What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[springrite]

Actually, the Chinese Dance is my favorite dance of The Nutcracker, followed closely by the Arabian Dance.

Thanks to Fantasia, Kimi calls it the "Mushroom Dance".

[karlhenning]

Ah! Le pas des champignons! : )

[karlhenning]

Honegger
Une cantate de Noël
Oliver Perkins, treble
Stuart MacIntyre, baritone
Robt Quinney, org
BBC Singers
Choir of King's College, Cambridge
BBC Concert Orchestra
Stephen Cleobury

[Coopmv]

Now playing CD17 - Inventions and Symphonies plus Preludes by Christiane Jaccottet from this set for a first listen ...

[karlhenning]

Now playing CD17 - Inventions and Symphonies plus Preludes by Christiane Jaccottet from this set for a first listen ...

Very nice!

[MN Dave]

[springrite]

Good to see some un-Christmas music going as well!

Now listening (at 3:22am):
Bach Partitas (Maria Tipo)
(Previously: York Bowen Complete Music for Viola)

[karlhenning]

Scaring off Santa.

Just pulled the trigger on this.  From time to time over the past ten years, I have been curious about the piece.  But it was not until reading Luke's post that I really felt a desire to listen, and put my curiosity to the test.

[MN Dave]

Good to see some un-Christmas music going as well!

Un!

Now: Heifetz - Beethoven and Mendelssohn v ctos.

[Lethevich]

Just pulled the trigger on this.  From time to time over the past ten years, I have been curious about the piece.  But it was not until reading Luke's post that I really felt a desire to listen, and put my curiosity to the test.

I think the last two third of it may surprise you - often very peaceful, searching music - not really comparable to Mahler's 8th.

[MN Dave]

[MN Dave]

First listen Xmas.

Penderecki: Symphony 5 - NPRSO/Wit

[Well, that scours the palate nicely.]

[Lethevich]

MN Dave: his first symphony is a lot more fun - much more harmonically wild (like his most famous pieces), but also more accessable than those somewhat amorphous later ones.

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Just pulled the trigger on this.  From time to time over the past ten years, I have been curious about the piece.  But it was not until reading Luke's post that I really felt a desire to listen, and put my curiosity to the test.

I think the last two third of it may surprise you - often very peaceful, searching music - not really comparable to Mahler's 8th.

Luke wrote a wonderful post, with which I heartily agree. I'm glad you pulled that trigger, Karl. See what you make of the work. I have no doubt that there are several things in it that will grip you. And as Sarah rightly says - the 'Gothic' is definitely not another (and worse) 'Sinfonie der Tausend' or Gurrelieder-gone-mad... It is a vast and intricate piece, with sound and fury, yes, but also a remarkable inwardness. The ending will surprise you (I hope). 

[jlaurson]

Sibelius & Snow Outside


J. Sibelius (1865 – 1957)
Symphonies 1 & 4
LSO / Sir Colin Davis
LSO Live SACD


Davis' humming in the first movement made it onto the tape...

The Fourth sounds less weird here than it often does...  which may be good for listening pleasure... but then again it's a work that sounds different to my ears, every time I hear it. Weirdest listening-experience to-date: Bernstein / Sony. Like a disembodied Wagner score.

[Mirror Image]

Just pulled the trigger on this.  From time to time over the past ten years, I have been curious about the piece.  But it was not until reading Luke's post that I really felt a desire to listen, and put my curiosity to the test.

It's a huge, clumsy, sprawling work, but I love it despite its obvious flaws.

[Gurn Blanston]

As always on Christmas, I started out the day with The Nutcracker, this year with Mackerras rather than my traditional Dorati. Then decided that after all it was hard to beat a Tchaikovsky ballet for festive and graceful Christmas music, so I slipped in these 6 disks:



Ansermet and the Swiss-Romandes were every bit as good as I was hoping. So along with the 3 great ballets, I was treated to one of the better Rococo Variations that I've heard in a while, and the last 2 orchestral suites done very well indeed. For those with whom I had discussed this a few weeks ago, at the Brilliant price point, you absolutely can't go wrong.

[Mirror Image]

Now:



It's snowing, so now I'm listening to Symphony No. 6 and so far Sanderling's Sibelius cycle is proving to be really good.

[Mirror Image]

As always on Christmas, I started out the day with The Nutcracker, this year with Mackerras rather than my traditional Dorati. Then decided that after all it was hard to beat a Tchaikovsky ballet for festive and graceful Christmas music, so I slipped in these 6 disks:



Ansermet and the Swiss-Romandes were every bit as good as I was hoping. So along with the 3 great ballets, I was treated to one of the better Rococo Variations that I've heard in a while, and the last 2 orchestral suites done very well indeed. For those with whom I had discussed this a few weeks ago, at the Brilliant price point, you absolutely can't go wrong.

Aren't those Ansermet Tchaikovsky recordings in mono?

[karlhenning]

Luke wrote a wonderful post, with which I heartily agree. I'm glad you pulled that trigger, Karl. See what you make of the work. I have no doubt that there are several things in it that will grip you. And as Sarah rightly says - the 'Gothic' is definitely not another (and worse) 'Sinfonie der Tausend' or Gurrelieder-gone-mad... It is a vast and intricate piece, with sound and fury, yes, but also a remarkable inwardness. The ending will surprise you (I hope).

Well, I'm a great fan of the Gurrelieder, to be sure. I do realize that I must leave the Gothic be itself.

And goodness knows, it could just be down the rabbit-hole, and I'll become a Brianiac to match you, Johan! : )