What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Florestan]

Vincent d'Indy

Poeme des rivages op. 77 (1919)

Rumon Gamba  / Iceland SO

[Sergeant Rock]

Mozart String Quartet #23 F major K.590 played by the Quartetto Italiano




Sarge

[springrite]

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Othmar Schoeck
Das Stille Leuchten (The Silent Illumination)
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau / Hartmut Höll
Claves
German link - UK link

Another gorgeous song cycle from Schoeck... far more romantic and structurally looser than Notturno, this cycle to Conrad Ferdinand Meyer poems (the most famous among them "Der Römische Brunnen"; if you are into mathematics, you should check the mathematical formula of the poem's subject out here!) contains Schoeck at his most easily accessible, without the sweetness (for better or worse) of Elegie.

Anyway, this is beautiful stuff and FiDi, in 1988, still manages very well, singing as gently as required.


Aufsteigt der Strahl und fallend gießt
Er voll der Marmorschale Rund,
Die, sich verschleiernd, überfließt
In einer zweiten Schale Grund;
Die zweite gibt, sie wird zu reich,
Der dritten wallend ihre Flut,
Und jede nimmt und gibt zugleich
Und strömt und ruht.

I am reminded that I have not visited that wonderful recording in about 8 years. Time to pull it out! Thanks!

[Sergeant Rock]

Karl Henning Love is the Spirit of this Church op.85, performed by Henning and company. Left click to enlarge.



Sarge

[Fafner]

Verdi - Simon Boccanegra
Gavazzeni, Cappuccilli, Ricciarelli, Domingo, Raimondi

[Florestan]

1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qfz1TZ0h6zQ

2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7w-mImW9Bc

3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzOZrdltfSc

My ranking: 1>2>3 (much as I love Gulda I think he rushes it like hell --- but I want to give him the benefit of doubt: maybe it was just the 3rd encore after a tiring concert. 

[Gurn Blanston]

CD 3 of this set.

Antonio Vivaldi.
Concert for the Prince of Poland.
The Academy of Ancient Music, Andrew Manze.

Well, Harry, that's such a nice looking box that I'm almost sorry that I already have all those disks.   

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Camerata Bern - Georg M. Monn Concerto in Bb for Violin.

[Que]

      
Sonata for piano, 4 hands in D major, K. 381 (K. 123a)   
Fugue for piano in G minor (fragment) K. 401 (K. 375e)
Sonata for piano, 4 hands in F major, K. 497

Bart van Oort (primo) & Ursula Dütschler (secundo) on a copy after Walter ca 1795

Q

[mc ukrneal]

1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qfz1TZ0h6zQ

2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7w-mImW9Bc

3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzOZrdltfSc

My ranking: 1>2>3 (much as I love Gulda I think he rushes it like hell --- but I want to give him the benefit of doubt: maybe it was just the 3rd encore after a tiring concert. 

I don't know this piece well at all, but I agree with your ordering. The second is too rigid, but the third is too flexible and unstable in its rhythm. I don't think the problem is the speed per se though. It does give it a different mood though, so if you like it a bit melancholy than you would prefer a slower speed.

[Florestan]

I don't know this piece well at all, but I agree with your ordering. The second is too rigid, but the third is too flexible and unstable in its rhythm.

Well, I just realized that I wrote down my ranking wrong. What I really meant was 2>1>3. 

Talk about subjectivity in appreciating music. 

I don't think the problem is the speed per se though. It does give it a different mood though, so if you like it a bit melancholy than you would prefer a slower speed.

The problem with that Gulda performance is that the only mood it inspires me is "That was all, folks, let's get home asap!" 

[Sergeant Rock]

Well, I just realized that I wrote down my ranking wrong. What I really meant was 2>1>3. 

I prefer your wrong order.

You've given me an idea, though. I think I'll listen to all my versions of K.397 tonight.

Sarge

[mc ukrneal]

I prefer your wrong order.

You've given me an idea, though. I think I'll listen to all my versions of K.397 tonight.

Sarge

I think you will find better than all three. None seemed ideal to me, though neither did I have as big a negative reaction as Florestan.

[Florestan]

I prefer your wrong order.

Well, I guess sometimes (always?) I am right when I am wrong. 

You've given me an idea, though. I think I'll listen to all my versions of K.397 tonight.

Please do and keep us informed about your ranking. It's one of my favorite Mozart works, but I don't have a favorite performer. My only thumb rule is: for God's sake, don't rush! 

[Karl Henning]

"Papa"
The Creation
Gabrieli Consort & Players
Paul M^cCreesh

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[DavidRoss]

Because I am not writing it off that I will one day enjoy it?

Ahhh ... an open mind. How refreshing!

Now playing, Mahler 9, Bernstein/BP



Still a fave. God, what a treasure Lenny was!

[Mirror Image]

I bought these Arnold Dances at one of the L'abeille sales a couple years ago. What delightful music. A wonderful way to start off the day...
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Yeah, I like this recording a good bit. I remember playing this recording a few times when I first bought it. Delightful music, indeed.

[madaboutmahler]

Good evening, everyone!

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Introduction and Allegro

Excellent music, love this piece! Great performance also!
I can feel some more Elgar coming up later this evening!

[not edward]

Another return to this fine Henze collection:

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Everything on here is thoroughly enjoyable, but I've really enjoyed getting to know the 8th symphony better on this disc. It's now become my favourite recording of the work, ahead of Janowski, as Stenz seems to catch perfectly the quicksilver swings of mood between banal, fantastic and dreamlike that characterize this symphony. Great stuff, and a perfect contrast to the demonically hard-driven, catastrophic 7th (if I regard the 7th as the greater work of the two, it may be no more than the deeply ingrained 'tragedy is deeper than comedy' attitude that so many people, myself included, seem to have).

[Fafner]

Good evening, everyone!

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Good evening..

I have never been able to distinguish between Sir Andrew Davis and Sir Colin Davis. I know Sir Andrew has been associated with Chicago Lyric Opera and Sir Colin with LSO, but beyond that I always confuse the two.

[Fafner]

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Edward Elgar - Variations on an Original Theme

London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult