What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Florestan]

Mult'umesc foarte mult.  0:)

(did i do that right?)

Almost!  0:) The first word should have been Mulţumesc, pronounced Mool-tsoo-mesk. That ţ (which graphically represent the sound ts) is a typical Romanian letter, I am not aware of its use in any other language.

[Dr. Dread]

Almost!  0:) The first word should have been Mulţumesc, pronounced Mool-tsoo-mesk. That ţ (which graphically represent the sound ts) is a typical Romanian letter, I am not aware of its use in any other language.

Thanks for the lesson.

[Fëanor]

You could have stopped after the first part.  You just don't 'get' Bruckner.  Just like me, I don't get Carter.  Though I would never call him tedious or boring.  I just don't understand it yet.

Maybe you are just not into the late Romantics, Feanor?

Chacun à son goût of course.  I can understand that a person might find Carter tedious; it's a personal reaction.

My musical education is incomplete and so I take a shot at Bruckner and other late Romanics once in a while in the hope I might change my mine.  And who knows?  I might.  As I said recently, I don't dislike Mahler nearly as much as I used to.

[karlhenning]

Chacun à son goût of course.  My musical education is incomplete and so I take a shot at Bruckner and other late Romanics once in a while in the hope I might change my mine.  And who knows?  I might.  As I said recently, I don't dislike Mahler nearly as much as I used to.

Yes . . . I was reasonably sure that you were giving him (Bruckner) another shot, and if it works this time, it works this time.  I've been in much the same bateau.

At times when it continues not to work, of course, there's just all this other great music to which we do respond keenly.

[karlhenning]

Further Discover Music of the 20^th Century

Bartók
Concerto for Orchestra
i. Introduzione
Belgian Radio & Television Philharmonic Orchestra
Alexander Rahbari

This closes the disc, which is a little strange.  Orchestra is a little 'light' in some respects, but this track on the sampler is much more of a success than (say) the CSR Bratislava Symphony playing the Allegro from the Shostakovich Opus 93.

The selection from the Bakels/Bournemouth account of the RVW Pastoral surprised me a bit.  More anon . . . .

Thread duty:

Vaughan Williams
A Pastoral Symphony
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Haitink

[Dr. Dread]

ashkenazy
beethoven
diabelli variations

[Franco]

Agon

[karlhenning]

Agon

Orchestra? Conductor?

[not edward]

I wish there were more recordings of Prokofiev playing his own music. This one is pretty much unsurpassed in my opinion.

[Antoine Marchand]

Quite an understatement. Wentz´ theatrical and overloaded "empfindliche" style is IMO far removed from the world of this music, but belongs the music of a later generation.

I suppose you are saying the same thing more directly, Premont.

BTW, what do you think about Stephen Preston? Some people (not my case) have problems with the sound quality of his flute sonatas in the Brilliant-Bach Edition.

[karlhenning]

I wish there were more recordings of Prokofiev playing his own music. This one is pretty much unsurpassed in my opinion.

That must be on my wish-list.

Vaughan Williams
A Pastoral Symphony
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Haitink

This I find magical each and every time.

[Franco]

Orchestra? Conductor?

[karlhenning]

Again:

Vaughan Williams
A Pastoral Symphony
iii. Moderato pesante
Bournemouth Symphony
Kees Bakels

A little faster and sterner than Haitink;  and slightly 'harsher' highlights.  Not at all a negative, here, though I still prefer Haitink's reading.  Once on a time, and even though the Bakels/Bournemouth recordings of 5/9 & 7/8 on Naxos actually turned me on to the RVW symphonies, I sampled the 3/6 (I think it was) disc, and decided against it.  I now wonder if that was not a 'mistake' 

[Dr. Dread]

brahms via lupu

[Florestan]

brahms via lupu

Speaking of good taste...  0:)

[Dr. Dread]

Speaking of good taste...  0:)

Mulţumesc foarte mult!

[Florestan]

Mulţumesc foarte mult!

Cu multă plăcere! 

[Florestan]

Muzio Clementi

Symphony No. 4 in D major

Francisco D'Avalos / The Philharmonia

[Harry]

Muzio Clementi

Symphony No. 4 in D major

Francisco D'Avalos / The Philharmonia

Fierce performances, and maybe the orchestra is a little to large for comfort, but fun music.

[Dr. Dread]

A Venetian organist who served the early part of his musical career in Austria. Grillo dedicated a work to Duke Ferdinand of Austria and was called back to Italy from a court of the Germans. He became the organist for the confraternity Scuola Grande di Rocco, then St Madonna dell'Orto and the first organist of St Mark's. Grillo was one of the composers commissioned to write a requiem for Cosimo II of Tuscany. The compositions which he did write have a definitive influence from Gabrieli who was more than likely Grillo's instructor. All of Grillo's music seems to parrott that of Gabrieli. In five works for the church, however, Grillo employed unique, but not innovative, techniques. He employed the use of a concertata in which an organ accompaniment was required. The music contained a fully-figured bass, a basso continuo, and little indication to distinguish between the tutti parts and the soli parts. ~ Keith Johnson, All Music Guide