What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Bogey]

This is a non HIP ensemble.

Thanks for the fill in, Harry....and good morning.

[Harry]

Thanks for the fill in, Harry....and good morning.

Good morning Bill.

[Harry]

Franz Lehar.
"Paganini"
Operetta.
Libretto: Paul Knepler & Bela Jenbach.

Soloists: Anneliese Rothenberger, Friedrich Lenz, Nicola Gedda, Horst Sachtleben, Gerd Dieberitz, Hans Zednik, Olivera Miljakovic, Benno Kusche, Erich Wagner.

Ulf Hoelscher, Solo Violin. Ferenc Kiss, Orchestral solo.
Choir Bayerischen Staatsoper Munchen, Wolfgang Baumgart.
Bayerischen SO, Willi Boskovsky.
Recorded in 1977.

Another highlight in this box.

[karlhenning]

My wife actually thinks the choral parts in Beethoven 9th and Handel Messiah are great, though I doubt she can tell my 20 versions of Handel Messiah apart - HIP vs non-HIP, etc.   LOL

I learnt early on that drop-the-needle tests don't sit well with ma femme  0:)

[karlhenning]

Although she enjoys playing Guess the Composer with the car radio as well as anyone.

[Harpo]

Dave,  You are lucky to be married to a woman who likes classical music.  My wife only listens to Tony Bennett and the Broadway craps ...   

Broadway show music can be GOOD. Richard Rodgers was a genius, Stephen Sondheim is pretty great. However, I hate Tony Bennett--sings everything the same, no nuances at all. My all-time favorite crooner was Mel Torme--variety, subtlety. We saw him twice in person (swoon).

I studied voice and have been a choral singer for many many years, so I do like classical music, selectively. We went to the local symphony the other day and I slept through the entire "Suite from Swan Lake." I hope the people around me thought I was deep in contemplation, but I didn't fool Sonic.  

[DavidW]

Although she enjoys playing Guess the Composer with the car radio as well as anyone.

On that radio station it must be... Telemann right?

[karlhenning]

There's one little number that WCRB plays all the time, and each time I heard it for eight years, I knew I'd heard it three dozen times before, but couldn't put my finger on it.

Now, the funny thing is, I'd always ascribe it to some lesser post-Beethoven Romantic, because it would strike me as "like Beethoven, only three notches less inspired."

And it would turn out to be the Leonore Overture № 57.

And I am enduring grateful to that piece, and to the opportunity to hear it "blind" so many times, because it reminds me, now, that the idea that everything Beethoven wrote is gold, is hype, hype, hype  

[karlhenning]

And of course it is emblematic of WCRB's mission to promote even Beethoven's detritus as Great Music, which they will play a hundred times before playing anything written in the 20^th century (let alone the 21^st) which is not the musical equivalent of Hello, Kitty.

[DavidW]

Well at least it's not the Wellington Victory.

The overtures are good every once and awhile, I listened to all of them recently and it had been like a decade since I had heard them last.

See if I had a radio station, I would kick off the day with a Bach cantata, either a Haydn symphony or string quartet at lunch, most of the morning would be filled with off the radar baroque and classical era music, and the afternoon would be 20th and 21st century music.  The evening would be for the romantics, but emphasizing chamber works and not warhorses.

[DavidW]

And of course it is emblematic of WCRB's mission to promote even Beethoven's detritus as Great Music, which they will play a hundred times before playing anything written in the 20^th century (let alone the 21^st) which is not the musical equivalent of Hello, Kitty.

Haha I just missed that one!  But I'm inspired for a thread anyway...

[MN Dave]

A favorite.

[Lethevich]

The Marsh made no real impact. A few attractive slow movements stood out, but despite the potentially fascinating programmatic and formal elements, this didn't seem too interesting. Will listen again another time to make sure, though. The Novák I already know to be some of the finest (very) late Romanticism.

[karlhenning]

Игорь Фëдорович
Petrushka
City of Birmingham Symphony
Sir Simon Rattle

[ChamberNut]

Игорь Фëдорович
Petrushka
City of Birmingham Symphony
Sir Simon Rattle

*gulps coffee*  How do you like that version?

[Harry]

Jean Gilles.

Grand et Petits Motets.
Les Festes d' Orphee.
Solistes, Choeur et Ensemble Instrumental, Guy Laurent.

I would say this is pretty impressive, a well rehearsed team of people, that gave this composer the fame he needed next to the already well known Messe des Morts (Requiem) These are real masterpieces that have been brought to life with good reason. This CD holds the world premieres. Gilles deserves to be rediscovered again, and this is a most excellent push in the right direction.

[karlhenning]

*gulps coffee*  How do you like that version?

Love it, Ray!

[Antoine Marchand]

Johann Sebastian Bach - 6 Suites per violoncello solo senza basso
Pieter Wispelwey
Baroque cello (Barak Norman, 1710)
violoncello piccolo (anon., 18th century)
CHANNEL CLASSICS CCS 12298
2 discs [61:35 + 78:28]

This is the second recording of these works by Wispelwey. Curious performance, rather over-romantized ("mad" in the opinion of some people), particularly when is compared with his first recording. AFAIK, he recorded these suites even for third time (live recording?), but I am not sure.

[DavidW]

I washed my dishes to Mozart's Oboe Quartet earlier this week, have been gnawing at Haydn's Creation, listened to a few Bach Cantatas, one of which is exceptional, and today I've been enjoying Mozart's Piano Concertos #11-13, each of which are gorgeous gems that go overlooked way too often for the later ones.

[Harry]

Игорь Фëдорович
Petrushka
City of Birmingham Symphony
Sir Simon Rattle

Пожалуйста, Карл, останавливаться на русский язык Р., используя все то время, в ваших отзывов.
Я думаю, его не смешной больше!