What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Sergeant Rock]

I re-listened to the 1st from this set and was suitably impressed - I was expecting it to be fast for some reason but its quite a slow reading.

I think it's a great performance, one of my favorites now that I've become reacquainted with it after many years playing the DG First exclusively. When heard blind in MAD's comparison thread, I was surprised to discover I rated it higher than the DG.

Sarge

[DavidRoss]

I think it's a great performance, one of my favorites now that I've become reacquainted with it after many years playing the DG First exclusively. When heard blind in MAD's comparison thread, I was surprised to discover I rated it higher than the DG.

Or at least rated the clips from the first three movements higher than the clips from the RCO one. 

I rated both of them the worst in their group in round two: NYPO dead last and RCO next to last.  I thought both were slow and self-conscious and took themselves much too seriously. And that pretty well describes how I used to feel about Lenny's Mahler, especially in the later cycle. Yet I haven't felt like that way when listening all the way through in the past few years.

Once my palate's cleared after the M1 overdose, I'll give both a complete, fresh hearing, starting with the "Carnegie" remastered NYPO first -- along with one or two of the "winners," perhaps.

Now listening to Isabelle Faust's new disc of Bach Sonatas & Partitas -- one of the discs ordered but cancelled in "The Great iDeals Fiasco."

[Sergeant Rock]

Saint-Saens Cello Concerto #1 A minor, Han-Na Chang, cello, Rostropovich conducting the LSO




Sarge

[Gurn Blanston]

Continuing with my sudden excursion into Russian Romanticism;



Right now some Lyadov; Baba Yaga, The Enchanted Lake, and Kikimora. Pletnev and The Russians seem right at home with this music. Well, they should, shouldn't they?

[Opus106]

Continuing with my sudden excursion into Russian Romanticism;

I'm just going to guess that Karl will be listening to a certain opus numbered 125 tomorrow morning.

[Gurn Blanston]

I'm just going to guess that Karl will be listening to a certain opus numbered 125 tomorrow morning.

Yes, it's a listening swap; I'm holding him hostage!   

[Lisztianwagner]

Pyotr Il'ych Tchaikovsky
Piano Concerto No.1

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I, Allegro non troppo e molto maestoso - Allegro con spirito

[Marc]

Yesterday I heard Melchior Schildt's Magnificat primi Modi live on the Schnitger organ in the Der Aa Kerk, Groningen, played by Vincent van Laar. Such beautiful music, sounding like an improvisation influenced by Schildt's teacher J.P. Sweelinck.

Now I'm enjoying a disc with this piece played on another exceptional Schnitger organ (Norden) by Joseph Kelemen, combined with other organ works of Schildt and Nicolaus Bruhns. Certainly a good start of the evening!

[Gurn Blanston]

Well, we've left Russia to travel through space and time to early 19th century Vienna;



Many have mixed feelings about this effort, mine are not mixed at all; it is one of my favorites! 

[Coopmv]

Now playing the following CD, a recent arrival for a first listen ...

[Sadko]

Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique
Saint-Saëns: Danse macabre

The Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra
Jean Fournet

[listener]

GLUCK   Don Juan   ballet music
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields                    Neville Marriner, cond.
SHCHEDRIN  25 Polyphonic Preludes for piano
Rodio0n Shchedrin, piano

[Gurn Blanston]

OK, back to Russia now.



Both of the longer suites on here, The Comedians and Masquerade, maybe you see that and think 'never heard those before'. But then you play them and 'zap; hey, I know that music!'. Lovingly played with Kondrashin coaxing out the best efforts.

[Lisztianwagner]

Maurice Ravel
Valses nobles et sentimentales

http://www.youtube.com/v/chc1IIsboH8

By the way, is there an Artur Rubinstein thread?

[bhodges]

OK, back to Russia now.



Both of the longer suites on here, The Comedians and Masquerade, maybe you see that and think 'never heard those before'. But then you play them and 'zap; hey, I know that music!'. Lovingly played with Kondrashin coaxing out the best efforts.

Why don't I have this recording?  Especially since I like all the pieces and the conductor - a lot. Sounds like the entire menu is right up Kondrashin's alley. [Adding to list...]

--Bruce

[Gurn Blanston]

Why don't I have this recording?  Especially since I like all the pieces and the conductor - a lot. Sounds like the entire menu is right up Kondrashin's alley. [Adding to list...]

--Bruce

It's a very nice disk, Bruce. I mentioned the Khachaturian and Kabalevsky before, but can't take anything away from the Rimsky-Korsakov, plus the Tchaikovsky is one of the best performances I have heard. Replaying it even as we speak.

[Coopmv]

Now playing the following CD, another recent arrival for a first listen ...

[Sadko]

Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique
Saint-Saëns: Danse macabre

The Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra
Jean Fournet

My, what a boring interpretation, played like a clockwork, or a street music parade, completely senza passione.

[Gurn Blanston]

And now we conclude our interlude in the former Soviet Union with a taste of the Chamber; Dmitri Shostakovich;



A former Melodiya disk, released into the wild by EMI.

[Gurn Blanston]

My, what a boring interpretation, played like a clockwork, or a street music parade, completely senza passione.

Sorry to hear that. I was curious when you first posted it; better now.