What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Sergeant Rock]

Don't do it, Sarge, don't do it!



Mozart isn't the only composer!

In fact I'm still alive, and despite opting for Mozart   This is one of my very favorite recordings. We go back a long way (first heard it in the 60s): Mozart's Divertimento D major K.131. Those Myron Bloom-led horns in the Minuets, to die for, and Szell's tempos are perfect: stately, actually danceable.



That CD is part of the Original Jacket Collection:



Sarge

[Sergeant Rock]

Mozart

Last 3 Symphonies

Boehm

DG


#40 is particularly limp here, I am confused about why these performances are acclaimed. Perhaps the last symphony's performance will change my mind. 

George, you should have gone for Szell and Cleveland, a conductor and band that really knew how to play Mozart.

Sarge

[George]

Now that's a real Mozart conductor! 

EDIT - 

Just read your post....

I have two CDs that you prescribe, it's not enough. I may get that original jacket thingee. How many symphonies are covered?

[George]

George, you should have gone for Szell and Cleveland, a conductor and band that really knew how to play Mozart.

Sarge

As they say in New England, you ain't shittin'   

[Harry]

Hmmm. Still cannot get enough of Hindemith, Berg in small doses (do people sit and enjoy 'Lulu'?) but gone off Reger, a bit. The Boecklin tone poems are great, however.

Went back to Diepenbrock's orchestral songs over the weekend after a few years and found that they still hold me.

Lulu is still a step to far for me I am afraid.
I have most Orchestral & Chamber Works, from both Hindemith and Reger.
And the Diepenbrock box released by Chandos is something very special.

[Harry]

Just listened to Pettersson's Sixth and Eighth, back to back, courtesy of Jezetha. Now I'm going to either jump off the Rheinbrücke...or listen to some Mozart.

Sarge

Don't do it man, you haven't listen to the rest of his works

[Sergeant Rock]

Now that's a real Mozart conductor! 

EDIT - 

Just read your post....

I have two CDs that you prescribe, it's not enough. I may get that original jacket thingee. How many symphonies are covered?

28, 33 (a blistering performance), 35, 39, 40, 41 (unfortunately he never made a studio recording of 36 or 38). 34 he recorded with the Concertgebouw, a CD worth tracking down. In truth, I bought the box just to have Szell's K.131. I'm not kidding...I love it that much.

Sarge

[Sergeant Rock]

Don't do it man, you haven't listen to the rest of his works

That would kill me, Harry.   I own all his symphonies but I believe today was the first time I ever tried to listen to more than one in a short period of time. Not recommended.

Sarge

[Kullervo]

I will be listening to this at the library later today.

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

That would kill me, Harry.   I own all his symphonies but I believe today was the first time I ever tried to listen to more than one in a short period of time. Not recommended.

The Sixth has already lasted me for months. I think I am ready for the next one in June...

[Harry]

Michel-Richard De Lalande.
Grand Motets.

Beati quorum remissae Sunt.
Quam dilecta.
Audite caeli quae Loquor.

Salome Haller, Damien Guillon, Howard Crook, Herve Lamy, Alain Buet.
Les Pages & les Chantres de Versailles.
La Grande Ecurie & la Chambre du Roy, Olivier Schneebeli.
Live recording

A very fine recording and performance.

[Subotnick]

*Sneaks in through the back door and slips on some Janáček...*

[Harry]

That would kill me, Harry.   I own all his symphonies but I believe today was the first time I ever tried to listen to more than one in a short period of time. Not recommended.

Sarge

On a more serious note, you are of course completely right, owing all his symphonies, never would I attempt to play more than one symphony a day. I did the same as you did out of sheer defiance playing the second and the sixth in one go, I suffered dire consequences.
Never will I attempt that again.

[Sergeant Rock]

The Sixth has already lasted me for months. I think I am ready for the next one in June...

You're a wise man, Johan 

Sarge

[karlhenning]

If you like Palestrina and Bach there is no reason why you should not like Debussy.

I suppose you are both amusing yourselves; but the comparison between Toch and Schoenberg is musical and intelligent;  and cultural and social (they were both expatriate German-Jewish composers in the US).

So to make a game of exaggerated parody (if you like Monteverdi and Boulez, then you'll like Hartmann) is mindlessly empty, don't you think?

But then, perhaps you've nothing better to do with your time?  Or brain?

[Wanderer]

... as I was in fact eagerly waiting for someone here to come forward and try explaining to me what a 'post-modern performance' is supposed to sound like. Certainly the term 'post-modern' has a little meaning when applied to compositions (not much though, it doesn't give me any idea what they sound like), but to... performances? The mind boggles.

I don't think it bears the authority of a legitimate term so as to be taken seriously and have an actual meaning. I'm afraid it's nothing more than an empty phrase. The original user of the phrase, however, may have a definition in mind, in which case I'd suggest directing the question his/her way. Personally, I wouldn't care much for the opinion of someone who'd rather listen to rap than Argerich's Prokofiev.   

...that the same treatment should be extended to the word "quit"?

I don't think so, as the specific word is not part of the quoted passage to be itself quoted in my answer.


Concerning Bach's keyboard works, I'm not dogmatic either (piano or harpsichord) way. Ultimately, it's the performance itself that matters.  0:)

[DavidRoss]

Joly Braga Santos, Symphopny #4, Cassuto/Nat'l Sym Orch of Ireland

[George]

28, 33 (a blistering performance), 35, 39, 40, 41 (unfortunately he never made a studio recording of 36 or 38). 34 he recorded with the Concertgebouw, a CD worth tracking down. In truth, I bought the box just to have Szell's K.131. I'm not kidding...I love it that much.

Sarge

I am not surprised to hear that. I think I already have all of the Szell Mozart Symphonies. (sigh of relief, since I am on another buying fast) 

[Kullervo]

I suppose you are both amusing yourselves; but the comparison between Toch and Schoenberg is musical and intelligent;  and cultural and social (they were both expatriate German-Jewish composers in the US).

So to make a game of exaggerated parody (if you like Monteverdi and Boulez, then you'll like Hartmann) is mindlessly empty, don't you think?

But then, perhaps you've nothing better to do with your time?  Or brain?

In fairness to M. Croche, it wasn't he that started the joke.

[Harry]

Again.