What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Mirror Image]

Listening to a clip of Karajan's on youtube... yes! That's how it should be played!

Greg, you should definitely pick-up this recording:



This is the Karajan recording I was telling you about above and this disc also has a fantastic version of "Pelleas und Melisande" as well. It can be purchased rather cheaply through an Amazon Marketplace seller, which is where I have bought 99.9% of my music collection from in the past.

[Scarpia]

I haven't heard this one yet, but my experience is that Karajan is always better live.

[Mirror Image]

Now listening to:



Listening to "Six Orchestral Songs." I haven't heard this work yet, but so far I'm really enjoying it. I own both volumes of Robert Craft's Schoenberg series on Naxos and they have proven to be very excellent.

[Brian]

I own both volumes of Robert Craft's Schoenberg series on Naxos and they have proven to be very excellent.

I thought the series had run to 8 or 9 volumes...

[oabmarcus]

I haven't heard this one yet, but my experience is that Karajan is always better live.

yes i am looking forward to it too.

[Mirror Image]

I thought the series had run to 8 or 9 volumes...

Oh I'm sorry I meant both Naxos box sets of Schoenberg/Craft, which look like this:

[Brian]

Gotcha!
Are those original plastic CD cases in a paper slipcover, or real "box" sets?

[Mirror Image]

Gotcha!
Are those original plastic CD cases in a paper slipcover, or real "box" sets?

As usual with Naxos, they're just all the original CDs housed in a box.

[karlhenning]

Oh, aye, I think today's another day for mucho Arnie!

And, lo! In knight's signature: a kind of immortality —

DavidW: Yeah Mike doesn't get angry, he gets even.
LA Wagner Ring concept: 'The psychological dimension is outsourced to other forms of expression, like the lighting.'
Teresa: I soon learned to avoid LPs with ugly artwork as it meant the music was ugly as well.

[mc ukrneal]

Been listening to the boxset of Loewe ballades and songs below. What a fantastic compilation. I'm listening to volume 6 with Kurt Moll. He's very natural in these songs, with some great characterizations, although I'd prefer a bit more pianissimo at times (a minor quibble). The quality of the songs is quite high and everything is engaging (the second half of the disc particularly so). For those interested in this set, but don't want to overpay, try jpc.

[Conor71]

Haydn: String Quartet No. 49 In B Minor, Op. 64/2, H 3/68



Now listening to Disc 16/22 of this excellent box set .

[karlhenning]

Arnie "The Scammer"
Kol Nidre, Opus 39 (1938)
(text: Arnold Schoenberg . . . nothing degenerate about this baby)
John Shirley-Quirk, reciter
BBC Symphony Chorus & Orchestra
Boulez

Schoenberg – Pierre Boulez Edition II 6 CDs

[Sergeant Rock]

Schoenberg, Day Two: String Quartet #2 F sharp minor, Op.10, orchestrated by Schoenberg, played by the NBC SO, sung by a youngish Astrid Varnay, Dimitri Mitropoulos conducting (recorded Dec 13th, 1945):




Sarge

[karlhenning]

G'day, Sarge!

Arnie "The Scammer"
Orchestral Songs, Opus 22 (1913-16)
Yvonne Minton, mezzo
BBC Symphony
Boulez

Schoenberg – Pierre Boulez Edition II 6 CDs

[Sergeant Rock]

G'day, Sarge!

Hey, Karl

Sarge

[Brahmsian]

Hello, fellow degenerates! 

[karlhenning]

Hah!

Anyway, I was sure limon could not be slime (pituite or vase is better, I think) . . . though I suppose as silt, one draws a thin line between fine particles of mineral, and a mud formed by adding water (or some other liquid) thereto . . . .

[karlhenning]

Hah!

Anyway, I was sure limon could not be slime (pituite or vase is better, I think) . . . though I suppose as silt, one draws a thin line between fine particles of mineral, and a mud formed by adding water (or some other liquid) thereto . . . .

Le vase is what you put flowers in; la vase is what you don't want to step into.

[karlhenning]

Thread duty:

Bedtime music last night:

Walton
Variations on a Theme by Hindemith
Bournemouth Symphony
Andrew Litton

On the Sansa Fuze player en route to the office this morning:

Hindemith
Konzertmusik, Opus 49 for piano, brass & harp
Symphony in E-flat

[Florestan]

Hello, fellow degenerates! 

Count me in...

Webern

Im Sommerwind

Boulez / Berlin PO

I bet that if Theresa listened to that without knowing who composed it, she would have had it straight on his list.