What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Valentino]

Most excellent choice for a spin, Andy.

[rubio]

Brahms Symphony No 3 and the Haydn-variationen performed by Giulini/VPO. This has grandeur and broadness and just hits my spot .

[Haffner]

Most excellent choice for a spin, Andy.

That one is a true, Tiger Beat favorite of mine.

[orbital]

By any chance have you heard this version of Triadic Memories?  It's marvelous, and comes in a DVD version, too, with a 20-minute interview with Nonken talking about Feldman. 



--Bruce

I am still warming up to his music (warm and Feldman should probably be not even used in the same sentence   ). I will need your input soon enough, hopefully.

[hautbois]

Brahms Symphony No. 3 by Harnoncourt/BPO. This more small-scale performance did not really click with me this first time. I guess I prefer the broader, grander old-fashioned Brahms interpretations. But maybe it will work for me the next time I hear it .

Works for me and has been working for me ever since i bought it.

Howard

[JoshLilly]

Andy, your music selection for your 41st birthday was compelled ....... it had to be Mozart's 41st.  We are now, however, very curious as to what you will ultimately select for your 42d birthday in one year ..........  

W.A. Mozart wrote at least 45 symphonies it would seem, so it shouldn't be much of a problem until then! Just renumber accordingly. Speaking of which, somebody really needs to go back and renumber some of that stuff based on later discoveries. Several famous composers could do with reworkings of their catalogues: Mendelssohn's, Schumann's... all kinds of symphonies need renumbering! I even say give the middle finger to Bruckner... the dude wrote 11 symphonies, I don't care what he says! And Saint-Saëns wrote at least 5, the Organ should be #5! It's time to make these guys man up.

[karlhenning]

W.A. Mozart wrote at least 45 symphonies it would seem

Yes, but the 'rediscovered' nos. 42-45 are forgettable juvenilia, which will only encourage despair over the aging process 

[karlhenning]

Berg
Violin Concerto
Henryk Szeryng
Bavarian Radio Symphony
Kubelik

[Valentino]

I, who simply love Brahms' music, haven't managed to see this gem among gems until Harry played this disc just recently. So here we go again, from the hot Anner Bijlsma jubilee edition box set:

Cello sonata op. 38 in E minor, with Lambert Orkis on the piano. It's Brahms all right.

[Kullervo]

My 41st birthday morning music is centered around the most majestic, ecstasy-inducing piece I've ever heard:


Mozart's 41st Symphony, aka the Clarion Call of Angels.

Here's to hoping you have to start counting serenades and divertimenti! 

[sidoze]

Sidoze, check this thread.

Tip from uffeviking:

Q

Why should I have to disable all signatures just because one selfish person wants to hog space with one of his ugly images? This character has already gotten one of the best members of the board to leave recently, and I've also just about had enough of him. The ironic part is that I try to avoid him, but he posts everywhere and in such huge, pointless quantity that he can't be missed.

[Scriptavolant]

Piano Concerto No. 20 - Gulda/Abbado

[Kullervo]

Ernest Chausson

Poeme de l'amour et de la mer, op. 19

Waltraud Meier, mezzo-soprano
Philadelphia Orchestra
Riccardo Muti

Exquisite.

Good day/morning/evening to all!

Great piece, but don't you think the text is lame? Clichéd and overly-sentimental if you ask me, and you didn't.

[DavidW]

Which disc would that be David?

It's Lamento d'Arianna with Rene Jacobs.

[pjme]

Clichéd and overly-sentimental if you ask me, and you didn't.  


Well, we're talking about the 19th century! But indeed, Maurice Bouchor wasn't France's greatest poet.
even so : bake a quiche, drink half a bottle of wine, let mme. Meier croon ..and enjoy!

[Harry]

Why should I have to disable all signatures just because one selfish person wants to hog space with one of his ugly images? This character has already gotten one of the best members of the board to leave recently, and I've also just about had enough of him. The ironic part is that I try to avoid him, but he posts everywhere and in such huge, pointless quantity that he can't be missed.

Yes, well thank you my friend!

[Solitary Wanderer]

Haydn – Trumpet Concerto

H K Gruber – Three Mob Pieces


Mozart ~ Symphony #31 'Paris'

[Solitary Wanderer]

Last nights 'meditation music':


This is lovely, but not classical and leaning towards 'new age-y'.


This is perfect!

[Lethevich]

Für Alina puts me into gigantic negative moods for some reason, it'd probably make me wish I wouldn't wake up

Now playing: Stravinsky - Violin Concerto (from the Big Cheap Box) -- inspired by someone else in the thread mentioning it earlier. Love those strange notes beginning each movement - a great sound.

[Bogey]

Don't forget Bogey's special gift of a pile of green mermaid goo ........

You are right, of course, D....should have sent him this: