What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[DavidRoss]

Good disc, David, awkward photo though.

That's from the days long ago when women pianists were valued almost solely for their musicianship and not for their willingness to glam up like high-dollar hookers to boost record sales!

It is a great disc. Just came across it on Mog when I was looking for something else, had to hear it, and after just the first few tracks, had to buy it! Maybe I should cancel my subscription to Mog because it's costing me a hell of a lot more than $5/month!

[Gurn Blanston]

Some Mozart keyboard concertos that are certainly to my taste;



If I had to choose between this one and Bilson/Gardiner, I would just go into a repeating loop ad infinitum...

Right now, K 414 in A.

[Lilas Pastia]

Rimsky-Korsakov

Tsar Saltan - Suite
**Russian Easter Overture
The Golden Cockerel - Suite
Capriccio Espagnol

Seraphim Classics

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**Although I enjoy the entire disc, I cannot help but listen to the Russian Easter Overture multiple times, every time I pop in this disc.  It is simply one of my favourite, upbeat orchestral works.  It produces air conducting for me 'en masse', with almost no equal in that department! 

[pounds the table 'en masse']

Yesssir ! Few works elicit such spontaneous 'air conducting' response as that Overture !

[mc ukrneal]

Schumann, Kinderszenen, Argerich -- 'nuff said!

I like that disc too. I actually prefer the more recent version she did at Lugano for Kinderszenen, but this one is still very good.

[Dancing Divertimentian]

Ode To The End Of The War.

[Corey]

Great stuff!  Hope it clicks for you.

Y'all have me doing it, too:


The only Delius disc I own. I've always regarded his music as pretty but not particularly memorable nor deep. Funny, I used to regard Sibelius and Vaughan Williams the same way.

Paris has been hitting all the right buttons for me lately.

[Cato]

Thanks to the generosity of Andre', I have heard the Sixth and Seventh Symphonies of Danish composer Herman Koppel.

Highly recommended: he seems to follow Schoenberg's dictum that many good things could still be written in C major, although Koppel goes well beyond C major!

[Gold Knight]

On Spotify:

Dmitri Shostakovich--Symphony No.1 in F Minor, Op.10 and Symphony No.6 in B Minor, Op.54. Both works feature the New York Philharmonic led by Leonard Bernstein.

[DavidRoss]

Again, via Mog (I may just have to buy this one, too!):

[Mirror Image]

Now:



Listening to Violin Concerto with Tasmin Little and Charles Mackerras conducting the Welsh National Opera Orchestra.

[Mirror Image]

Great stuff!  Hope it clicks for you.

Y'all have me doing it, too:


The only Delius disc I own. I've always regarded his music as pretty but not particularly memorable nor deep. Funny, I used to regard Sibelius and Vaughan Williams the same way.

This is interesting. I had no problems appreciating Delius, Sibelius, or RVW. You might say it was love at first listen. They gave me no difficulties whatsoever. For me, I felt so strongly about these composers that I felt as if they were writing music that was directed towards me. Each of these composers have several different layers of skin. The more you peel back a layer of skin, the more you find.

[listener]

Virgil THOMSON: Symphonies 2 & 3, Symphony on a Hymn Tune, Pilgrims and Pioneers
New Zealand Symphony Orch.,   James Sedares, cond.
LOEFFLER: Music for Four stringed Instruments  (the usual quartet)
Halsey STEVENS: Quintet for flute, piano, violin, viola and cello
Katherine HOOVER: Quintet (Da Pacem) for piano and string quartet
Monteclaire String Quartet, with Leslie Pettys, piano and Wendell Dobbs, flute
an American evening, purely by chance.
maybe Beecham's Delius tomorrow.

[Conor71]

Sibelius: Symphony No. 5 In Eb Major, Op. 82


Im up to Disc 3 of the Sibelius box now - I forgot what a good set this is!. Next I will listen to more of the 5th Symphony, both the original and revised versions from Vanska's Sibelius Cycle. Tomorrow I think I will listen to Karajan and Barbirolli's Sibelius

[The new erato]

Thanks to the generosity of Andre', I have heard the Sixth and Seventh Symphonies of Danish composer Herman Koppel.

Highly recommended: he seems to follow Schoenberg's dictum that many good things could still be written in C major, although Koppel goes well beyond C major!

Koppel is a great composer - a year ago or so I bought most of what is available from Dacapo. A natural successor to Nielsen IMO.

[Lisztianwagner]

Vitezslav Novak
Lady Godiva

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[Karl Henning]

Good morning/day, all!

JS Bach
Brandenburg Concerto N° 3 in G, BWV 1048
English Chamber Orchestra
Benjamin Britten, cond/hpschd

[Sergeant Rock]

Bruckner Symphony #7 E major, Karajan conducting the Berlin Phil




Sarge

[Karl Henning]

JS Bach
Passacaglia and Fugue in c minor, BWV 582
Marie-Claire Alain

[North Star]

First time I got to listen to all of this in one go, an absolutely splendid work and performance.

Debussy
Le Martyre de saint Sebastian
Tilson-Thomas
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[TheGSMoeller]

"The Concerto gregoriano...rather than casting the soloist in the role of dragon-slayer, Respighi envisioned the violinist as the cantor/priest and the orchestra as his congregation."

-Jeremy Siepmann, from the booklet notes (1993)

A piece of music I've neglected and shamefully so, the gregoriano contains some lovely melodies with a real pastoral and meditative atmosphere.