What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[karlhenning]

He probably liked the Adagio, 7:13 in duration!

Goedemorgen, mijn vriend!

[Harry]

Goedemorgen, mijn vriend!

Goedenmorgen Karl.

[Kullervo]

Louis Spohr.

Complete Piano Trio's.

CD 1.

Piano Trio, No. 1 in E minor, opus 119.

Beethoven Trio Ravensburg.

I always had a soft spot for Spohr, and am consequently amassing his compositions. These Piano Trio's are amongst the things I have.
Really beautiful compostitions, well written too, and expertly performed and recorded.

What's on the cover, Louis Spohr's spores?

[Kullervo]

Death and the Maiden

[Thom]

These are not Arnold's greatest achievements but still, charming music.

[bhodges]

Britten: Peter Grimes (Vickers / Harper / Colin Davis / ROH, Covent Garden) - Hard not to think of this as a "desert island" opera recording.  There's a nice set at the end of Act I, going into Act II: Vickers is riveting in the famous "Now the Great Bear and Pleiades," followed immediately by the Covent Garden chorus in the intricate "Old Joe Has Gone Fishing," and then Heather Harper sings a beautiful "Glitter of Waves."  Davis and the orchestra are sensational.



--Bruce

[orbital]

Oh, and I definitely should have added Marek Drewnowski to that list! Won't even tell you how many times I was told at music school (in the mid 1990s) that he was the best pianist living in Poland then (don't know what they'd say today).

IT may not be the best idea to judge from one (or perhaps two here) performances only, but I was not very much impressed by the PC recordings.

ps-just visited his website, and there is a Scarlatti playing in the background. I guess he can't be faulted with poor technics 
http://www.drewnowski.pl/SITE/discographie.php?langue=en

[not edward]

(Bolero, La Valse, Ma mere l'Oye)

[Kullervo]

Locatelli - CG 3 (Capella Istropolitania)

[Kullervo]

[Que]

Joseph Haydn.

Complete Piano Trio's.

CD 8.

In C major, Hob. XV/21.
In E flat major, Hob. XV/22.
In D minor, Hob. XV/23.
In E flat minor, Hob. XV/31.

Van Swieten Trio.

A very remarkable set, in all aspects. An for the money its a steal.

Marvelous set Harry! That cannot be said enough!
Like you said: you have to turn your ears the other way around for this (in comparison to the BAT) - the right direction IMO!

Q

[Harry]

These are not Arnold's greatest achievements but still, charming music.

Yes that's what I thought too, when I had listen to it a couple of times.

[mahlertitan]

Mahler symphony No. 9 abbado with BP

[Joe Barron]

Stravinsky by Stravinsky. See my comments on the recordings page.

[Drasko]

Lot of listening time today  

Milhaud - Les Choephores - Lamoureux Orch. / Markevitch
Honegger - 5th Symphony - Lamoureux Orch. / Markevitch
Honegger - 3rd Symphony - Leningrad  / Mravinsky
Ravel - Le Tombeau de Couperin - Montreal / Dutoit
Ravel - Daphnis et Chloe (Suite No.2) - Montreal / Dutoit

to be continued ...

[Harry]

Ferdinand Ries.

Symphony No. 1, opus 23 in D major.

Zurcher Kammerorchester/Howard Griffiths.

Well a few steps away from Beethoven it is, but that said I think this is quite a remarkable Symphony, which is beautifully scored for brass, and that reminds you in every corner of Beethoven. The second movement "March Funebre" is one of those pointers, but also the combination combining the melodic content of strings and brass together. But funny enough it does not matter in the least for me. I think this is great music, and listen to it with as much pleasure as I listen to Beethoven. The beguilingly warm toned orchestra does help enormously. The overwhelming surge of the same exultant emotion which gets at you listening to the third movement "Menuetto-Moderato" is ravishing. Its really fine writing for the strings. The performances are warmly affectionate, beautifully played and flattered by the rich yet open textured sound.
I love this music.

[Kullervo]

Lot of listening time today 

Milhaud - Les Choephores - Lamoureux Orch. / Markevitch
Honegger - 5th Symphony - Lamoureux Orch. / Markevitch
Honegger - 3rd Symphony - Leningrad  / Mravinsky
Ravel - Le Tombeau de Couperin - Montreal / Dutoit
Ravel - Daphnis et Chloe (Suite No.2) - Montreal / Dutoit

to be continued ...

Are those Honeggers part of a complete set? I'm looking for a second set, and so far Baudo seems to one to go for (I already have the Dutoit, Bavarian RSO).

[Harry]

Ferdinand Ries.

Symphony No. 2, opus 80, in C minor.

Zurcher Kammerorchester/Howard Griffiths.

What I said in my first review of the first symphony is valid for the second.
Boy I am enjoying this so much, and am unable to express how much.

[Scriptavolant]

Martucci, Symphony No. 1 in D minor (1895).

and Piano Concerto No. 1, in D minor as well (1878).

The Piano concerto is an interesting youthful work. Here and there I'd dare to say that Martucci seems not completely at ease in soberly managing large sections and developments. Well, he was quite young (22) too, and it's hard to find similar notably attempts in Italian Late-Romantic period. He make up this formal uncertainties with a great deal of tuneful motives, somehow operatic in nature, in accordance to the Italian tradition.
It's a quite enjoyable work, and most of all the first glimmering of the renewal in instrumental Italian music, as the following generations will acknowledge.

[BachQ]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37TLxLckofo

What is this aria called?

You should start a thread .........