What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[bhodges]

Quite the weekend:

(Friday)
Oliver Knussen, Conductor
Susan Narucki, Soprano
Peter Serkin, Piano
The Zankel Band

Magnus Lindberg: Corrente
Oliver Knussen: Requiem—Songs for Sue (NY Premiere)
Olivier Messiaen: Oiseaux exotiques
Julian Anderson: Book of Hours

(Saturday)
DVD
Reinbert de Leeuw, Conductor
ASKO Ensemble
Schoenberg Ensemble
Claude Vivier: Shiraz (Marc Couroux, piano) Lonely Child (w/Susan Narucki, soprano), Zipangu, Wo bist du Licht! (w/Katherine Harries, soprano)

Sakari Oramo, Conductor
New York Philharmonic
Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1 (Lisa Batiashvili, violin)
Sibelius: Symphony No. 6
Sibelius: Tapiola

(Sunday)
Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin (Gergiev/Met, Fleming, Hvorostovsky, Vargas)
Xenakis: Procession aux eaux claires (from Anastenaria, Bornstein/Bavarian Radio)

--Bruce

[karlhenning]

Good morning Karl, I rather missed you this weekend!

I've been resting, staving off a cold, Harry.

Great programs, Bruce!

[toledobass]

Quite the weekend:

(Friday)
Oliver Knussen, Conductor
Susan Narucki, Soprano
Peter Serkin, Piano
The Zankel Band

Magnus Lindberg: Corrente
Oliver Knussen: Requiem—Songs for Sue (NY Premiere)
Olivier Messiaen: Oiseaux exotiques
Julian Anderson: Book of Hours

(Saturday)
DVD
Reinbert de Leeuw, Conductor
ASKO Ensemble
Schoenberg Ensemble
Claude Vivier: Shiraz (Marc Couroux, piano) Lonely Child (w/Susan Narucki, soprano), Zipangu, Wo bist du Licht! (w/Katherine Harries, soprano)

Sakari Oramo, Conductor
New York Philharmonic
Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1 (Lisa Batiashvili, violin)
Sibelius: Symphony No. 6
Sibelius: Tapiola

(Sunday)
Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin (Gergiev/Met, Fleming, Hvorostovsky, Vargas)
Xenakis: Procession aux eaux claires (from Anastenaria, Bornstein/Bavarian Radio)

--Bruce

Howdy Bruce,

How was Oramo?  The disks of his that I've heard were 'meh' for me.  Just wondered how his 'live' work leaves an impression.


Allan

[bhodges]

Howdy Bruce,

How was Oramo?  The disks of his that I've heard were 'meh' for me.  Just wondered how his 'live' work leaves an impression.


Allan

I thought Oramo was very good, especially in the Sibelius works, both of which he conducted without a score.  He got a very good sound from the Philharmonic, and the musicians seemed to like him.  This is the second time I've heard him, and while I'm not feeling a huge "wow" yet (like say, for Alan Gilbert) I think he's quite good. 

--Bruce

[Don]

Good morning Karl, I rather missed you this weekend!

Harry:

There's not a chance you can be missed.  I noticed that you're posting 63.50 times per day.    That makes my 11 or so look puny.

[Harry]

Telemann.

Complete Overtures, Volume II.

Overture in D major TWV 55:D22, for 3 trumpets, timpani, strings & bc.
Overture in B minor, TWV 55:h4, for violin solo, and Strings & b.c.
Overture in E minor TWV 55:e3 for 2 flutes, 2 oboes, bassoon, 2 violins, strings & b.c.
Overture in C minor TWV 55:c4 for 2 oboes, violin, strings & b.c.

Collegium Instrumentale Brugense/Patrick Peire.

www.collegiuminstrumentale.be

The first volume of this series was a success, and the follow up is even better with a more tighter ensemble and better tempi. Sound is better too. What can I add other than this is Telemann pur sang, as it should be IMO. The interpretation is very lucid, and not hard driven, but gently strokes your senses into admiration. I played it already several times, and its still beautiful. Strings are soft but precise, winds are soft as a butterfly resting with shivering wings on a flower full with promise. It needs the words of a poet to describe what I cannot.
If the succeeding volumes will be like this than at last we have something complete and satisfying from this composer.

