What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Frumaster]

Listening to ezodisy approved Prokofiev: Petrov's performances of Sonatas 8 and 9:




Sarge

I enjoy Prokofiev, so I've decided to give these a listen, although I don't have Sonata No.9.  I have two versions of sonata 8, one by Steven De Groote and another by Gilels.  I love rainy days for music like this.

[Sergeant Rock]

I enjoy Prokofiev, so I've decided to give these a listen, although I don't have Sonata No.9.  I have two versions of sonata 8, one by Steven De Groote and another by Gilels.  I love rainy days for music like this.

We're having brilliant spring weather in the Rhine Valley today. Prokofiev worked in the cloudless sunshine too 

Sarge

[stingo]

Indeed - between life and a few other things going on, I've not had time to be a participating member in this forum as I'd like. Hoping that will change now that things have quieted down.

Currently listening to Ellen Taafe Zwilich's Concerto Grosso 1985.

[bhodges]

Hey, stingo, nice to see you! 

Looking forward to this tonight, at Le Poisson Rouge, the newish classical-rock club in Greenwich Village (formerly the Village Gate).  And in the "everyone can afford it" mode, tickets are just $10.

Peter Tantsits, tenor
Phyllis Chen, toy piano
Lydia Steier, stage director
International Contemporary Ensemble

Peter Maxwell Davies: Eight Songs for a Mad King (1968)

--Bruce

[springrite]

Mahler 7 (Boulez, BPO)

This is a very good performance and not as "clinical" as some other Boulez I have heard. I think I still prefer the Lenny and the Gielen.

[Frumaster]

Prokofiev 4th Symphony - the first composition of it (Op.47)
Rostropovich

This has become one of my favorite symphonies of all for some reason.  It is not generally acknowledged as even being one of Prokofiev's top few, and I cant understand why.  The first two movements in particular are wonderful.

[DavidRoss]

Glass, Symphonies 2 & 3, Alsop/Bournemouth -- picked up on a whim last Fall, not heard since then.  I still can't tell whether this is music for people with short attention spans or long ones.

[bhodges]

Prokofiev 4th Symphony - the first composition of it (Op.47)
Rostropovich

This has become one of my favorite symphonies of all for some reason.  It is not generally acknowledged as even being one of Prokofiev's top few, and I cant understand why.  The first two movements in particular are wonderful.

Last week Valery Gergiev and the LSO were in New York presenting all the Prokofiev symphonies, and if I recall, the reviews of the Fourth asked the very same question (i.e., why it isn't more popular).  Apparently they did both versions--the original and the revised one, 1930 and 1947 respectively--to great acclaim.  Here is the full review.

--Bruce

[springrite]

Glass, Symphonies 2 & 3, Alsop/Bournemouth -- picked up on a whim last Fall, not heard since then.  I still can't tell whether this is music for people with short attention spans or long ones.

Short attention span in infinite loops...

[karlhenning]

Telarc may have great pressings, but they really need to work on a better "variety" of covers (my copy to the right), Russell.

Hah!

Thread duty:

Cage
Concerto for Prepared Piano (1950-51)
Margaret Leng Tan, prepared piano
American Composers Orchestra
Dennis Russell Davies

[karlhenning]

Short attention span in infinite loops...

Surgically done, Paul!

[Brian]

Glass, Symphonies 2 & 3, Alsop/Bournemouth -- picked up on a whim last Fall, not heard since then.  I still can't tell whether this is music for people with short attention spans or long ones.

The movement that really "works" for me is the slow movement of the Third. It seems to me to be the spiritual opposite of, or maybe the 20th-century response to, Pachelbel's Canon. Or possibly I'm just full of crap.

[karlhenning]

We're having brilliant spring weather in the Rhine Valley today. Prokofiev worked in the cloudless sunshine too 

Да.

[Benji]

Rubbra - Symphony No.8. BBC National Orchestra of Wales - Sir Richard Hickox.

Simply put, some of the most beautiful British music ever written. Fans of Vaughan William's 3rd and 5th would do well to pick this up, though the music is also seeped in a certain mystery which also recalls VW's 9th.

[springrite]

Да.

For some reason, Karl's use of Russian reminds me of John Cleese in A Fish Called Wanda.

[DavidRoss]

Short attention span in infinite loops...

[karlhenning]

Cage
Seventy-Four, second version (1992)
American Composers Orchestra
Dennis Russell Davies

[Benji]

Copland - Four Dance Episodes from Rodeo. Baltimore Symphony Orchestra - David Zinman.

Good performances. Not quite the same snap of MTT with the San Franciscans, but then who has? 

[Bogey]

Copland - Four Dance Episodes from Rodeo. Baltimore Symphony Orchestra - David Zinman.

Good performances. Not quite the same snap of MTT with the San Franciscans, but then who has? 

Maybe Slatkin/St. Louis? 

On the Zinman, is there any choral, though very brief, episode like on the MTT, Benji?

[stingo]

Hey, stingo, nice to see you! 

Looking forward to this tonight, at Le Poisson Rouge, the newish classical-rock club in Greenwich Village (formerly the Village Gate).  And in the "everyone can afford it" mode, tickets are just $10.

Peter Tantsits, tenor
Phyllis Chen, toy piano
Lydia Steier, stage director
International Contemporary Ensemble

Peter Maxwell Davies: Eight Songs for a Mad King (1968)

--Bruce

And likewise I'll be looking forward to hearing Andre Previn playing and conducting Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 24, and conducting Strauss' Sinfonia Domestica.