What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Kullervo]

A little music before going home:

Olivier Messiaen - Saint Francois D'assise

"Little" 

[mn dave]

brahms 4 kleiber

[lukeottevanger]

brahms 4 kleiber

thought it was brahms 4 clara (possibly)

[lukeottevanger]

Oh, I've been listening to this today:






A preponderance of ECM, as you can see...

[karlhenning]

A preponderance of ECM, as you can see...

And EMC excess, one might almost say.

[Kullervo]

Ravel - Valses Nobles et Sentimentales, Sonatine, La Valse, etc. (Louis Lortie)
Nielsen - Symphonies 4 and 5 (Kuchar/Janáček Phil)

[Maciek]

I almost got a cheap used copy of the Knaifel a couple of months ago, but was too slow to decide and when I went back to the shop to get it, it was already gone...

[karlhenning]

Dvořák
Slavonic Dances, Opus 72
Bamberg Symphony
Doráti

Picked this up dirt cheap, I don't even remember when;  and I like it even better than the Maazel/Berliner Philharmoniker disc we've had for a decade and a half.

[Maciek]

Earlier today, I listened to some excellent chamber pieces by a composer who goes by the initials KH. He's one of the most written about modern composers recently, at least around these parts. And I'm not surprised, it's great stuff.








(I should perhaps say "genius", but this time round would prefer to avoid the inevitable discussion of harmonic notation. )

[karlhenning]

(* chortle *)

Dziękuję!

[Maciek]

Ależ, mój drogi przyjacielu, nie ma za co!

[Bulldog]

Hmmm, must have been different discs.
The reverberation is to my ears normal, and you only get some hiss when you turn the volume up very high.
There is not one of those 13 discs that is bad, they are all good recordings.

I usually listen on my headphones, and the hiss is noticeable at any volume greater than very low.

I don't want to give the opinion that the sound makes the Demus recordings unacceptable, for he's a fine pianist.  However, less than sterling sound is easy for me to abide as long as the performances are outstanding, and I simply don't find Demus outstanding in Schumann.

[mn dave]

Horowitz - Encores

[mozartsneighbor]

[karlhenning]

Ravel
Rapsodie espagnole
Michel Béroff & Jean-Philippe Collard

[Dundonnell]

I know that I started a thread on Egon Wellesz in the Composer Discussion Forum and I don't want to be accused of banging on about Wellesz ....but I listened again today to his first four symphonies on CPO.

If you love Bruckner and Mahler I strongly suggest that you give Wellesz a go. Far more than say Franz Schmidt or a number of other lesser Austrian or German composers Wellesz's first four symphonies(particularly Nos. 1-3) are in the great tradition of both Bruckner and Mahler. The slow finale of No.1 and the adagio of No.2 are amazingly poignant and extremely Brucknerian.

[Ric]

I know that I started a thread on Egon Wellesz in the Composer Discussion Forum and I don't want to be accused of banging on about Wellesz ....but I listened again today to his first four symphonies on CPO.

If you love Bruckner and Mahler I strongly suggest that you give Wellesz a go. Far more than say Franz Schmidt or a number of other lesser Austrian or German composers Wellesz's first four symphonies(particularly Nos. 1-3) are in the great tradition of both Bruckner and Mahler. The slow finale of No.1 and the adagio of No.2 are amazingly poignant and extremely Brucknerian.

Very interesting composer, indeed.

[mn dave]

Big G$ triggered my current listen:

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde: Prelude to Act I

Monteux/N German Radio Sym Orch

[Keemun]

Barber: Violin Concerto (James Ehnes, violin; Bramwell Tovey; Vancouver Symphony Orchestra)



My first time listening to this work. 

[UB]

Hey Luke - I know the top and bottom two of those ECM cds but the middle two are new to me. What can you say about them - are they worth knowing?

I have just listened to Niels Viggo Bentzon - Symphony 7 'De Tre Versioner' - Aarhus SO - Ole Schmidt. I have never heard a work by Bentzon that I have not enjoyed but few that I go back and listen to often. The 7th is one of the few that I think of as first rate.