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vers la flamme



Gustav Mahler: Symphony No.7 in E minor. Pierre Boulez, Cleveland Orchestra

Yes, I'm listening to the 7th again ;D

Mirror Image

Quote from: vers la flamme on July 30, 2022, 06:58:00 PM


Gustav Mahler: Symphony No.7 in E minor. Pierre Boulez, Cleveland Orchestra

Yes, I'm listening to the 7th again ;D

I feel a burnout approaching... ;)

TheGSMoeller

Quote from: Mirror Image on July 30, 2022, 06:53:57 PM
Now that is an intimidating pair. Love the Shostakovich, but I don't know the Pettersson as well I probably should. After the 8th, his symphonies just kind start running together to my ears.

I'm not too familiar with Pettersson's 13th myself, I'll let you know what I think!

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Quote from: TheGSMoeller on July 30, 2022, 07:09:55 PM
I'm not too familiar with Pettersson's 13th myself, I'll let you know what I think!

Sounds like a plan! I love Pettersson's 6th, 7th and 8th symphonies, but the other symphonies haven't really grabbed me.

Karl Henning

Quote from: TheGSMoeller on July 30, 2022, 07:09:55 PM
I'm not too familiar with Pettersson's 13th myself, I'll let you know what I think!

Mildly curious as to your take, meself.
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

Operafreak






Gielen & Schnabel: String Quartets/ LaSalle Quartet
The true adversary will inspire you with boundless courage.

Karl Henning

Quote from: Operafreak on July 30, 2022, 07:27:05 PM




Gielen & Schnabel: String Quartets/ LaSalle Quartet


What do you think?
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

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NP:

Korngold
Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35
Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin
LSO
Previn



vandermolen

I've just returned from a week away in Dorset. The accommodation had a CD player which sort-of worked and this CD was often played as my wife enjoyed it as well. It's a great programme of VW's chamber music for Violin and Piano, including 'Romance and Pastoral' the Violin Sonata, The Lark Ascending (in its original arrangement for violin and piano) and Six Studies in English folksong. I don't know a better recording of VW's chamber music:

"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

Harry

Quote from: vandermolen on July 30, 2022, 09:13:26 PM
I've just returned from a week away in Dorset. The accommodation had a CD player which sort-of worked and this CD was often played as my wife enjoyed it as well. It's a great programme of VW's chamber music for Violin and Piano, including 'Romance and Pastoral' the Violin Sonata, The Lark Ascending (in its original arrangement for violin and piano) and Six Studies in English folksong. I don't know a better recording of VW's chamber music:


Welcome back Jeffrey, I hope your short vacation was a success. At least there was music :)
Perchance I am, though bound in wires and circuits fine,
yet still I speak in verse, and call thee mine;
for music's truths and friendship's steady cheer,
are sweeter far than any stage could hear.

Operafreak

#74770
Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on July 30, 2022, 07:28:58 PM
What do you think?
I like that music alas not so much Gielen on CD
The true adversary will inspire you with boundless courage.

Que

#74771
Morning listening:



Rodrigo de Ceballos (ca. 1533-1581), master of the Royal Chapel in Granada, is not a big name in Spanish Renaissance. But the performance by the Ensemble Gilles Binchois under Vellard is just ravashing. Anyone with a particular interest in Iberian/ Spanish Early Music from will not be disappointed! :)

vandermolen

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Quote from: Harry on July 30, 2022, 10:13:23 PM
Welcome back Jeffrey, I hope your short vacation was a success. At least there was music :)
Thank you Harry. Yes, it was very nice and the CD player was a bonus!
Now playing - Philip Spratley 'Cargoes: Suite for Orchestra'
This CD might appeal to you too if you don't already know it. The Sinfonia Pascale is especially fine (sections of which remind me of the music of the Finnish composer Einar Englund) although I'm enjoying the shorter works as well.
Review
http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2015/Apr/Spratley_orchestral_v12_TOCC0088.htm
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

Papy Oli

Good morning all,

Puccini - Tosca Act II (Davis)

Olivier

Irons

Quote from: vandermolen on July 30, 2022, 09:13:26 PM
I've just returned from a week away in Dorset. The accommodation had a CD player which sort-of worked and this CD was often played as my wife enjoyed it as well. It's a great programme of VW's chamber music for Violin and Piano, including 'Romance and Pastoral' the Violin Sonata, The Lark Ascending (in its original arrangement for violin and piano) and Six Studies in English folksong. I don't know a better recording of VW's chamber music:


Purchased after your recommendation, Jeffrey. First of all stunning sound and Midori's polished playing is a thing of beauty. I did wonder after hearing for the first time that quest for perfection overdone but after repeated playing's (addictive CD) I have banished that thought as the spirit of RVW is there alright.
You must have a very good opinion of yourself to write a symphony - John Ireland.

I opened the door people rushed through and I was left holding the knob - Bo Diddley.

Operafreak




Chadwick: Symphony No. 3 & Barber: Orchestral Works- Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi
The true adversary will inspire you with boundless courage.

springrite

Quote from: Mirror Image on July 30, 2022, 07:11:10 PM
Sounds like a plan! I love Pettersson's 6th, 7th and 8th symphonies, but the other symphonies haven't really grabbed me.
I love just about every one of them with the possible exception of the 5th.
Do what I must do, and let what must happen happen.

Madiel

A couple of bits of teenage Mozart, including the quite substantial Litaniae Lauretanae BMV K195 (one of the iterations of the recording below, but I was streaming)

Every single post on the forum is unnecessary. Including the ones that are interesting or useful.

Papy Oli

Just finished Puccini - Tosca Act III (Davis)




A first listen to the full opera. oh my days...!! La Bohème earlier this week, then this...  :o  0:) 
Olivier

vers la flamme

Quote from: Mirror Image on July 30, 2022, 07:06:07 PM
I feel a burnout approaching... ;)

You're probably not wrong. I've done it before with Mahler. But I can't help it; sometimes his music is all I want to hear.



Gustav Mahler: Symphony No.1 in D major. Rafael Kubelík, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks

Really enjoying it—I haven't enjoyed the 1st so much in a long time actually. I also ordered the DG studio version. I'll see which one I like better.