 I've ever heard is Feinberg's recording on Arbiter. There's nothing else like it. He turns it into some hyper-sensitive febrile Scriabin prelude. Awesome!

[George]

The best 23/1 I've ever heard is Feinberg's recording on Arbiter. There's nothing else like it. He turns it into some hyper-sensitive febrile Scriabin prelude. Awesome!

I have that CD, but I have yet to crack the cellophane.

[Drasko]

There's nothing else like it. He turns it into some hyper-sensitive febrile Scriabin prelude. Awesome!

Yes there is, he plays Mephisto Waltz like proto-Scriabin and makes it work.

I have that CD, but I have yet to crack the cellophane.

When you do, you'll notice one of the most amazing Feinberg traits, capability to truly alter his playing in accordance to composer he plays. Febrile, tense and nervous in Scriabin, aristocratic and thoughtful in Bach.

[sidoze]

I have that CD, but I have yet to crack the cellophane.

it also has the most intense Scriabin 5. lucky you.

Yes there is, he plays Mephisto Waltz like proto-Scriabin and makes it work.

i meant that particular prelude, or maybe rachmaninoff in general. I didn't hear the MW when it passed through my hands.

[Bogey]

Finished up:



Definitely a case where one should not judge a book by its cover....absolutely wonderful.

[karlhenning]

Tallis
Spem in alium
Oxford Camerata

[karlhenning]

Bill, didja get my message, didja? 

[George]

Finished up:



Definitely a case where one should not judge a book by its cover....absolutely wonderful.

Yeah, they sure could have spent some more time on those Philips two-fer covers.

[wilhelm]

[Que]

A very good morning/day to you all.



Q

[val]

SCHUMANN:  The piano Trios  / Trio Beaux-Arts (1971)

The first Trio, is tormented, dark, very chromatic, not far from the 2nd Symphony. The 2nd Trio is more classic, with perhaps more appealing motives. The 2nd movement, slow, is one of the greatest inspirations of Schumann. The last Trio opus 110 has not the same quality. More diffuse and sometimes incoherent - the pizzicato episode in the development of the first movement is a good example - the quality of the ideas, the structure are very far from the first two trios.

The interpretation of the Beaux-Arts is remarkable, intense, with a superb articulation and dynamic and a deep understanding of Schumann's complex universe. To me, the best recording of the Beaux Arts with the set of Dvorak's Trios.

I also listened to the version of the Trio in D minor by Schneider, Casals and Horzowski. The recording is technically bad, Horzowski seems in hibernation, Casals is very, very heavy, and in spite of the efforts of Schneider to give some articulation and dynamic, the version seems too dense and amorphous.

[The new erato]

SCHUMANN:  The piano Trios  / Trio Beaux-Arts (1971)

The first Trio, is tormented, dark, very chromatic, not far from the 2nd Symphony. The 2nd Trio is more classic, with perhaps more appealing motives. The 2nd movement, slow, is one of the greatest inspirations of Schumann. The last Trio opus 110 has not the same quality. More diffuse and sometimes incoherent - the pizzicato episode in the development of the first movement is a good example - the quality of the ideas, the structure are very far from the first two trios.

The interpretation of the Beaux-Arts is remarkable, intense, with a superb articulation and dynamic and a deep understanding of Schumann's complex universe. To me, the best recording of the Beaux Arts with the set of Dvorak's Trios.

I have this recording, but have never really succeeded in cracking Schumanns trios despite loving most of his small scale stuff (other chamber works, songs). Must try again I guess.

I am listening to this right now:

[rubio]

I'm preparing for my 2-week vacation to Peloponnese, Greece, with this Greek Composer. Both the cover of the CD and the music make the vacation seem more attractive, even if they have just managed to put out all the nasty forest fires in that area...

[wilhelm]

CD1: K542, K548, K564.

[johnQpublic]

LPs

Lesemann - Sonata for Clarinet & Percussion (Lurie & Ervin/Crystal)
C. Jones - Violin Sonatina (Zukovsky/CRI)
Fennelly - In Wilderness is the Preservation of the World (Fischer/Serenus)