What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[madaboutmahler]

Now:

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Bortkiewicz Piano Concerto no.1

Such incredibl lyrical, romantic, uplifting piece. Just love it! A piece that appears to bring me much luck too!

Good night everyone!

[Lisztianwagner]

Ludwig van Beethoven
Violin Concerto - III, Rondo. Allegro

[listener]

HOFFMEISTER  Piano Concerto in D, op. 24
Georg Joseph VOGLER "Marlborough" Variations  (aka "The Bear Went over the Mountain")
Felicja Blumental, piano     Prague New Chamber Orchestra     Alberto Zedda, cond.
Inconsequential, but the Variations might be an entertaining way to start a young new listener painlessly.

[Gold Knight]

Carl Nielsen--Symphony No.3, Op.27 {"Sinfonia Espansiva"} and Symphony No.4, Op.29 {"The Inextinguishable"}, both featuring the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Herbert Blomstedt.

[TheGSMoeller]

Oh my, check out this toe-tapping joy of music. Hilary Hahn's next collaborative journey alongside German (prepared)-pianist Hauschka.
And a nifty little stop-animation video to go along with it.


http://www.youtube.com/v/bvAh91_5jjc

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Here's a mini-doc about the album...

http://www.youtube.com/v/5Q_yLqcDpGU

Here's the official album cover.

[kishnevi]

I hope this is not just the result of being in a good mood or something, but I'm liking what I hear tonight
Bruckner: Symphony 1--Karajan/BPO
Bruckner: Symphony 5--Karajan/BPO
Tchaikovsky: Symphony 6--Bernstein/NYPO (DG)
and now back to Anton:
Bruckner: Symphony 3--Karajan/BPO

If that looks like a box set of Bruckner, it is.  I've begun listening to the Karajan/Bruckner BPO set, and as I hoped,  Der Meister's style works most excellently with Bruckner.  This is the first time I've listened to B1 and actually liked it;  and while I've heard performances I like of 3 and 5, there's nothing so far to complain about in either of these performances.

And I actually liked the Tchaikovsky, too, even though this is the performance (the one with the really stretched out final movement) that most people find too eccentric.  I thought it worked fine.

[Coopmv]

I hope this is not just the result of being in a good mood or something, but I'm liking what I hear tonight
Bruckner: Symphony 1--Karajan/BPO
Bruckner: Symphony 5--Karajan/BPO
Tchaikovsky: Symphony 6--Bernstein/NYPO (DG)
and now back to Anton:
Bruckner: Symphony 3--Karajan/BPO

If that looks like a box set of Bruckner, it is.  I've begun listening to the Karajan/Bruckner BPO set, and as I hoped,  Der Meister's style works most excellently with Bruckner.  This is the first time I've listened to B1 and actually liked it;  and while I've heard performances I like of 3 and 5, there's nothing so far to complain about in either of these performances.

And I actually liked the Tchaikovsky, too, even though this is the performance (the one with the really stretched out final movement) that most people find too eccentric.  I thought it worked fine.

The main motivation for my getting the following set was the Karajan Complete Bruckner Symphonies box had gotten too pricey ...



I surely am glad I only paid a little over $50 for this set.  I ordered the set from Amazon UK ...

[Mirror Image]

No, it was I said that;  nor did I say that you said it.  In Košler's recording there, its three parts together run nearly three quarters of an hour, all told.  How long is the longest of the symphonies?

My apologies, Karl. Let's see, Roussel's 2nd is the longest symphony he wrote clocking in at 38-40 minutes. Evocations, by Roussel standards, is quite long, but it's really something else. If you like Roussel, then you'll dig this work.

[kishnevi]

The main motivation for my getting the following set was the Karajan Complete Bruckner Symphonies box had gotten too pricey ...



I surely am glad I only paid a little over $50 for this set.  I ordered the set from Amazon UK ...

I wouldn't consider the Bruckner box terribly expensive--$25 on Amazon MP including s/h, for a 9 CD set.  I see Amazon itself  has gone up about five dollars on its own price since I ordered it; at that time they were just under $25. 

Although $50 for the box you have is a pretty good deal, so you need not cry.  I think I already have the Beethoven and Brahms recordings in your box (depending on which Beethoven cycle they used--I have the one from the 60s), and from what I hear of his Mozart and Haydn recordings, I probably wouldn't like them (by which I mean, people whose tastes in those two composers are about like mine, don't seem to care for the Karajan recordings).  So the box is probably not for me.

I went back and put in images in my post, btw, for everyone elses ease of reference.

[Coopmv]

I wouldn't consider the Bruckner box terribly expensive--$25 on Amazon MP including s/h, for a 9 CD set.  I see Amazon itself  has gone up about five dollars on its own price since I ordered it; at that time they were just under $25. 

Although $50 for the box you have is a pretty good deal, so you need not cry.  I think I already have the Beethoven and Brahms recordings in your box (depending on which Beethoven cycle they used--I have the one from the 60s), and from what I hear of his Mozart and Haydn recordings, I probably wouldn't like them (by which I mean, people whose tastes in those two composers are about like mine, don't seem to care for the Karajan recordings).  So the box is probably not for me.

I went back and put in images in my post, btw, for everyone elses ease of reference.

We are not talking about the same Karajan Bruckner set.  You are referring to a more recently remastered set ...

[Brian]

I've never heard this music before, but from the evidence here, Geoffrey Burleson is awkwardly clunking his way through it loudly and proudly. A pity, because a lot of it sounds like it would be really good in more sensitive hands. Op 52/2 is probably gorgeous.

[kishnevi]

We are not talking about the same Karajan Bruckner set.  You are referring to a more recently remastered set ...

Then which one are you talking about? Is it a different set of performance, or simply a different mastering of the performances I have?

Thread duty:

first listen to a CD I found in the used CD store a couple of days ago.
Bortnyansky: Sacred Concertos Vol 2 (Concertos No. 10-16)  Russian State Symphonic Capella Valeri Polyansky, cond.  on Chandos.

[Gold Knight]

On Spotify:

Ole Olsen--Trombone Concerto in F Major, Op.48 and Symphony No.1 in G Major, Op.5, both featuring the Arctic Philharmonic Orchestra led by Christian Lindberg.
Felix Mendelssohn--Symphony No.3 in A Minor, Op.56 {"Scottish"}, performed by the London Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Julian Armstrong.
Felix Mendelssohn--Symphony No.4 in A Major, Op.90 {"Italian"}, again featuring the LSO, this time conducted by Cesare Cantieri.

[stingo]

BEETHOVEN Sonatas Nos. 3 and 28
LISZT Sonata in B minor
Sviatoslav Richter, piano

aka disc 3 from
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[Que]

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First acquintance with this set - some mighty fine playing.

Q

[Philoctetes3]

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Big upping this. 

[Willoughby earl of Itacarius]

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First acquintance with this set - some mighty fine playing.

Q

yay!

[Marc]

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First acquintance with this set - some mighty fine playing.

Yup!

[Sadko]

Alexander Lazarevich Lokshin

Symphony No. 11 for Soprano and Chamber Orchestra
Verses by Louis Camoens

Ludmila Sokolenko
Soloist's Ensemble of the State Symphony Orchestra
Rozhdestvensky

[Sadko]

Going on with:

Lokshin

Symphony No. 3

Steven Roberts (Baritone)
BBC Symphony Orchestra and Choir

Gennady Rozhdestvensky