What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Coopmv]

Now playing CD2 from this set for a second time.  CD1 is even better than my first impression as I clearly missed some details the first time around ...

[Que]

Q - Haydn's String Trios was discussed recently in Gurn's 'classical thread', but a scant number of recordings seem to be available - is the one you are showing OOP or obtainable somewhere?

I checked Amazon & MDT, and the main option listed were 3 volumes w/ the Vienna Philharmonic Trio (one inserted above), but not much more -    Dave

Hi Dave, these US sources list it - can't vouch for actual availability!  : Amazon; hbdirect; ArkivMusic; CDuniverse.

It is too bad this is not a Brilliant project... (hint, hint, Harry...  ) Then we would have had a complete set as a bargain in no-time! Now it's full price and the Berolinensis are recording at a snail's pace - if they ever make it to a complete cycle.

LISTENING NOW:



See earlier comments HERE.

And: a very good morning (night/afternoon) to all!

Q

[Brian]

SIBELIUS | Symphony No 5
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Colin Davis

Final movement too fast. No spine-tingly magic.  

EDIT: And Que, I suppose it is technically "morning" now, here... 

[Harry]

Hans Rott
Symphony #1

The whole thing starts off like a tuneful memorium, the strings follow and glide happily with the brass.  But wait, more Orchestral forces are being called for, and the swelling of a developng theme arises, from which we are tossed headfirst into a sea of beautiful brass and percussion.

The Brass is no frills, no vibrato, it's superbly blended, clear, and comes with plenty of fortissimo.  It's big when it needs to be and supportive when it doesn't (which isn't very often) - Segerstam seems to have a way of hauling out musical superstreams from his Brass sections, and
he doesn't let us down here.

Orchestral sonorities are superbly mirrored by BIS's usual high quality recording.  The tempo is respectfully executed by Segerstam and the orchestra, though perhaps sometimes it should be more urgent.

Listen to the beginning of the third movement, 'Frisch und lebhaft' and...well, analysis by human ear reveals it is as close as Mahler came to a steal on Rott - because in Mahlers 1st, the second movement 'Kraftig bewegt, doch nicht zu schnell' is so similar in it's opening and development - for sure someone must have picked this up and written about it before.  Two and a half minutes into the fourth movement and again we're reminded of Mahler, this time his 7th.

At the end, the tuneful memorium which started us off in the First movement is by now transformed into a bold and stirring theme, elevating us ever higher in a powerful deployment which doesn't know when to end itself.  When the symphony does reach its conclusion, it is a happy ending, magnificent, memorable, and deeply moving. 

My main concern is cohesion in the thrust of the symphony as a whole. Has Segerstam adopted the vision Rott had for the work, or is this one movement at a time stuff?  I fear that while it is magnificently played and a MUST for any CD shelf, the music is complete and grand, but the musical prescience is lost.

Thank you very much for this excellent write up John!

[Harry]

It is too bad this is not a Brilliant project... (hint, hint, Harry...  ) Then we would have had a complete set as a bargain in no-time! Now it's full price and the Berolinensis are recording at a snail's pace - if they ever make it to a complete cycle.

I know that this set of Baryton trios is so successfull, that they are thinking about doing some more Haydn, Que!

[Harry]

And speaking about the Baryton Trios, I just started Volume V.
No. 32-38.

[Harry]

This box is getting me a headache, for I started so many times with it, and abandoned it as often. Not because the quality of the music is bad, not at all, its a fabulous box, with much new music on it, well recorded and performed. I have no idea why I leave it all the time, anyway I am on to CD V, well finally, and what goodies are on it!


Musica Mexicana.
Antonio Soler.
Tres Sonatas. (Orch. Halffter 1951)

Silvestre Revueltas.
Sensemaya. (1938)
Janitzio (1933)
Ocho por radio. (1933)

Blas Galindo Dimas.
Sones de Mariachi. (1940)

Manuel Ponce.
Estrellita.

Rodolfo Halffter.
Obertura Festiva. (1952)
Tripartita. (1959)

Felipe Villanueva.
Vals Poetico.

Dietrich Buxtehude.
Chaconne in E minor. (Orch. Chavez 1937)

Orquesta Filamonica de la ciudad de Mexico, Enrique Batiz.

[Opus106]

A live performance of Brahms' Op. 109, a work for chorus. This is being performed by German musicians as part of the celebrations of 60 years of the Federal Republic of Germany.

[karlhenning]

Good morning & day, all!

Sergei Sergeyevich
Sinfonietta in A Major, Opus 48
Lausanne Chamber Orchestra
Alberto Zedda

[karlhenning]

Sergei Sergeyevich
Sinfonietta in A Major, Opus 48
Lausanne Chamber Orchestra
Alberto Zedda

And now:

Igor Fyodorovich
Symphonies of Wind Instruments
Netherlands Wind Ensemble
Thierry Fischer

I just chanced to listen to these two pieces in sequence . . . a charming complimentarity, really.

[Coopmv]

Now playing CD2 from this set.  CD1 is actually quite good.

[karlhenning]

Igor Fyodorovich
Canticum sacrum ad honorem Sancti Marci nominis
City of London Sinfonia
Westminster Cathedral Choir
James O'Donnell

What a great piece to listen to in the morning!

[karlhenning]

Talllis

[mahler10th]

Now playing CD2 from this set.  CD1 is actually quite good.

Why are you surprised that it's 'quite good.'  I've had that double disc in the past and it's more than quite good methinks.

[marvinbrown]

Happy Birthday RICHARD WAGNER  0:)

  A great man (ie Herr Wagner) was born today and in honour of his Birthday I am playing DIE WALKURE, Solti, VPO  0:)

  marvin

[DavidRoss]

A great man (ie Herr Wagner) was born today....

Puh-lease!  Liking his music is one thing, but calling such a despicable rogue a "great man" is more than a bit much.  I think I'll listen to an old Elton John record.  Bernie Taupin was born on May 22nd.  I don't know enough about him to say whether he's a great man, but he is a fine song lyricist.

[marvinbrown]

Puh-lease!  Liking his music is one thing, but calling such a despicable rogue a "great man" is more than a bit much.  I think I'll listen to an old Elton John record.  Bernie Taupin was born on May 22nd.  I don't know enough about him to say whether he's a great man, but he is a fine song lyricist.

  NONSENCE and you know it! Wagner's music dramas are great and that's why he is great  !

[Cato]

This morning I am regaling my 8th Graders in Latin with excerpts from the last two movements of Elliot Carter's Symphonia: Sum Fluxae Pretium Spei.          

Find out why under The Carter Corner: interesting comments from some of them so far!

2 more classes to go, then I will report more of their reactions.

[DavidRoss]

  NONSENCE and you know it! Wagner's music dramas are great and that's why he is great  !

Wagner's music dramas are disastrously flawed in both senses and would be spectacular failures if they weren't so pretentious and dull.  Dickie was a nasty little man with a genius for self-promotion.  If that makes him great, then so is Bernie Madoff.

Now listening: something by Bach, I think.

[Lethevich]

Greatest underrated violin concerto of all time? 0:) Delicious!