What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[prémont]

P&F BWV 531-536, T&F BWV538

Some of the P&F are a little heavy... I don't remember them grinding through the music quite like that in the later set.

Maybe it is the unusual close miking, which according to Eric Thienhaus´ common practice was very close indeed.  He did not survive to serve as engineer for the Strassbourg recordings.

[Harry]

Evgeny Svetlanov.
Symphony No. 1, opus 13.
A poem for Violin and Orchestra, in memory for David Oistrakh.
Violin, Igor Oistrakh.
Symphony Orchestra USSR, Evgeny Svetlanov.
Recorded between 1954-1978.

The first symphony is a beautiful work, with many influences of Russian composers, most notably Tchaikovsky and Rimski Korsakov. Well worth exploring. Good sound.

[offbeat]

Now playing RVW'S Pastoral..... i always find the last day of the year to have a surreal feel to it and believe this other wordly symphony suits my mood 

[karlhenning]

I like B'way, so that's one difference, but boy, are the lyrics in a couple of the songs (I think the very worst is "I Don't Know/Easy") really terrible.

Yes, I cringe at some of the book & lyrics in West Side Story.

[Papy Oli]

Good afternoon all 

Villa Lobos - Chronos No.1, Suites Populaires Brésiliennes
Norbert Kraft

 

[Brahmsian]

Taneyev

Orchestral Works

Overture to Oresteia, Op.6 (1889)
Oresteia, Act III: Entr'acte: The Temple of Apollo at Delphi (1894)
Adagio in C major (1875)
Overture on a Russian Theme (1882)
Cantata on Pushkin's 'Exegi Monumentum' (1880) **
Canzona for clarinet and strings (1883) +
Overture in D minor (1875)

Stanislav Jankovsky, clarinet +
Novosibirsk State Philharmonic Chamber Choir **

Thomas Sanderling, conducting
Novosibirsk Academic Symphony Orchestra
Naxos

Golden!!  Particularly loved the 'Oresteia Overture' and 'Overture on a Russian Theme'.  An excellent disc, overall.  I'm happy to see Naxos stepping up and recording several Taneyev works recently.

[Keemun]

[bhodges]

What a great way to end 2009! 

--Bruce

[prémont]

You're making me cry, here.

Each to his own taste.

May it soothe your pain, when I tell you, that you are the only living composer, I listen to regulary.

[Keemun]

What a great way to end 2009! 

--Bruce

I've had it since Christmas, but this is only the second time I've listened to it in its entirety. 

[karlhenning]

Each to his own taste.

May it soothe your pain, when I tell you, that you are the only living composer, I listen to regularly.

I am honored, and most especially by the adverb regularly!

[Que]

Q

[Lilas Pastia]

I don't know what to make of the symphony. Its light avant-gardeisms sound so watered down and half-arsed, the music could be better if it just settled into a more regressive soundworld. A bit of a mishmash, but it's only a first listen.

American record Guide (Nov-Dec 2009 issue) reviews this one:


and its reviewer has pretty much the same opinion.

[Lethevich]

A shame, because a composer could scarcely pick a more delicious subject for writing a musical cycle to.

np:


Górecki's Beatus is a bit of a guilty pleasure for me. For a work which is essentially structured around only two large tunes, it doesn't need to be 30 minutes long. But somehow, despite its monolithic form and a slightly wooly feeling that I get from such big slabs of cozy sacred minimalism, the writing for the baritone soloist is consistently beautiful. Compared to the composer's Miserere, a work of two years later on a similar scale, there is more of an affecting naïveté to this piece and a more pleasant atmosphere all-round. I am liking the false ending a lot more this time as well. Previously when those repeating orchestral chords accompanied by a festive choir strike up two thirds of the way through, they immediately put the listener into an 1812 Overture "ok, this is the end" frame of mind, and previously I didn't have the patience for the considerable length of relaxed music that follows. This time it fits like a glove.

[hildegard]

Celebrating Endings and Beginnings with this thoughtful Christmas gift.





The Music of Renaissance Love CD celebrates love and romance through a variety of Italian Renaissance vocal and instrumental music from the 15th and 16th centuries, including Madrigals, conzonette, frottole, and villanelle.

[Antoine Marchand]

Harpsichord & Fortepiano Concertos
Christine Schornsheim, harpsichord & fortepiano
Berliner Barock-Compagney
3-CD set
Capriccio

This set works out excellently like a sort of Short History of the Origins of Keyboard Concerto after J.S. Bach: CD1-Bach's sons (CPE, WF & JC); CD2-Bach's students (Kirnberger, Müthel & Nichelmann) & CD3- The Third Chapter in the Melodious History of the Piano Concerto (Rosetti, Wolf & Naumann).

Excellent performances by Schornsheim and the (HIP) Berliner Barock-Compagney; fine sound quality and convenient price (f.i., Presto Classical: $14.61).

CD1

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788): Concerto in E major Wq14 for harpsichord, strings and basso continuo

Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (1710-1784): Concerto in D major for harpsichord, strings and basso continuo

Johann Christian Bach (1735-1782): Concerto in F minor for harpsichord, strings and basso continuo

CD2

Johann Philipp Kirnberger (1721-1783): Concerto in C minor for harpsichord, strings and basso continuo
   
Johann Gottfried Müthel (1728-1788): Concerto III in G major for fortepiano, strings and basso continuo

Christoph Nichelmann (1717-1762):  Concerto in E major for harpsichord, strings and basso continuo

CD3

Francesco Antonio Rosetti (1750-1792): Piano Concerto in G major, Murray C2, Kaul III:1

Ernst Wilhelm Wolf (1735-1792): Concerto Nr. 1 in G major for clavier, strings and basso continuo

Johann Gottlieb Naumann (1741-1801): Concerto in B flat major for clavier, two flutes, two oboes, two horns, strings and basso continuo

http://www.youtube.com/v/-EGcPb9sWww

[The new erato]

A shame, because a composer could scarcely pick a more delicious subject for writing a musical cycle to.

You could try Eric Chisholm's "Pictures from Dante" on a recent Dutton disc. Excellent and imaginative work, coupled with Stanley Bate's really very fine Symphony no 3 as well as a couple of smaller works by Arnell well worth hearing.

[Lethevich]

You could try Eric Chisholm's "Pictures from Dante" on a recent Dutton disc. Excellent and imaginative work, coupled with Stanley Bate's really very fine Symphony no 3 as well as a couple of smaller works by Arnell well worth hearing.

Sounds coolie! and also in a musical idiom I am very keen on. While we're at it, Wuorinen's Dante Trilogy is also very impressive. I should hunt for that CD* and give it a spin sometime.

*The "haphazard piles" method of filing has its downsides...

[Que]

Q

[Lethevich]

The Górecki piano sonata is one of those pieces that makes you involuntarily grin. It sounds like an irate parody of Prokofiev and Bartók's percussive use of piano, nervous, jumpy and dance-like, but jarringly interspaced with soulful segments. It's very catchy - shockingly so considering how early it is.