What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[classicalgeek]

And on the heels of Copland, it seems the GMG Haydn string quartet craze has spread to my iPod:

Joseph Haydn
String quartet in G major, op. 33 no. 5
Kodály Quartet

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[SonicMan46]

Orient-Occident: 1200-1700 w/ Jordi Savall & Gang - a wonderful anthology of music bringing together eastern & western cultures, various instruments, and religious cultures over a number of centuries - fascinating compilation!

[Sadko]

A new addition from my Dmitri Alexeev wish list:

Chopin

Waltzes

Dmitri Alexeev

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Again I like his interpretation.

EDIT: Really good!

[listener]

together by happenstance:
IVES: From the Steeples and the Mountains, Song for Harvest Season, Chromatimelodtune
BREHM: Quintet for Brass               BRANT: The Fourth Millenium
Peter PHILLIPS   (USA, b.1930, not the early one) Music for Brass Quintet
American Brass Quintet (Gerard Schwarz, trumpet, cornet & flugelhorn), with Jan De Gaetani (msop.) and the carillon of Riverside Church, New York
DIAMOND Quintet in b for flute, string trio and piano   V. THOMSON Serenade for flute and viola
PALMER Quintet for A-Clarinet, String Trio and Piano
David Gilbert, flute,  Kees Kooper, violin,   Paul Doktor, viola Arthur Bloom, clarinet    Mary Louise Boehm, piano
SCHULHOFF: Divertissement
and Pops and Encores from the Peter Britt Gardens Music & Arts festival
Westwood Wind Quintet (LA)

[classicalgeek]

Up now:

Alexander Goedicke (1877-1957)
From the Diary of a Dead Soldier, op. 26
Konstantin Krimets; Russian PO

[asin]B000QGDZ9G[/asin]

Very 'Russian-sounding', but otherwise it doesn't stand out much.  Interesting it's on a 'Futurism' collection - it's pretty conservative for a composer with those dates!

[Willoughby earl of Itacarius]

Orient-Occident: 1200-1700 w/ Jordi Savall & Gang - a wonderful anthology of music bringing together eastern & western cultures, various instruments, and religious cultures over a number of centuries - fascinating compilation!

Agreed a fascinating journey and very addictive!

[Sadko]

Tchaikovsky songs:

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What do you think? I saw this disk too, when I looked for the Rachmaninov/Ashkenazy.

[Sadko]

Mendelssohn

Piano pieces

Bertrand Chamayou

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[classicalgeek]

Now up:

Sibelius
Symphony no. 2 in D major, op. 43   
Petri Sakari; Iceland SO

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My favorite Sibelius symphony!  First time hearing this recording.

[Cato]

Up now:

Alexander Goedicke (1877-1957)
From the Diary of a Dead Soldier, op. 26
Konstantin Krimets; Russian PO

[asin]B000QGDZ9G[/asin]

Very 'Russian-sounding', but otherwise it doesn't stand out much.  Interesting it's on a 'Futurism' collection - it's pretty conservative for a composer with those dates!

If a CD called "Russian Futurism" ain't got no       Protopopov, it ain't got no swing... and no future neither!   0:)

[Cato]

Bruckner Third Symphony Originalfassung

This one!  The only image I could find, so get your magnifying glasses out:

[Sergeant Rock]

Wagner Die Walküre, Janowski conducting the Staatskapelle Dresden




Sarge

[Papy Oli]

Just discovered this little gem of a filler on a Fux CD of the Requiem :

Fux - De Profundis - motet K.130
(clemencic consort / Arte Nova)

http://youtu.be/yO4Dz24kBWY

[mc ukrneal]

Wagner Die Walküre, Janowski conducting the Staatskapelle Dresden




Sarge

I am really interested to hear what you think. The thing that has always held me back from buying this set was the Brunhilde, who is often portrayed as the biggest weakness of the set. DO you agree? Or maybe you agree, but think the singing is good enough and is not the major drag that some claim?

[Sergeant Rock]

I am really interested to hear what you think. The thing that has always held me back from buying this set was the Brunhilde, who is often portrayed as the biggest weakness of the set. DO you agree? Or maybe you agree, but think the singing is good enough and is not the major drag that some claim?

Haven't gotten to Brünnhilde yet. Still in the first act. I always have trouble getting beyond that act. I keep hitting the repeat button to take me back to the beginning of the third scene    Love Jerusalem's Siegmund.

Sarge

[Sergeant Rock]

Absolutely beautiful music! There was such an incredibly beautiful short romantic melodic motif I really loved, extremely gorgeous!

....what motif are you talking about?

hmmm... how to describe it... if I remember correctly, it is introduced by the oboe not long after the beggining of the second scene... It is used frequently after that, always with very beautiful harmonies...

That's the Liebesmotiv. Yeah, absolutely gorgeous.

Sarge

[mc ukrneal]

Haven't gotten to Brünnhilde yet. Still in the first act. I always have trouble getting beyond that act. I keep hitting the repeat button to take me back to the beginning of the third scene    Love Jerusalem's Siegmund.

Sarge

No rush. I understand!

[madaboutmahler]

That's the Liebesmotiv. Yeah, absolutely gorgeous.

Sarge

Sounds like a completely suitable title for such a gorgeous, romantic motif! I'm impressed you could work out what part I was talking about from my not-so-great description, Sarge!

[Sergeant Rock]

Sounds like a completely suitable title for such a gorgeous, romantic motif! I'm impressed you could work out what part I was talking about from my not-so-great description, Sarge!

On the contrary: your description was right on. I knew what you meant immediately 

Sarge

[madaboutmahler]

On the contrary: your description was right on. I knew what you meant immediately 

Sarge

haha, thank you Sarge!