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classicalgeek

Alfred Schnittke
Viola Concerto
Yuri Bashmet, viola
USSR Ministry of Culture Orchestra
Gennady Rozhdestvensky

(on Spotify)



I'm not sure I 'get' Schnittke yet, but I do want to keep trying. Volatile and intense music - there's no one quite like him.
So much great music, so little time...

Original compositions and orchestrations: https://www.youtube.com/@jmbrannigan

Que

Quote from: SonicMan46 on May 25, 2023, 11:07:59 AMMendelssohn, Felix - Piano Concertos w/ [...] Ronald Brautigam using modern pianos (Steinway & Fazioli) on an older 1994 recording w/ Markiz and the Nieuw Sinfonietta Amsterdam and newer recordings (2016/17) on a Paul McNulty reproduction (2010) of an 1830 Pleyel fortepiano; Michael Willens w/ Die Kölner Akademie - reviews attached (including the usual Hurwitz 'attack' on period pianos!).  Dave :)

 

Enjoyed Brautigam's 1st recording for years. Think he and Mendelssohn are a perfect match. How does the 2nd recording compare, or is the main difference the fortepiano?  :)

Linz

Jules Massenet Hérodiade (Ballet Suite), Suites Nos.1-3, Jean-Yves Ossonce, New Zealand Symphony Orchestra

vers la flamme

Quote from: classicalgeek on May 25, 2023, 12:52:32 PMAlfred Schnittke
Viola Concerto
Yuri Bashmet, viola
USSR Ministry of Culture Orchestra
Gennady Rozhdestvensky

(on Spotify)



I'm not sure I 'get' Schnittke yet, but I do want to keep trying. Volatile and intense music - there's no one quite like him.

Me neither, but I've come to rate him as one of my favorite composers  ;D

Now playing:



Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: String Quartet No.21 in D major, K 575, first of the "Prussians". Doric Quartet

First listen, sounds good.

Cato

Rautavaara: Piano Concerto I (1969):


Several of the comments are interesting:

"Whatever the heck I just listened to, I'm literally never going to be the same this is orgasmic and I don't understand it but I have not been this mentally and emotionally stimulated and yet confused in a long, long, time. Jazz harmony ain't got nothing on those wacky chord extensions. The orchestral timbres are simply divine. I don't know what it means, but I feel every emotion at once right now."

 :D


Also:

Scriabin: Piano Sonata VI

"Meet Miss Ruth Sherwood, from Columbus, Ohio, the Middle of the Universe!"

- Brian Aherne introducing Rosalind Russell in  My Sister Eileen (1942)

VonStupp

#92405
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
The Snowman (Act I)
Fairy Tale Pictures, op. 3
Schauspiel Overture, op. 4
Violanta (excerpts), op. 8
BBC Philharmonic - Matthias Bamert

The last of Bamert's Korngold for the week.
VS

 
"All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff."

classicalgeek

Quote from: vers la flamme on May 25, 2023, 01:12:36 PMMe neither, but I've come to rate him as one of my favorite composers  ;D
 

I suppose that's true - one doesn't have to completely understand a composer to enjoy their music!  ;D

TD:
Erland von Koch
Viola Concerto
Johanna Persson, viola
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
B. Tommy Andersson

(on Spotify)



Pleasant enough music, if not particularly memorable. Sort of like if Carl Nielsen wrote a viola concerto (though no doubt Nielsen would've done it better!)
So much great music, so little time...

Original compositions and orchestrations: https://www.youtube.com/@jmbrannigan

SonicMan46

Quote from: Que on May 25, 2023, 01:06:39 PMEnjoyed Brautigam's 1st recording for years. Think he and Mendelssohn are a perfect match. How does the 2nd recording compare, or is the main difference the fortepiano?  :)


Hi Que - well, I like the newer one a 'little' better likely because I'm a fan of McNulty's reproductions, Brautigam is excellent, and the newer recordings are engineered well - guess that you need both!  8) 

Also, just ordered the Brautigam CDs from BIS directly of 'Songs w/o Words' where he uses the same Pleyel reproduction fortepiano - the reviews are excellent (think I posted in another thread) - SO, bottom line is that you'll probably like that instrument.  Dave :)

foxandpeng

Dmitri Shostakovich
Symphony 8
Neeme Jarvi
Scottish National Orchestra
Chandos


Late music to wash out the day.
"A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people ... then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbour — such is my idea of happiness"

Tolstoy

Dry Brett Kavanaugh

William Walton - Varii Capricci.



