What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Karl Henning]

He's a stiff!

[mahler10th]

Due to the cash starved antics of my broadband provider, I was off for almost a week there...but that didn't stop me listening.



On recommendation by madaboutmahler.
Bortkiewicz wrote such beautiful music.

[mc ukrneal]

Due to the cash starved antics of my broadband provider, I was off for almost a week there...but that didn't stop me listening.



On recommendation by madaboutmahler.
Bortkiewicz wrote such beautiful music.

Love this one. The Arensky is great too.

Now listening to.... Arensky! Suite for two pianos, with Stephen Coombs and Ian Munro. Hooks you from the opening piece...
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[mahler10th]

I am glad that many on this forum took the plunge and bought this CD, it has made me realize that the true lovers of classical music are assembled on GMG.
Today I play the very impressive Symphony in E major, for me one of the greats. As a cd its only bailable on the condition that I play it very often, and this I promised to do
The coalescent factor in the music must be the enormous emotional impact that is prevalent in all three movements. No eccentricity but a plain and forceful tale, of pain, versus long term suffering, which finds its pinnacle in the third movement, a Elegy I think for what Truscott as a composer and human felt, and therefore its deeply personal, a  expression of sorts. David and Goliath, Truscott against the musical society, a fight that he never won. He was not even seen, no impression he made. Indelible is the impression he makes on me. The third movement is a luminous affair, revealing, his Magnum Opus! May some sensible recording company take the effort to make the music of this composer more known to mankind. In the mean time this is a very dedicated performance, and Chris Craker made a fine recording.

Seconded, take note all, buy it and you will not regret the pennies you spend, that disc is also among my most played at the moment.

[Karl Henning]

. . . and the Rott revival is ongoing . . . .

[AnthonyAthletic]

I'll second, third & fourth this recording, a lovely cd with all three works having much to value.  I bought this when it came out in 2004 after hearing a couple of the movements reviewed by Rob Cowan and the late Keith Shadwick on their CFM Friday night review programme.  Favourite cd of the year back then!

[Antoine Marchand]

I also detect a slightly Schubertian laziness, though - leaving so much half-finished, to move onto beginning other works, which were also left half-finished...

... c'mon, Lethe. I always read with pleasure your well thought posts, but this time... "Schubertian laziness"? The guy died when he was 31 y.o., having written a fantastic corpus of chamber music (I know you love his outstanding string quartets) and piano sonatas, nine symphonies, some 600 Lieder, liturgical music, operas, incidental music and so; and you talk about a supposed "Schubertian laziness"? 

[mc ukrneal]

I'll second, third & fourth this recording, a lovely cd with all three works having much to value.  I bought this when it came out in 2004 after hearing a couple of the movements reviewed by Rob Cowan and the late Keith Shadwick on their CFM Friday night review programme.  Favourite cd of the year back then!

And can be had for less than $4 at MDT in their latest clearence sale.

[Lethevich]

... c'mon, Lethe. I always read with pleasure your well thought posts, but this time... "Schubertian laziness"? The guy died when he was 31 y.o., having written a fantastic corpus of chamber music (I know you love his outstanding string quartets) and piano sonatas, nine symphonies, some 600 Lieder, liturgical music, operas, incidental music and so; and you talk about a supposed "Schubertian laziness"? 

It's just an interesting contrast to, say, Mozart, who also died young, not even mentioning Beethoven (if we pretend he died at a young age and factor in what he had written up until then) - Schubert had a habit of leaving works half finished, wheras other composers more regularly completed them once they went beyond simple sketches. It's not a big diss of the guy, just an observation - loose symphonic movements are common with composers, but less so the "half symphony" or "half sonata" The "laziness" was a bit mock-polemical - "restlessness" could be substituted for it.

[madaboutmahler]

This afternoon will be a sort of marathon--Nos 6, 7 and 8 all in a row.

Lucky you, Jeffrey!

Due to the cash starved antics of my broadband provider, I was off for almost a week there...but that didn't stop me listening.



On recommendation by madaboutmahler.
Bortkiewicz wrote such beautiful music.

God, I love that piece so incredibly much! Glad you enjoyed it too!

[nesf]

Shostakovich - Symphony No. 5

Bernard Haitink
Concertgebouw

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This album makes me want the full boxset.

[springrite]

Some composers are too lazy to start working on a new project and just keeps lingering on an old one in which he has already said what he had in mind to say, just for the sake of "completeness".

Uh... no, forget what I said.

Berg Piano Sonata (Barenboim)

... about this work, when Berg asked for advise when he got stuck after finishing only one movement, Schoenberg said: "You must have already said all you have to say about this work, so it is finished."

[Antoine Marchand]

It's just an interesting contrast to, say, Mozart, who also died young, not even mentioning Beethoven (if we pretend he died at a young age and factor in what he had written up until then) - Schubert had a habit of leaving works half finished, wheras other composers more regularly completed them once they went beyond simple sketches. It's not a big diss of the guy, just an observation - loose symphonic movements are common with composers, but less so the "half symphony" or "half sonata" The "laziness" was a bit mock-polemical - "restlessness" could be substituted for it.

It's principally because Schubert was searching for his own voice, as all young people (even geniuses) must to do. I mean I think it was more a problem of his age than a problem of Schubert's personality. I'm too lazy to research this, but I would like to know how much Mozart's music would have been lost, if he had died when he was 31 (he died when he was almost 36 y.o.). Not to mention that Beethoven died when he was almost 57 which means a whole life of difference.

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Listening to Symphonie Concertante.

[Conor71]

Beethoven: String Quartet No. 7 In F Major, Op. 59/1, "Rasumovsky No. 1"

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Listening to Jeu de cartes. Good performance.

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Listening to Symphony No. 1. A very interesting symphony. Quite good actually.

[Lethevich]

Schubert - Reliquie sonata (Dalberto) & 8th symphony (Munch)

Why pass up the opportunity?

[Sadko]

Just finished the 2 CDs:

Alkan: Douze études dans les tons mineurs

Jack Gibbons

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Listening to Symphony No. 2 now. Honegger's music is so good that I can just let the whole recording play and not think anything about it.