What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Fëanor]

Livre du Saint Sacrement I-XVIII from this box.

Good stuff!

[Brünnhilde ewig]

This'll wake you up - did me! The ending of Orff's Carmina Burama played by the Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra and conducted with vigor by their artistic director Rico Saccani:

http://www.ricosaccani.com/media/video48.html

[DavidRoss]

And I thought I was hard core to be listening to Mahler's 3rd early in the day!

[Opus106]

Jean Sibelius
Concerto for Violin in D minor, Op. 47
Leonidas Kavakos|Minnesota Orchestra|Osmo Vänskä

Live|May 4, 2009
Carnegie Hall, New York City

Apparently the following happened during the concert...

During the 3rd movement of the Sibelius Violin Concerto the chin rest
of Kavakos' violin came completely off. He quickly handed it off to the concert
master Jorja Fleezanis, took hers and continued to play the rest of the piece
and an encore. While he was finishing the Sibelius Ms Fleezanis tried to repair
the violin rest with her earring post but, finally gave up and took up Kavakos'
violin without the rest and continued with the orchestral part. Kavakos was
unbelievable and you will hear the difference in tone when he changes
instruments although he does not miss a beat. He plays the "Falmouth"
Stradivarius of 1692.

[Keemun]

[DavidRoss]

A great choice, methinks.  And obviously I'm not alone in enjoying a bit o' Gustav in the morning!  You might find this of interest, if you haven't seen it already:  http://www.universaledition.com/mahler/michael-tilson-thomas-on-mahler/

[Keemun]

A great choice, methinks.  And obviously I'm not alone in enjoying a bit o' Gustav in the morning!  You might find this of interest, if you haven't seen it already:  http://www.universaledition.com/mahler/michael-tilson-thomas-on-mahler/

Yes, but I selected the relatively tame 1st Symphony.   Thanks for the link.

[Brünnhilde ewig]

And I thought I was hard core to be listening to Mahler's 3rd early in the day!

Whose Mahler 3rd did you play as a waker-upper? My choice is the 2007 recording conducted by Bernard Haitink with his Concertgebouw; it is better than his 1966 performance, more 'mature'!  

[karlhenning]

To keep Davey company:

JS Bach
English Suite № 4 in F, BWV 809
Christiane Jaccottet

[DavidW]

To keep Davey company:

JS Bach
English Suite № 4 in F, BWV 809
Christiane Jaccottet

Smiles!

[Que]

Review.

Q

[ChamberNut]

Wagner

Symphonic Syntheses by Stokowski

Orchestral excerpts of Das Rheingold, Tristan & Isolde, Parsifal and Die Walkure.

Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Jose Serebrier
Naxos

[Air]

Schubert: Fantasy in f minor
Emil & Elena Gilels

[George]

[not edward]

Wit conducting Szymanowski. Under the green lemon, while Todd waves his bananas across the thread.

Seriously, though, I really hope Naxos is selling bucketloads of Wit in Szymanowski, Lutoslawski and Penderecki. They deserve to.

[Tapkaara]

Wagner

Symphonic Syntheses by Stokowski

Orchestral excerpts of Das Rheingold, Tristan & Isolde, Parsifal and Die Walkure.

Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Jose Serebrier
Naxos

Great recording!!

[ChamberNut]

Great recording!!

This is my "not in the mood for full Wagner" disc. 

Listening now to the coda of Das Rheingold, I'm wondering if this inspired the ending of Bruckner's 8th Symphony?

[Tapkaara]

This is my "not in the mood for full Wagner" disc. 

Listening now to the coda of Das Rheingold, I'm wondering if this inspired the ending of Bruckner's 8th Symphony?

Well, I am never in the mood for "full Wagner," but I do enjoy the famous outtakes. Heresy, I know...

[Fëanor]

Great recording, especially the SACD multi-channel.  I'm still strugging to like Mahler, though.

[DavidRoss]

Well, I am never in the mood for "full Wagner," but I do enjoy the famous outtakes. Heresy, I know...

Only to the cult members.  Everyone else recognizes that the man could write a good tune but didn't know when to stop.