What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Harry]

I share your opinion, Ben.  Much too much has been made of Sibelius's comment praising Karajan's recordings of his work in the '50s--Sibelius was all but forgotten then and was all too willing to praise anyone who promoted his music.  BTW, IIRC Mike Shaffer also praised Levine's 4th.

O, really, you do have that inside information?
Sibelius was willing huh?
You where there I presume?
Common, what kind of a comment is that, as if you would know!
Sibelius praised Karajan's recordings with good reason.

[Coopmv]

O, really, you do have that inside information?
Sibelius was willing huh?
You where there I presume?
Common, what kind of a comment is that, as if you would know!
Sibelius praised Karajan's recordings with good reason.

IMO, Karajan was one of the best when it came to Sibelius and I have not heard many that came after him that have done better.  Colin Davis is also excellent.

[Dancing Divertimentian]

IMO, Karajan was one of the best when it came to Sibelius and I have not heard many that came after him that have done better.

Now hold on just one second...

[Brian]

Chopin - Waltzes
Alexandre Tharaud

A delight!

[DavidRoss]

IMO, Karajan was one of the best when it came to Sibelius and I have not heard many that came after him that have done better.  Colin Davis is also excellent.

Which begs the question: Whom have you heard? Folks who never saw Lance Alworth play or who don't know what he accomplished or the conditions under which he played may be justified in thinking Jerry Rice was the best receiver ever to play the game.

Whoops--almost forgot thread duty again!

One of my faves.  I like it, therefore it must be the best.    (Good grief!)  It is pretty good, however.  Just ask Sarge. 

[ChamberNut]

BTW, I like his Schubert recordings on EMI too ...

Oh, this looks interesting to me.....and I bet it may also interest Nav (opus 67), whom Schubert is his favorite composer while listening to him! 

[Coopmv]

Oh, this looks interesting to me.....and I bet it may also interest Nav (opus 67), whom Schubert is his favorite composer while listening to him! 

Here is another of my favorites with Eschenbach on the piano.  The cast included none other than the former chancellor of West Germany Helmut Schmidt. 

[Bulldog]

Which begs the question: Whom have you heard? Folks who never saw Lance Alworth play or who don't know what he accomplished or the conditions under which he played may be justified in thinking Jerry Rice was the best receiver ever to play the game.

Alworth had the best vertical lift among receivers; Rice worked with the better quarterbacks.

[DavidRoss]

Alworth had the best vertical lift among receivers; Rice worked with the better quarterbacks.

Yep--and he gained 1000 yds season after season with only 12 games, not 16, and with two or three defenders beating up on him all over the field before the 5 yd no-touchee rule.  JJ might have been better than both, but screwed himself and his career with his contract squabbles.

Now playing:  LSJUMB's Greatest Hits...er...make that Lennie/Fi-Di/King/WP Das Lied

[Opus106]

I bet it may also interest Nav (opus 67), whom Schubert is his favorite composer while listening to him! 

Not always, but there are moments in his later works which just beat anything written by Mozart. (No #3 on my list, for anyone interested in things of that nature. ) And he almost dethrones Beethoven.

For the two-piano music of Schubert, I have the Lupu-Perahia discs a little higher than these two volumes, but the EMI series is usually a good value for money.

Thread Duty:

Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata in A mojor, Op. 101
Friedrich Gulda [Brilliant Classics]

[ChamberNut]

Alworth had the best vertical lift among receivers; Rice worked with the better quarterbacks.

And Milt the Stilt Stegall was the greatest of them all!  0:)  Okay, at least among CFL receivers. 

[ChamberNut]

Mozart. (No #3 on my list, for anyone interested in things of that nature. )

Hey, he's my numero trois aussi! 

Speaking of late Schubert though....I know how you feel sometimes Nav.  Whenever I listen to his String Quintet, late quartets, basically any late works, it is right up there with anything else.

[ChamberNut]

Alwyn

String Quartet No. 2 'Spring Waters'

Maggini Qt
Naxos

[DavidRoss]

Mozart. No #3 on my list....

After Bambi & Jerry Rice?

[Opus106]

After Bambi & Jerry Rice?

Bingo!

Thread duty:

Hammerklavier/Gulda

wait... just got over.

[Kullervo]

Alwyn

String Quartet No. 2 'Spring Waters'

Maggini Qt
Naxos

I have this. Haven't listened yet. Thoughts?

[Benji]

Tubin - Symphony No.8. Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra - Neemi Järvi.

A somber and relentless, irresistable spirit possesses this symphony, dragging us tortuously through its murky, steely grey-blue soundworld.  

[Christo]

Tubin - Symphony No.8. Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra - Neemi Järvi.

A somber and relentless, irresistable spirit possesses this symphony, dragging us tortuously through its murky, steely grey-blue soundworld.  

Amen  0:)

[Brian]

Boy, is this ever a beautiful String Quintet, and the Fine Arts group creates some of the most gorgeous sounds I have ever heard in chamber music.

[Benji]

Schnittke - Symphony No.8. Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra - Gennady Rozhdestvensky.

From one dimly-coloured and deeply-felt 8th symphony to another, this one yet bleaker and more desparate. If the Tubin was the inevitable march toward the end, then this symphony is something like the final destination. There is something almost gothic in the darkness that pervades this music.