What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[MN Dave]

Looks like your butt is sagging.

Stop looking at my butt.   

[SonicMan46]

.......
I won't know of a prognosis until I hear back from the medical experts.  On 23 December, I get all stitches removed.  Life is grand!!

Don - glad to see you posting so quickly!    Good luck and hope that the findings will be good news!  Dave

[Antoine Marchand]

And it's great to be back.  My surgery went very well although last night was a tough one.  As I write, my lymph nodes are being examined in a lab.  Fortunately, they were removed from my right underarm, and I'm a lefty.  The pain pills I am taking make me a happy man, so you won't read any surly comments from me for a couple of days.

I won't know of a prognosis until I hear back from the medical experts.  On 23 December, I get all stitches removed.  Life is grand!!

Great, Don!

I hope you are well soon and free to listen to music and enjoy the life with your wife and family. Sometimes, I recall that funny story on her reaction when she answered the phone and Glen Wilson asked: "Is this the home of Don Satz, the Bach expert?"... 

[SonicMan46]

This afternoon starting on a newly arrived 5-disc set nicely packaged into a 2-CD jewel box:

Satie, Erik (1866-1925) - Complete Solo Piano Music w/ Jean-Yves Thibaudet (pics of cover & liner notes art below) - excellent review, i.e. 10/8, by David Hurwitz on Classics Today HERE; also, some good comments by Jerry Dubins from a 2004 Fanfare issue (*.txt file attached) - for myself, just getting started - good comments on the GMG forum! 

 

[Henk]

And it's great to be back.  My surgery went very well although last night was a tough one.  As I write, my lymph nodes are being examined in a lab.  Fortunately, they were removed from my right underarm, and I'm a lefty.  The pain pills I am taking make me a happy man, so you won't read any surly comments from me for a couple of days.

I won't know of a prognosis until I hear back from the medical experts.  On 23 December, I get all stitches removed.  Life is grand!!

Don, didn't know about your disease. Hope you'll recover.

kind regards,
Henk

[Henk]

Stop looking at my butt.   

Dave, admire your degrading to this level consistently, having read so many books. Consider to keep that secret.

Henk

[MN Dave]

Dave, admire your degrading to this level consistently, having read so many books. Consider to keep that secret.

Okay, I didn't understand that at all. Keep up the good work.

[Conor71]

Good morning - Now playing:
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5's
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 7

[Brian]

Okay, I didn't understand that at all. Keep up the good work.

[jlaurson]

Just to remind myself why my picks are so darn good...

Fabio Maffei's "Petit Prince"


Best Recordings of 2010 Countdown

# 4
http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2010/12/best-recordings-of-2010-4.html

Maffei et al., Beethoven...

[Coopmv]

This twofer is an excellent set.  I am glad I bought the set when it was still released under Philips.

[Sid]

Thanks guys for your interesting comments regarding Bax. I'll have to relisten to the stuff I've got from him. I haven't heard any of his chamber music yet...

Last night listened to:

Beethoven: String Quartets Nos. 9 "Razumovsky No. 3," & 10 "Harp"
Hungarian String Quartet
Columbia LP

I've been listening to this excellent recording repeatedly since I bought it for $5 last week. The 3rd Razumovsky quartet is an amazing work. The first and third movements remind me strongly of Haydn, but the second and final movements are pure Beethoven, and really special. The second (slow) movement opens with this deep plucking sound from the cello, which reminds me of jazz! It is apparently based on a Russian folk song (Count Razumovsky who commissioned these quartets was Russian). This song was (according to Wikipedia) also used by Mussorgsky in Boris Godunov. Beethoven contrasts this sad song with a section which sounds like a Viennese dance, maybe a waltz. He is effectively combining the two cultures, & I think that this contrast works. & the final movement follows straight from the minuet before, it is a vigorous & intense fugue, which seems to prefigure what Beethoven did in the Grosse Fuge, one of the late quartets. I also like the accompanying "Harp" Quartet, which I first got to know as a teenager (on another recording). This work has plenty of pizzicato in the opening movement (hence the nickname), a lyrical slow movement which can be quite moving and intense, then an intense presto & a delightful & lighter concluding theme and variations. The playing of the Hungarian String Quartet is a thrill to hear, these guys were at the top of their game in the 1950's...

[Lethevich]

Glad you're (relatively) okay now, Don.

I finally feel as though I can enjoy Mendelssohn's music once again. I wonder why



Edit: Added the next one. The Mendelssohn is remarkable, very spirited and full of beautiful melodic invention - first-rate trios.

[Que]

My flat has been filled with Bach for the past 2 weeks!! 

Currently on CDs 12 and 13 from this set:



marvin

Wow, you're going through that set speedily! Must be good!


First listening to this new purchase. It seems that CPE himself was very taken with these works for vocal ensemble and basso continuo (complete rec. on 2 discs), and I can clearly hear why.



Don (Satz/ Bulldog) - glad you're back, best wishes and a speedy recovery!

Q

[mc ukrneal]

In celebration of my 1000th post here, this seemed the appropriate piece to listen to: Mahler, Symphony No. 8 (Symphony of a Thousand). Bertini.

[The new erato]

First listening to this new purchase. It seems that CPE himself was very taken with these works for vocal ensemble and basso continuo (complete rec. on 2 discs), and I can clearly hear why.

What label is that Que?

And all wishes for a speedy recovery to the Bulldog!

[Lethevich]

No.5


This composer has to rival Langgaard for sheer crankiness, it's glorious in its huge wooly chords, orchestral mumbling, absence of tunes and total lack of direction.

[The new erato]

Just to remind myself why my picks are so darn good...

Fabio Maffei's "Petit Prince"


Best Recordings of 2010 Countdown

# 4
http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2010/12/best-recordings-of-2010-4.html

Maffei et al., Beethoven...

Nice recommendations, but the Gall label isn't exactly easy to tracem, and the Zehetmair Beethoven seems to be OOP unless one buys the big Zehetmair box.

[Harry]

No.5


This composer has to rival Langgaard for sheer crankiness, it's glorious in its huge woolly chords, orchestral mumbling, absence of tunes and total lack of direction.

Yes and thats the fun about his music! I recently bought both issues recorded by MP. and glad too, for these are the only recordings available.

[Lethevich]

Yes and thats the fun about his music! I recently bought both issues recorded by MP. and glad too, for these are the only recordings available.

I just realised a suitable analogy: it like a huge Cumulus cloud gradually floating across the sky. I agree that it's fun music, although I could never listen to the 7th symphony in one sitting.