What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Que]

This is all I managed to find ...   

Q,  I always try to collect EVERY Elly Ameling's Bach recording I can find but cannot find this CD on the US Amazon website.  Is the CD only available in Europe?

Collecting Elly Ameling - excellent plan!
What about this? 

BTW Do you already C.P.E. Bach's Magnificat with her? Great recording!

Q

[listener]

Bach, by Knud Vad at Sorø, and Cherubini

[Coopmv]

Collecting Elly Ameling - excellent plan!
What about this? 

BTW Do you already C.P.E. Bach's Magnificat with her? Great recording!

Q

Q,     I managed to locate that CD on Amazon US after I had posted the inquiry to which you just responded.  The search engine on Amazon has its limit - in this case I have to search by Collegium Aureum, not by Elly Ameling.  The CPE Bach's Magnificat looks wonderful too. 

[Coopmv]

Collecting Elly Ameling - excellent plan!

Q

Here are parts of my collection:

[Coopmv]

Q,     This is the best Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach
available IMO.  One of my most treasured CD's in my collection in its original jacket.  Elly Ameling was awesome in this recording, as was Gustav Leonhardt ...

[CD]

Milton Babbitt

String Quartet No. 3 (Fine Arts Quartet)
String Quartet No. 4 (Juilliard String Quartet)
String Quartet No. 5 (Composers Quartet)

[bhodges]

Debussy: La Mer (Haitink/Concertgebouw) - A potential desert island recording, with Haitink gently coaxing the ensemble into some spectacular sounds.

--Bruce

[Benji]

Jerry Goldsmith; James Horner & Elliot Goldenthal - Music from the Alien films. Royal Scottish National Orchestra - Cliff Eidelman

Avant Garde experimentalism beautifully contrasted with lush romanticism by Goldsmith. A sci-fi and film music classic. Horner brings the predictable bombast, (though it is rather fun). Goldenthal brings more interesting contrasts, making use of solo choir boy (singing Agnus Dei), his own brand of Penderckian effects (Goldenthal has a really mean way with brass, especially french horns!). The selection ends with some Straussian high drama from the climactic scene in which Ripley dives into the molten metal as the creature bursts out to make its brief appearance. Great stuff and my local band, the RSNO, play excellently... until this last track, which proved a bit much and is a wee bit strained (a few more takes were needed I think - probably reached the end of the budget). The studio orchestra on the original soundtrack release nail it, but good luck finding a copy of that these days.

Geek kudos to anyone who can tell me how I found my way to Jerry Goldsmith from the Howard Hanson I had earlier. 

[bhodges]

Geek kudos to anyone who can tell me how I found my way to Jerry Goldsmith from the Howard Hanson I had earlier. 

IIRC, isn't a bit of the Hanson used in the end credits of the film, i.e., when Sigourney Weaver is sleeping?

--Bruce

[Coopmv]

Now playing this early music CD, which arrived 2 weeks ago ...

[Lethevich]

Strange music. Both infuriatingly simplistic, but also with interesting and original little licks. Still somewhat baroque in tone, but with classical-era movement lengths and elegance. Truly massive when compared to Corelli and co.

[Benji]

IIRC, isn't a bit of the Hanson used in the end credits of the film, i.e., when Sigourney Weaver is sleeping?

--Bruce

Bingo!

Ridley Scott decided that the Hanson piece from the temp-track was more fitting than the gentle finale that Goldsmith had written. Much as i'm fond of the Hanson, I disagree entirely with that decision. I have to concede a point to Dr Karl (see the 'Does Star Wars count as Classic music?' thread), that film music is an odd thing in that the musical decisions can be out of the composer's hands. However, in this example the film as a whole suffered, though granted only slightly and right at the end, for that directorial blunder. Goldsmith was a sensitive artist, a master of his trade, and the music he wrote for that final scene showed, IMHO, a greater sensitivity to the dramatic needs of the climax than the director.

It's this level of artistry that makes me entirely comfortable putting my Goldsmith next to my Gorécki and Grieg and my Williams next to my Walton.

Oops, mini rant. Apologies.  0:)

[karlhenning]

My esteemed Ben, your shelf will always be your own! ; )

[Benji]

My esteemed Ben, your shelf will always be your own! ; )

And now for something completely different:

Britten - Four Interludes and Passacaglia from Peter Grimes. LSO - André Previn.

[Que]

Q,     This is the best Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach
available IMO.  One of my most treasured CD's in my collection in its original jacket.  Elly Ameling was awesome in this recording, as was Gustav Leonhardt ...

I have that same issue and very much agree!

Q

[Bogey]

Jerry Goldsmith; James Horner & Elliot Goldenthal - Music from the Alien films. Royal Scottish National Orchestra - Cliff Eidelman

Avant Garde experimentalism beautifully contrasted with lush romanticism by Goldsmith. A sci-fi and film music classic. Horner brings the predictable bombast, (though it is rather fun). Goldenthal brings more interesting contrasts, making use of solo choir boy (singing Agnus Dei), his own brand of Penderckian effects (Goldenthal has a really mean way with brass, especially french horns!). The selection ends with some Straussian high drama from the climactic scene in which Ripley dives into the molten metal as the creature bursts out to make its brief appearance. Great stuff and my local band, the RSNO, play excellently... until this last track, which proved a bit much and is a wee bit strained (a few more takes were needed I think - probably reached the end of the budget). The studio orchestra on the original soundtrack release nail it, but good luck finding a copy of that these days.

Geek kudos to anyone who can tell me how I found my way to Jerry Goldsmith from the Howard Hanson I had earlier. 

The Alien soundtrack is definitely a gem......possibly Goldsmith's finest moment(?), and that is saying something considering his "chameleonotic" genius.

[Coopmv]

Now playing CD4 from this set - Bach Partitas ...

[Benji]

The Alien soundtrack is definitely a gem......possibly Goldsmith's finest moment(?), and that is saying something considering his "chameleonotic" genius.

Maybe, just maybe, but then most the sci-fi flics Goldsmith scored are pretty special to me (Alien, Capricorn One, Planet of the Apes, Star Trek, Total Recall). Oh, did you ever get a copy his score for The Twilight Zone, Bill?

[CD]

Star Trek

We've been playing this at work in advance of the new Trek DVD release. I definitely noticed the music on this more than the other five — due in no small part to the "V'Ger" sound — you know, DRAAAAANG.

[Benji]

We've been playing this at work in advance of the new Trek DVD release. I definitely noticed the music on this more than the other five — due in no small part to the "V'Ger" sound — you know, DRAAAAANG.

http://www.youtube.com/v/lfwMCnPYuOs

Yup! The good old Klingon theme here - with the 'blaster beam' sound making an appearance a few times, most obviously at the end. It was also used in First Contact, slightly differently, to portray the Borg. And that's a score with some good themes all of its own. I might dig that out for a run... 

Oh and the Klingon theme is in First Contact too, or just a snippet of it, when Worf arrives in the Defiant. .......Man, i'm such a geek.