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sidoze

#5420
June 21, 2007, 03:09:50 AM
DAS LIED VON DER ERDE - Jon Vickers / Yvonne Minton / Boulez - live 1982

Christo

#5421
June 21, 2007, 03:22:07 AM
Holmboe, Sinfonias I-IV (Kairos)
... music is not only an 'entertainment', nor a mere luxury, but a necessity of the spiritual if not of the physical life, an opening of those magic casements through which we can catch a glimpse of that country where ultimate reality will be found.    RVW, 1948

Drasko

#5422
June 21, 2007, 03:25:53 AM
Quote from: sidoze on June 21, 2007, 03:09:50 AM
DAS LIED VON DER ERDE - Jon Vickers / Yvonne Minton / Boulez - live 1982

Any good?

sidoze

#5423
June 21, 2007, 03:36:22 AM
Quote from: Drasko on June 21, 2007, 03:25:53 AM
Any good?

Yes! Quite different from others I've heard, I can see it polarising listeners.

Lilas Pastia

#5424
June 21, 2007, 03:52:48 AM
Is it available anywhere Tony or is it from your private collection? And how does Vickers sing? Barking and crooning ?

not edward

#5425
June 21, 2007, 03:54:11 AM
"I don't at all mind actively disliking a piece of contemporary music, but in order to feel happy about it I must consciously understand why I dislike it. Otherwise it remains in my mind as unfinished business."
-- Aaron Copland, The Pleasures of Music

Harry

#5426
June 21, 2007, 03:55:15 AM
Tim Handly made a very good recording, and this Orchestra makes a good show of it.
I love the music by Copland, and this recording does him proud.

sidoze

#5427
June 21, 2007, 04:07:15 AM
Quote from: edward on June 21, 2007, 03:54:11 AM
I found it on operashare. Links:


That's the one. Recorded on cassette apparently.

QuoteAnd how does Vickers sing? Barking and crooning ?

I've only made it through the first two movements so far.

Solitary Wanderer

#5428
June 21, 2007, 01:14:04 PM
'I lingered round them, under that benign sky: watched the moths fluttering among the heath and harebells, listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass, and wondered how any one could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth.' ~ Emily Bronte

AnthonyAthletic

#5429
June 21, 2007, 01:23:01 PM
A Mahler 1st to blow the cobwebs away, absolutely fantastic, fast, frenzied, high octane.  Makes many a highly esteemed version look plain ordinary.


"Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying"      (Arthur C. Clarke)

Choo Choo

#5430
June 21, 2007, 01:26:03 PM


I read a review that panned this - but since that reviewer has lost almost all credibility for me, I got it anyway - and I'm glad I did.  It's a recording of Wand's last concert with the MPO (and penultimate concert ever.)

Wand's #4s got slower as he got older, and this is the slowest of the lot.  I don't feel that anything extra is revealed through this slowness - this is not a Celibidache performance - but there are few places where it drags excessively (the Trio being one of these.)

It's not in the same league as the luminous Stuttgart #9 from 22 years earlier (also on Profil) that I was listening to last week - and personally I would prefer his BPO #4 from 3 years earlier - but it's an enjoyable performance, once you acclimatise to the tempi.  The MPO play superbly.

not edward

#5431
June 21, 2007, 01:28:22 PM


Richter the severe, but very fine interpretations nonetheless.

Also a radio recording of Boulez conducting Bruckner's 7th with the Vienna Phil in 2005: swift, clear and surprisingly tense. Great stuff, if not the usual way of playing it.
"I don't at all mind actively disliking a piece of contemporary music, but in order to feel happy about it I must consciously understand why I dislike it. Otherwise it remains in my mind as unfinished business."
-- Aaron Copland, The Pleasures of Music

Harry

#5432
June 21, 2007, 01:32:44 PM Last Edit: June 21, 2007, 01:34:43 PM by Harry
Louise Farrenc.

Quintets for Piano, Violin, Viola, Violoncello and double bass, No.1 & 2.

Linos Ensemble.

