What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[karlhenning]

Maiden-Listen Monday (this recording, of course):

Brahms
Violin Concerto in D, Opus 77
Borika van den Booren, vn
Berliner Symphoniker
Eduardo Marturet

[karlhenning]

Maiden-Listen Monday (this recording, of course):

Brahms
Violin Concerto in D, Opus 77
Borika van den Booren, vn
Berliner Symphoniker
Eduardo Marturet

The first movement is marked Allegro ma non troppo . . . this recording seems to emphasis the ma non troppo! So far, doesn't sound bad . . . must see if they keep the momentum alive . . . .

[Luke]

I like the idea of Divertimento Brahms. If someone wrote that, I'd snap it up! 

Brahms wrote that. The Serenades. Well, that's a Divertimento-like as he gets, anyway.

[DavidW]

Brahms serenades are awesome!

[karlhenning]

Maiden-Listen Monday (this recording, of course):

Brahms
Violin Concerto in D, Opus 77
Borika van den Booren, vn
Berliner Symphoniker
Eduardo Marturet

On the whole, not a bad account . . . perhaps a bit on the dutiful side.

[Rinaldo]

Lazy afternoon, delving into Webern's more traditional (for the lack of a better term) pieces.

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Loving the compositions for cello & piano and solo piano on disc #6. Very efficient, elegant, pleasing the ear without sounding too obvious.

[karlhenning]

Lazy afternoon, delving into Webern's more traditional (for the lack of a better term) pieces.

I'll play!:

Webern
Five Canons on Latin Texts, Opus 16
Halina Lukomska, sop
Boulez, conducting

[karlhenning]

Maiden-Listen Monday:

Carter
A Symphony of Three Orchestras (1976)
NY Phil
Boulez

. . . with a plunge to the depths memorialising [Hart] Crane's suicide by drowning.

[Mirror Image]

Lazy afternoon, delving into Webern's more traditional (for the lack of a better term) pieces.

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Loving the compositions for cello & piano and solo piano on disc #6. Very efficient, elegant, pleasing the ear without sounding too obvious.

A truly great set and was an ear-opener for me. DG did an excellent job with the packaging of that set and that booklet was outstanding.

[Mirror Image]

Now:

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Outstanding performances. Listening to Clocks and Clouds right now.

[karlhenning]

A passel of stuff just came in . . . but on the whole, the one I've got to listen to straight off is:

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[Sergeant Rock]

Franz Schmidt, Symphony #4 conducted by Keizberg




Sarge

[Scarpia]

Franz Schmidt, Symphony #4 conducted by Keizberg




Sarge

Any good?

[Mirror Image]

Now:

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Listening to Arcana right now. Awesome.

[Sergeant Rock]

Any good?

Really good sound...very natural. Kreizberg, faster than Mehta in the first two "movements," isn't as gut-wrenching. Unlike Mehta he makes me less inclined to jump off the Rheinbrücke after hearing it 

Sarge

[Scarpia]

Really good sound...very natural. Kreizberg, faster than Mehta in the first two "movements," isn't as gut-wrenching. Unlike Mehta he makes me less inclined to jump off the Rheinbrücke after hearing it 

Sarge

I have Mehta and Jarvi.  Am I missing anything? 

[Sergeant Rock]

I have Mehta and Jarvi.  Am I missing anything?

I think you can skip Kreizberg. If you like the symphony and stumble upon a cheap copy of Luisi/MDR go for it. He prolongs the agony (with much broader tempi) quite deliciously.

Sarge

[karlhenning]

Listening to Arcana right now. Awesome.

Varèse, the Palate-Cleanser!

A passel of stuff just came in . . . but on the whole, the one I've got to listen to straight off is:

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Mercy, but this is one magnificent piece! Hat's off to Luke (not for the first time) for a game-changing recommendation!

[Sergeant Rock]

Korngold Symphony F#, Previn conducting the LSO




Sarge

[listener]

the BACH organ disc from this month's BBC Magazine
Passacaglia in c, Toccata Adagio & Fugue, Prelude-and-Fugues 544, 540, Concerto after Vivaldi 593, 3 Chorales
David Goode, Freiberg Cathedral's 1714 Silbermann organ
Very, very well recorded.   "Straight" playing, i.e. no Virgil Fox eccentric registrations or tempos.
SIBELIUS  6 Humoresques for Violin and Orch. opp. 87, 89
Rakastava Suite op. 14     Pelléas et Mélisande Suite op. 46
Leonidas Kavakos, violin     City of Espoo Chamber Orch.   Juhanni Lamminmäki, cond.