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karlhenning

#85380
May 18, 2011, 05:59:46 AM
Because, once I get started with Arnold, I find it none too easy to stop!

Schoenberg
Variationen für Orchester, Opus 31 (1928)
BBC Symphony
Boulez

Willoughby earl of Itacarius

#85381
May 18, 2011, 06:01:16 AM



Volume I, second listen, Volume III, first listen

Willoughby earl of Itacarius

#85382
May 18, 2011, 06:04:21 AM


First listen

Luke

#85383
May 18, 2011, 06:15:27 AM
Quote from: listener on May 18, 2011, 02:15:17 AM
Ronald STEVENSON  Fugue on a Fragment of Chopin; A Twentieth Century Music Diary; Symphonic Elegy for Liszt; A Scottish Triptych; Motus Perpetuus (?)Temporibus Fatalibus
Joseph Banowetz, piano
The Music Diary (16 entries) includes Hindu raga and Arabic Maqam, canon "in Memoriam Bernard van Dieren,", 7 Variations on a tone row in Don Giovanni, 7 Variations on the Invocation of Mephistopheles - Damnation of Faust, and a 2-part fughetta on the opening of Busoni's "Arlecchino"

You make me happy! I adore Stevenson's music, his whole aesthetic. He's hardly mentioned enough for such a fabulously interesting, inspiring figure. There's no one else quite like him

karlhenning

#85384
May 18, 2011, 06:18:58 AM
Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on May 18, 2011, 05:59:46 AM
Because, once I get started with Arnold, I find it none too easy to stop!

Schoenberg
Variationen für Orchester, Opus 31 (1928)
BBC Symphony
Boulez

Wow, what a fun piece!  Is it really possible that this piece scandalized audiences so recently at Symphony Hall when Jimmie programmed it on his Beethoven & Schoenberg seasons?  This is the sort of music which (thought you'd never hear anyone say it, didn't you?) makes me want to try to write a serialist piece . . . .

Sergeant Rock

#85385
May 18, 2011, 06:22:56 AM Last Edit: May 18, 2011, 06:26:21 AM by Sergeant Rock
Continuing Mahler Day listening: a DLVDE I bought more than a year ago but never listened to: Eiji Oue conducting the Minnesoto Orchestra.




Edit: This is sonically stunning!!!


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"

Sergeant Rock

#85386
May 18, 2011, 06:28:38 AM
Quote from: ChamberNut on May 18, 2011, 05:58:36 AM
Oh, thanks for the heads up Sarge.  Time to pull out the Mahler today.  Hmm, which one to listen to?  I can't decide, but the first GMGer who recommends which symphony I should listen to today, I'll go with it.

Except for the 4th and 8th (not in the mood for these two today).   ;D

How about the Fifth? I'll be listening to the Fifth after DLVDE. The first movement funeral march is appropriate for the centenary but I want to end this afternoon's listening session on an upbeat...which the fifth movement will provide.

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"

DavidW

#85387
May 18, 2011, 06:30:31 AM
Quote from: Sergeant Rock on May 18, 2011, 06:28:38 AM
How about the Fifth? I'll be listening to the Fifth after DLVDE. The first movement funeral march is appropriate for the centenary but I want to end this afternoon's listening session on an upbeat...which the fifth movement will provide.

Sarge

That is a great idea!  Think I'll listen to the fifth as well as DLVDE.  Got to be the Bernstein (DG) for me.  Just really wallow in it!!

Sergeant Rock

#85388
May 18, 2011, 06:35:59 AM
Quote from: haydnfan on May 18, 2011, 06:30:31 AM
That is a great idea!  Think I'll listen to the fifth as well as DLVDE.  Got to be the Bernstein (DG) for me.  Just really wallow in it!!

I'm hoping to find and listen to my as yet unheard copy of Scherchen's Vienna Fifth...which Edward (I think) recommended ages ago. It's around here somewhere, in one of the many piles still awaiting shelf space.

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

#85389
May 18, 2011, 06:36:40 AM
I shoyuld like to join in on the Mahler celebrations, but Arnie has not yet released me:

Schoenberg
Verklärte Nacht, Opus 4 (string orchestra, 1943 version)
NY Phil
Boulez

This is a smoking argument in favor of the "big band" version of the piece, to be sure.

Sergeant Rock

#85390
May 18, 2011, 06:38:36 AM
Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on May 18, 2011, 06:36:40 AM
I shoyuld like to join in on the Mahler celebrations, but Arnie has not yet released me:

Arnie baby is a spiritual descendent of Mahler's so I think he'd approve, Karl  8)


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"

DavidW

#85391
May 18, 2011, 06:41:32 AM
Quote from: Sergeant Rock on May 18, 2011, 06:35:59 AM
I'm hoping to find and listen to my as yet unheard copy of Scherchen's Vienna Fifth...which Edward (I think) recommended ages ago. It's around here somewhere, in one of the many piles still awaiting shelf space.

Sarge

You're like okay I can find this...



;D

DavidW

#85392
May 18, 2011, 06:42:05 AM
Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on May 18, 2011, 06:36:40 AM
I shoyuld like to join in on the Mahler celebrations, but Arnie has not yet released me:

Schoenberg
Verklärte Nacht, Opus 4 (string orchestra, 1943 version)
NY Phil
Boulez

This is a smoking argument in favor of the "big band" version of the piece, to be sure.

And I'll be listening to the chamber version (same cd as the string trio)! :D

karlhenning

#85393
May 18, 2011, 06:44:28 AM
Quote from: haydnfan on May 18, 2011, 06:42:05 AM
And I'll be listening to the chamber version (same cd as the string trio)! :D

Huzzah for retaliatory listens! : )

Brahmsian

#85394
May 18, 2011, 06:46:38 AM
Quote from: Sergeant Rock on May 18, 2011, 06:28:38 AM
How about the Fifth? Sarge

Done!!!  I actually haven't listened to the 5th in a long time, so this is perfect!!  I've been so obsessed with the 6th,7th and 9th lately that I've been ignoring the others a bit.  :)

karlhenning

#85395
May 18, 2011, 06:48:20 AM
Quote from: haydnfan on May 18, 2011, 06:41:32 AM
You're like okay I can find this...



;D

Hah!  Lads, have you seen the Twilight Zone episode, "The Chaser"? : )

Sergeant Rock

#85396
May 18, 2011, 06:50:29 AM
Quote from: haydnfan on May 18, 2011, 06:41:32 AM


I wish it were that easy  :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"

Sergeant Rock

#85397
May 18, 2011, 06:51:18 AM
Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on May 18, 2011, 06:48:20 AM
Hah!  Lads, have you seen the Twilight Zone episode, "The Chaser"? : )

Probably 50 years ago but not recently. What's it about?

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

#85398
May 18, 2011, 06:55:11 AM
Quote from: Sergeant Rock on May 18, 2011, 06:51:18 AM
Probably 50 years ago but not recently. What's it about?

Chap sees another chap about a love philtre.  The latter chap is found in a monumental library stack.  Sells the first chap the potion for the impossibly low price of a single dollar . . . .

springrite

#85399
May 18, 2011, 06:56:02 AM
Beethoven Op111 (Annie Fischer)
Do what I must do, and let what must happen happen.
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