What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[SonicMan46]

But either way, sorry Dave. And also edward?! I seriously can't remember if you ever had another avatar.

Same with Gurn, even while I was typing that first post; but I thought he'd correct me like you guys, if I was wrong...............

Hey, not to worry - even added a 'winky' -     I'm not sure 'how many' single-avatar users are even on the forum - maybe I'm too lazy to change - sure are plenty of imaging pictures that I could use!  Dave 

This afternoon in the office on academic day - doing some re-listening of several recent acquisitions - keepers for me:

 

[Antoine Marchand]

Who are you, ? Did you recently change your avatar?

I don't recognize him. Must be a new guy.

Sarge

Indeed, new person! That arrogant young man with the memory of a 70-year-old with Alzheimer's, sometimes.

Last night, I was tempted to use Jen's picture like my new avatar. Fortunately, my legal education was stronger and I thought: Yes, it's right, his picture is on the web, but only he can use it without permission. Anyway, it would have been a little bit creepy... 


http://www.youtube.com/v/vZLQW2qr5Hs

[Antoine Marchand]

Johannes Walter (flute)
Isolde Ahlgrimm (harpsichord)
TT: 57:49
Berlin Classics, ADD

[Antoine Marchand]

BTW, HERE  you can take a look at the book of Peter Watchorn titled Isolde Ahlgrimm, Vienna and the Early Music Revival.

[listener]

Siegfried OCHS  Variations on "'S kommt ein Vogel geflogen" in the styles of masters old and new (J.S.Bach to Meyerbeer, with a concluding March, 14 Variations total
Karl Hermann PILNEY aka. Lipman Herney  Variations on the street-ballad "Was machst du mit deine Kie, lieber Hans"  in styles (with quotations included) from J.S. Bach, through Verdi, Rossini, Liszt and Puccini, to Schoenberg.   Much more interesting now than when I bought it 30? years ago, I'm more familiar with the styles and pieces quoted.   There's a set of variations of the Ochs theme for piano also in imitative styles by Busoni available on a couple of recordings.
BLOCH Baal Shem - 3 Pictures of Chassidic Life; Sonata 1 for Violin and Piano
     Isaac Stern, Alexander Zakin
SCHUMANN Symphony 4     MERCURE   Kaleidoscope  de FALLA  2 Dances from 'La Vida Breve'  Maurice DELA   Scherzo
     Atlantic Symphony O.    Klaro Mizerit   mono edition, keeping it for the Mercure piece
MOZART   9 Overtures      Royal Philharmonic O.   Colin Davis

[Franco]

Brahms: String Quartet #1 in C Minor, Op. 51, No. 1
Emerson String Quartet

[SonicMan46]

BTW, HERE  you can take a look at the book of Peter Watchorn titled Isolde Ahlgrimm, Vienna and the Early Music Revival.

Antoine - hmmm, the entire book online!    About to leave for a trip early tomorrow morning to visit our son - he's driving to St. Louis & Susan and I are flying in for a 4-night stay - have never been there (one of the last LARGE USA cities that I've not visited!) - planning to have a good time!

But on my return, I'll take a look at that book - you know, I may have sent Watchorn an e-mail at his website, but never received a response (but in the past he has been quite prompt in responding - I was just curious if his book would be offered there at a decent price?) - Dave 

[Coopmv]

Now playing CD6 - Nicolaas Gombert and the Court of Charles V(1495-1560) from this set ...

[Renfield]

Listening to the Triple Concerto with the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra and three soloists I'd never heard of, included as an 'extra'. And you know what? It's really quite good! Some beautiful conducting by Abbado, and genuinely sensitive playing all-round!

Edit: The mystery soloists are Alexander Lonquich, Ilya Gringolts, and Mario Brunell.

[Lethevich]

Schlafstörungmusik



Edit: Bloody hell, the filler piece (Three Horsemen - 12 mins) was written when he was just 12 It's not going to win any "hidden masterpiece" accolades - it is somewhat tentative, patchwork, and slightly lacking in every respect,  but it's good fun - a bit of a symphonic poem in chamber form, the like of which I have not encountered much of.