I now understand Sarge's admiration for this music, for it is truly wonderful. She is more than a match and sometimes better as her male colleague's, and that shows clearly in the second movement from the first Quintet, "Adagio non troppo", you have to hear it to believe it, seldom did I hear such concentrated emotion, and expertise. Or the beginning of the second Quintet, "Andante sostenuto" its a privilege to hear. I am convinced she belongs high up with the famous, and am glad that I bought all CPO has to offer from her.
The recording made by Herbert Schluter is exemplary. Linos makes a feast out of this dis.
Recommended.

sidoze

#5433
June 21, 2007, 01:55:08 PM Last Edit: June 21, 2007, 01:56:43 PM by sidoze
Prokofiev PC 3 - Weissenberg / Tennstedt - 1980

Shostakovich VC 1 - Repin / VPO / Gergiev - 2006

Chopin PC 2 - Pollini / Mehta - 1968

Danny

#5434
June 21, 2007, 02:21:33 PM
Ravel, Verdi and Stravinsky.

Kullervo

#5435
June 21, 2007, 03:46:00 PM
Mahler - 1st (Kubelik, Bavarian RSO)

Great recording, but still doesn't do much for me.

Christo

#5436
June 21, 2007, 04:06:31 PM
Quote from: Danny on June 21, 2007, 02:21:33 PMRavel, Verdi and Stravinsky.

Poliphony?
... music is not only an 'entertainment', nor a mere luxury, but a necessity of the spiritual if not of the physical life, an opening of those magic casements through which we can catch a glimpse of that country where ultimate reality will be found.    RVW, 1948

Choo Choo

#5437
June 21, 2007, 04:29:18 PM Last Edit: June 21, 2007, 04:59:14 PM by Choo Choo
Bruckner #5 : Blomstedt / Oslo PO in a concert recording from last September.

I'm surprised - and gratified - to be able to say how much I am enjoying this.

Though I'm an enthusiast for HB's early work with the Staatskapelle Dresden and the Swedish RSO, I haven't liked much of his more recent work.  I observe - silently, but sadly - the regularity with which his SFSO set of Nielsen symphonies is trawled across that particular thread - when so many superior alternatives can easily be found.

But this is really very good.  Tempos are spot on - but not slavishly so.  Weighted just right.  :D

It's remarkable how many good Bruckner recordings with the Oslo PO I've made off-air, yet the only commercial CD of theirs I have is that regrettable Talmi #9.  I wish someone would record them properly. >:(

Lilas Pastia

#5438
June 21, 2007, 05:29:01 PM
Ravel: the G major concerto. Lang Lang, the Montreal symphonny, Kent Nagano. Some surprises from the orchestra (vicious wind jibes in the finale, devilish when you're used to bubbly). The slow movement had the requisite repose and delicacy from the pianist, but real greatness was achieved by the MSO solo flute, Timothy Hutchins. Poignancy and silvery elegance in perfect balance.

Rosenberg: the Dance Suite from his ballet Orpheus in Town. This is numbers 25-29 from the whole ballet. The Gluck references that pepper the score are absent from this suite, which is nothing more than 20% of the whole thing, and probably the least interesting portion of the score. Anyone coming to this work through that selection would never guess the riches that he's missing :'(.

Mozart: Masonic Funeral Music and Mass in c minor by Herreweghe. Quite successful, if not on a par with my favourites (Fricsay, Levine, Harnoncourt). Jennifer Larmore outvoices the slimmer instrument of Christine Oelze, and no amount of engineering tricks can disguise the fact that this was a bad bit of casting (either way). Considering Herreweghe's approach, my hinch is that the fault lies in Larmore's Carmen-like singing).

not edward

#5439
June 21, 2007, 06:51:49 PM
Bartok: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta (CSO/Kubelik, 1980). Absolutely superb.
"I don't at all mind actively disliking a piece of contemporary music, but in order to feel happy about it I must consciously understand why I dislike it. Otherwise it remains in my mind as unfinished business."
-- Aaron Copland, The Pleasures of Music
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