What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Harry]

Sergei Sergeyevich
String Quartet No. 1 in B Minor, Opus  50
Emersons

Good choice!

[FideLeo]

LOL, Watteau's original painting is so much more crowded. 

[johnQpublic]

Dyson - Overture: At the Tabard Inn (Hickox/Chandos)
Bridge - Lament for 2 Violas (Williams/Hyperion)
Gibbs - Symphony #3 "Westmorland" (Penny/Marco Polo)

[Harry]

In the repeat mode.....

[mn dave]

In the repeat mode.....

That looks like a party in Harry's back yard.

[George]

LvB

Choral Fantasy

Aimard/Harnoncourt


Buy it here for $1.98:

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[Harry]

That looks like a party in Harry's back yard.

How did you guess!

[greg]

What's a relative Augmented Lydian mode? Sibelius was not a "modal" sort of composer. The rising theme in the lower strings you hear at the beginning of the work over a C bass, the ascending C-D-F#-E are NOT harmonically related to the Lydian mode but rather spell out the tritone in C-major, even if the tritone in C major and the Lydian mode have the same four notes C-D-F#-E. The theme of this entire symphony is the tritone. In the end you will hear the strive for supremacy of C-major and E-flat major, a tritone apart. This is what causes the grinding dissonance and the sort of "avart-garde" feel in this work. Let's not trivialize it and say how "modal" it is.

I just noticed for a while, it's basically in the Augmented Lydian mode, since the G is raised to a G#, and the tonality seems to pull to either C or A (when the solo cello enters). Whether or not he was thinking in terms of C Major with a tritone or what doesn't matter, still, C D E F# G# A B technically spells out Lydian Augmented.

[Peregrine]

Just coming to the end of Mahler 3/Haitink

[Harry]

Albert Lortzing.

Der Wildschutz, Comic Opera.
In the German language.

Singers: Gottfried Hornik, Doris Soffel, Peter Schreier, Edith Mattes, usw.
Rundfunkchoir and Rundfunk -Children's Choir Berlin.
Staatskapelle Berlin, Bernhard Klee.

A kind gift from Springrite.

One of my favorite operas so far, with a excellent cast, and a well trained choir. There is nothing to criticize here. The recording is superb, and excellently remastered.

[Harry]

Well, aren't Doris Soffel and Edith Mathis wonderful singers?
Paul knew perfectly well what he was sending me.
He must have felt my need, amazing!

[Que]

Good grief, what a marvelous pianist is Robert Casadesus....

Q

[George]

Good grief, what a marvelous pianist is Robert Casadesus....

Q

Yes, that set was a revelation for me when I got it last year. Just wonderful pianism! 

[George]

Piano Concerto 5

[bhodges]

Zimmermann: Die Soldaten (Bernard Kontarsky/Staatstheater Stuttgart) - Haven't listened to this in a long time (the recording is from 1991), and decided to get reacquainted before seeing the live performance next week.  Some powerful writing, and the orchestra sounds huge, with lots of extra percussion.

--Bruce

[PerfectWagnerite]

I just noticed for a while, it's basically in the Augmented Lydian mode, since the G is raised to a G#, and the tonality seems to pull to either C or A (when the solo cello enters). Whether or not he was thinking in terms of C Major with a tritone or what doesn't matter, still, C D E F# G# A B technically spells out Lydian Augmented.

Okay, if you want to think of it that way. The G# actually functions as the leading tone in A minor, which is the key of the grinding melody in the solo cello after the initial oscillation in E-F#.

[bhodges]

Steve Reich: Drumming (So Percussion) - IMHO one of Reich's best ever, a minimalist classic.  And these four players are excellent.  I heard them a few weeks ago at the Bang on a Can marathon in a beautiful version of David Lang's the so-called laws of nature.

--Bruce

[knight66]

Bruce, I have Steve Reich 'Clapping'....another minimilast classic. Very enjoyable.

Mike

[bhodges]

That's a great disc!  Has those great early tape-loop pieces, too: It's Gonna Rain and Come Out.

--Bruce

[knight66]

Bruce, that is the only Reich number on the disc that I have, it is choral pieces from across the Ages, plus the clapping piece which is like a nice sorbet at the end.

Mike