What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Coco]

Could you please elaborate on that with examples, if possible? Perhaps it would help me the next time I listen to Bruckner.

As David Ross so humorously, though aptly, put it, there are so many diversions in the later Bruckner symphonies (sometimes at the "wrong" moments), one or two of which I may find interesting, but as a whole when I try to put them all together in my head, the result is not the proverbial (clichéd?) cathedral of sound, but just a jumbled mess.

I hear it in the organ-like shifting between blocks of highly-calculated harmonies and in how a lot of his music seems to be built from the ground up — especially in the 5th with the pizzicato ground bass which sounds very passacaglia-like.

The "diversions" I see as a solution to the problem of large-scale continuity, which I think is influenced by Schumann's cyclical form.

[Antoine Marchand]

Deadly bored listening to some concerti from La Stravaganza Op. 4 by Vivaldi: 

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Although these are not exactly HIP interpretations, there are things to enjoy here, being the concertino Piero Toso not the last of them. 

[Opus106]

I hear it in the organ-like shifting between blocks of highly-calculated harmonies and in how a lot of his music seems to be built from the ground up — especially in the 5th with the pizzicato ground bass which sounds very passacaglia-like.

The "diversions" I see as a solution to the problem of large-scale continuity, which I think is influenced by Schumann's cyclical form.

Hm. I imagined that it would involve technicalities that go over my head.

[Coco]

Hm. I imagined that it would involve technicalities that go over my head.

I've only started studying music, so I'm not there yet.

[Brahmsian]

I'm never, ever bored by Bruckner's music.  Never.  Perhaps it just means I'm boring.   

[Opus106]

I've only started studying music, so I'm not there yet.

And I haven't even started yet! I would very much like to read scores and analyse music, but I just don't know where to begin... the Web helps only up to a point.

[Coco]

I'm never, ever bored by Bruckner's music.  Never.  Perhaps it just means I'm boring.   

Me neither, but he needed a long gestation period for me. He's not an easy composer!

As for boring, this Jonathan Harvey disc fits the bill. The kind of music where people go "the orchestration was amazing," but the actual music has nothing to say.

And I haven't even started yet! I would very much like to read scores and analyse music, but I just don't know where to begin... the Web helps only up to a point.

Have you considered taking some courses at a university?

[Lethevich]

I'm never, ever bored by Bruckner's music.

Agreed, although I frequently find myself in the wrong mood for it upon hitting play. Perhaps the word is impatience in my case.

[Coopmv]

Now playing CD3 from the following set for a first listen ...

[springrite]

Beethoven 9 (Zinman)

[SonicMan46]

Just returned from a short vacation to Nantucket (plenty of oysters & lobsters!) - in the mail a couple of small orders from BRO and a number of items from the Amazon MP - just a few BRO bargains below, and I believe my first experience w/ these outstanding viol players:

Jenkins, John (1592-1678) - Five-Part Consorts & Gibbons, Orlando (1583-1625) - Consorts for Viols

 

[Antoine Marchand]

Some people simply don't know to smile.

[jwinter]

Mahler 3 from (awesome remastering):
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Bruckner 7 from:
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Mahler 7 from:
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[Opus106]

Have you considered taking some courses at a university?

I haven't, because if I have to, it'll be a full course for which I neither have the time nor the inclination. However, there is this institution which has been part of the city for nearly 170 years, but about which I came know only recently. They conduct classes in playing, sell instruments and scores, and they also serve as the local centre for examinations conducted by the Trinity College of Music. I would prefer something "theoretical" for the moment, and I'm yet to enquire about that. (Well, I sent them an email for which I did not receive a reply, so the next step is to give them a visit.)

[Coopmv]

I haven't, because if I have to, it'll be a full course for which I neither have the time nor the inclination. However, there is this institution which has been part of the city for nearly 170 years, but about which I came know only recently. They conduct classes in playing, sell instruments and scores, and they also serve as the local centre for examinations conducted by the Trinity College of Music. I would prefer something "theoretical" for the moment, and I'm yet to enquire about that. (Well, I sent them an email for which I did not receive a reply, so the next step is to give them a visit.)

So Trinity College of Music (of the UK?) has a satellite campus in Chennai?

[Drasko]

RIP Kurt Sanderling

[Opus106]

So Trinity College of Music (of the UK?) has a satellite campus in Chennai?

Yes, it's the Trinity College of Music. I'm not entirely sure how they are connected beyond serving as an examination centre.

[Conor71]

Strauss: Ein Heldenleben

First listen of this performance

[Marc]

Mahler 5, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Manfred Honeck: a convincing performance!

Streaming video of a superb performance of Mahler 5 with Honeck/Pittsburgh on tour in the Philharmonie in Berlin from a week ago.

http://liveweb.arte.tv/de/video/PSO_Mahler/

[Coopmv]

Yes, it's the Trinity College of Music. I'm not entirely sure how they are connected beyond serving as an examination centre.

BTW, University of Nottingham has a satellite campus in mainland China.  Academic institutions also have to go where the growths of wealth and population are in order to survive.  India and China are the two most promising BRIC countries ...