Karl Henning

Quote from: classicalgeek on May 25, 2023, 12:52:32 PMAlfred Schnittke
Viola Concerto
Yuri Bashmet, viola
USSR Ministry of Culture Orchestra
Gennady Rozhdestvensky

(on Spotify)



I'm not sure I 'get' Schnittke yet, but I do want to keep trying. Volatile and intense music - there's no one quite like him.
Great piece!
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

Keemun

Boccherini: String Quintet No. 60 (Cuarteto Casals, Eckart Runge)



Quite an interesting, accidental find on Spotify when I was looking for some Mozart string quartets to listen to.  I really like this so far.
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. - Ludwig van Beethoven

Symphonic Addict

Quote from: Linz on May 25, 2023, 01:09:29 PMJules Massenet Hérodiade (Ballet Suite), Suites Nos.1-3, Jean-Yves Ossonce, New Zealand Symphony Orchestra

These suites are so tuneful and full of spark. They should be better known.
Part of the tragedy of the Palestinians is that they have essentially no international support for a good reason: they've no wealth, they've no power, so they've no rights.

Noam Chomsky

Symphonic Addict

Quote from: foxandpeng on May 25, 2023, 04:21:38 PMDmitri Shostakovich
Symphony 8
Neeme Jarvi
Scottish National Orchestra
Chandos


Late music to wash out the day.

Quite likely my favorite Shostakovich symphony. The transition between the 3rd and 4th movement is priceless, absolutely stirring!
Part of the tragedy of the Palestinians is that they have essentially no international support for a good reason: they've no wealth, they've no power, so they've no rights.

Noam Chomsky

Symphonic Addict

Two meaty string trios by Heitor Villa-Lobos and Léo Weiner

The last minutes of the 1st mov. on the V-L are so propulsive and memorable, one of the most arresting endings I know in chamber music.

There's another recording of the Weiner (1885-1960, a Hungarian composer) on Hungaroton, but it pales in comparison with this on CPO. What a masterpiece! Simply a remarkable work full of memorable material. The Trio section in the 2nd mov. is to die for.

Part of the tragedy of the Palestinians is that they have essentially no international support for a good reason: they've no wealth, they've no power, so they've no rights.

Noam Chomsky

classicalgeek

Quote from: foxandpeng on May 25, 2023, 04:21:38 PMDmitri Shostakovich
Symphony 8
Neeme Jarvi
Scottish National Orchestra
Chandos


Late music to wash out the day.

Incredible music in an incredible performance!
So much great music, so little time...

Original compositions and orchestrations: https://www.youtube.com/@jmbrannigan

Que

Morning listening:





Quote from: SonicMan46 on May 25, 2023, 03:35:25 PMHi Que - well, I like the newer one a 'little' better likely because I'm a fan of McNulty's reproductions, Brautigam is excellent, and the newer recordings are engineered well - guess that you need both!  8) 

Also, just ordered the Brautigam CDs from BIS directly of 'Songs w/o Words' where he uses the same Pleyel reproduction fortepiano - the reviews are excellent (think I posted in another thread) - SO, bottom line is that you'll probably like that instrument.  Dave :)

Thnx, Dave:)

Mandryka

#92417
Quote from: Mandryka on May 23, 2023, 07:55:30 AMAnd interesting to compare Ponsford's interpretation of the first suite with Leonhardt's, Ponsford more informed by the latest ideas obviously. I much prefer Ponsford. I've got his book on French organ music, I'll check what he says about Boyvin later.

I've spent too much time focussed on Grigny and Titelouze - Boyvin's music is no less interesting - but suites, not hymns and masses. There's Nivers too of course.

When I made that comment I was thinking that suites were secular. The Boyvin suite 1 played in alternatim with a magnificat chanted in the French baroque style.



The model of the CD is analogous to Coudurier's Louis Marchand - just a fantasy really.
The much recorded Seurre organ. Booklet here

https://static.qobuz.com/goodies/58/000141885.pdf


Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muss man schweigen

Lisztianwagner

Sergei Rachmaninov
The Bells

Vladimir Ashkenazy & Concertgebouw Orchestra


"Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire." - Gustav Mahler

San Antone

Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 6 & 15
London Symphony Orchestra, Gianandrea Noseda