What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Kullervo]

Once more, with feeling:

[ChamberNut]

From the library...

Mozart

Violin Sonata in G major, K.379

Rachel Podger, violin
Gary Cooper, fortepiano

Volume I of complete sonatas for keyboard and violin
Channel Classics

[The new erato]

Browsing in Alex Ross' (nearly wrote Axl Rose) "The Rest is Noise" inspired me to put this on:



Krenek's Johnny Spielt Auf.

[Kullervo]

[Christo]

At evening, in a snow landscape, so: Eyvind Groven (1901-1977), At Evening (1937)

             

[Bogey]

Beethoven
Symphony No. 7
Philharmonia Orchestra/ Karajan
November, 1951
Documents 221545-303

[Brian]

Hello, Bill!

Tchaikovsky: Hamlet, Francesca da Rimini
Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra; Adrian Leaper
Philadelphia Orchestra; Riccardo Muti

[ChamberNut]

Berlioz

Requiem, Op. 5

Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
Robert Spano, conducting
Frank Lopardo, tenor

Telarc

[Lilas Pastia]

Mozart's Prague symphony, with Norrington condicting the SWF Stuttgart orchestra (modern instruments). Give the man a set of drums and trumpets and he'll turn the piece into a ruckus. Some of his choices work, others don't (the insistent legato sounds somewhat bizarre). And of course the more the better, so why not take every single repeat  . Dramatic and explosive, but is it Mozart?  Il liked their 25th (oboes, horns and strings only) and esp. symphony 32 - it sounds brilliant and much 'larger' than its short duration would suggest (less than 8 minutes). But I don't think I'll get used to that 38th.

Proceeding through Belder's Scarlatti sonatas set. Very well played and recorded. An integral set is very useful, but just as with the symphonies,  I think a dozen individual discs give a more complete view of the composer (through various POV) than a numerically complete compendium.

[Brian]

And of course the more the better, so why not take every single repeat  .

Have you heard Rene Jacobs and the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra do this symphony? When it's performed wonderfully, I really see no reason for it to end a second before it has to.  0:)

[donaldopato]

Erkki Melartin: the Violin Concerto in D minor, Lyric Suite No. 3, Sleeping Beauty Suite No. 1
Leif Segerstam, Tampere Philharmonic John Storgards, Violin

Ondine ODE 923-2

Wonderful music. The Violin Cto is first rate.

[PerfectWagnerite]

Have you heard Rene Jacobs and the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra do this symphony? When it's performed wonderfully, I really see no reason for it to end a second before it has to.  0:)

That is indeed a fabulous recording, probably the finest HIP recording of this piece I have heard.

[Lethevich]

Discs 4 & 5. I am not sure that buying this many discs was a good idea, as I don't find much to differenciate between the works at the moment. That said, I do seem to keep returning to them, and I admire their substance (commonly with a 10min+ first movement) and the performance quality. The box was also so cheap that buying just three or four seperate discs would've come to the price of these "excessive" ten anyway.

[Lilas Pastia]

Have you heard Rene Jacobs and the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra do this symphony? When it's performed wonderfully, I really see no reason for it to end a second before it has to.  0:)

No, I didn't. What is it coupled with? The second repeat is de trop IMO. I find it a letdown to go back to the development just as the rythmic and harmonic screws are tightened and the tension increased. But that's just me, of course...

[Lethevich]

Berglund's cold and scary 4th.

[Mozart]

So you guys can actually decide hours in advance what you want to listen to? How can you make a playlist? I could never follow that, I end up listening to 30 seconds of 1 piece and off to another. I listen to what comes to mind.

[Kullervo]

I listen to what comes to mind.

I usually decide what I want to hear on the spur of the moment, but I usually listen to the entire disc instead of skipping around. I think "shuffle" listening is a symptom of the iPod Generation.

[Lethevich]

One of the relatively few Hyperion discs I've considered worth paying full price for. A super choice of works - rather than just including three substantial ones like the (very good) Naxos disc, this one is a bit more enjoyable for also containing two minor, but brilliantly tuneful works alongside three major ones. I find it a very atmospheric disc.

[Mozart]

I usually decide what I want to hear on the spur of the moment, but I usually listen to the entire disc instead of skipping around. I think "shuffle" listening is a symptom of the iPod Generation.

Well yes, sometimes I start listening to something and just say to myself "this isn't working out"

but if I find something that I actually want to hear it will affect me and I won't skip.

I just turned off some clarinet concertos by Cartellieri because it was too boring for my taste at the moment. Maybe it is that I have so many options that I can just skip to another piece, but deciding that tomorrow I will listen to Brahms 4th symphony? It would never work in a million tries!

[Brian]

So you guys can actually decide hours in advance what you want to listen to? How can you make a playlist? I could never follow that, I end up listening to 30 seconds of 1 piece and off to another. I listen to what comes to mind.

I usually listen on the spur of the moment, but this afternoon I was writing two papers and it suited my needs to set up a playlist before hand. I tried to make it a bit "concert-style" - a symphony, then a late lunch, then the usual overture-concerto-symphony form. 

Lilas Pastia ~ I suppose that is a legitimate complaint on architectural terms, but I love the music, and getting those repeats is like a wonderful bonus to these (not very picky) ears.