What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Harry]

Good morning day, Harry! 

Stravinsky
Renard
Craft, conductor

Goedenmorgen mijn vriend!

[karlhenning]

Mz 41 (Jup) (Bohm)  0:)

Quintessential morning music, mon vieux! 

[Harry]

Krenek

Presto (1:08) from his first Symphony.

On repeat!

[BachQ]

Quintessential morning music, mon vieux! 

My thoughts exactly . . . . . .  0:)

[not edward]

Wagner: Siegfried-Idyll; Wesendonck-Lieder (Ludwig/Klemperer)
Strauss: Metamorphosen (Klemperer)

[karlhenning]

Igor Fyodorovich
Pribaoutki
Berceuses du chat
Catherine Ciesinsky, mezzo &al.

[Harry]

Krenek.
Symphony No. 5.

Radio Philharmonie Hannover des NDR/Takao Ukigaya.

To sexy for my shirt!

[dtwilbanks]

Would be very interested in your comments on this one!

Q

Hi Q!

I don't know lieder, but I know what I like. And I like this. So, I bet that helped you a lot. 

[Hector]

This weekend it was the turn of Mahler 9 to be reviewed by the Beeb's CD Review.

Short shrift was given to Sinopoli on Pentatone, Horenstein on BBC Legends, Rattle's hect(oring)ic, Giulini's reverential slowness and Barenboim's latest which the reviewer thought sounded like the conductor wanted to play it on the piano.

Bernstein's DVD was recommended as was Ancerl's mid-price account on Supraphon, a performance that I've admired rather than liked because it always sounds bass-light to me (a fault of Supraphon rather than Ancerl and the Czech PO?).

Pride of place went to Abbado's live 1999 recording with the BPO on DG.

I had not heard this until today and the attention to the composer's requirements and, therefore, detail, matched with concentrated and exemplary playing with no loss of tension moved me as this symphony, surely, should.

I am not going to throw out any of the other versions I own (none of the above, incidentally) except Scherchen, which is awful, but have a desire to acquire the Abbado!

[karlhenning]

Igor Fyodorovich
Octuor
Harmonie Ensemble/New York

[Harry]

Martinu.
Piano Quintet No. 1.
Martinu Quartet.

Martinu in top form, and Naxos too.

[Harry]

Martinu.
Piano Quintet, No. 2.
Martinu Quartet.

Very fine, very good, very......................

[Harry]

Martinu.
Sonata for two Violins and Piano.
Martinu Quartet, and Karel Kosarek.

Yummy.

[Harry]

J.C Bach.

Symphonies Concertantes, Volume IV.

Hanover Band/Anthony Halstead,

This box with six cd's for bargain price at JPC, is a joy in all repects.
Performances are good, sound is fine, really a treat for sore ears.

[Que]

Hi Q!

I don't know lieder, but I know what I like. And I like this. So, I bet that helped you a lot. 

Brahms' Lieder are gorgeous and Bernarda Fink is a superb singer, so I'm not surprised!

Thanks, Q

[Danny]

An excellent version of the B Minor Mass by Bach made in the early 50's; sometimes the sound doesn't always convey the sweeping and spiritual rush (usually in the movements of the choir where the voices/orchestra aren't mixed properly) but overall I definitley love this interpretation.  



I wonder why a Lutheran chose to write a Latin Mass, though.  Can anyone feel me in?

[Drasko]

[karlhenning]

Dmitri Dmitriyevich
Symphony No. 7 in C Major Leningrad, Opus 60
Prague Symphony
Maksim Dmitriyevich

[dtwilbanks]

Dmitri Dmitriyevich
Symphony No. 7 in C Major Leningrad, Opus 60
Prague Symphony
Maksim Dmitriyevich

Hey, Karl. You like Russian composers. How come no Rachmaninoff?

[dtwilbanks]

An excellent version of the B Minor Mass by Bach made in the early 50's; sometimes the sound doesn't always convey the sweeping and spiritual rush (usually in the movements of the choir where the voices/orchestra aren't mixed properly) but overall I definitley love this interpretation. 



I wonder why a Lutheran chose to write a Latin Mass, though.  Can anyone feel me in?

Because it was his job?