What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Mirror Image]

Being a Virgo myself, and with the end of the year approaching, I have finally reached Y in my alphabetical listening:

Isang Yun Symphony #4

Me being a Pisces, I look at Sarge's organization and wish I could be that organized, but it just won't happen.

[Dancing Divertimentian]

If we accept/enjoy the Baroque music played on a Romantic instrument -i.e., the modern piano-, this is probably one of the most successful versions of the Clavier-Übung II (and some additional music for free).

Obviously, Bach himself (considerd as a Baroque composer and musician) and the Baroque discourse/articulation are dramatically modified, but apparently that's a requisite to preserve the life in this music when is "transcribed" for piano.

That said, I think it would be almost a redundancy to call over-romanticized these versions.

You make it sound like you have to commit Hara-kari after listening to Bach/piano!

[Mirror Image]

Now:





So far this is very interesting music. Listening to Symphony No. 1 and it is quite turbulent, but not turbulent in a Pettersson way. It's more turbulent in a RVW Symphony No. 4 or No. 6 kind of way.

[listener]

lp    TCHAIKOWSKY Manfred Symphony  op. 58
London Symphony Orch.       Goossens, cond.
a heavily cut performance, 36 + 43 bars in the 1st mvt, another 16 in the last, possibly to fit lp sides without overloading.   It is somewhat Mahlerian long, and shows the influence of Berlioz and Liszt, a real workout for the orchestra (and conductor).
and to quiet down a cd arrival today
20th century oboe pieces by AURIC, DUREY, TAILLEFERRE,
TOMASI*, BOZZA, ROPARTZ, LADMIRAULT
Georges HUGON, Jacques MURGIER, ROUSSEL ..
Lajos Lencsés, oboe    François Killian, piano
no Milhaud, Honegger or Poulenc to make a second theme
TOMASI  - Le tombeau de Mireille, for oboe and tambourine -  there's a unique combination.

[kishnevi]

Me being a Pisces, I look at Sarge's organization and wish I could be that organized, but it just won't happen.

Yeah for Pisces (3/3)! 

My organization consists mostly of making sure a CD stays in the appropriate stack--on the floor, on the TV stand--mostly divided up by genre/time period (Renaissance, Baroque, opera, concertos, chamber music) or composer (Bach, Brahms, Vivaldi, Mahler, Beethoven), and theoretically alphabetized in each stack by composer;  Box sets are piled up separately, as are single or double CDs that come in digipaks (like the Gardiner Bach cantata series), slip cases (such as ECM releases or the Naive Vivaldi edition). 

I keep promising myself to get at least one real bookcase to start solving this haphazardness,  but other things always seem to be getting in the way.

[Mirror Image]

Yeah for Pisces (3/3)! 

My organization consists mostly of making sure a CD stays in the appropriate stack--on the floor, on the TV stand--mostly divided up by genre/time period (Renaissance, Baroque, opera, concertos, chamber music) or composer (Bach, Brahms, Vivaldi, Mahler, Beethoven), and theoretically alphabetized in each stack by composer;  Box sets are piled up separately, as are single or double CDs that come in digipaks (like the Gardiner Bach cantata series), slip cases (such as ECM releases or the Naive Vivaldi edition). 

I keep promising myself to get at least one real bookcase to start solving this haphazardness,  but other things always seem to be getting in the way.

Yeah for Pisces 3/3? Who else is one on here? Not that it matters, because I don't put too much stock into this stuff. I've been told I'm more like a Capricorn with Pisces tendencies --- whatever this means?

I don't have any CDs on the floor. In fact, I guess I'm doing pretty good because I have them all stored in boxes and filing cabinets. I just haven't alphabetized anything yet, which would take a least a year.

[springrite]

I don't have any CDs on the floor. In fact, I guess I'm doing pretty good because I have them all stored in boxes and filing cabinets. I just haven't alphabetized anything yet, which would take a least a year.

I have them alphabetically by composer, and within each composer by genre -- symphonies, concerti, chamber music, piano solo and vocal. Opera gets its own section apart from the rest. That looks nice, too. Piano solos in collections are also separate.

Since each time I move I pack them well, it takes about a day to get them back more or less the way it was. Vanessa and Kimi knows not to touch by CDs. When they do, at least they don't put them back. They leave that to me or I will never find the CD again.


Now listening: Toch Symphonies #1 and #4 (CPO)

[The new erato]

Thanks. It's not Bennos, just regular elfa shelves from The Container Store:

What will you do in a couple of weeks when the free space is filld with new aquisitions? 

[Harry]

Thanks. It's not Bennos, just regular elfa shelves from The Container Store:

What I envy you for my friend is the space left for CD'S.

[Harry]

Absolute wonderful performances and recording. Put it on top of my list

[Henk]

Thanks. It's not Bennos, just regular elfa shelves from The Container Store:

You need a ladder, George.

[Harry]

Wonderful music.

[Bogey]

You need a ladder, George.

George getting his Moravec Chopin during an ice storm:

[Sergeant Rock]

Are some of these DVD's or are they just optical illusions?

The only DVDs visible in the photo is the set of Mahler Symphonies by Bernstein. Other classical DVDs are on a lower shelf.

Sarge

[Antoine Marchand]

You make it sound like you have to commit Hara-kari after listening to Bach/piano!

It sounds a bit over-the-top, I know; especially when so many people (the vast majority?) listen to Bach on modern piano these days, easily and with rewarding results. But I usually don't listen to Bach on piano, therefore every time when I do it, I am amazed about how much the nature of the instrument influences not just the interpretation itself, but also -I would say- the native idiom and structure of the work, compared with what we suppose was the Baroque musical language. 

[mc ukrneal]

The only DVDs visible in the photo is the set of Mahler Symphonies by Bernstein. Other classical DVDs are on a lower shelf.

Sarge

What, no pcicture?!?!?!   

Now listening to some Bantock - Celtic Symphony to start...wonderful start to the disc...

[Lethevich]

np: Naxos Rawsthorne stuff

The only DVDs visible in the photo is the set of Mahler Symphonies by Bernstein. Other classical DVDs are on a lower shelf.

If he noticed them below the termination point of the photograph, then that is quite an optical illusion...

[Sergeant Rock]

What, no pcicture?!?!?!   

I could take a picture but it wouldn't be very impressive. I only have about 20 music DVDs.

Sarge

[Antoine Marchand]

Patrick Cohen, fortepiano (no indication of the instrument, but obviously a fortepiano)
Limoges Baroque Ensemble
Christophe Coin, Conductor

Beautiful instruments and nice sound for these (excellent) slow paced paced versions.     

[George]

Good morning all!

Nothing like Mozart in the morning.