What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Mirror Image]

I was looking in my archive, I think I don't have a favourite set of all 6 symphonies. In my memory this one with nos. 4 - 6 is ranking very highly:

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I'm listening again after ages, to see how I find it now. (To S #4)

Edit: For me it is not easy to find Tchaikovsky symphony interpretations that are "right" for me. Often I find the playing uninvolved, mechanical, hurried, or in another way emotionally not in tune with the work.

You apparently haven't heard Jansons' Tchaikovsky set, which if you call that uninvolved, mechanical, hurried, or emotionally not in tune with the music then I highly suggest you visit an ear specialist.

[Lisztianwagner]

And?

I think the recording is remarkable, marvelous; the sound is clear and crystalline, while Barenboim's technique is excellent, with a splendid touch. Overall the performance is very brilliant, but it lacks some passion and aggressiveness: both the pianist and the orchestra sound a bit too restrained, I expect more overwhelming energy from Liszt's piano music.

[Sadko]

You apparently haven't heard Jansons' Tchaikovsky set, which if you call that uninvolved, mechanical, hurried, or emotionally not in tune with the music then I highly suggest you visit an ear specialist.

I don't have the Jansons indeed. After not liking his Rachmaninov set (EMI) I didn't try anything else with him yet, if I remember correctly.

[Mirror Image]

I think the recording is remarkable, marvelous; the sound is clear and crystalline, while Barenboim's technique is excellent, with a splendid touch. Overall the performance is very brilliant, but it lacks some passion and aggressiveness: both the pianist and the orchestra sound a bit too restrained, I expect more overwhelming energy from Liszt's piano music.

Well it's not surprising it's a restrained considering who the conductor is.

[madaboutmahler]

Now:
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Symphony no.1

Such a great performance of such a brilliant piece! Long live Mahler!!!!

Good night everyone!

[Lisztianwagner]

Well it's not surprising it's a restrained considering who the conductor is.

Yes, not much surprising.

Oh, by the way, you were right about Bernstein's Shostakovich No.5; I listened to the last two movements on youtube, it's a gorgeous performance, absolutely gorgeous!! Such powerful, haunting music!!

[Sadko]

Tchaikovsky

Symphony No. 4

All-Union Radio Committee Grand Symphony Orchestra
Alexander Gauk

Yes, I like that one! No loose ends, everything made sense, organically - and very lively too.

[Karl Henning]

Sergei Babayan's Scarlatti.  One of my favorite Scarlatti recordings.

And I like it, too!

[Gold Knight]

Ralph Vaughan Williams--Symphony No.7 {"Sinfonia Antartica"} and Symphony No.8 in D Minor, both featuring the London Philharmonic Orchestra led by Sir Adrian Boult. The Seventh also includes soprano Norma Burrowes and the London Philharmonic Choir.

[Karl Henning]

Well, ladies of the London Ph Ch : )

[Mirror Image]

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Listening to Batiashvili's performance of Shosty's VC No. 1 again. So awesome.

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Oh, by the way, you were right about Bernstein's Shostakovich No.5; I listened to the last two movements on youtube, it's a gorgeous performance, absolutely gorgeous!! Such powerful, haunting music!!

Yes, I really thought so as well, but the whole performance is outstanding. Didn't you say you bought the recording? I know Daniel did.

[Mirror Image]

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Listening to Appalachian Spring.

[Sadko]

Sergei Babayan's Scarlatti.  One of my favorite Scarlatti recordings.  If ever his Gaspard is available at a reasonable price, I shall snap it up.  Maybe one day he will record more, too.

The test bits sound interesting, I put the disc on my wish list.

[Mirror Image]

I don't have the Jansons indeed. After not liking his Rachmaninov set (EMI) I didn't try anything else with him yet, if I remember correctly.

Sounds like it's time to remedy this then.

[Bogey]

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Listening to Appalachian Spring.

