What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[dtwilbanks]

[Harry]

Rossini

Peches de Vieillesse, Volume IV.

Stefan Irmer, Piano.

The more I get into Rossini's Piano music, the more I admire him, for his skills as a composer of instrumental works, it shines like a beacon into this gloomy world. And make no mistake the writing is of a very high level. The melodies are just gorgeous.
The recording has a warm yet detailed sound. Stefan Irmer is a pianist to be reckoned with.

[The Emperor]

Steve Reich - Electric Counterpoint

[hautbois]

[Hector]

In a parallel universe, Bruckner wrote nothing but Burlesken . . . .

I do not think that is a fair description of Jochum's conducting of Bruckner. Generous, maybe but fair, no.

Switched on 'Listeners Requests' the other day to be confronted by a strange piece of music that, at one point, sounded like orchestral Puccini with a twittering violin obbligato. Had me gripped. No obbligato this but Pfitzner's rarely performed Violin Concerto. The CPO recording. I must have it!

Long day starting with Parry's 5th Symphony under the only conductor to make this sound more than second rate, Adrian Boult.

Followed by Smetana's 1st String Qt played by the original Talich line up.

'Marche Slave,' live, the LSO, electric under Stokowski at his 90th birthday concert in 1972! The audience erupted at the end.

Finally, the really quite wonderful 'The Haunted Manor' performed by the Polish National Opera, Warsaw, appropriately, under the ezxcellent Jacek Kaspszyk in 2001 on EMI.

Moniuszko throws in all he knows so there is the current French favourites in Auber and Halevy and early Verdi but given a distinct Polish flavour that is quite compulsive.

[karlhenning]

Feldman
Rothko Chapel

One of my favorite pieces for viola, celeste, percussion, soprano & chorus 

[bhodges]

One of my favorite pieces for viola, celeste, percussion, soprano & chorus 

So what are the others?      

Seriously, that's a beautiful work, one of his best.  I haven't heard it in quite awhile.

--Bruce

[Harry]

Dutch Organs.

A journey through the Dutch Organ landscape in 20 cd's.

Midwolde Reform Church, played by Margreet Prinsen.
Cuijk St Martinus Church, played by Peter van Dijk.
Zeerijp, Jacobus Church, played by Stef Tuinstra.
Maastricht, Onze Lieve vrouwebasiliek, played by Hans Leenders.
Amsterdam New Church, main Organ, played by Bernard Winsemius.

Works by Gisbert Steenwijk/Froberger/Muffat/Thomas Babou/Arnold Schlick/Annibale Padovano/Hassler/Nicolas Lebegue/Sweelinck/Scheidt/Bruhns/and lots of anonymous works.

The recordings are all exceptional good, with fine sounding Organs. It sets you back in time, close your eyes and you are in that church and time of composition. This series is important to me, being a lover of old Organ music. Hearing it on my prime equipment, it is as sitting in the church rather than listening to a recording of it.

[Lethevich]

Liszt - 12 Etudes D'Execution Transcendante (Laszlo Simon, BIS)

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

I do not think that is a fair description of Jochum's conducting of Bruckner. Generous, maybe but fair, no.

Mm, I think he was joking about Bruckner, Hector, not about Jochum's style of conducting... In this universe Bruckner has written the grandest of musical works, in a parallel one he writes nothing but burlesques - I had to smile at the idea.

[Harry]

Cuijk St. Martinus Church, Organ

Zeerijp, Jacobus Church. Organ

[karlhenning]

So what are the others?      

Seriously, that's a beautiful work, one of his best.  I haven't heard it in quite awhile.

It is a beauty, Bruce;  and now:

Why Patterns?

I hadn't listened to this one in a while, either.  When I was thinking about an earlier passage in my work-in-progress, The Mousetrap, I had my impression of this piece (not necessarily the piece itself) in mind . . . and so in my notes, that passage was labeled "wry patterns."

But it was one of those instances where I both wanted (in a general way) to revisit the piece;  and yet, was content to work on my own music just with the 'distant impression' as one of the models.  At any rate, that part of my own composition is long done, so I am enjoying going back to Feldman's Urtext :-)

[orbital]

Stravinsky - 3 movements form Petrushka (Sokolov, Tokyo Live 1991). I couldn't get the initial theme out of my head ever sinceI woke up this morning, so I had to play this to put my mind at rest

[bhodges]

It is a beauty, Bruce;  and now:

Why Patterns?

I hadn't listened to this one in a while, either.  When I was thinking about an earlier passage in my work-in-progress, The Mousetrap, I had my impression of this piece (not necessarily the piece itself) in mind . . . and so in my notes, that passage was labeled "wry patterns."

But it was one of those instances where I both wanted (in a general way) to revisit the piece;  and yet, was content to work on my own music just with the 'distant impression' as one of the models.  At any rate, that part of my own composition is long done, so I am enjoying going back to Feldman's Urtext :-)

I've heard Why Patterns? twice live in the last few years--another memorable one.  (And another Feldman work that doesn't require one to commit to the entire evening.  )  PS, just last week I heard one of the shortest Feldman pieces I can recall: Projection 1 (1950) for solo cello, about 3 minutes!

--Bruce

[Harry]

Midwolda Organ

Maastricht Organ

[Harry]

Amsterdam, New Church main Organ

[Drasko]

Watching, Bernstein conducting Brahms' 1st with Israel Philharmonic and Schumann's 2nd (with doubling winds I believe) with Wiena.

[Que]

Wohaaa! 



Q

[karlhenning]

Dmitri Dmitriyevich
Four Verses of Capt Lebyadkin, Opus 146 (orch. Tishchenko)
Segrei Leiferkus
Russian Phil
Thos Sanderling

[PaulR]

Wohaaa! 



Q

That's a good one, isn't it?

I got it when they came to my school last year.