What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Sergeant Rock]

CD 3

This is some sweet Satie playing here! Sarge - If you're listening, I'd say grab this one!

Morning, folks! 

I'm listening, New York.

[George]

I'm listening, New York.

10-4, good buddy!

Amazon.US has it for dirt cheap. 

[Harry]

Indulging in the spoils of my Glossa haul at jpc.



Good morning!

Q

May I have some comments Que?

[springrite]

Sinopoli: Lou Salome

What an interesting work! I love it!

[DavidRoss]

[Coopmv]

10-4, good buddy!

Amazon.US has it for dirt cheap.

George,  Looks like you like this set ...   

[one_o_six]

Following a discussion in another topic, I took four LPs out of the shelf, cleaned them, and played them on my main tutrntable:

Joly Braga Santos (1924-1988)

Symphony No. 4 in e minor (1949)   

'George Enescu' Choir   
Roumanian Radiotelevision SO
Silva Pereira   

recorded Bucharest, November 1978 STRAUSS PORTUGALSOM [47:31]


Symphony No. 5, 'Virtus Lusitaniae' (1965-66)   

RDP SO
Silva Pereira   
recorded Bucharest, November 1978 STRAUSS PORTUGALSOM [47:31]


Divertimento No. 1 for orchestra (1961) [21.15]
Viola Concerto (1963) [26.05]   

Ana Bela Chaves (viola)
Budapest PO
Andra Korodi 

Hungaroton Studios, Budapest 16-19 March 1981 supervised by the composer STRAUSS PORTUGALSOM [47.55]


Sinfonietta for string orchestra (1963)
Concerto in D for string orchestra (1951)   

Budapest PO
Andras Korodi   
rec Hungaroton Studios, Budapest 1986 supervised by the composer STRAUSS PORTUGALSOM [ 36.00]







I have already heard the first and last works live, and records don't do justice to them...

[not edward]

Finally got around to Tippett's 3rd symphony. I'm impressed with the first three movements, anyway. The last movement I didn't find embarassing or over the top, but it did seem somewhat rambling, even by Tippett standards. (I'm not sure about the endless repetition of the Beethoven quote, either.)

Definitely a work I'll have to come back to.



Now listening to the three wind sonatas from this disc. Amazing stuff.

[Franco]

Finally got around to Tippett's 3rd symphony. I'm impressed with the first three movements, anyway. The last movement I didn't find embarassing or over the top, but it did seem somewhat rambling, even by Tippett standards. (I'm not sure about the endless repetition of the Beethoven quote, either.)

Definitely a work I'll have to come back to.



Now listening to the three wind sonatas from this disc. Amazing stuff.

That disc is one of my favorites - I listen to it once a month on average.

I am on the verge of buying the Roge collection of Poulenc piano solo music, as well as getting the Dutoit box of the orchestral music to replace some of the versions I have that are on old LPs.

[Coopmv]

Back to early music after some hiatus.  Now playing this CD, which arrived from MDT a few weeks ago for a first listen ...

[bhodges]

Lou Harrison: Easter Cantata; Young Caesar Arias; The Only Jealousy of Emer; Caligula's Dance; Music for Remy; Marriage at the Eiffel Tower (chamber version); Mass (reconstructed and rewritten for Ensemble Parallèle) (Ensemble Parallèle) - Interesting disc spanning a wide range of Harrison's career (1939-2000).  Some of these works could have been penned by Les six--definitely some French influence there, especially in Marriage at the Eiffel Tower.

--Bruce

[Drasko]

Re-creating a concert which happened at 26/27 January 1947 in Basle. Paul Sacher conducting Basle Chamber Orchestra in three premieres:

Stravinsky - Concerto in D
Martinu - Toccata & due Canzoni
Honegger - Symphony No.4

Now that's something I wish I could have attended. Hogwood recorded the same program for Arte Nova but I don't have that so pulled some other recordings from my shelf: Swizzera Italiana/Stravinsky, ORTF/Munch, Prague Philharmonia/Belohlavek




 

[Coopmv]

More early music, now playing this CD for a first listen ...

[springrite]

Lou Harrison: Easter Cantata; Young Caesar Arias; The Only Jealousy of Emer; Caligula's Dance; Music for Remy; Marriage at the Eiffel Tower (chamber version); Mass (reconstructed and rewritten for Ensemble Parallèle) (Ensemble Parallèle) - Interesting disc spanning a wide range of Harrison's career (1939-2000).  Some of these works could have been penned by Les six--definitely some French influence there, especially in Marriage at the Eiffel Tower.

--Bruce

I've been on a Lou Harrison binge myself lately. Love his music.

[bhodges]

I've been on a Lou Harrison binge myself lately. Love his music.

Need to hear more of his work!  A friend brought over that disc for a listen--he said it's his favorite recent purchase--and it was a bit of a revelation.  I guess I thought I knew Harrison's "style," but much of this didn't seem to fit with my preconception. 

--Bruce

[Coopmv]

More early music - now playing this CD for a first listen ...

[DavidRoss]

Three thumbs up!

[listener]

Dinu Lipatti - last recital,  Besançon Festival  Sept. 16, 1950
BACH: Partita 1 in C,    SCHUBERT:  Impromptus 3 & 2   MOZART: Sonata 8 in a
CHOPIN: 13 Waltzes
Listening to anything after these wonderful recordings seems almost a sacrilege, but perhaps sutable will be
BACH   Goldberg Variations      Alexis Weissenberg, piano
(Pathé Marconi pressing)

[Coopmv]

Now playing CD5, the last CD - Symphony 9th from this set for a first listen ...

[one_o_six]

Anton Bruckner (1824 – 1896)

Symphony No. 8 in C minor ("Apocalyptic"; "The German Michel"), WAB 108

Hamburg North German Radio Symphony Orchestra
Gunter Wand