Do you have the MTT with San Fran on the shelf?

[Mirror Image]

Do you have the MTT with San Fran on the shelf?

Yeah Bill, I own the MTT as well as Copland's own performance. It's a toss-up between Bernstein and MTT.

[rw1883]

#60...

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[kishnevi]

Certainly:

CD1 - Reminiscences de 'Robert le diable', Gnomenreigen, Mephisto Polka, Mephisto Waltz No.1, Reminiscences de 'Don Juan', Waltz from 'Faust'. Pianist: Earl Wild.
CD2 - Chapelle de Guillame Tell, Au lac de Wallenstadt, Vallée d'Obermann, Le Mal de Pays, Le Cloches de Genève, Piano Sonata in B minor. Pianists: Lazar Berman/Sviatoslav Richter.
CD3 - Paraphrases and transcriptions (Tannhauser Pilgerchor, Rigoletto: paraphrase de concert, A Midsummer Night's Dream: Wedding March & Dance of the Elves, La muette de Portici: Prière et Berceuse), Grand Galopp Chromatique, Valse oubliée No.1, Waldesrauschen, Le Jeux d'eau a la Villa d'Este, Gnomenreigen, Valse Impromptu, Hungarian Rhapsody No.19. Pianist: Georges Cziffra.
CD4 - Etudes d'execution transcendante. Pianist: Vladimir Ovchinnikov
CD5-CD6 - Hungarian Rhapsodies. Pianist: Arthur Pizarro.
CD7 - Waldesrauschen, Gnomenreugen, Liebestraum No.3, Mephisto Waltz No.1, Le Jeux d'eau a la Villa d'Este, Piano Sonata in B minor. Pianists: Klara Wurtz/Emil Gilels.
CD8 - Opera transcriptions and paraphrases (Reminiscences de 'Lucia di Lammermoor', Miserere from 'Il Trovatore', Reminiscences de 'Norma', Oberon Ouverture, Benediction et serment de 'Benvenuto Cellini', Pilgrims' Chorus from 'Tannhauser'), Paganini Etudes. Pianist: Alfred Brendel.
CD9 - Annees de pelerinage: Tre sonetti del Petrarca, Venezia e Napoli: Tarantella, Harmonies poetiques et religieuses (Invocation, Benediction de Dieu dans la solitude, Pensees des morts, Funerailles, Cantique d'amour). Pianist: Alfred Brendel.
CD10 - Sonata 'Apres une lecture de Dante, Mephisto Waltz No.1, 7 Etudes d'execution transcendante, Rhapsodie Espagnole. Pianist: Lazar Berman.

Ilaria, thank you!  There's a lot of music there that I don't have or woujld appreciate having alternative performances.   I see that the Gnomenreigen gets no less than three performances! 

I don't have the Jansons indeed. After not liking his Rachmaninov set (EMI) I didn't try anything else with him yet, if I remember correctly.

I have one thing to say in that connection....
DSCH

I don't have the full set, but I found his Fourth,  Thirteenth and Fourteenth very worth while.

Thread duty:
Zavateri Concerti da Chiesa e da Camera dedicati al Nobil Oumo il Signor Cornelio Pepoli Musotti--Opera Prima Bologna 1735
Freiburger Barockorchester / G. von der Goltz
CDs 7 and 8 from the DHM FBO boxset.

Composer totally unknown from me, and very pleasing to my ears.  (And that's not baloney!) 

[Gold Knight]

Felix Mendelssohn--Symphony No.3 in A Minor, Op.50 {"Scottish"} and Symphony No.4 in A Major, Op.90 {"Italian"}, both performed by the Berliner Philharmoniker under the baton of Herbert von Karajan.
Ludwig Van Beethoven--Symphony No.1 in C Major, Op.21 and Symphony No.3 in E-Flat Major, Op.55 {"Eroica"}, again featuring the Berliner Philharmoniker and Herbert von Karajan.