What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Florestan]

Don't I know it    Just outside our bedroom window is a prime spot for cat mating...a feline lover's lane. I don't know what draws the neighborhood cats to that spot, but their Xenakis-like serenades have been going on for years.

[DavidW]

Just wonder why?  Isn't Simon Rattle only in his early 60's?

His perfectionist tendencies leave me cold.

[DavidW]

Let the Prokofiev marathon commence!  Happy b-day Sergei.

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[karlhenning]

Let the Prokofiev marathon commence!  Happy b-day Sergei.

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Excellent! : )

[Sergeant Rock]

I'll get around to some Prokofiev later. Right now Tournemire is calling out to me (might have something to do with the H. Brian thread  ). The First Symphony. Romantique.




Sarge

[karlhenning]

Happy birthday!

Сергей Сергеевич [ Sergei Sergeyevich (Prokofiev) ]
Piano Concerto № 4 in B^b, Opus 53 (pour la main gauche)
Boris Berman, pf
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Järvi

[karlhenning]

Happy birthday!

Сергей Сергеевич [ Sergei Sergeyevich (Prokofiev) ]
Piano Concerto № 4 in B^b, Opus 53 (pour la main gauche)
Boris Berman, pf
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Järvi

That Andante just melts me every time!

[Sergeant Rock]

Prokofiev Scythian Suite, Celi




Sarge

[Brahmsian]

I think so too (actually, I think it's more interesting). And it's in D minor. Of course it's good--it's in D minor! (Does anyone else miss D minor's contributions? Ever since he decided the end of the civilization was nigh, and retreated to the peak oil thread, it just hasn't been the same here.)


Sarge

I miss D minor.  I just don't why he all of a sudden stopped posting about classical music.  Did he fall out of love with classical music, I wonder?

[karlhenning]

Happy birthday!

Сергей Сергеевич [ Sergei Sergeyevich (Prokofiev) ]
Симфония № 6 es-moll, соч. 111 [ Symphony № 6 in e^b minor, Opus 111 ]
SNO
Järvi

[DavidW]

You know Ozawa has absolute control in Prokofiev's 2nd symphony, I feel like this is awesome!  Didn't feel that way before.

[Conor71]

Now Playing:

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Shostakovich: Jazz Suites

First listen to this newly arrived recording! - sounds good so far, shows quite a different side to Shostakovich! 

[karlhenning]

You know Ozawa has absolute control in Prokofiev's 2nd symphony, I feel like this is awesome!  Didn't feel that way before.

Yes, a thousand times, yes!  That was the performance which illuminated the Second for me!

[Lethevich]

Gosh, a very nice sounding harpsichord recording - it sounds positively enormous during the gavotte of No.6. This seems to me to be a near ideal combination of a clearheaded approach to the works combined with sparkling playing and a great sounding recording with a nice amount of space around the instrument without allowing the notes to get swamped - perhaps my new favourite in these works along with Rousset II and Gilbert (his tempi choices work wonders).

[DavidW]

Awesome Karl, I should have listened to you earlier.  It's just that I'm not much of an Ozawa fan.

[karlhenning]

Understood; Ozawa has certainly had his turkeys.

[Sergeant Rock]

Moving on to Prokofiev's Fifth, Celi conducting the Stuttgarters.

Sarge

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

I'll get around to some Prokofiev later. Right now Tournemire is calling out to me (might have something to do with the H. Brian thread  ). The First Symphony. Romantique.

Just listened to the First, too. As I said on the Brian thread - I love it. Especially the slow movement, Largo. I think I can add Tournemire to the list with Magnard, Roussel, Debussy, Ravel, Schmitt and a few others I forget...

[karlhenning]

Moving on to Prokofiev's Fifth, Celi conducting the Stuttgarters.

Say more about that, Sarge, at your convenience.

[karlhenning]

Happy birthday!

Сергей Сергеевич [ Sergei Sergeyevich (Prokofiev) ]
«Здравица», для смешанного хора с сопровождением симфонического оркестра. Текст народный, соч. 85 [ Hail to Stalin, Opus 85 ]
Russian State Symphonic Cappella
Russian State Symphony Orchestra
Polyansky