What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[karlhenning]

Unfortunately, I don't have the liner notes, this is on my iPod.

I'll check when I get home . . . great piece to have on your iPod!

[Keemun]

Long time, no see.

Thank you for noticing.    I was on vacation and I have also been busy with other things and my classical music listening and discussion have suffered. 

[Sergeant Rock]

Still did not find my perfect performance of the work, but Antoni Wit comes close. Only wish that the sound of this recording would not be so diffuse.

That's my problem with it too. I love what Wit does with the music--a near ideal interpretation for me--but I have trouble hearing detail (especially woodwinds). A pity. Maybe we'll get a new recording by him with the Czech Phil 

In the meantime, this is still my favorite, and playing now:




Sarge

[Harry]

What a marvelous recording words almost fail me. This is a absolute favorite of mine of this composer.

[karlhenning]

Revisitation!

Schuman
Violin Concerto, (1947, rev. 1959)
Philip Quint, vn
Bournemouth Symphony
Serebrier

Schuman – Violin Concerto / New England Triptych Ives/Schuman – Variations on America

A noticeable gain on the third quartet . . . oh, I am going to like this disc very much!

[jlaurson]

Listening to what the cat dragged in:


J.S. Bach
Brandenburg Concertos
Apollo's Fire
Avie (originally on Eclecta, 2000)

Must have been a great addition 10 years ago--but surpassed, since.  Pity.

[Sergeant Rock]

Third movement, Shostakovich Fourth




Sarge

[karlhenning]

Third movement, Shostakovich Fourth

: )

[karlhenning]

First-Listen Fridays meets Martinů-palooza!

Martinů
Sonata for Two Violins & Piano, H. 213 (1932)
Members of the Martinů Quartet w/ Karel Košárek, pf

Martinů – Piano Quintets Nos. 1 & 2

[karlhenning]

First-Listen Fridays meets Martinů-palooza some more!

Martinů
Piano Quintet № 1, H. 229 (1933)
The Martinů Quartet w/ Karel Košárek, pf

Martinů – Piano Quintets Nos. 1 & 2

[Sergeant Rock]

: )

There's moment there, just flutes trilling, that sounds like it's about to break out in Strauss's Frühlingsstimmen    Intentional...or am I hearing things?

Sarge

[karlhenning]

There's moment there, just flutes trilling, that sounds like it's about to break out in Strauss's Frühlingsstimmen    Intentional...or am I hearing things?

Couldn't say definitively, Sarge;  but such an affectionate musical allusion would have been entirely characteristic.

[Sergeant Rock]

Just listened to Hindemith's Clarinet Quintet (orginal 1923 version) which has an insane waltz buried in the third movement. And now, inspired by the discussion of string quartet arrangements in the Waltz thread, I've begun listening to Hindemith's Overture to the Flying Dutchman As Played Like a Bad Spa Orchestra Sight-reading the Score at Seven O'clock in the Morning by the Fountain, for String Quartet   




Sarge

[not edward]

First-Listen Fridays meets Martinů-palooza some more!

Martinů
Piano Quintet № 1, H. 229 (1933)
The Martinů Quartet w/ Karel Košárek, pf

Martinů – Piano Quintets Nos. 1 & 2

Me too on this one. The Second Quintet is such a wonderful piece.

Just listened to Hindemith's Clarinet Quintet (orginal 1923 version) which has an insane waltz buried in the third movement. And now, inspired by the discussion of string quartet arrangements in the Waltz thread, I've begun listening to Hindemith's Overture to the Flying Dutchman As Played Like a Bad Spa Orchestra Sight-reading the Score at Seven O'clock in the Morning by the Fountain, for String Quartet   




Sarge

I've had that disc for years and haven't given it a listen in a while. I might have to pick it up now.

[Sergeant Rock]

Me too on this one. The Second Quintet is such a wonderful piece.
I've had that disc for years and haven't given it a listen in a while. I might have to pick it up now.

It'll put a smile on your face. I haven't played it in years and had forgotten the "spa orchestra" gives up on Wagner near the end and breaks into a waltz    They eventually get back to Wagner and do finish off with the Holländer--more or less. Actually, to be more accurate, they finish off the Holländer 

Sarge

[prémont]

Listening to what the cat dragged in:

Brandenburg Concertos
Apollo's Fire
Avie (originally on Eclecta, 2000)[/url]

Must have been a great addition 10 years ago--but surpassed, since.  Pity.

I do not think that a fair and sympathic music making like this can be surpassed.

[karlhenning]

First-Listen Fridays meets Martinů-palooza yet again!

Martinů
Double Concerto for Two String Orchestras, Piano & Timpani, H. 271 (1938)
Josef Růžička, pf
Jan Bouše, timpani
Prague Radio Symphony
In memoriam Sir Charles

Martinů – Field Mass/Double Concerto/Les Freques de Piero della Francesca [cond. by Mackerras]

Hard to believe I am only listening to this piece for the very first time today . . . how many friends have suggested the piece to me over the years? . . .

[bhodges]

Hard to believe I am only listening to this piece for the very first time today . . . how many friends have suggested the piece to me over the years? . . .

Does that mean "it's a hit"? 

Now listening to:

Martinů: Frescoes of Piera Della Francesca (Mackerras/Prague RSO)

--Bruce

[karlhenning]

Does that mean "it's a hit"? 

Well, that post was actually an avant la lecture rhetorical question, Bruce ; )

Now that I've done listened at last, yes, a very smarting hit!

[karlhenning]

First-Listen Fridays meets yet more Martinů-palooza!

Martinů
String Quartet № 5, H. 268 (1938)
The Martinů Quartet

Martinů – String Quartets nos. 4, 5 & 7