What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Henk]

[karlhenning]

Great stuff.  I got mine from this set ...

Ditto! Best $20 I spent.

[DavidRoss]

Last night, I heard the Brahms Third Symphony on the radio. Of his symphonies, this is my favorite, though I like the others okay. None of them have entered my soul as, say, Beethoven's have, however, not even the Third.

Same here.  But this is a reminder that the 3rd may be due for a spin--Mackerras, for now, at least until Gardiner's appears.

[karlhenning]

Good morning!

Britten
Sinfonia da requiem, Opus 20
CBSO
Rattle

[Florestan]

How is this one? 

Romantic, passionate and soulful. If you love Brahms, you'll like Dohnanyi as well.

[Harry]

Malipiero
Sinfonie del Silenzio e della Morte.


wow!

[Henk]

Albinoni - Oboe Concertos

[Harry]

Malipiero.
Symphony No. 1, "in quattro tempi, come le quattro stagioni".


Quite a amazing work!

[not edward]

Cluytens' take on the 3rd and 4th symphonies I find quite exhilarating.

[Harry]

Malipiero.
Symphony No. 2, "Elegiaca"

[Opus106]

First Listen Friday (performance)

Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 6 in A minor
Berlin Staatskapelle|Pierre Boulez

Live in Berlin. April 20, 2009.

[owlice]

Same here.  But this is a reminder that the 3rd may be due for a spin--Mackerras, for now, at least until Gardiner's appears.

I have that very CD of the 3rd and 4th; enjoy!

(I should probably listen to it again; it's been a while!)

~~~

Prompted by the mention of the Saint-Saens Third, I listened to it this morning, to a recording of the Dallas with Mata, and then to just the first movement of the Montreal with Dutoit. (Don't know whether it's the same performance as the Decca recording Solitary Wanderer was listening to; mine's on Eloquence.)

Have I mentioned that this is my favorite symphony? That I really love it?

I really love this symphony. It doesn't just embrace everything -- it strikes me as creating everything. The opening is the dawn of time, creation, and everything springs forth from it. And oh, what is created! River waters, ocean seas, forest glens, meadows, love, sex, laughter, ambition, glory, thundering sound, all of music, all the world!

"With it I have given all I could give. What I did I could not achieve again."

I bought an LP of this work when I was a freshman in college; I doubt I'd heard it before. I bought it from the campus bookstore, and charged it to my account, so I guess my mother paid for it! I didn't have a stereo, but my roommate did, and I started out putting this on as "background music" while I studied. After a few spins, that didn't work, at all! I had to listen to this.

I still have the LP; I don't know when the last time I listened to it was, but it's been decades. I should get it digitized so I can hear it again!

[Keemun]

Bruckner: Symphony No. 3 (Jochum/Staatskapelle Dresden)

[karlhenning]

Now that The Police have released me:

Vaughan Williams
A London Symphony (№ 2)
London Phil
Haitink

[owlice]

Forgot to mention that before I listened to Saint-Saens this AM, I listened to R.E.M.'s Nightswimming.

[Catison]

Forgot to mention that before I listened to Saint-Saens this AM, I listened to R.E.M.'s Nightswimming.

Funny, I've often associated Saint-Saens with REM.   

[owlice]

I'd bet that happens a lot, Catison.

[Franco]

Earl Wild playing the Rachmaninov 3rd Piano Concerto

[George]

Forgot to mention that before I listened to Saint-Saens this AM, I listened to R.E.M.'s Nightswimming.

It deserves a quiet night.  0:) (LOVE that song!)

[not edward]

Szigeti and Bartok in the Kreutzer Sonata. The sound is what you'd expect from a WWII-era recording; the playing is quite extraordinarily intense.