What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Keemun]

[not edward]

Mozart from the Oort Cloud. I really enjoy the G minor quartet, though the Eb major one leaves me rather colder.

[Papy Oli]

Definitely a grower, this one ! 

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Interesting, interesting - are these mature, post-war works?

[MN Dave]

  Now playing.

[Haffner]

I love it.

Gotta check it out now.

I'm still considering the Brahms/Karajan Symphonies on DVD. Who am I fooling, if I were rich, I'd already have it.

Gorecki Symphony no.3

[Haffner]

Greedy guts, you!!    Didn't he write like 70+ string quartets? 

I have the Op. 76, and my next CD order will definitely include Op. 77.  I love his quartets more than Mozart's mature quartets.

Me too. K 387 and 421 are the ones I think come closest to the quality to Joseph's opp. 20 and 33. But once you listen to opps. 54 and 74 you will be even more thoroughly convinced of Haydn's supreme mastery of the genre during his (and Mozart's) time.

When people mention Mozart's Chamber Music for strings, I always exclaim "yes, he wrote some terrific duos, trios, and quintets!".

Sarge also wrote a really cool post on Haydn's op.50, which truly are a bit more cerebral and harder to grasp at first listenings. Once they sink in though (especially no.2) they stay sunk in.

[not edward]

Interesting, interesting - are these mature, post-war works?

Only the Sonata "27 Apr. 1945" is close to mature (the rest is often rather frivolous or neoclassical music from the late '20s and early '30s), and Hartmann later withdrew the work. It was inspired by his despair at watching concentration camp prisoners being marched to their death by guards shortly before the end of WW2, and I suspect the composer may have felt that the music didn't do justice to the subject matter. I'd like to hear it in a more impassioned performance: the performance here seems lacking in intensity, and as a result the music seems somewhat thin (though the funeral march that centres it is certainly powerful).

Now listening:

[Haffner]

Bogey and Dave's discussion of this soundtrack made me want to hear it again (it's a favorite of Mrs. Rock's; she listens to it far more than I do):



The style is reminiscent of 1950s scores for costume and bibical epics but without the religiosity. Favorite tracks: the Riders of Doom (with a chorus) and the beautiful Theology/Civilization movement.

Sarge

Ja-AH-a-AH-a-MIN'!

[Brian]

Gorecki Symphony no.3

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[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Only the Sonata "27 Apr. 1945" is close to mature (the rest is often rather frivolous or neoclassical music from the late '20s and early '30s), and Hartmann later withdrew the work. It was inspired by his despair at watching concentration camp prisoners being marched to their death by guards shortly before the end of WW2, and I suspect the composer may have felt that the music didn't do justice to the subject matter. I'd like to hear it in a more impassioned performance: the performance here seems lacking in intensity, and as a result the music seems somewhat thin (though the funeral march that

Thank you very much, Edward! I know Hartmann concentrated on writing/revising his symphonies after WWII, and as his was not a very long life, I did wonder about those piano pieces...

[Haffner]

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Love this one. The first movement is very powerful to me.

[Brian]

Love this one. The first movement is very powerful to me.

Me too. Hypnotic, isn't it?

[Bogey]

[George]

Me too. Hypnotic, isn't it?

Oh yeeeeaaah. 

[Keemun]

Love this one. The first movement is very powerful to me.

Same here. 

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Listening to String Quartet No. 8 from this:

[Haffner]

Same here. 

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Listening to String Quartet No. 8 from this:

That's my favorite Shostakovich SQ, and my favorite recording of it.

Currently:

Brahms Symphony no.4 (Haitink)

[Bogey]

Dsic 2

[Haffner]

Dsic 2

Bill, where have I seen that signature before  ?

So, how's the Busch?

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Handel Concerto Grossi (Brilliant)

[Keemun]

That's my favorite Shostakovich SQ, and my favorite recording of it.

Yes, it's quite good.