[Lady Chatterley]

Bela Bartok,SQ no3,Molinari Quartet.

[Maciek]

Must have been a very nice weekend, Bruce!


Bang on a Can - Cheating, Lying, Stealing
(pieces by David Lang, Annie Gosfield, Evan Ziporyn, Lois V. Vierk,  Nick Didkovsky, Frederic Rzewski, Hermeto Pascoal)

[bhodges]

Must have been a very nice weekend, Bruce!


Bang on a Can - Cheating, Lying, Stealing
(pieces by David Lang, Annie Gosfield, Evan Ziporyn, Lois V. Vierk,  Nick Didkovsky, Frederic Rzewski, Hermeto Pascoal)

Hey Maciek!  Yes, the weekend was a bit on the "overly dense" side, but on the other hand, a lot of great music.  Julian Anderson's Book of Hours (2004) was the biggest revelation: for chamber ensemble and electronics, and just wild.  The second part opens with what sounds like a scratchy LP playing...

PS, that Bang on a Can disc has some great stuff on it.  I like the Lang piece especially, and have heard it live several times. 

--Bruce

[Maciek]

Yes, I've heard it live too (only once though ), and it was the main reason I ever bought this disc (though I also generally like Annie Gosfield).

[rubio]

First up this evening, Bruckner Symphony no. 8 by Kempe/Tonhalle Orchester Zurich. Excellent stuff. I wonder if there exists anything more majestic in music than the final movement of this Symphony. I can imagine reaching some really high mountain peak in beautiful weather.



Then, Brahms Piano Concerto no. 2 with Abbado/Pollini/VPO. Well, this one I borrowed from the libray, and the first movement was unlistenable due to scratches. The three next movements were OK, and I really liked what I could hear here. Maybe I will buy it.



I just finished listening to Karajan/BPO performing Bruckner Symphony 3 (from his box set). I liked it, even if I still prefer the later Symphonies.

[Valentino]

Michelangeli playing Chopin. The DG 8CD box. I think I like it.

[karlhenning]

Sergei Sergeyevich
Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 1 in F Minor, Opus 80
Gidon Kremer
Martha Argerich

[PaulR]

Shostakovich:  Symphony #15 Lopez-Cobos/Cincinatti Symphony Orchestra.

Thanks for the recomendation Karl!  I really like this

[btpaul674]

Joly Braga Santos - Symphony No. 2

[not edward]

This really is a frustrating mess: a heavily cut version of a work that Schnittke was never able to complete before illness ended his compositional career.

Some of the first two acts are weak (for example the interminable monologues for Arno Raunig's vocally astonishing Mephistophele, full of leaps of up to two octaves) yet passages like Faust's three lamentations are the composer's late style at its best. The third act is the Faust Cantata from a decade earlier: superb music which simply doesn't fit--the style's different and it's very much a cantata and not an opera.

[karlhenning]

Shostakovich:  Symphony #15 Lopez-Cobos/Cincinatti Symphony Orchestra.

Thanks for the recomendation Karl!  I really like this

Excellent!

[karlhenning]

Joly Braga Santos - Symphony No. 2

Also excellent!

[karlhenning]

Igor Fyodorovich

Monumentum pro Gesualdo di Venosa ad CD annum
Stuttgarter Kammerorchester / Dennis Russell Davies

Tres sacrae cantiones (Carlo Gesualdo)
Netherlands Chamber Choir
Reinbert de Leeuw

[PerfectWagnerite]

What a great work this is ! I guess around the same time you also have Donizetti and Bellini, then there is this monster from Berlioz. There is not a dull moment in the entire opera, I think it's a must-own.