What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

2nd mvt. Adagio, at 2:55, perhaps the most beautiful theme of all Bruckner begins.   

Only beaten by the one in the Adagio of the Sixth, IMO...

[Harry]

Joseph Anton Steffan.
Concerto for Pianoforte and Orchestra in B flat major.
Andreas Staier, Fortepiano.
Concerto Koln.

Not as accomplished as Salieri, but a nice ride anyway, tuneful and rich in invention.
Well recorded and played.

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Congratulations!

And guess what I just listened to - Havergal Brian, symphonies nos 8 and 10. With score, for the first time in nearly 20 years.  Don't usually post on this thread, but I thought that one was worth it...

Lacryma, eh? Don't have that one..... so much Brian, so little time.

I hope the scores will give you an even greater insight into Brian.

The opera 'The Tigers' is Brian's first real masterpiece, the comical counterpart to 'The Gothic'. It has been performed in its entirety only once, in a radio broadcast by the BBC (1980s). Brian drew a suite of three orchestral pieces from it, and later on Malcolm MacDonald added another three, making six 'Symphonic Movements' as they are called. Titles: Symphonic Variations on 'Has anybody here seen Kelly?' - Shadow Dance - Gargoyles - Lacryma - Green Pastures and Wild Horsemen. They were recorded in the 1980s, on the Forlane label, by the Luxembourg Radio Symphony Orchestra (!) conducted by Leopold Hager. In all their colour and variety they show Brian's inventiveness and orchestral wizardry at their best. I have them as mp3s (bad sound), and on tape cassette (excellent sound)... It was the mp3 I was listening to.

[Saul]

Lord of the Rings Symphony by Howard Shore.

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Lord of the Rings Symphony by Howard Shore.

Are these the three soundtracks to the trilogy? Terrific music.

[Keemun]

The String Quintet from this:

[Haffner]

Just received this today, and am very much impressed and happy.

[Haffner]

You just found out that Britney Spears is a singer (and I use the word loosely)? You've been off-planet the last nine years, haven't you 

Sarge

P.S.  I agree, it's a damn fine tune actually.

She's kind of like a Janet Jackson that can't sing.

Fun, silly tune, though.

[Haffner]

Bruckner - Symphony No. 5 in B flat major

Jochum/Staatskapelle Dresden
EMI Classics

LUCKY!

[HARPER_JT]

Britney Spears and the whole school uniform thing was intended to make young school girl listeners open up to sex and loose their moral boundary of being too young. In the context of the song, 'Hit me one more time' means simply to have sex one more time. How modern society has lost touch with it's own innocence.

[Haffner]

Britney Spears and the whole school uniform thing was intended to make young school girl listeners open up to sex and loose their moral boundary of being too young. In the context of the song, 'Hit me one more time' means simply to have sex one more time. How modern society has lost touch with it's own innocence.

To quote Honourable Karl Hennning: "Aye."

[Haffner]

Fugues Nos. 1-12 from Bach's WTC Book II
this set is one for the desert-island...

JAH-min'! The perfect set, in my humble opinion. Speaking of...

[not edward]

That's WP/Mehta in Mahler 2 and Schmidt 4, both outstanding performances to my mind (the Mahler up there for me with Scherchen's wonderfully different reading and not far behind the amazing live Boulez; the Schmidt the best I've heard thus far). I wonder what happened to the Mehta who recorded these and the WP Bruckner 9--a recording I pull out more often even than Giulini, Kubelik and Furtwängler.

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

That's WP/Mehta in Mahler 2 and Schmidt 4, both outstanding performances to my mind (the Mahler up there for me with Scherchen's wonderfully different reading and not far behind the amazing live Boulez; the Schmidt the best I've heard thus far). I wonder what happened to the Mehta who recorded these and the WP Bruckner 9--a recording I pull out more often even than Giulini, Kubelik and Furtwängler.

I know the Schmidt 4 under Mehta very well - a heartrending work in a great performance. How does Järvi compare? He has a whole cycle under his belt (I only have the Second, which was already issued at the end of the 1980s, iirc).

[Christo]

Agree with the general praise for Mehta's Schmidt IV - a fine performance of a profound work.

But now it's my turn again:

               

[Que]

Q

[rubio]

Symphony no. 2, 3, and 4 from the below set. For the orchestral playing this is the best performance I have heard so far. Staatskapelle Dresden is splendid; especially I love the woodwind playing, the brass and the balance between the sections. When it comes to e.g. the 2nd symphony I still find more emotion and personal influence from Walter/Columbia SO.

[Sergeant Rock]

Das Rheingold conducted by Knappertsbusch at Bayreuth, 1956.




Sarge

[Haffner]

Das Rheingold conducted by Knappertsbusch at Bayreuth, 1956.




Sarge

oooOOOoo (redux)!

[karlhenning]

Are these the three soundtracks to the trilogy? Terrific music.

Is it a symphony, though?

Is any of it a movement?