What are you listening 2 now?

[AnotherSpin]

[Que]

[Tsaraslondon]

Hermann - Zurab Anjaparidze
Lisa - Tamara Milashkina
Countess - Valentina Levko
Count Tomsky - Mikhail Kiselev
Prince Yeletsky - Yuri Mazurok
Pauline - Irina Arkhipova
Chekalinsky - Andrei Sokolov
Surin - Valery Yaroslavtsev
Chaplitsky - Vitali Vlassov
Major-domo - Anatoly Mishutin
Narumov - Yuri Dementiev
Governess - Mariya Matukova
Orchestra & Chorus of the Bolshoi Theatre - Boris Khaikin

This is a fantastic recording of Tchaikovsky's masterpiece, almost on a par with Khaikin's Eugene Onegin, and in much better stereo sound. Hearing it now for the first time via Spotify.

[Irons]

Haydn: Symphony No.101 "The Clock"

The only way to stop foot-tapping is to nail it to the floor!

[Florestan]

Rachmaninov: 10 Preludes, Op. 23

Some of this is truly lovely playing. Glad to be having something of a reconnection with Ashkenazy lately.

Great cover art too. Do you have any idea what painting is that?

[Madiel]

Great cover art too. Do you have any idea what painting is that?

By the power of discogs I can tell you the artist is Albert Edelfelt. And it's just called "At the piano" (he seems to have painted more than one version of the theme).

[Edit: I knew where to look because this is basically the same series of Decca 2-CD sets as the Alicia de Larrocha Spanish piano music I've been buying]

[Florestan]

By the power of discogs I can tell you the artist is Albert Edelfelt. And it's just called "At the piano" (he seems to have painted more than one version of the theme).

Thanks.

[Madiel]

Nielsen: Saga-Dream



One of the smaller orchestral works that I don't have in my CD collection. I'd like to have it in my CD collection. I'd frankly like more conductors to think seriously about Nielsen's orchestral works besides the symphonies, maybe even not just as symphony fillers. See also Sibelius, Dvorak etc etc.

[Madiel]

Nielsen: Cantata for the opening ceremony of the National Exhibition in Aarhus 1909



I might also listen to the other main cantata on here (from University celebrations in 1908) or save it for later. If you look at the Nielsen catalogue, there's an argument that this sort of thing is more true to his musical life than the symphonies. He wrote a lot of vocal works. For events, for school songbooks, for the kinds of choirs that barely exist now. He wrote new proposed melodies for the national anthem.

[Hitch]

Mozart
Symphony No. 40, K.550
Apollo's Fire/Jeannette Sorrell



My first encounter with period instrument Mozart. This recording (no clarinets) wipes away the silvery sheen that is often to be found in recordings of Mozart's late symphonies. The strings, placed in a relatively dry reverb, are a pleasure to hear. Some lovely woodwind details are apparent, although the relatively pawky instruments can be overpowered at times by the string section. The performance sometimes lacks drive but the immediacy of the strings compensates more than adequately.

It made a pleasant change to hear 18th century Mozart instead of 20th!

[Traverso]

Well look at the discussion -- you'll see I asked that very question.

He's just a music lover, based somewhere in deepest small town Texas -- talented though. 

I can't find an interview,I only read that he owes a great debt of gratitude to Maharish yogi the Guru who tried to teach his followers weightlessness.

[Mandryka]

I can't find an interview,I only read that he owes a great debt of gratitude to Maharish yogi the Guru who tried to teach his followers weightlessness.

When I asked him who he was he said the following:

I'm Nobody! Who are you?
Are you – Nobody – too?
Then there's a pair of us!
Don't tell! they'd advertise – you know!

How dreary – to be – Somebody!
How public – like a Frog –
To tell one's name – the livelong June –
To an admiring Bog!

[Iota]

Petrassi: Coro di Morti (Madrigale drammatico)

A short work for male choir, three pianos, brass and percussion. The sombre, portentous colours Petrassi drums up from the darkness with this interesting  ensemble of instruments/voices, are very captivating. Not that I know much of his work, but the clarity of textures he achieves seems something I associate with him and much admire.

[Iota]

When I asked him who he was he said the following:

I'm Nobody! Who are you?
Are you – Nobody – too?
Then there's a pair of us!
Don't tell! they'd advertise – you know!

How dreary – to be – Somebody!
How public – like a Frog –
To tell one's name – the livelong June –
To an admiring Bog!

I like the sound of him.

[LKB]

When I asked him who he was he said the following:

I'm Nobody! Who are you?
Are you – Nobody – too?
Then there's a pair of us!
Don't tell! they'd advertise – you know!

How dreary – to be – Somebody!
How public – like a Frog –
To tell one's name – the livelong June –
To an admiring Bog!

https://poets.org/poem/im-nobody-who-are-you-260

[Traverso]

When I asked him who he was he said the following:

I'm Nobody! Who are you?
Are you – Nobody – too?
Then there's a pair of us!
Don't tell! they'd advertise – you know!

How dreary – to be – Somebody!
How public – like a Frog –
To tell one's name – the livelong June –
To an admiring Bog!

Apparently an enlightened mind with the necessary unworldly self-importance.
Two times nobody is two.
It is gibberish of the first order.

[AnotherSpin]

[Mandryka]

By coincidence I listened to this myself the oher week. I like Frey a lot.

[Traverso]

Bach

[VonStupp]

Samuel Barber
Knoxville: Summer of 1915

Dawn Upshaw, soprano
Orchestra of St. Luke's - David Zinman

Wonderful!
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