What are you listening 2 now?

[Symphonic Addict]

Here is the review I wrote in 2014 — wow, ten years ago already. It was a terrific concert, and yes, I feel lucky to have experienced it.

-Bruce

Quite interesting to read. That the concert has included works by Kancheli and Gubaidulina made it more special and unmissable. Thanks for sharing!

[Karl Henning]

I guess that his music is too "gloomy" for concert programmers to be performed. A pity. I wouldn't miss any opportunity to attend a concert featuring any of his works. Anyway, lucky you that managed to hear that work live.

I forget which one, but I did manage to hear one of the Concerti grossi live in Symphony Hall. 

[Symphonic Addict]

I forget which one, but I did manage to hear one of the Concerti grossi live in Symphony Hall.

The Concerti grossi are amazing, so the concert had to be like that I imagine, more so if it was the Concerto grosso No. 4, aka Symphony No. 5.

[steve ridgway]

I like the Black Angels album with the Kronos Quartet.  I don't know this one.  Looks like it's a relatively recent one?  Love the photo of him with his pups.  Is Ann his wife?  I haven't heard any of her music.  How is it?

K

Ann Crumb was George's daughter. Her folk singing on that 2003 CD is very good although Wikipedia says her career was mainly in musicals, theatre and TV. And she was keen on animal rescue   .

[SimonNZ]

21,22,23,24

[Kalevala]

Ann Crumb was George's daughter. Her folk singing on that 2003 CD is very good although Wikipedia says her career was mainly in musicals, theatre and TV. And she was keen on animal rescue   .

Thanks for the info!

K

[NumberSix]

Beethoven: Symphony No. 5
Norrington, London Classical Players

[Mandryka]

I searched after your message but couldn't find anything,did you perhaps mean Frescobaldi?

I think I meant Tilney!

[Florestan]

That's because it doesn't exist! I have no idea what I was thinking of.

Too much Chardonnay, perhaps? 

[vandermolen]

Bliss: Hymn to Apollo
An oddly moving work. I like the suggestion that this was Bliss's final attempt to come to terms with the death of his brother in the First World War (Apollo being the God of healing, amongst other things). A case of survivor's guilt perhaps. The Hymn to Apollo is a purely orchestral work. The Cello Concerto is another fine work which I have increasingly come to appreciate:

[Iota]

Rachmaninoff: Piano Sonata No. 1 in D minor, Op. 28

A magnificent beast in many ways, with an unspeakably lovely slow movement. For all its occasional sprawl, for me the lights come on immediately and stay on throughout. Simple chord progressions (as in the opening) seem to run right to the heart of human aspiration and feeling, with the directness of a tune hummed by a child but heard by an adult. SR's unique and raw gift on full display, a thing to induce immense gratitude if you ask me. 

[Papy Oli]

Bartok - Concerto for orchestra

from the Reiner/Chicago box.

Wow!!!! 

[Florestan]

Dipping my toe in this boxset with a first listening:

Overture to a Picaresque Comedy

Love it.

[Papy Oli]

Still Reiner:

R. Strauss - Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme Op.60

[Papy Oli]

More Reiner:

Beethoven - 7th Symphony.
Weinberger - Svanda the bagpiper (Polka & Fugue)
Smetana - The Bartered bride (overture)
Dvorak - Carnival Op.92, Overture

[Madiel]

Mozart: Violin sonatas 11, 12 and 13. The first half of opus 4.

[Papy Oli]

Reiner and Mussorgsky.

[Todd]

[Papy Oli]

Mozart: Violin sonatas 11, 12 and 13. The first half of opus 4.

I'll join you for a change of scenery.

K.301 for me with Lupu/Goldberg.

[Papy Oli]

K.301 & K.481

Ibragimova/Tiberghien