What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[mahler10th]

Bliss.

[Henk]

S. 4

I'm finally getting familiar with Sibelius which is a good thing.

Tomorrow Petrassi will be on my menu, getting more familiar with his concerti for orchestra.

[Henk]

A recent acquisition and so far (symphonies 1 & 3) I'm both surprised and delighted.  The orchestra is fairly lean, like Vänskä's Lahti, but Sakari drives them hard, like Ashkenzy or Rozhdestvensky, so we have a "hot" romanticized reading but with the clarity and balance of voices usually found only in the cooler interpretations.  I'm looking forward to hearing the rest of the cycle and am kicking myself for not buying it years ago.   

Sounds good, David! I will get that cycle too.

[Subotnick]

Just got hold of this, my second set of Rachmaninov symphonies, the other being by the Concertgebouw Orchestra and Vladimir Ashkenazy. As much as I enjoy Vladimir's set, I've been wanting to hear another for some time. I have high hopes for Lorin Maazel which I have just this second started listening to.

TTFN.
Me.

[greg]

Liszt: Symphonic Poem 3 "Les Preludes"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRa36DV6zJ8&feature=related

I really, really like this piece, most of all the incredible textures that Strauss obviously took inspiration in when writing his own music. He doesn't seem to have a striking melodic gift, at least here, but he knows how to put stuff together in an exciting way, at least.

I don't know which recording this is, but it seems like they could've done a bit better balance-wise- it seems the strings are covered up often in loud passages. 

But really, I almost feel bad liking this piece- because on the youtube page, they said it was Hitler's favorite! Bleh! I guess it's best to listen to music without knowing everything about it, eh?

[mahler10th]

Sounds good, David! I will get that cycle too.

Yep.  Count me in.

[PaulR]

Weinberg: Sinfonietta #1 Chmura/National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Katowice.

I like this a lot...

[PaulR]

Weinberg: Symphony #5 in F Minor Chmura/National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Katowice.

Very interesting beginning.  I like it

[DavidRoss]

Brahms by the Eroica Trio:

(That's Eroica, Harry...not Erotica!)

[Lilas Pastia]

No need to be too precise, David. That lot is as unerotic as could be!

Listening to CPE Bach keyboard concertos and Vivaldi's La Cetra.

[Kullervo]

Brahms by the Eroica Trio:

I refuse to play in a chamber ensemble that would have them as a member.

[DavidRoss]

I refuse to play in a chamber ensemble that would have them as a member.

What about now:

[Brian]

What about now:

Zoinks!

IPPOLITOV-IVANOV | Caucasian Sketches, Book Two
National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, Arthur Fagen

Hey ... movement two sounds like Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker! EXACTLY like the Nutcracker! Anybody want to explain this to me?

[PaulR]

Weinberg: String Quartet #4 in Eb Major Quatuor Danel

Nice first movement so far

[Brian]

I have another oddity which I'd like somebody to try to explain. After listening to Mussorgsky's Prelude to Act 1 of "Khovanshchina", I suddenly had an extraordinary urge to put on the third movement of Dvorak's Ninth (and therefore did so). Why would this be?

[Harry]

Brahms by the Eroica Trio:

(That's Eroica, Harry...not Erotica!)

LOL

[Harry]

What about now:

Erotica........I play....

[Florestan]

Sure, the Glinka work [...]

Many thanks Dave for your very informative answer. I've been considering Leslie Howard's Liszt for some time.

[Subotnick]

Morning!

Starting the day with the second symphony 

TTFN.
Me.

[Harry]

Good morning Subotnik, Andrei......

This Naxos cd was among a batch that came in yesterday, and from a composer that was totally unknown for me. He was a French composer of which little is known, but judging from what I hear so far the Suites for voice Flutes are inventive and varied enough to warrant repeated listening. I am not sure that I can say this from the recording, the flutes are to closely miked, so the volume has to be down quite a bit. Further on it gets a bit better, but for the likes of John Taylor who was the engineer, this is a tad disappointing.  But really I should not be complaining, the music is just fine and the recordings from Dornel's music rare.
Musica Barocca is a fine group of players that are devoted to mainly to the European Baroque repertoire for one or two recorders and continuo.