What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Scarpia]

It's part of the Cube, and the booklet indicates the 1971 Festival, Marvin.

Die Walküre, though, is from the 1967 Festival.

If it is Bohm your cube has a misprint in the booklet. 

[karlhenning]

Cube ahoy!

Wagner
Die Walküre, Act I
Karl Böhm, conducting

Recorded live at the 1967 Bayreuth Festival

[Sergeant Rock]

It's part of the Cube, and the booklet indicates the 1971 Festival, Marvin.

Die Walküre, though, is from the 1967 Festival.

I've got the cube version too (along with centenary Böhm box and an LP edition from the early 70s). Scarpia is correct: the date in the cube booklet is incorrect. Should read 1967.

Sarge

[karlhenning]

I've got the cube version too (along with centenary Böhm box and an LP edition from the early 70s). Scarpia is correct: the date in the cube booklet is incorrect. Should read 1967.

Sarge

Thanks, gents. The booklet does give 1971 for Das Rheingold & Siegfried (mercy, but that name is apt to make me think of Agent 86), and 1967 for Die Walküre & Götterdämmerung.  So it really is 1967 for the whole tetrawhoozis, yes?

[Scarpia]

Thanks, gents. The booklet does give 1971 for Das Rheingold & Siegfried (mercy, but that name is apt to make me think of Agent 86), and 1967 for Die Walküre & Götterdämmerung.  So it really is 1967 for the whole tetrawhoozis, yes?

Correct.  Bohm Conducted the Ring at Bayreuth 1965-69.  In 1971 Horst Stein was conducting a different production.

http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bayreuther_Festspiele

[Papy Oli]

good evening all 

First Listen Thursday evening :


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[listener]

VIVALDI  Concertos for Strings   vol. 1  R.551/P.278, R.93/P.209  (with lute), R.131/P.19, R.577/P.383 "for the orchestra of Dresden", R.243/P.310 "Senza Cantin", R.163/P.410
Max Goberman conducting the New York Sinfonietta
recorded some 50 years ago, yes in stereo, no period instruments
BEETHOVEN Triple Concerto  - violin, cello and piano
Wolfgang Schneiderhan, Pierre Fournier, Géza Anda;    Berlin Radio S.O.,  Ferenc Fricsay cond.
true ensemble playing
ELGAR    Enigma Variations         VAUGHAN WILLIAMS  Tallis Fantasia
Pittsburgh S.O.       William Steinberg, cond.
unexpectedly "right" sounding.  Jacket damaged but the disc is all right.  And while I'm here, I hear the opening of Brahms 4th in the Enigma theme....

[karlhenning]

Behold the Cube itself!

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Woof!

3 new from $279.99

I got it new for $62.99, in June 2008.

[bbrip]

Continuing my Milhaud exploitations with some works for piano and orchestra. Currently the Fantaisie pastorale, followed by the Ballade and the Cinq Etudes pour piano and orchestra.

Truly colorful music. Well worth exploring.

[The new erato]

Fun, mainly neoclasical stuff, with occasional lyrical, dirgelike movements.

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Behold the Cube itself!

Richard Vaughan Wagner.

[MDL]

The other half is away tonight, so I've got the stereo to myself. Played Pletnev's Tchaikovsky Symphony 6 (Virgin, not DG). Absolutely love the sound of the Russian orchestra on this CD. Then played Bliss's Things to Come (EMI/Groves; amazing sound for the period).

Now listening to:

[bhodges]

Van Stiefel: Solaris (Van Stiefel and Daniel Lippel, guitars, and others) - So far, fascinating. The title track (inspired by the Stanisław Lem sci-fi novel) is for alto flute, electric guitar and laptop, and is quite delicate. Stiefel has the sensibility of a classical guitarist (rather than rock-oriented), and this recording is on the quiet side, using some elements of minimalism.

--Bruce

[The new erato]

This is some seriously astounding music, and the best Pfitzner I've heard. Fans of Mahler's orchestral songs avoids this disc at their own risk.

[Lethevich]

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A lovely recording, although it should not be forgotten that the French label Timpani have been doing wonders for this composer too, and a few years before Chandos began their (albeit now more extensive) orchestral music series.

Edit: hmm, perhaps the Timpani discs have spoiled me, the Istar recording didn't move me at all, sounding positively sedate compared to my memory of that other one.

[Taneyev]

ETA Hoffmann harp quintet. A beautiful, romantic work very seldom played.

[Coco]

[Coopmv]

Taking a chance with the Chopin Nocturnes by Angela Hewitt, who has always been known for her Bach.  Now playing CD1 from this twofer, which arrived yesterday for a first listen ...

[Coopmv]

Now playing the following CD from my Scarlatti collection ...

[Lethevich]

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