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Que

Quote from: Antoine Marchand on October 17, 2010, 09:01:42 AM


CD1:

Robert Schumann - Klavierwerke & Kammermusik - III

Trois romances pour hautbois et piano, Op. 94
Trois Phantasiestücke pour clarinette et piano, Op. 73
Cinq pièces dans le ton populaire pour violoncelle et piano, Op. 102
Märchenbilder pour alto et piano, Op. 113
Märchenerzählungen pour clarinette, alto et piano, Op. 132
Adagio et Allegro pour cor et piano, Op. 70

François Leleux, oboe - Paul Meyer, clarinet - Bruno Schneider, horn - Antoine Tamestit, viola - Jean-Guihen Queyras, cello - Eric Le Sage, piano

Just yesterday I listened to some of the same pieces (oboe/piano) by Holliger/Brendel (1979, DG) and I prefer their interpretations.  :)

Appreciate the feedback. :) A pity that series is not on period instruments - Alpha really missed a great opportunity.

Q

mc ukrneal

Just gorgeous (and somehow a bit decadent)... (includes Arensky: Piano Concerto in F Minor, Op. 2; Fantasia, Op. 48 / Bortkiewicz: Piano Concerto No. 1 in B Flat, Op. 16)
Be kind to your fellow posters!!

listener

#73802
Quote from: Daverz on October 17, 2010, 02:02:29 PM
The titles are intriguing, but how is the music actually?
LYAPOUNOV  Solemn Overture on Russian Themes  op. 7
     Polonaise, op.16     Zelazowa Wola, op. 37       Hashish, op. 53
1859 - 1924   studied with Taneyev, close friend of Balakirev, took part in folklore expeditions in 1883 to several provinces.   The music is quite melodious, Hashish and Zelazowa Wola are symphonic poems: Hashish a rather overlong single movement that sounds like Sheherezade, could have used the movement breaks, Zelazowa Wola is Chopin's birthplace and quotes a Chopin "Cradle Song" but none of the more familiar piano music.  The Islamey orchestration is lush, but I find the Casella one more exciting.
So it's all pretty conservative (comma can be appropriately inserted) and pleasant.   

thread duty:
HUMMEL   Piano Sonatas 1 op.2/3    and  6  op.106
Ian Hobson, piano
BACH     Italian Concerto,   Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue,    Partita in b,  4 Duettos
Scott Ross, harpsichord
"Keep your hand on the throttle and your eye on the rail as you walk through life's pathway."

abidoful

Quote from: listener on October 18, 2010, 12:15:49 AM
LYAPOUNOV
1859 - 1924   studied with Taneyev, close friend of Balakirev, took part in folklore expeditions in 1883 to several provinces.   Hashish and Zelazowa Wola are symphonic poems. Zelazowa Wola is Chopin's birthplace and quotes a Chopin "Cradle Song" but none of the more familiar piano music.
Chopin's "Cradle Song"? You mean "Berceuse" op.57, right? Isn't that quite famous?!

Brian

Quote from: 12tone. on October 17, 2010, 03:27:09 PM
And if they jumped off a bridge...?

I would listen to that too.  ;D

karlhenning

Quote from: ChamberNut on October 17, 2010, 06:27:39 PM
. . . I think I will go put on my own Stravinsky fest this week (Stravinsky at least one disk per day for the week).   :)

Great idea! I'm in!

jlaurson


Mahler-Mahler-Mahler


M1 live with Mehta, then Chailly; last night M8 with Thielemann...

why not continue at home.


G. Mahler
A. Berg
Symphony No.1
Sonata Op.1, orch. Verbey


True, Chailly's Mahler impressed the hell out of me a few days ago, but I probably got this more for the Berg.



Brian

SIBELIUS | Symphony No 5
Lahti Symphony; Osmo Vanska

Just impulsively said in the Purchases thread that this was in my top 3 Sibelius Fifths. Now I'm listening to see if that's actually true or if I was making it up.

Sergeant Rock

Quote from: jlaurson on October 18, 2010, 03:46:22 AM

Mahler-Mahler-Mahler

M1 live with Mehta, then Chailly; last night M8 with Thielemann...

Thielemann hasn't, I think, conducted much Mahler. I'm interested in what you thought. Are you going to publish a review?

Sarge
the phone rings and somebody says,
"hey, they made a movie about
Mahler, you ought to go see it.
he was as f*cked-up as you are."
                               --Charles Bukowski, "Mahler"

karlhenning

Quote from: Brian on October 18, 2010, 04:20:02 AM
SIBELIUS | Symphony No 5
Lahti Symphony; Osmo Vanska

Just impulsively said in the Purchases thread that this was in my top 3 Sibelius Fifths. Now I'm listening to see if that's actually true or if I was making it up.

