What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Solitary Wanderer]

[Harry]

This is a disc high in my favorite list, and believe it or not I played this one four times in a row.
I urge you to explore it, such fine music making.

[Catison]

Karl Amadeus Hartmann: Symphony #1 "Attempt at a Requiem after Words by Walt Whitman"




Sarge

How do you like the Hartmann box?

[Brian]

KHACHATURIAN | Masquerade Suite
Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra; Loris Tjeknavorian

It's the Khach of the day.

[Brian]

Awesome, awesome, awesome! Thunderous great recording, too, but the performance is smashing and the music is just plain awesome. I wish there were more of it. An early candidate for new release of the year...

I do have a complaint, however: what is with the blatantly fake "Aboriginal" painting on the cover? It looks like it was made by somebody in Kansas who saw an Australian tourism video on YouTube. 

[Solitary Wanderer]

Disc.3.

Haydn's Sturm & Drang Symphonies.

#44 Mourning & #45 Farewell

[mahler10th]

Awesome, awesome, awesome! Thunderous great recording, too, but the performance is smashing and the music is just plain awesome. I wish there were more of it. An early candidate for new release of the year...

I do have a complaint, however: what is with the blatantly fake "Aboriginal" painting on the cover? It looks like it was made by somebody in Kansas who saw an Australian tourism video on YouTube. 

Can you give us a comparitive soundscape, bcause you seem to be blown away by it, and I'm interested in any Classical Music that has that power.  What 'kind' of music is it?
Your enthusiasm is rubbing off.

[Don]

I do have a complaint, however: what is with the blatantly fake "Aboriginal" painting on the cover? It looks like it was made by somebody in Kansas who saw an Australian tourism video on YouTube. 

Naxos covers must be for guys like myself, because I had no idea it was fake (not that I care much).

[Brian]

Can you give us a comparitive soundscape, bcause you seem to be blown away by it, and I'm interested in any Classical Music that has that power.  What 'kind' of music is it?
Your enthusiasm is rubbing off.

Well, all the reviews I've read mention Rite of Spring, though Antill hadn't heard that piece when he wrote this one. It was composed mainly based on notes from actual Aboriginal Australian "corroborees" and festivals. It's a ballet, divided into various dances, including the eerie, basso ostinato Welcoming Dance, the Rain Dance, and the Closing Ceremony, marked by more percussion instruments than I've ever heard in my life, including a bull-roarer, which sounds like, well, a roaring bull. Don't expect a "serious" experience: this is arch-1940s-modernist-pops music, a ballet that blends odd melodic ideas, ferocious energy and Aboriginal rhythms and ideas. You can play clips from the start of each movement here.

Naxos covers must be for guys like myself, because I had no idea it was fake (not that I care much).

Here's a great gallery of the real deal; here's one of my favorites:



Click the pic to view a larger size.

[Brian]

Amazon has a very good (and very long) review of the Antill CD.

[Lilas Pastia]

I'm a huge fan of the Te Deum, too.  First heard it live back in the 1980s with Riccardo Muti and the Philadelphia Orchestra--and almost immediately went out to find a recording.  You will probably like the motets as well, if you don't know those.  I'm not sure whether this recording (below) is still in print--Martin Flamig and the Dresdner Kreuzchor, on Capriccio, from 1985--but it's gorgeous if you can find it.

Listening to:

George Tsontakis: Violin Concerto No. 2 (2003) (Steven Copes, violin/Douglas Boyd, conductor/Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra) - Engaging piece, with the violin intertwining with the ensemble like an equal partner, amid some shimmering bells, piano and other percussion.

--Bruce

Someone sent me a sample of Tsontakis, namelty the first and 3rd movements of his Four Symphonic Quartets (not to be confused with his String Quartets). I found this absolutely splendid (it was issued on Koch).

What other Tsontakis goodies are out there ??

[Kullervo]

Tonight:
Reger - String Quartets 1 and 5 (Drolc Quartet)
Martinů- Symphonies 2 and 6 (Thomson/RSNO)
Vaughan Williams - Tallis Fantasia, A London Symphony (Haitink/London Phil) [yes, that's twice in a day ]

[Lethevich]

Bruckner

Te Deum
10 Motetten
150.Psalm

Berliner Philharmoniker
Chore des Deutschen Oper Berlin
Eugen Jochum
DG

That's a very nice recording.

Continuing the cycle: Vaughan Williams - Tallis Fantasia, A London Symphony (Haitink/London Phil)

[Kullervo]

That is now my desktop background. Thanks.

I will never get tired of seeing that cat.

[eyeresist]

Vaughan Williams
Symphony No. 7
LSO / Previn


Brian: if only the artist was aboriginal, then the picture wouldn't be a fake. 

It's the Khach of the day.

As Clive James would say: Ouch.

[mahler10th]

Andrew Manze
The English Concert
Vivaldi - Violin Concertos for the Emporer

After heavy Bruckner, Mahler, Sibelius and Brahms...this!   0:)
As refreshing as finding an Emporer to bow in reverence to before slapping them with a fish called Vivaldi.
Violin Concerto in C is delightful.  Manze is very accomplished.  Nice sonics on this disc.

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Lined up for listening while I am writing (music can be inspiring):

Bax - The Happy Forest (Downes)
Coates - Saxo-Rhapsody (Groves)
Dyson - Symphony in G major (Lloyd-Jones)
Langgaard - Heltedød (Stupel)
                   Interdikt (Stupel)
Magnard - Symphony No. 4 (Sanderling)
Rautavaara - Symphony No. 7 (Vänskä)

[Sergeant Rock]

How do you like the Hartmann box?

I'm completely satisfied with it. There was a discussion comparing it to Metzmacher's cycle on EMI but I didn't hear any compelling reason to switch, or to prefer one to the other.

Sarge

[mozartsneighbor]

Die Walküre, Krauss, Bayreuth 1953

[Bogey]

Schumann Symphony Nos. 2 and 3
Sawallisch/Staatskapelle Dresden
EMI

Good morning.