What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[MN Dave]

Fazil say relax!

[karlhenning]

Wake up. It's Friday!

You're a brave man!  I generally wait until at least ten o'clock before my ears face Varèse.

[MN Dave]

You're a brave man!  I generally wait until at least ten o'clock before my ears face Varèse.

Any other day and I might agree with you! 

[MN Dave]

[CD]

[Harry]

Transfiguration of the Lord.
Choir of the Monks of Chevetogne, Maxime Gimenez.
Recorded1984.

[Lethevich]

NP: Mathis from this:



With Hindemith I find it hard to relate the notion of him being some kind of avant-garde 20th century progressive with all the conventionally melodic and easy to listen to music that he produced. Not to say that I'm not grateful for this accessability, of course.

It's also weird that the most emotionally engaging piece I have yet heard from this composer is a "bleeding chunk".

[karlhenning]

With Hindemith I find it hard to relate the notion of him being some kind of avant-garde 20th century progressive with all the conventionally melodic and easy to listen to music that he produced.

Well, he was just too modern for Richard Strauss, of course . . . .

[Moldyoldie]

It seems to come in various packaging.
Mahler: Symphony No. 5
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Frank Shipway, cond.
RPO PLATINUM
Shipway/RPO's Mahler Fifth is schizoid to the max (in the now sullied sense of meaning thoroughly contrasting in mood, tempo and dynamics); yet comprehensible, committed, and thrillingly performed -- it's how I imagine Mahler imagined it! The brass soloists are spot-on in expression and overall ensemble is quite fine with this very inspired conducting. Also, the twelve-minute Adagietto isn't "beautiful", it's fine steel mesh being stretched and rent asunder. This is a Mahler Fifth that demands to be heard!

The recording is spacious, somewhat less than impeccably balanced; but mostly clean, unfussy and gimmick-free...and it's available dirt cheap online. You'll love it!

[Harry]

Holy and Great Thursday.
Matins-Canon of the Nine Canticles-Vespers and Liturgy of St Basillius.
Choir of the Monks of Chevetogne, Maxime Gimenez.
Recorded 1989, at the Monastery of Chevetogne.

[MN Dave]

[SonicMan46]

Juon, Paul (1872-1940) - Piano Trios w/ Altenberg Trio Wien on 2 discs (packaged in a slim single jewel box!) - lush late Romantic music - sometimes known as the Russian Brahms - spent most of his adult life in Berlin - have only one other CD by this composer, Piano Quartets - 

[Lethevich]

Symphony No.2. I haven't heard this in a long time, and am surprised at my reaction to it. It contains more of the subtle Sibelius I know from the later music than I had remembered. While the third symphony is an obviously larger step towards his later style (not least in its form), the beautiful but incredibly tight melodic development of the 2nd is amazing to experience.

[Scarpia]

Symphony No.2. I haven't heard this in a long time, and am surprised at my reaction to it. It contains more of the subtle Sibelius I know from the later music than I had remembered. While the third symphony is an obviously larger step towards his later style (not least in its form), the beautiful but incredibly tight melodic development of the 2nd is amazing to experience.

Well said.  And 2 is one of the high points of the Vanska cycle, IMO.

[jlaurson]

DSCH - String Quartets 11, 13, and 15

DSCH SQ4ts 11, 13, 15 (Volume 5) Mandelring Quartett Audite SACDs

DSCH SQ4ts, PQ5t Sorrel Quartet Martin Boscoe Chandos

DSCH SQ4ts, PQ5t, SO8t Borodin Quartet, Sviatoslav Richter, Beethoven Q4t Melodiya

[George]

DSCH - String Quartets 11, 13, and 15

And the winner is?

[The new erato]

Langgaard: Symphonies 9-11 & 14-15, Dausgaard/Dacapo.

Very Straussian at times, at other times just plain strange. No 9 & 14 I find very interesting.

[Lethevich]

Symphony No.2

Mein Gott, the second half of the final movement is amazing, especially that scary sombre marchlike section and the wispy stringed bridge into the coda. It's looking towards the 4th symphony, but its effect is so different in justaposition with the opening waltz theme. I don't know how I managed to forget it. It's some of the best music he's ever written and one of the strongest ends to a symphony that I can recall

np: Snöfrid. It's a little short on actual... composition (great melodies, but rather simplistic in orchestral writing), but has a wonderful atmosphere.

[SonicMan46]

Benda, Franz (1709-1786) - Flute Concertos w/ Laurence Dean & Hannoversche Hofkapelle - one of the many musician composers in the court of Frederick the Great (CPE Bach being another) - the flute was Fred's instrument and these are well done compositions performed by a period orchestra - 

[Henk]

What do you think of it? I have an eye on it.



Hammerklavier.

In the passed days I've listened the whole box through. Yet one to go.