What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[otare]

The violin concerto.

[pjme]

Die Nacht der Toten....

Never heard of Borgström. A Late Romantic I suppose?

Can you tell how this music sounds?
Peter

[otare]

Hjalmar Borgstrøm (1864 - 1925) was a Norwegian composer. His violin concerto was written in 1914. I always find it difficult to describe music, but to me it sounds a bit like Sibelius with a little Tchaikovsky thrown in. Quite conservative late romantic. The second movement is very lyrical. Very beautiful, but not very original.

[The new erato]

In his symphonic poems, I think Reger comes to mind. Not a bad thing IMO.

[otare]

Reger was a good association. Borgstrøm = Reger light? 

[George]

Chopin Ballades 1 & 2. Masterful interpretations by Gavrilov, in warm, pearly sound (unlike the fuzzy sonics given poor Pollini on the same label).

I wonder how those compare to the ones he did for EMI? (hint, hint) 

[karlhenning]

Eek! Not Osama Balladen!

[George]

Chopin
Krakowiak, Barcarolle
Arrau

Morning, bretheren! 

[Harry]

Alessandro Scarlatti.
Cantatas.

David Daniels, Counter Tenor.
Arcadian Academy, Nicholas McGegan.
CD 43, from the Harmonia Mundi box.

Daniels has a irritating voice, with too much vibrato, that clogs up his lines, and makes the presentation too insistent.
A refusal bin CD, I am afraid.

[George]

Chopin
Krakowiak, Barcarolle
Arrau

Morning, bretheren! 

Add to that the Fantasy on Polish Airs

[not edward]

Schnittke Symphony #6 and #7 (BBC Wales, Otaka)

Not the greatest interpretation or performance (lots of sounds that doesn't pull together as they should), but very good music.

Agreed about the performance/interpretation here. The 6th comes across particularly poorly; just dragging along. I think Polyansky gets much closer to the heart of the matter. I do really wish for a satisfactory 7th, though: I found Polyansky far too 'in your face' for a work as intimate as this and ended up feeling that Otaka, for all his flaws, may prove a better guide here.

[karlhenning]

[ This-VS.-That Thursday? ]

Сергей Сергеевич [Sergei Sergeyevich]
Symphony № 2 in d minor, Opus 40 (1924-25)

Three recordings:

SNO
Järvi
(recorded at SNO Centre, Glasgow City, Dec 1984)

Prokofiev – The Complete Symphonies

Berliner Philharmoniker
Ozawa
(recorded at Jesus-Christus-Kirche, Berlin, Jan 1990)

Prokofiev – 7 Symphonies, Поручик Киже

Russian State Symphony
Polyansky
(recorded at Philharmonic Hall, Moscow, May 2001)

Prokofiev – Symphony-Concerto, Symphony № 2

[Franco]

Brahms 3rd
Rattle/Berlin

[Philoctetes]

Kondrashin/Janis in Liszt's Piano Concerto No. 1, with the MPO
Rozhdestvensky/Janis in Liszt's Piano Concerto No. 2, with the MRSO

[DavidRoss]

Currently listening to the soothing strains of jackhammers tearing up the street and sidewalk to install unnecessary water meters at great expense to taxpayers and rate-payers mandated by the incompetent and corrupt legislature of the once great State of California (probably a boondoggle proposed by the water meter manufacturers and promoted via kickbacks to legislators  ).

[George]

Kondrashin/Janis in Liszt's Piano Concerto No. 1, with the MPO
Rozhdestvensky/Janis in Liszt's Piano Concerto No. 2, with the MRSO

Got an image? I am not sure if I have that one.

[Philoctetes]

Got an image? I am not sure if I have that one.

[George]

Cool. I do have it. I love all of his concertos recordings for Mercury. Especially the Rach 3. 

[SonicMan46]

Albinoni, Tomaso - Double Oboe Concertos w/ Anthony Robson & Katherine Latham on the oboes - two volumes of these works (Op. 7 & 9) - 

 

[Harry]

Alessandro Scarlatti.

Passio Secundum Ioannem

Rene Jacobs Jacobs, Kurt Widmer, Graham Pushee.
Die Basler Madrigalisten, Fritz Naf.
Das Streichensemble der Schola Cantorum Basiliensis.
CD 44 from the Harmonia Mundi box.

Will do!