What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Lethevich]

MGV[asin]B000004CW6[/asin]
Holy shit this is so happy-sounding ;__; I like it so much, it makes Reich sound like a manic depressive.

[Mirror Image]

Now:

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Listening to Concerto for Orchestra. This work which was written around the time of The Vision of St. Augustine shows Tippett in fine form. I don't like this work as well as a later work like say his Triple Concerto, but it's still all Tippett. Very cool work with some intriguing orchestral textures.

[classicalgeek]

Baah, that wouldn't stop them!

Who knew they could sing, too?

Though I'm having trouble picturing any of the men as Fasolt or Fafner...

[Conor71]

Verdi: Aida

A rare Opera listen! - This is a cool piece but I'm finding it a bit hard to concentrate on at the moment I think I will try to listen to this at work later in the week too 

[TheGSMoeller]

MGV[asin]B000004CW6[/asin]
Holy shit this is so happy-sounding ;__; I like it so much, it makes Reich sound like a manic depressive.

MGV is one of my favorite pieces, it was the first non-film score of Nyman's I heard. The drive of the piece never lets up and it's conclusion is fiercely satisfying, glad to see you enjoy it. 

[Que]

Thes disc that should have been in the box! Hopefully it will yet see a reissue.  Iconic music - a cornerstone of Medieval repertoire - in an examplary performance.

Q

[fridden]

Rimsky-Korsakovs Scheherazade. Gergiev conducting the Kirov Orchestra.

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A good performance, but my favorite is still Kondrashin and the Concertgebouw Orchestra.

[pi2000]

Mahler4 from here:
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[mc ukrneal]

Mahler4 from here:
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I wonder - is it just me? But I cannot listen to Mahler in the morning. I only ever listen in the afternoon or evening (only after I have had lunch). This seems the only composer I can think of where I won't listen at a certain time of day. Strange.

[Que]

The Passion Season is drawing near! A nice occasion the break in this set that was lingering on the pile of unlistened CDs.    I got the original CD issue pictured as a bargain, when it made way for a budget reissue that should be widely available.



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[Lisztianwagner]

Baah, that wouldn't stop them!

Wagner's Ring by a chamber orchestra?!? What a surprise!!

[Lisztianwagner]

Bartók's birthday today, so:

Béla Bartók
Concerto for Orchestra
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[madaboutmahler]

Baah, that wouldn't stop them!

hehe

[not edward]

This disc was my first introduction to Hartmann, but it's more than just that, with the two Hartmann works forming a sandwich in between a fine Zimmermann Symphony in One Movement and one of the better Stravinsky Symphony in Three Movements I've heard. It might be that none of these performances are the very best--though I think they are amongst the best in Metzmacher's Hartmann series--but it makes a very satisfying listening experience as it moves from Expressionism to neo-Classicism.

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I wonder what other recordings are available of the Zimmermann: I only have this and one with the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie conducted by one Witold Lutoslawski.

[Karl Henning]

Speaking of Mahler...

Actual hammer used in their performance of Mahler VI:

[Sadko]

I wonder - is it just me? But I cannot listen to Mahler in the morning. I only ever listen in the afternoon or evening (only after I have had lunch). This seems the only composer I can think of where I won't listen at a certain time of day. Strange.

For me this is normal. "Romantic" music in the widest sense, especially of darker moods, I can mostly enjoy more in the evening or night. During the day I tend to prefer either loud and not too subtle things, or something that feeds the rational mind too, like the Welltempered Clavier.

The radio stations (at least in Germany) seem to think the same, with tiresome routine you only get "uplifting" baroque in the very early mornings and "heavy" things in the evenings.

[Lisztianwagner]

Gustav Mahler:
Symphony No.9
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Actually, it's one of my favourite Mahler's symphines; before the 10th, I will listen to the 9th again, I enjoyed this performance a lot yesterday.

[not edward]

The Martinu-Nono-Schoenberg sequence from this disc. Skipping the Hartmann because IMHO it really doesn't live up to the quality of the other works here (not something I find the case in the other discs in this series).

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This disc has two of those moments in music that would merit a thread of their own: no matter how often I listen to Memorial to Lidice, the climax and the brass balefully roaring the Fate motif from Beethoven's 5th leaves my hair standing on end. Similarly with the entrance of the chorus in A Survivor from Warsaw.

[Ataraxia]

Look at me! I'm making with the Mahler!
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I hope you're happy. 

[Willoughby earl of Itacarius]

One of the Alpha CD'S I bought very cheaply on JPC de, and what a delightful disc it is. Praetorius has a warm place in my heart, and these performances by Ablitzer makes it very easy to like the music presented even more. The Hans Scherer de Tangermunde organ ( 1624) sounds absolutely beautiful, as is played with much care and attention to detail. I haven't enjoyed a organ CD so much like this one in a long time.