What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[ragman1970]

[karlhenning]

I like that one, ragman!

[ragman1970]

But a very beautiful cover picture. Why does the recording fail to please? I've read good things about it before.

Salonen set's some dramatic points without any organic flow in this musik. Hahn play's brilliant without any idee of the emotional or cultural backround of this music. Lets say, playing what is written on the paper.
Here playing doesn't gi into the deep of this music. Same problem as with here Paganini recording.
She becomes for me more and more the stauts: perferct playing, no musician.

[ragman1970]

I like that one, ragman!

No doubt, one of the greatest Bach recordings.

[rubio]

I love Mozart the Bernstein way. These well-known symphonies sound really fresh under his command, and the WP plays magnificently!

[ChamberNut]

Strauss, R.

Don Quixote, Op. 35

Staatskapelle Dresden
Rudolf Kempe

Paul Tortelier, cello
Max Rostel, viola
EMI Classics

*A very unique, interesting work!

[Opus106]

The oh-so-beautiful cello sonata in E minor by Brahms. Slava+Serkin.

I sampled the first minute or so of a HIP version. It was a tad fast and less Romantic in nature.

[ChamberNut]

The oh-so-beautiful cello sonata in E minor by Brahms. Slava+Serkin.

A favorite Brahms work as you know, and the same goes for the Slava+Serkin combination. 

[Opus106]

Strauss, R.

Don Quixote, Op. 35

*A very unique, interesting work!

He [Rostrpovich] came in with a grumbling noise [on the cello]...I stopped the orchestra and said "Slava, are you alright?" He looked at me and said, "Yes, but you see, it's a very old horse I'm riding."

-Conversations with Karajan

[Que]

The oh-so-beautiful cello sonata in E minor by Brahms. Slava+Serkin.

A favorite Brahms work as you know, and the same goes for the Slava+Serkin combination. 

Definitely a legendary recording. 

Q

[sound67]

On occasion of the death of Vernon Handley, some of the stuff I've been listening to this evening:


A Celtic Symphony


Violin Concerto


The Garden of Fand - one of the pieces Handley was set to conduct as part of his July 19th Prom


Viola Concerto (Rivka Golani)


Florida Suite

Thomas

[M forever]

Salonen set's some dramatic points without any organic flow in this musik. Hahn play's brilliant without any idee of the emotional or cultural backround of this music. Lets say, playing what is written on the paper.
Here playing doesn't gi into the deep of this music. Same problem as with here Paganini recording.
She becomes for me more and more the stauts: perferct playing, no musician.

I wouldn't go as far as that, but she certainly does not have much to "tell" us about the Sibelius concerto. It is more a display of good technique and some musical mannerisms, mostly uniform polishing. That in itself is all happening on a high level, but there are so many good violinists out there, there is really no reason why she has the status she has except for marketing and hype. The same goes for the superficial and featureless accompaniment. Really a superfluous product.

[M forever]

Strauss, R.

Ein Alpensinfonie, Op. 64  *

Staatskapelle Dresden
Rudolf Kempe
EMI Classics Box Set

*I'm...............just blown away.  Feels like I've just been hit by a ton of bricks, and I'm gasping for air.

This was my first ever listen to this work.  I am floored......speechless.

One of THE most incredible "first listens" I've ever encountered.

Andy - I can totally see why you consider this your favorite R. Strauss work. 

The Alpensinfonie isn't bad, but it's totally ruined by the silly wind machine.

[Haffner]

The Alpensinfonie isn't bad, but it's totally ruined by the silly wind machine.

I just laugh the wind machine off. I guess for me the composition otherwise is so excellently crafted that the wind machine can't ruin it.

[karlhenning]

I think that was a post with high wry content, Andy 

. . . and, tangentially, now listening to:

Vaughan Williams
Symphony No. 8
London Phil
Haitink

[Keemun]

[Haffner]

I think that was a post with high wry content, Andy 

Aye,
I try for wry
try try try
oh fie I sigh
why oh why oh...


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[scarpia]

The Alpensinfonie isn't bad, but it's totally ruined by the silly wind machine.

Ah, grasshopper.  I see you have learned much!

[Haffner]

Ah, grasshopper.  I see you have learned much!

Big tree have strong root!

[karlhenning]

Vaughan Williams
Symphony No. 9
London Phil
Haitink