What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[mozartsneighbor]

[karlhenning]

(Decipher that, Karl! I know I can...)

Easily done 

[karlhenning]

Pyotr Ilyich
Concerto for Violin & Orchestra in D Major, Opus 35
Gidon Kremer
Berliner Philharmoniker
Maazel

[Que]

Interested in your impressions!
Ordered that myself - is it something to look forward to?

Q

[Dundonnell]

Arnold Cooke, Symphony No. 3 in D (1967), Nicholas Braithwaite conducting the London PhO. Reviewers tend to refer to Hindemith as an influence, but - `but' - it's very much the rather individual lyricism of Cooke's style that wins me over:

                     

I am delighted that you like Cooke's 3rd

Do you know the 1st Symphony which is on another Lyrita disc, coupled with the Concerto in D for string orchestra and the Ballet Suite "Jabez and the Devil"?

[karlhenning]

Mozart
String Quartet in B-flat Major, K.589
Leipziger Streichquartett

[M forever]

Ralph Arthurovich
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis (anyone know what Tallis' father's name was?)
Philharmonia Orchestra
Herbert Ernstovich

[Dundonnell]

Since almost nothing is known about the first 25 years of Tallis' s life- including exactly when or where he was born I fear you may be out of luck on this one

Sorry!

[karlhenning]

Chausson
Symphony in B-flat Major, Opus 20
Detroit Symphony
Paray

[karlhenning]

Nicolas Flagello
Concerto sinfonico for Saxophone Quartet and Orchestra, Opus 77
Paul Cohen, sop sax
Avi Goldrosen, a sax
David Demsey, t sax
Tim Ruedeman, bari sax
Rutgers Symphony
Kynan Johns

[Daverz]

Ralph Arthurovich

Wow, I'm impressed that you take the time to look up these patronyms to tweak Henning.

[Kullervo]

Kurt Weill - Symphonies 1 and 2 (Alsop/Bournemouth)

The First has several moments of real beauty, but overall feels a bit rhythmically plodding and just not very memorable. The Second, OTOH, is a real "hidden gem", with plenty of buoyant melodies that seem to be influenced by cabaret tunes, but never feel like an attempt to meld popular and serious music. The popular influences instead give the music a sense of urgency and a rhythmic vitality that is missing from the First.

[PaulR]

Shostakovich:  15th Symphony Kondrashin/Staatskapelle Dresden

Man...I love this symphony

[M forever]

Wow, I'm impressed that you take the time to look up these patronyms to tweak Henning.

Nothing to be impressed by - I have access to the "internet", so it only takes a few seconds to look that up.

Somehow, I am getting to a lot of music listening today. Now:

Dmitri Dmitriyevich
Symphony No. 4
WDR Sinfonieorchester
Semyon Bychkov


I stumbled across this on itunes where it is offered as "premium" download for just $3.99 (the whole album). So I got it and now I am listening to the first movement.

[greg]

Semyon Bychkov
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.... "Bitch cough?" Are you sure you didn't make that one up? Sounds like a recording you'd find at Goodwill, if they had any.

[PaulR]

Shostakovich:  Cello Concerto #1  Rostropovich/Ormandy/Philadelphia Orchestra

been too long since I listened to this recording....

[imperfection]

Nothing to be impressed by - I have access to the "internet", so it only takes a few seconds to look that up.

Somehow, I am getting to a lot of music listening today. Now:

Dmitri Dmitriyevich
Symphony No. 4
WDR Sinfonieorchester
Semyon Bychkov


I stumbled across this on itunes where it is offered as "premium" download for just $3.99 (the whole album). So I got it and now I am listening to the first movement.

What quality does itunes offer for their "premium downloads"?

[chankaiming]

Mozart Cosi fan tutti
Listened to Cosi fan tutti once again, Karl Bohm was the only version I have. The booklet noted that Karl Bohm learned this opera from two great giant of the first half of the 20th century, one was Richard Strauss who discover this long forgot opera and the other Burno Walter, I have never heard of a recording by Richard Struass but Karl Bohm's conducting style have some similarity with Walter.

The story was no more than a joke, but  this joke sound more interesting with Mozart's music. After an hour of listening, every notes was pleasant and lovely, What a work of a genius. Rene Jacob's version only cost a little more than HKD$200, probably my next target in a very short time.

[M forever]

What quality does itunes offer for their "premium downloads"?

Actually, they call it "iTunes Plus". This FAQ explains what that is.

[M forever]

The story was no more than a joke, but  this joke sound more interesting with Mozart's music.

The story actually has much more "depth" than it may appear at first. What distinguishes da Ponte's libretto is the psychological depth he gives the characters and their actions, the many layers of appearance and deception which was pretty groundbreaking in an age which didn't have any concept of "psychology" as we have it today. The general view was that people were basically either good or bad, honest or dishonest, moral or immoral, with a few shades of grey in between, but not much. Even though in the Age of Enlightenment, these views were becoming increasingly more complex, something like the multi-layered characters in this opera hadn't really been seen before on the opera stage.