The first quartet is sounding as fine as I had remembered. This deserves far more recordings, as it is perhaps Martinů's most easily accessable quartet on the level of obvious similarities it has to more familiar works. I could imagine it being very successful as a coupling with either Debussy or Ravel's, and would break the tedium of the deathless partnership those pieces seem to experience on CD.

[kishnevi]

Bartok: Romanian Folk Dances
Adam Fischer, Hungarian State Symphony Orchestra



One of my favorite CDs.

I have that as part of a 5 CD set from Brilliant: Bartok Orchestral Works
CD 1 Wooden Prince Suite, Op. 13; Two Portraits
CD 2 Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta; Divertimento for String Orchestra
CD 3 Violin Concertos 1 and 2 [Gerhard Hetzel, violin)
CD 4 Romanian Folk Dances; Dance Suite; Hungarian Pictures; Two Pictures; Romanian Dance [=Franco's CD]
CD 5 Concerto for Orchestra; Miraculous Mandarin Suite

Fischer and the HSSO perform throughout.

perfectly satisfying, but I wouldn't claim any of the perfomances are the best available.

[jlaurson]

Edit: The mystery soloists are Alexander Lonquich, Ilya Gringolts, and Mario Brunell.

Not exactly no-names, though... well... maybe Mr. Brunell
Gringolts had an interesting career; bright beginning but then it took an "where are they now?" turn.

[pjme]

Splendid performances from this Norwegian Band!

Tveitt continues to intrigue! I really must read on him.
P.

[jlaurson]

J.S. Bach
Toccatas
Blandine Rannou
ZigZag

[Opus106]

Watch out for that orchestra!

Alfred Schnittke
Cello Concerto No. 1
David Geringas|NDR Sinfonieorchester|Christoph von Dohnányi

14 September 2008
Leiszhalle, Hamburg



A nice synopsis of the work at allmusic.com:

A monumental endeavor for huge orchestra, in four movements and lasting some 40 minutes, the concerto was written for Schnittke's close friend, Russian cellist Natalia Gutman; the solo part is indeed feverish, and exhausts the performer both technically and emotionally. The work in general -- at least in its first three movements -- largely adheres to Schnittke's concerto-archetype of "I-against-the-World" (as scholar Richard Taruskin writes); the soloist ever-seeks to weave a sincere, plangent melos, to sing and weep its uninterrupted fill, and perpetually suffers both the mockery and raw violence of the orchestra. Thus the first movement founds its vast sonata-form around the conflict of soliloquy vs. blitzkrieg; the following Adagio resurrects the soloist into ephemeral lyrical fabric which is eventually stretched and torn; and the brief and bitter third movement casts the cello through a gauntlet of hopelessly fated march-pastiches and mock-heroics before obliterating itself altogether.

But then, in an uncharacteristic step, another movement follows, a broad and sweeping hymn which actually appears to transcend the brutal ruckus before it, for an almost celestial vision of fortitude. And here, impoverished by emergency, that site where the composer must stand in order to plunge into the quagmire of his mind is forced to speak itself. It is an optimism that is all the more wrenching for being so potently repressed elsewhere -- but, in its awesome fidelity to the unlikely and the graced, it is an optimism nonetheless. Schnittke himself attests to the sense of miraculous: "Suddenly I was given this finale from somewhere, and I've just written it down."

[Sergeant Rock]

... but by now my mind has him solidly aligned with the trim drill Sergeant....

The Mighty Avatar....more powerful than reality! 

I am convinced Harry looks exactly like Tchaikovsky despite the evidence Harry himself posted in the "What do you look like" thread. And Jezetha is a wizened, silver-haired octogenarian.

Sarge

[Opus106]

I am convinced Harry looks exactly like Tchaikovsky despite the evidence Harry himself posted in the "What do you look like" thread.

They weren't very dis-similar, if you ask me.

And I used to think that Que looked like Brahms.

[Sergeant Rock]

Brahms Op.51/2




Sarge

[Drasko]

Finally some decent weather in Belgrade (31°C currently) 



Albeniz - Iberia - Michel Block

[jlaurson]

Last night, I was tempted to use Jen's picture like my new avatar. Fortunately, my legal education was stronger and I thought: Yes, it's right, his picture is on the web, but only he can use it without permission. Anyway, it would have been a little bit creepy... 

Which Jen?