What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

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Fun with Shostakovich!

[TheGSMoeller]

Poulenc: Concerto in G minor for Organ, Strings & Timpani
Peter Hurford
Philharmonia/Dutoit

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Poulenc: Concerto in G minor for Organ, Strings & Timpani
Peter Hurford
Philharmonia/Dutoit

I think I'll break out a little Poulenc myself for this evening. I have the Dutoit box set of his orchestral/choral works that's just awesome. That slow movement of Concerto for Two Pianos never fails to melt my heart. Poulenc had such a penchant for melody.

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Listening to the Piano Concerto. A lovely work.

[Que]

If only I had more issues of this complete series of Weiss' London manuscript....But it was issued on a tiny Canadian label and longtime OOP

I see here a brilliant opportunity for Brilliant. I really should mail them one of these days about this...

Good morning!

Q

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Brahms - Double Concerto
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Violin sonatas - Krysia Osostowicz & Susan Tomes, with Simon Crawford-Phillips as the accompanist in the F-A-E scherzo, Clarinet sonata No. 1 - Dame Thea King & Clifford Benson
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Lalo: Symphonie Espagnole
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Symphonies nos. 4 & 5, Spring Song and The Bard
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The 8th symphony
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Schumann: Cello Concerto
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[Coopmv]

Well, yes.
I suppose I should have been clearer.  What I meant was something like this--that the modern piano works with Bach in a way that it doesn't with other composers, like Handel, Rameau and Couperin--that his music allows that dimension to come out in a way that doesn't really work with their music.

Did you mean performamce of keyboard works by Handel, Rameau and Couperin on modern piano seem contrived?

[Coopmv]

Now playing CD7 from the following set for a first listen ...

[kishnevi]

Did you mean performamce of keyboard works by Handel, Rameau and Couperin on modern piano seem contrived?

I don't mean they sound contrived. 

You can do things which work with Bach that don't work with the others.  You can play Bach in a quasi Romantic way, and it comes out musically valid;  but it doesn't work with them (or, often enough with Mozart and Haydn).   You need to play Rameau as if the piano were simply a harpsichord with a different tone.  You don't need to do that with Bach.

Which is perhaps one reason why Bach is so great.

[DavidRoss]

Heh! Most of Texas' growth is minimum wage and I know I can find that at home with my parents, but I really would like to "cut my teeth" on stuff that uses those skills I went to school for... assuming such jobs exist... no, so far, according to Monster and Indeed, there are some jobs like that in Texas, some in DC, and a few more up both of the coasts. I'm hoping to come out with something that makes me content in a place where I've got a couple friends and, let's face it, along with music, that's all you really need to make me happy.

I suggest not relying solely on internet resume submissions, but hitting the pavement--and "networking," of course.  As far as Texas job growth goes, see: http://www.eastlakeblister.com/articles-detail_53036.html .  Bear in mind that our mainstream press is no more trustworthy these days than Pravda at the height of the Communist Party's control of Russia, take care to sort fact from opinion, and check the facts yourself (with original sources, not Politifact).

Thread duty: Debussy, La Mer, MTT/Philharmonia.  Sweet.

[Coopmv]

Now playing the following CD, a recent arrival for a first listen ...

[DavidW]

From nml, wow! this is the finest recording I've ever heard (and that's saying alot!) refined, beautiful playing that is emotionally deep without being vulgar, never overstated but never dull either... Mandelring Quartet is simply perfection! 0:)

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Need to hear more.

[TheGSMoeller]

[Opus106]

[Shostakovich SQs - Manderling Qt.]

refined, beautiful... without being vulgar

That's hardly Shostakovich!

[prémont]

You can do things which work with Bach that don't work with the others.  You can play Bach in a quasi Romantic way, and it comes out musically valid;  but it doesn't work with them (or, often enough with Mozart and Haydn).   You need to play Rameau as if the piano were simply a harpsichord with a different tone.  You don't need to do that with Bach.

Which is perhaps one reason why Bach is so great.

Do you mean, that Bach´s music stands romanticising rather well. At least some of this must depend upon the listener, and I do not stand a romanticised Bach, so in my opinion Bach´s music does not stand romanticising that well.

[Antoine Marchand]

From nml, wow! this is the finest recording I've ever heard (and that's saying alot!) refined, beautiful playing that is emotionally deep without being vulgar, never overstated but never dull either... Mandelring Quartet is simply perfection! 0:)

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Need to hear more.

Just for the record: I think exactly the opposite. IMO these interpretations are technically right, but spiritually empty... I found, for instance, more Haydn spirit in Marc-André Hamelin than Shostakovich's here... that's the extent of my dissatisfaction. 

[DavidW]

Wow I guess I stand way alone in liking Mandelring!

[karlhenning]

. . . so in my opinion Bach´s music does not stand romanticising that well.

I'll partially agree that it can be overdone.

[springrite]

I'll partially agree that it can be overdone.

In other words, you partially agree that it can be appropriate.