What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[prémont]

Those are labels that don't appear on shelves here.    I'll look for it as I like the disc I have.

This one:

http://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/art/Johann-Sebastian-Bach-Orgelwerke-Gesamtaufnahme-SACD/hnum/2426725

[imperfection]

Chopin's impossibly difficult Fourth ballade, played brilliantly by Vladimir Ashkenazy

[Antoine Marchand]

Watching this DG promotional video:

http://www.youtube.com/v/lkGz5H076iQ


Lang Lang / Vadim Repin / Mischa Maisky - Piano Trios

[Marc]

Yes, a nice CD. My facorite item is the contribution of H M Linde (so oft ich meine Tobakspfeiffe).

Yeah.
JSB was a caffeine and tobacco addict.
SDG = Soli Dope Gloria.

[jlaurson]

Watching this DG promotional video:

http://www.youtube.com/v/lkGz5H076iQ


Lang Lang / Vadim Repin / Mischa Maisky - Piano Trios

It is never healthy for any human being, when they themselves don't have to close the door of the car they exit.

Placido Domingo, say about him what you will, still closes his own car doors. And I'm sure Churchill did, too.

[karlhenning]

.......Man, i'm such a geek.

Embrace your Inner Geek, Ben ; )

[Antoine Marchand]

It is never healthy for any human being, when they themselves don't have to close the door of the car they exit.

Placido Domingo, say about him what you will, still closes his own car doors. And I'm sure Churchill did, too.

Francis Ponge - The Delights of the Door

Please, read this poem... 

[karlhenning]

It is never healthy for any human being, when they themselves don't have to close the door of the car they exit.

It is rarely healthy for any human being to pontificate as if one class of experience means the same thing to all people, in all places, at all times.

Just saying.

[karlhenning]

Thread duty:


Prokofiev
Romeo & Juliet, Opus 64
BSO
Ozawa

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

I have done nothing these past few days but listen to the two organ pieces here collected - In Ténebras Exteriores, in four movements, but above all: the giant Messis, in three 'evenings', with 14 movements all together. They are a Langgaardian encyclopaedia of organ writing and organist Flemming Dreisig is magisterial. Every trait the Langgaard lover knows from the symphonies return here - atmosphere, melancholy, grandeur, beauty. I, for one, can't get enough of it. Messis is incontrovertibly one of his masterpieces.
Recommended!

[karlhenning]

I have done nothing these past few days but listen to the two organ pieces here collected - In Ténebras Exteriores, in four movements, but above all: the giant Messis, in three 'evenings', with 14 movements all together. They are a Langgaardian encyclopaedia of organ writing and organist Flemming Dreissig is magisterial. Every trait the Langgaard lover knows from the symphonies return here - atmosphere, melancholy, grandeur, beauty. I, for one, can't get enough of it. Messis is incontrovertibly one of his masterpieces.
Recommended!

Oh, that's one I want to hear!

[Harry]

This fine disc likes it in my player, and I love to hear it. Recommended.
HIP performances.

[Harry]

Another cd that comes with a warm recommendation from me. Boy, is this beautiful music.... 

[Opus106]

Although I have been in a Classical mood for the past few days, I don't seem to have much trouble "getting into" this Bartok work right now.

[First Listen]

http://www.youtube.com/watch/v/CK57jiF_qXY&feature=PlayList&p=E24AE4309EFE0554&index=1&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL

Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
RIAS Symphony Orchestra|Ferenc Fricsay

[Harry]

I am very glad to have this set, although it was quite expensive.
First CD, first Symphony.

http://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/art/Joachim-Raff-Symphonie-Nr-1-An-das-Vaterland/hnum/4109798

[prémont]

Yeah.
JSB was a caffeine and tobacco addict.
SDG = Soli Dope Gloria.

He certainly- and more important - was a music addict, like you and me.

[Keemun]

Bruckner
Symphony No. 9
Gunter Wand
SWR Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra

[Harry]

To get in the mood for Christmas, I play this excellent Weihnachts Oratorium, by J.S. Bach.


https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/art/Johann-Sebastian-Bach-Weihnachtsoratorium-BWV-248/hnum/2643773

[Benji]

Embrace your Inner Geek, Ben ; )

Oh that wouldn't be proper. I'm English you know.

My listening so far today:

Bax - Symphony No.5. RSNO - David Lloyd Jones.

Entirely enjoyable at the time of listening, beautiful and superbly dramatic and, at times, rather Sibelian (it was dedicated to him after all), but like most Bax I can't remember any of it even an hour later.

Copland - Piano Concerto. San Francisco Symphony - Michael Tilson Thomas; Garrick Ohlsson.

Ah ha! Something much more memorable, indelible even. Snappy, bold and jazzy early Copland. Always a favourite!

Copland - Music for a Great City. LSO - Copland.

Still Copland, still in gripping modernist form, but this time from the opposite end of his career, 1964.

It really is worth exploring the composer's output either side of his familiar work of the 1930s (Appalachian Spring; Billy the Kid etc) - there is so much more to Copland than the old standards!

[prémont]

https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/art/Johann-Sebastian-Bach-Weihnachtsoratorium-BWV-248/hnum/2643773

Shall be ordered together with my next JPC order.