What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Sergeant Rock]

One of my long-time favorite works by Schoenberg, 5 Orchesterstücke op.16:




I bought the Dorati/LSO version when I was seventeen.

Sarge

[Franco]

One of my long-time favorite works by Schoenberg, 5 Orchesterstücke op.16:




I bought the Dorati/LSO version when I was seventeen.

Sarge

Yes, I like them too.  I need to pull down off the shelf the short film I have discussing them -

[bhodges]

I bought the Dorati/LSO version when I was seventeen.

  Love it!  Just curious: what made you buy it? 

(PS, love that Levine/Berlin recording.)

--Bruce

[Sergeant Rock]

  Love it!  Just curious: what made you buy it? 

I heard some Second Viennese School music on WCLV (Cleveland's classical station). I loved it--so utterly different from what one usually associated with "classical" music. There was also, I'm sure, a bit of teenage rebellion at work. It was cool to like something everyone else hated 

Sarge

[pi2000]

PRAZAK QUARTET -Beethoven String Quartets
First Cd(op18-4,5,1)

[karlhenning]

I heard some Second Viennese School music on WCLV (Cleveland's classical station). I loved it--so utterly different from what one usually associated with "classical" music. There was also, I'm sure, a bit of teenage rebellion at work. It was cool to like something everyone else hated 

There's nothing wrong with love-on-first-hearing, just because it's bloop-bleep! ; )

[bhodges]

   Of course, the great WCLV!  This is a fine example of why radio is so important.

When I was around the same age I had a similar experience with Steve Reich's It's Gonna Rain--which I honestly found fascinating (and still do)--but there was definitely a bit of rebelliousness at work there.

--Bruce

[karlhenning]

What's-New Wednesday! Don't believe I've yet listened to this string orchestra version:

Berg
Three Pieces from the Lyric Suite
Wiener Philharmoniker
Abbado

Alban Berg Collection

So, is this 'incomplete', or did Berg authorize only three of the six string quartet numbers for larger ensemble?

[listener]

Johan WAGENAAR   Overtures ( The Taming of the Shrew, Twelfth Night, De Cid, Cyrano de Bergerac, Amphitrion), Saul and David, Wiener Dreiviertakt
Royal Concertgebouw Orch        Chailly, cond.
Malcolm ARNOLD   Dances   - English, Scottish, Cornish, Irish, Welsh
Queensland Symphony O.,  Andrew Penny, cond.
another low-price offering from Naxos giving a lot of pleasurable listening.  I don't have the Chandos disc from the earlier post, This one has the Welsh Dances instead of the movements from "Solitaire" that I have elsewhere.

[Sergeant Rock]

There's nothing wrong with love-on-first-hearing, just because it's bloop-bleep! ; )

Nothing wrong at all...I think    It could be my brain is wired oddly. I've never had a problem with Arnie and his disciples' music. It sounded good to me immediately. So why is it so many others have such difficulty? After thirty years of marriage to me, Mrs. Rock still hates it. Repetition, familiarity with the music, hearing it live...none of it has worked: it has not been the solution as some maintain in the endless debates here (and she is open to music and has very broad taste from the medieval to much of the twentieth century). But "bloop-bleep" music...no 

Sarge

[karlhenning]

In retrograde, it's bleep-bloop, of course! : )

[Scarpia]

But "bloop-bleep" music...no 

It is not serial music that eludes me, but music that does not have a discernible rhythmic pulse. 

[karlhenning]

So, is this 'incomplete', or did Berg authorize only three of the six string quartet numbers for larger ensemble?

Well, Wikipedia declares that Berg himself arranged three movements of the quartet for string orchestra.  That will serve for now.

[Franco]

It is not serial music that eludes me, but music that does not have a discernible rhythmic pulse.

I guess you really like disco music.

[Scarpia]

I guess you really like disco music.

I said it was necessary, not sufficient.   

[karlhenning]

It is not serial music that eludes me, but music that does not have a discernible rhythmic pulse.

Fair enough.  At this point, I can't even remember how I made that leap . . . .

[karlhenning]

I guess you really like disco music.

He was Kung Fu fighting!

[Sergeant Rock]

  Of course, the great WCLV!  This is a fine example of why radio is so important.

What's sad today is the station seems to be less powerful than it was 44 years ago. It's hard to tune it in now from my hometown (which is about 40 miles south of Cleveland).

Sarge

[karlhenning]

Truly, Classical Radio no longer has the power it once did.

[Sergeant Rock]

In retrograde, it's bleep-bloop, of course! : )

That's what she calls it...really! 

Sarge