What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[DavidRoss]

Phil Glass VC #2, American Four Seasons--Robert McDuffie and the Aspen Festival pickup band, via the Performance Today website streaming player http://performancetoday.publicradio.org/ (Set the archive wayback machine to Aug 20 2010 and try hour 2.)

[MN Dave]

Perahia/Lupu - Mozart/Schubert

[karlhenning]

I'm still waiting to hear Dorati's take on the 7th. It's supposedly legendary. I'm anxious to hear it.

Well, historic, certainly. Doráti is the dedicatee of the symphony.

[karlhenning]

Nice quiet Saturday morning:

Sibelius
Symphony № 5 in E^b, Opus (1915, revised 1916 and 1919)
Wiener Philharmoniker
Lenny

Leonard Bernstein – Sibelius Complete recordings on Deutsche Grammophon

Schoenberg
Kammerkonzert № 1, Opus 9 (1906)
arranged by Webern for piano quintet, 1922-23
The Schoenberg Quartet
Sepp Grotenhuis, pf

Arnold Schoenberg – Chamber Music for Strings

[Sergeant Rock]

Bach, Gould, BWV 910-914




Sarge

[Sergeant Rock]

Nice quiet Saturday morning:

Sibelius
Symphony № 5 in E^b, Opus (1915, revised 1916 and 1919)
Wiener Philharmoniker
Lenny

Leonard Bernstein – Sibelius Complete recordings on Deutsche Grammophon

Karl, I'm waiting for your reaction to Lenny's Sibelius 2, the 18 minute long Andante    That's the movement that really divides opinions. In the yea column: Me, M, David Ross. In any case, I think you'll agree the Vienna brass are simply awesome.

Sarge

[George]

[jlaurson]

So. There.


J.S.Bach,
Toccatas
Andrea Bacchetti
Dynamic

[Sergeant Rock]

So. There.

[jlaurson]

Straight from George's School of Passive Aggressive Toccata Listening. 

[George]

Ah, yes, as good as I remembered it to be.

Now for some more Chopin from my new Marston 4CD set.

[DavidRoss]

Edit:  Hah!   Now that I see what the rest of you are listening to, I'm laughing my keester off! Guess we all must have been reading the purchases thread this morning.   

[Antoine Marchand]

What do you think of Egarr's Bk. 2?

Hi, Don. I think my opinions about Egarr in the past have been quite more favorable than other opinions expressed on this board. Actually, I enjoy his Brandenburgs, some collaboration with Manze (violin sonatas & harpsichord concertos) and his versions of Handel's chamber music, especially the organ concertos.

Unfortunately this has not been the case with his Book 2 of the WTC. I have listened to it three times and yesterday I compared it with Leonhardt and Walcha and I was dramatically aware about Egarr's under-articulation and especially of certain inability -or conscious decision, if I am reading correctly the booklet- to convey a feeling of structure (a "common denominator") through these dark and complex preludes and fugues. I have not felt these performances as a unity (an overwhelming feeling, for instance, in Walcha), but as a lot of isolated pieces. Egarr is merely simple, there where the great performances are secretly, quietly complex. Even, IMO, the nice tone of the harpsichord used in the Book 1 is affected by the change of pitch in this Book 2.

[Sergeant Rock]

Webern, Karajan




Sarge

[listener]

DUPRÉ:  3 Preludes and Fugues, op. 36
MESSIAEN: Le Banquet Céleste,  Les Bergers (from La Nativité du Seigneur)
Marcel Dupré, gallery organ of Saint-Suplice, Paris
- demonstration quality Mercury recording  (LP)
Italian Recorder Sonatas -
FRESCOBALDI  La Bernardina     CIMA  2 sonatas    B. MARCELLO  op.2/11
CORELLI op. 5/4     VERACINI Sonata 6
Frans Brüggen, recorder       Anner Bylsma, cello    Gustav Leonhardt, harpsichord and organ
ALWYN Symphony 2, Sinfonietta for Strings
London Philharmonic O.      conducted by the composer  - that's an idea for a theme, I'll add
MILHAUD: Le Boeuf sur le toît,  La Création du monde
Orchestre du Théâtre des Champs-Elysées        conducted by the composer
well-worn Nonesuch lp kept for the notes by Edward Tatnall Canby

[Conor71]

Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244

0:)

[Brahmsian]

DVORAK

Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, Op.10

Scherzo capriccioso, Op.66

Carnival Overture, Op.92


Libor Pesek
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Virgin Classics



I just can't get enough Dvorak lately! 

[Coopmv]

Now playing CD10, the last CD from this set for a first listen.  While there have been discussions as to how Pieter-Jan Belder performed as the harpsichordist for his WTC on BC, there is no question he did a fine job conducting from the harpsichard for these works ...

[Coopmv]

Now playing CD3 from this set for a first listen ...

[kishnevi]

By the Master. 

Q

Vote for Saxon!