What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[karlhenning]

Copland
El salón México
Detroit Symphony / Doráti

[karlhenning]

Copland
Dance Symphony
Detroit Symphony / Doráti

What a cool piece!

[Sergeant Rock]

Not HIP, and by a conductor not associated with this period, but the results are stylish with a small band and brisk tempos and wonderful singing from June Anderson and Cecilia Bartoli. Not a bagain-counter tenor anywhere




Sarge

[karlhenning]

Copland
Four Dance Episodes from Rodeo
Detroit Symphony / Doráti

This means I now have Doráti twice in this 'un . . . Detroit and Minneapolis . . . .

[karlhenning]

The Hoedown has a varry nice 'specific gravity.'

[PerfectWagnerite]

Starring the 8th and 9th wonders of the world

[greg]

No, no, paulb could tell that there was no point in listening to an entire piece from a 30-second clip, very different 

no, it was 1 minute of 17 different tracks each, which is a total of 17 minutes of the complete ballet

http://www.amazon.com/Prokofiev-Chout-Sergey/dp/B0000U1NG0/ref=sr_1_1/002-2216180-3985638?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1176913838&sr=1-1

[greg]

Schoenberg- op.5 Pelleas et Melisande

[toledobass]

Martinu Symphony 4 Bryndon Thompson/RSNO

Also gave a spin to Sonata 1.X.1905 "From the street" played by  Leif Ove Andsnes.  I only know the Firkusny recording.  The differences in these performances makes me want to hunt out some others.  


Allan

[rubio]

Brahms Symphony no. 3 and 4 by Mravinsky/Leningrad PO. I was not bowled over, and I still have other favourite performances for these symphonies.

[Haffner]

Copland
Dance Symphony
Detroit Symphony / Doráti

What a cool piece!

I have this on the way; Dorati sold it for me. Waiting for my Billy the Kid.


I've been very busy with Wagner's Ring... in terms of appreciation and study. For rest, I turn to Moravec's Chopin and Kempff's Beethoven.

[karlhenning]

Welcome back, Andy! 

[Haffner]

Welcome back, Andy! 

Happy to be back, Dr.Karl! And best wishes to all this overcast/snowy-rain afternoon in Burlington Vermont!

[George]

[karlhenning]

Braga Santos
Concerto for Strings in D (1951)
Northern Sinfonia
Álvaro Cassuto

[Harry]

John Blackwood McEwen.

String Quartet No. 13 in C minor.

Chillingirian Quartet

McEwen is a phenomenon, no less. Hardly is there a composer that you can compare with him. The power and the uttering of these works defy description. There is longing, stretched out in long lines, and fade out dynamics, desperateness as in the Moderato, and Andante, cheerfulness in the Allegro vivace.............

[karlhenning]

Braga Santos
Sinfonietta for Strings (1963)
Northern Sinfonia
Álvaro Cassuto

Markedly more poignant than the Concerto from twelve years earlier.

[Harry]

John Blackwood McEwen.

SQ No. 3 in E minor.

Chilingirian Quartet.

Eminently beautiful, high class music, sophisticated, and genteel.

[karlhenning]

Braga Santos
Variações concertantes, for string orchestra, harp & solo string quartet (1967)
Sue Blair, harp
Northern Sinfonia
Álvaro Cassuto

Wonderful opening gesture!  And that is Only The Beginning . . . .

[Harry]

John Blackwood Mc Ewen.

SQ No. 6 in A major. "Biscay"

Chilingirian Quartet.

Takes my breath away.