What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Lethevich]

First relisten in a long time. Nice to see a lot of positive comments on Amazon.com - including one from our Jens. Rubbra is certainly one of the most spine-tingling of British symphonists.

[Florestan]

Just for fun, Harry . . . how many Haydn discs do you have? 

More than he is aware of, and less than he wish, methinks. 

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Rued Langgaard, Drapa (Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Launy Grøndahl)

An historic recording which I found on a very nice Danish site:

http://www.dr.dk/bonanza20_assets/Entrance.aspx/col/212/Audio/60185/title_ast/asc/1/Dansk_musik__Rued_Langgaard

Langgaard wrote the piece (in memory of Grieg) when he was 14!

[Todd]

Revisiting one of Esteban Sanchez's finest recordings.  If de Falla's piano music has been bettered on disc, I'd like to hear said disc.

[Valentino]

O freunde, nicht diese Töne as Karl Henning so wisely interjected over at mozart; I oblige to divine inspiration,

die Berliner Philharmoniker and Ferenc Fricsay, who in glorious early stereo bring forth LvB op. 125,

while I simultaneously digest a fine Calvados.

[Keemun]

Brian, that's my favorite recording of Brahms' 4.    But I haven't listened to it in a while because I purchased my version online a few years ago as a DRM infected WMV (from Musicmatch) and can only play it in Windows Media Player, not on my iPod.    I should see if the iTunes Store has it. . . .

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Now listening to:

Braga Santos: Symphony No. 1 (Cassuto/Portuguese SO)

[Keemun]

Braga Santos: Symphony No. 2 (Cassuto/Bournemouth SO)

[Solitary Wanderer]

Passacaglia

[Solitary Wanderer]

PC #1

[Solitary Wanderer]

#7

[Brian]

An early-music favorite. Beautiful music from across the Mediterranean, including Islamic poetry by Yunus Emre, traditional Jewish songs from the 1100s, and Christian devotional music from Lebanon to Catalonia.

[Valentino]

Straight onto my ishlist, Brian. have har a kick ot of Hesperion XX's Orient-Occident lately, and I do think it would be good to spin off on that experience.

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Mahler 3. Boulez, Wienerphil, von Otter et al. Fantastic. For me definitive. I need no other.

[karlhenning]

Straight onto my ishlist, Brian.

That's a delightful typo!  I want an ishlist!  Panama will do . . . .

[Brian]

American Record Guide wrote: "I suppose Yang's playing can only be described as perfect, and 'perfect' is a word I normally hate to use, because I normally think of perfection to be a myth. George Bernard Shaw, it has been said, advised the young Jascha Heifetz that his perfection might cause the gods to seek retribution, and that he should intentionally play one single bad note daily to protect himself. Maybe Yang should be prudent and do the same."

Unfortunately I am not as impressed. Yang's tone seems a bit weak and her intonation sometimes leaves me feeling just a little bit "off." Impressive performances for a 19-year-old, I suppose. Some of the blame might go to the recording engineers, who have exaggerated Ms Yang's instrument's bright upper registers. If only Norbert Kraft, Naxos' resident expert on producing solo/chamber albums, had been in charge of recording this CD...

Frankly, Ms Yang's first CD, recorded before she hit the smoking age and featuring Sarasate's Spanish Dances, was more satisfying, if rather less varied in terms of repertoire.

I see on Naxos' website that by November of this year, Ms Yang will have recorded a staggering five more volumes of this Sarasate series. Two are down already; No. 7, to be made this fall, will feature orchestral works with Spain's Navarra Symphony Orchestra.

[Valentino]

That's a delightful typo!  I want an ishlist!  Panama will do . . . .

Well, in the meantime I've found Sinatra, and a gun just in case.
Damn fine Calvados, BTW.

[not edward]

A Gubaidulina concerto session: In tempus praesens; Viola Concerto; Offertorium

Three solid concertos here; Offertorium probably remains my favourite but the highly dramatic In tempus praesens is a worthy successor to it. The more monolothic viola concerto offers a more static, ritualistic world, and for my mind is a bit long for its material (though often striking in itself).

A good comparative listen, and a reminder that I should get hold of the cello concerto too.

[Keemun]

Mahler 3. Boulez, Wienerphil, von Otter et al. Fantastic. For me definitive. I need no other.

Agreed, but for the "need no other" part.    Bernstein's 1987 recording is excellent, but Boulez is still at the top of my list.  Right now I'm listening to this one:

[George]

That's a delightful typo!  I want an ishlist!  Panama will do . . . .

He could have meant sh1tlist. 

[Valentino]

Nei, nei, nei. It was a typo, honestly!

Still Sinatra...

[Solitary Wanderer]