What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Don]

All the talk about Vanhal got me to take out my Naxos/Mallon disc and a 2-cd set of "Symphonies of the Mozart Era" on Capriccio that has two Vanhal symphonies along with others by Gossec, JC Bach, Mahaut, Reicha, Dittersdorf and Kraus.

As much as I enjoy the Mallon, the period instrument accounts on the SACD Capriccio really win my affection.

[SonicMan46]

Corelli  Violin Sonatas Opus 5, Nos. 1-6. Lucy van Dael, Violin.  Bob van Asperen, Harpsichord/Organ.

Just this, it is fabulous, high calibre HIP.
The sound is 24 bit, the performance 100%.
I am mightily impressed.  Recommended.

Harry - love these Op. 5 works, and would like to hear that disc; for those interested, there is a Hyperion Dyad at a good price w/ the complete Op. 5 Violin Sonatas; assume Naxos will bring out the remaining ones, also? 

[Harry]

Harry - love these Op. 5 works, and would like to hear that disc; for those interested, there is a Hyperion Dyad at a good price w/ the complete Op. 5 Violin Sonatas; assume Naxos will bring out the remaining ones, also? 

They have my friend!

[bhodges]

Yesterday, this excellent concert at Carnegie Hall.  Michelle DeYoung replaced Natalie Dessay (who had bronchitis) and not only sang well, but joked a bit about her height.  (DeYoung must be well over six feet tall.)  She was marvelous in the Schoenberg and Berlioz, and the orchestra played beautifully, especially in the Ravel, and the Strauss, with its many solo parts showcasing concertmaster David Chan and others. 

The MET Orchestra
James Levine, Music Director and Conductor
Michelle DeYoung, Mezzo-Soprano

R. STRAUSS: Der Bürger als Edelmann Suite, Op. 60
SCHOENBERG: "Lied der Waldtaube" ("Song of the Wood Dove") from Gurrelieder (arr. Erwin Stein)
AMBROISE THOMAS: Overture to Mignon
BERLIOZ: La Mort de Cléopâtre
RAVEL: Daphnis et Chloé Suite No. 2

--Bruce

[karlhenning]

Yesterday, this excellent concert at Carnegie Hall.  Michelle DeYoung replaced Natalie Dessay (who had bronchitis) and not only sang well, but joked a bit about her height.  (DeYoung must be well over six feet tall.)

She certainly dominated the stage when we heard/saw her in an all-Brahms chamber program at Shriver Hall in Baltimore, Bruce.

[SimonGodders]

This is such a magnificent set. I can't stop playing the Weber 'Oberon' overture, it's played to perfection

[bhodges]

She certainly dominated the stage when we heard/saw her in an all-Brahms chamber program at Shriver Hall in Baltimore, Bruce.

She is excellent, indeed.  Knowing how much you like Berlioz, I think you would have been bowled over by her performance of La Mort de Cléopâtre.  I also liked her enormously in Carter's A Mirror on Which to Dwell, with Levine and the MET Chamber Ensemble.

--Bruce

[not edward]

[Robert]

Allan Pettersson.

Symphony No. 16.

John-Edward Kelly, Alto saxophone.
Rundfunk SO Saarbrucken/Alun Francis.

The last symphony, the last temptation, the last road to chaos, to lost cities, and abandoned roads, never to be trodden anymore then by nature itself. The colors fade into grey's, the voice grows dimmer, and soon there will be no sound, no note to share, and the journey must come to a end in itself. And better it is, for he had said what there was to feel, and traveled up and down the realms of the soul. There is no more beyond, nor in retrospect, what was left unanswered, and so I let go.

Good day Harry,
How do you feel in general about saxophones in classical music? 

Robert

[Valentino]

Beethoven: PC#1
Michelangeli, Wiener Symphoniker, Giulini.

Terrific pianism. Giulini almost manages to get the orchestra to play accordingly.

[Drasko]

Gabriel Pièrne

Ramuntcho, musique de scène pour le drame de Pierre Loti, Suite 1 & 2

Philharmonie de Lorraine / Jacques Houtmann

[karlhenning]

Dmitri Dmitriyevich
Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major, Pervomayskaya, Opus 20
Prague Philharmonic Choir
Prague Symphony
Maksim Dmitriyevich

[Solitary Wanderer]

[Papy Oli]

Beethoven - Choral Fantasy (Zinman / Bronfman / Tonhalle)

[BachQ]

Hello all!

Franz Liszt

Annees de pelerinage, complete

Lazar Berman

I recommend it wholeheartedly.

kool ....... I want .........

[BachQ]

The last symphony, the last temptation, the last road to chaos, to lost cities, and abandoned roads, never to be trodden anymore then by nature itself. The colors fade into grey's, the voice grows dimmer, and soon there will be no sound, no note to share, and the journey must come to a end in itself. And better it is, for he had said what there was to feel, and traveled up and down the realms of the soul. There is no more beyond, nor in retrospect, what was left unanswered, and so I let go.

harry ............ wait ........... don't leave us! ...........

[Harry]

Good day Harry,
How do you feel in general about saxophones in classical music? 

Robert

Kind of awkward really.

[Harry]

harry ............ wait ........... don't leave us! ...........

I wouldn't think of it my friend, and leave you in the Minor.

[Robert]

Kind of awkward really.

awkward like it doesn't belong?  or fit-in?

[Harry]

awkward like it doesn't belong?  or fit-in?

Of not fitting in Robert.
Take this 16th symphony by Pettersson, in felt not right, and it irritated me no end.
But since I love this music I have to accept it.
Generally speaking, I don't think this instrument is at home is classical music, although I realize that there are a few beautiful written compositions for it.