What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[bhodges]

Re-listening to Bruckner Symphony No. 5 (Nowak Edition) conducted by Welser-Most with the LPO.

What do you think?  That recording seems to draw fire.  (I haven't yet heard it.)  But when I heard W-M do the same piece with the Cleveland Orchestra last fall, it was not only one of the best Fifths I'd heard, but one of the best Bruckner performances I'd heard, period. 

--Bruce

[Danny]

What do you think?  That recording seems to draw fire.  (I haven't yet heard it.)  But when I heard W-M do the same piece with the Cleveland Orchestra last fall, it was not only one of the best Fifths I'd heard, but one of the best Bruckner performances I'd heard, period. 

--Bruce

Its growing on me, Bruce.  I think he does a masterful job with the Adagio (hearing it now and its why I loved Bruckner).  The opening Adagio-Allegro is also very good.  Perhaps there are better versions out there, but if you consider the price (I paide $5 for it), its hard to beat!

[Robert]

On the first disc in this series is the D' Albert concerto, and I agree with you, that is also a fabulous work.
But blimey the Volkmann is almost 4 minutes slower, is that not almost standstill?
But I will check out this Koch recording.
Thanks my friend.

yes, but I like this piece so much the longer the better.....

[Harry]

yes, but I like this piece so much the longer the better.....

[Harry]

Ernst Krenek.

Symphony No. 1 opus 7.

Radio Philharmonie Hannover des NDR/Takao Ukigaya.

And yet another 20th century composer high on my list, that is crashing into my sheltered home. I love the dents he is making in my collection.
This is quite something. Since my stay here on the board my appetite increased 100 fold
Logical, with straight even lines, lots of inner movement, and melodic content. I like the way he handles strings in this symphony, and the brass and percussion is awesome. The longer PP lines are increasingly getting under my skin. I have a copied score from this Symphony, but mislaid that one, so have to dig that up. It came together with some scores from Hindemith a friend from Germany send me, but I"ve lost it somewhere. Darn.
Good sound and fine performance.

[greg]

clips of Chout (Jurowski)

every second of the one minute previews of this ballet sounds so good, it just sounds like a complete masterpiece to me.
when i get the CD (and the score, which is actually pretty cheap), i can predict that it'll be one of my future favorites- and i mean, HIGH on the favorites list  0:)

[Robert]

clips of Chout (Jurowski)

every second of the one minute previews of this ballet sounds so good, it just sounds like a complete masterpiece to me.
when i get the CD (and the score, which is actually pretty cheap), i can predict that it'll be one of my future favorites- and i mean, HIGH on the favorites list  0:)

sounds like PaulB to me.....

[Harry]

Michael Haydn.

Symphonies, No. 21/30/31/32.

Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss/Johannes Goritzki.

Much better than the set with Bohdan Warchal.
Tempi are well judged, and the many details ala concertanto coming out quite nicely.
Sound is really good and the performance very alert.

[karlhenning]

sounds like PaulB to me.....

No, no, paulb could tell that there was no point in listening to an entire piece from a 30-second clip, very different 

[hautbois]

Not exactly listening to, but watching the French movie 'The Page Turner', and the soundtrack to it by Jacques Lemonnier is utterly disturbing and unique, going hand in hand with the plot.

Howard

[Robert]

No, no, paulb could tell that there was no point in listening to an entire piece from a 30-second clip, very different 

How silly of me.......

[Harry]

How silly of me.......

You, most of all, are not silly my friend. 0:)

[squeemu]

I am listening to Tristan and Isolde with Placido Domingo and Nina Stemme, with Antonio Pappano conducting.

[Harry]

Ernst Krenek.

Adagio & Fuge Tempo I, vivace from the first symphony.

Radio Philharmonie Hannover des NDR/Takao Ukigaya.

Two sublime movements.

[Robert]

Ernst Krenek.

Symphony No. 1 opus 7.

Radio Philharmonie Hannover des NDR/Takao Ukigaya.

And yet another 20th century composer high on my list, that is crashing into my sheltered home. I love the dents he is making in my collection.
This is quite something. Since my stay here on the board my appetite increased 100 fold
Logical, with straight even lines, lots of inner movement, and melodic content. I like the way he handles strings in this symphony, and the brass and percussion is awesome. The longer PP lines are increasingly getting under my skin. I have a copied score from this Symphony, but mislaid that one, so have to dig that up. It came together with some scores from Hindemith a friend from Germany send me, but I"ve lost it somewhere. Darn.
Good sound and fine performance.

Harry,
I find his symphonies tedious, drab,slow, nothing memorable for me. no intensity, never engaged me...I have 1 2 3 and 5. I have had them for years....never seem to want to go back...Its been awhile, perhaps I should give it another go.......

[Robert]

Ernst Krenek.

Adagio & Fuge Tempo I, vivace from the first symphony.

Radio Philharmonie Hannover des NDR/Takao Ukigaya.

Two sublime movements.

I seem to like his orchestral smaller works more than his symphonic, his piano concerto 2 symphonic elegy, his piano works all seem to hold me where his symphonies do not....

[Sergeant Rock]

Karl Amadeus Hartmann: Symphony #1 "Attempt at a Requiem after Words by Walt Whitman"




Sarge

[Harry]

Harry,
I find his symphonies tedious, drab,slow, nothing memorable for me. no intensity, never engaged me...I have 1 2 3 and 5. I have had them for years....never seem to want to go back...Its been awhile, perhaps I should give it another go.......

Well for the first time we must disagree on this composer, but maybe only in part, for the first symphony is really his first symphony for me.
In all the things you say about Krenek's music, I feel no connection at all, to the shortcomings you name. Drab and slow, no intensity, nothing memorable, no really for me its the opposite!
As you see in the postings I went back to two movements, with the score in my hand I followed the music, and what beautiful music it is, the gorgeous transition from the Adagio into the Fuge is awesome, as is the last movement Presto, only 1:00 minute or so, but devastatingly beautiful. I will listen carefully again at all the 9 movements with utmost care, but I can tell you right now, I will love it.
Maybe if you listen again you will hear it differently.

[Harry]

Karl Amadeus Hartmann: Symphony #1 "Attempt at a Requiem after Words by Walt Whitman"




Sarge

Yep, will go to the list, thanks Sarge!

[Harry]

I seem to like his orchestral smaller works more than his symphonic, his piano concerto 2 symphonic elegy, his piano works all seem to hold me where his symphonies do not....

Yes I wonder about that Robert!
But we are all build in our own way right?