What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[AndyD.]

Jean Sibelius
Karelia Suite

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Interested in this recording, never heard the Karajan. Curious especially about the 6th. Christmas list!

Me:

I've been really getting into the Concerto this morning:

[Sergeant Rock]

Inspired by Luke's Berlioz post in the Unpopular Opinion thread, Scène d'amour from Roméo et Juliette and then Les Nuits d'été (a performance using three voices: sorprano, tenor and bass). Boulez conducting the Cleveland.




Sarge

[Karl Henning]

I've been really getting into the Concerto this morning:

(* pounds the table *)

[Karl Henning]

Inspired by Luke's Berlioz post in the Unpopular Opinion thread, Scène d'amour from Roméo et Juliette and then Les Nuits d'été (a performance using three voices: sorprano, tenor and bass). Boulez conducting the Cleveland.

I'm in, Sarge:

Berlioz
Roméo et Juliette, Op.17
Margaret Roggero, mezzo
Leslie Chabay, tenor
Yi-Kwei Sze, bass
Harvard Glee Club
Radford Choral Society
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Chas Munch
Recorded 22 & 23 February 1953

[PaulR]

Not that I need an excuse to listen to Berlioz............

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Roman Carnival Overture

Good way to start a LONG day.

[Sergeant Rock]

Mendelssohn

Symphonies #3 'Scottish' & #4 'Italian'

Philharmonia Orchestra
Klemperer

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EDIT: Ahh! Wonderful! As Sarge pointed out, he takes his time, here too, but only to let the music sing and unfold organically.

I haven't heard Klemp's Mendelssohn in years. I'll listen to the Italian now. I have the same jewel case and cover but packed in a Klemperer big box:




Sarge

[AndyD.]

I haven't heard Klemp's Mendelssohn in years. I'll listen to the Italian now. I have the same jewel case and cover but packed in a Klemperer big box:




Sarge

OOO...

Bach Art of Fugue (Emerson SQ)

[Karl Henning]

More:

Berlioz
L'enfance du Christ, Op.25
Florence Kopleff, contralto
Cesare Valletti, tenor
Gérard Souzay, baritone
Giorgio Tozzi, bass
New England Conservatory Chorus
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Chas Munch
Recorded 23/24 December 1956

[Lisztianwagner]

Interested in this recording, never heard the Karajan. Curious especially about the 6th. Christmas list!

I higly recommend the Karajan, it's a marvelous recording; really evocative, intense and powerfully expressive; beautifully atmospheric!

[AndyD.]

I higly recommend the Karajan, it's a marvelous recording; really evocative, intense and powerfully expressive; beautifully atmospheric!

Now I REALLY want to check it out, thank you Lisztianwagner!

Now:

Ligeti String Quartet No. 2 (Arditti SQ)

[Corey]

on spotify:



as snyprrr would say: "crisp and sprightly"

[TheGSMoeller]

My favorite among my tiny Respighi collection.

[DavidRoss]

My favorite among my tiny Respighi collection.

Mine, too.

Traversing Heidsieck's LvB traversal. A travesty at times, rhythmically wayward, dynamically disturbed, but deft and deliberate and sometimes exhilarating. He's certainly not like anyone else and often makes you hear even well-known works as if for the first time.



Addendum: In other words, he's everything HJLim's publicists claim she is, but isn't.

[Scion7]

Samuel Barber, First Essay for Orchestra

[Wakefield]

How do you like these recordings, Todd? I have seen this set before, but I don't know nothing at all about Pludermacher. 

[Sergeant Rock]

Haydn Symphony #96 D major "Miracle" Szell conducting the Cleveland




Sarge

[Opus106]

Quite possibly my favourite work by Rachmaninoff that involves an orchestra... so far.

Sergei Rachmaninoff
The Isle of th Dead

Sergei Prokofiev
Piano Concerto No. 3, Op. 26

Dmitri Shostakovich
Symphony No. 6, Op. 54

Simon Trpceski
Russian National Orchestra | Vladimir Jurowski

Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
20 Jan 2009

[Karl Henning]

Nice program, Nav!

[Opus106]

Nice program, Nav!

Indeed. Although I wish the concert had taken place in Moscow, say, so as to complete the package.

[Sergeant Rock]

Haydn Symphony #97 C major Szell conducting the Cleveland

Sarge