What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[The new erato]

Well, I am a little face-palmish in this, because I was introduced to the Opp. 117 & 119 way back when I was an undergrad . . . I inadvertently let them slip by the wayside as I continued pursuing schooling in composition . . . cannot tell just when they fell off my radar entirely.

I'll tell you what. You just needed to grow up.

[karlhenning]

I'll tell you what. You just needed to grow up.

Ouch!

No, really, I liked them a great deal right away, back then.  I was just whisked into a world of Too Much Information.  A lot of it good information, mind.

[karlhenning]

And, because Janáček & Brahms are such perfect complements/counterpoises—

In memoriam Sir Charles:

Janáček
Z Mrtvého Domu (From the House of the Dead)
acc. by Wiener Philharmoniker
Sir Chas Mackerras

Janáček – Operas [Box Set]

[Antoine Marchand]

Brahms
Intermezzi, Opus 117
Håkon Austbø




Høw did I live without recordings of these gems, for so long?

Johannes Brahms - Complete Works
Brilliant Classics



CD 31: Klavierstücke op. 116-119
Fantasien op. 116
Intermezzi op. 117
Klavierstücke op. 118
Klavierstücke op. 119

Håkon Austbø, piano

Recording: 18-20 March 2002

Believe on me when I say that Austbø is much better than Kempff in these works. Superb performances: they produce the impression of a thing longly thought; on the slow side, but with great inner tension. These interpretations have made me to think about the relationship between Brahms and Erik Satie. It's weird, isn't it? 

[karlhenning]

So far I'm liking it - but then this is a choir I've heard sing a wide range of material, and generally like a lot.  I hadn't realised they'd recorded this until I noticed you praise it, and then found BRO were offering it at bargain price.

Favourite Symphony of Psalms is probably still Robert Craft's with the Simon Joly Chorale, but none of the half-dozen or so recordings I have is less than very good, and this one is excellent.  I probably enjoy the unaccompanied pieces best.

Splendid!

[Drasko]

Favourite Symphony of Psalms is probably still Robert Craft's with the Simon Joly Chorale, but none of the half-dozen or so recordings I have is less than very good, and this one is excellent.  I probably enjoy the unaccompanied pieces best.

Have you heard Herreweghe with Collegium Vocale Gent on Pentatone? I was very impressed with excerpts they played at last Saturday's BBC 3 CD Review, think program can still be streamed till tomorrow.

[Père Malfait]

Káťa Kabanová from this set, in memoriam.

[bhodges]

Káťa Kabanová from this set, in memoriam.

Just listened to some of that last night, with two friends who had never heard it before.  They thought it was gorgeous, and quite moving. 

--Bruce

[karlhenning]

Káťa Kabanová from this set, in memoriam.

Just listened to some of that last night, with two friends who had never heard it before.  They thought it was gorgeous, and quite moving.

It's the damnedest thing, Lee & Bruce . . . I have had this box for two years and a half now, and made a couple of attempts at spinning it.  It's only now that it's properly gripping me.  Wonderful music!

[bhodges]

It's the damnedest thing, Lee & Bruce . . . I have had this box for two years and a half now, and made a couple of attempts at spinning it.  It's only now that it's properly gripping me.  Wonderful music!

That's the way things work, sometimes, eh!  IMHO it's a good example of how the mind can churn things over in the background.  Anyway, glad you've found it.  I think this--like pretty much all of Janáček's operas--is among the 20th century's greatest creations.

--Bruce

[The new erato]

[Père Malfait]

It's the damnedest thing, Lee & Bruce . . . I have had this box for two years and a half now, and made a couple of attempts at spinning it.  It's only now that it's properly gripping me.  Wonderful music!

It's much the same for me, Karl.  I've been in Earlie Musick mode for a while, I had quite forgotten how much I enjoy Janáček's music.

[Opus106]

The weight of the slow movement of the concerto No. 9 slowly sinks in. Do not let the number fool you.

K. 271
Alfred Brendel (on his last day of work)|Vienna Phil.|Charles Mackerras

At the Große Musikvereinssaal, Vienna

[Papy Oli]

Mahler 8th... Opening night of the proms....

nope.... still not getting it...

[Opus106]

Mahler 8th... Opening night of the proms....

nope.... still not getting it...

Yesterday, I heard the symphony as a whole for the first time. At times, I was hoping the singer would just shut up and at others wished for him to go on.

Right now: No. 39, K. 543|Mackerras leads the Prague Chamber Orchestra. The opening of the Allegro section of the first movement has to be one of the most majestic pieces of music out there.

[listener]

 "B"'s, probably not your first association of these:
BARRAQUÉ   Piano Sonata    Yvonne Loriod, piano
                   Séquence for voice, percussion and "divers instruments"   ..neither a cantata nor a chamber work.   The form it most resembles is a concerto for soloists, the voice being treated quasi-instrumentally with no more importance than the piano and violin which move about her.   Texts by Nietzsche.
      Ethel Semser, sop;
concertos for or arranged for 4 harpsichords:
C.P.E. BACH, J.S. BACH
and George MALCOLM: Variations on a Theme of Mozart (from Duo, K.424)
Alexander BORISOFF:  Variations on a Theme of Paganini for String Quartet American Chamber Virtuosi
Ernest GOLD: Symphony for 5 Instruments   - Israel Baker Ensemble
BEETHOVEN:  Symphony 4   London S.O,
   Siegfried Idyll     San Francisco S.O.      both conducted by Pierre Monteux

[Conor71]

Franck: Violin Sonata



Love this!

[Solitary Wanderer]

#9

[Novi]

Franck: Violin Sonata



Love this!

I love this one too! I've put it on now too.

Have you heard Danczowska's recording of Szymanowski's violin concertos? Highly recommended!

[Sergeant Rock]

Just finished a second hearing of Ginastera's Pampeana No.3 (Pastoral Symphony), and now beginning Dutilleux's Cinq métaboles, George Szell conducting the Cleveland:




Sarge