Even if the latter, I shouldn't worry. We like improvisation, and if you don't sometimes get it wrong, you're improvising too safe : )

Brian

Karl:  :D

Quote from: SonicMan on October 17, 2010, 07:39:25 PM
On the road in San Antonio, TX but iPod w/ plenty of music - late afternoon on the treadmill the recording below:

You WOULD wait to visit San Antonio until right after I'd left!  ;D

At any rate you will need some advice on where to eat... for great "Mexican fusion" food on the Riverwalk, try Acenar - anything with mole will be great (but spicy - do you like spicy?), and so are their goat and fish dishes. More traditional Mexican can be had at Mi Tierra or Rosario's. For a really nice night out (I went on my 21st), Brasserie Pavil is a great place with fantastic waitstaff, a mean French onion soup and killer creme brulee, and for a slightly more guilty pleasure, you'll have to visit Justin's Ice Cream. If you have an extra day or two to explore, the barbecued ribs at The Gristmill in Greune, TX (about 15 miles away) are the only meat I've ever had that actually DOES "fall off the bone," and the pepper jack cheeseburger at 814 Bistro in Comfort, TX (30 miles away in the heart of the Hill Country) is my favorite burger in all of Texas.

Mandatory: a Saturday night at Jim Cullum's jazz club on the Riverwalk with the Jim Cullum band!

Conor71



First listen to this newly arrived Disc - listening to the slow movement at the moment, quite lovely :).

MN Dave

Brian, how did you like that Russian cello disc?

In other news, Sibelius' symphonies just don't do it for me. I wonder what's wrong.  :(

Anyhoo, listened to that new Ravel disc last night and it reminded me how much I like him. Boulez seems to be an appropriate conductor for this composer.

Brian

Quote from: MN Dave on October 18, 2010, 04:33:41 AM
Brian, how did you like that Russian cello disc?

In other news, Sibelius' symphonies just don't do it for me. I wonder what's wrong.  :(

Anyhoo, listened to that new Ravel disc last night and it reminded me how much I like him. Boulez seems to be an appropriate conductor for this composer.

I'm really interested in that new Ravel CD, actually. Might break my usual new-release fast for it. Worth it, you think? From the cello disc, I only listened to the Miaskovsky, because it was bedtime, but it was a beautiful piece. I felt like it started with two slow movements in a row, maybe I was just tired.

Sibelius is not something you can try and get... it gets you. It's like a zombie. I spend months at a time not listening to Sibelius at all, and even not liking it, and thinking it's tacky and fake, and then it comes up behind me and bites me in the neck and I stagger around drunkenly for a month looking like the guy in the attached picture. I think what did it was that I saw No 5 live in concert knowing nothing about it or what to expect, and the finale sent my brain into the stratosphere and I've been trying to find that same level of rapture ever since and can't find it anywhere else. In other words, Sibelius is like crack.  ;D

karlhenning

Quote from: MN Dave on October 18, 2010, 04:33:41 AM
In other news, Sibelius' symphonies just don't do it for me. I wonder what's wrong.  :(

Don't worry about it!  Leave 'em be for a spell, try 'em again some other time.

Meanwhile, more Stravinsky!

MN Dave

Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on October 18, 2010, 04:48:30 AM
Don't worry about it!  Leave 'em be for a spell, try 'em again some other time.

Meanwhile, more Stravinsky!


Yeah, I've been trying them for decades.  ;D  Do like the v cto though...

Brian, I like that Ravel disc a lot. I'd hate to recommend it without listening more though, whenever that will be...  :(

Stravinsky, yes!

Sergeant Rock

#73816
Quote from: Brian on October 18, 2010, 04:46:32 AM
I think what did it was that I saw No 5 live in concert knowing nothing about it or what to expect, and the finale sent my brain into the stratosphere

That's how I became a Sibelius fanatic too: bitten live (in Cleveland, Maazel conducting the Fifth in 1971). Before that concert Sibelius was completely off my radar. Not even hearing Szell do the Second live (a year earlier) had made a believer of me. It was the Fifth that did it...the Finale in particular....the hammerblows even more particularly  ;D

Sarge
the phone rings and somebody says,
"hey, they made a movie about
Mahler, you ought to go see it.
he was as f*cked-up as you are."
                               --Charles Bukowski, "Mahler"

MN Dave

Quote from: Sergeant Rock on October 18, 2010, 04:54:57 AM
That's how I became a Sibelius fanatic too: bitten live (in Cleveland, Maazel conducting the Fifth in 1971). Before that concert Sibelius was completely off my radar. Not even hearing Szell do the Second live (a year earlier) had made a believer of me. It was the Fifth that did it...the Finale in particular....the hammerblows even more particularly  ;D

Sarge

Well, if I have to hear it live, I might as well give up now.  ;D

Sergeant Rock

Quote from: MN Dave on October 18, 2010, 04:58:07 AM
Well, if I have to hear it live, I might as well give up now.  ;D

No, don't give up! Think Go find Sibelius!

Sarge

the phone rings and somebody says,
"hey, they made a movie about
Mahler, you ought to go see it.
he was as f*cked-up as you are."
                               --Charles Bukowski, "Mahler"

jlaurson

Quote from: Sergeant Rock on October 18, 2010, 04:23:50 AM
Thielemann hasn't, I think, conducted much Mahler. I'm interested in what you thought. Are you going to publish a review?

Sarge

No, he hasn't. His comments on Mahler: http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2010/03/mahler-cycle-and-uncomfortable-silence.html
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/alexross/2010/03/thielemann-confesses.html#ixzz12iQL9Vhb

Everything that is important about the 8th was very well done. The singers, well, not that great... except Lioba Brown.
Of the four M8ths that I have heard, this was unquestionably the best so far.

Speaking of which, how do you love the Ozawa 8th? Obsessively or feverishly?