What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Christo]

Now:

Listening to Symphony No. 4. Fantastic. It's been awhile since I've heard this work.

I'm suddenly realize that I met Sumera once, just superfically, about five years before his early death, when we were enjoying an evening with music and dance in the Kloostri Ait - http://www.kloostriait.ee/eng/index_intro.php - in Tallinn. Must have been the Summer of 1995 ...

[Fafner]

Leoš Janáček - Jenufa (Její pastorkyňa)

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[Willoughby earl of Itacarius]

Currently listening. CD 7.

La Sultane.
La Superbe
La Steinquerque.
Pieces de Violes first and second suite.
Le Rossignol.

Beautifully done.

[Willoughby earl of Itacarius]

Licensed from Chandos and recorded in 2000-2004.

CD 1.

Symphony No. 1 and 2.
Memory of the Norwegian Alps.

This is certainly a strong contender to have if you want this music. Released on Brilliant its cheap, Chandos sound quality, and excellent interpretations. All detail is well in the foreground, tempi are apt. Its a fresh approach with non of the heaviness and ponderousness that sometimes hamper recordings of these works. Recommended.

[Willoughby earl of Itacarius]

Well believe it or not, the first CD made such a favourable impression on me, that I could do no other then to take the second disc and put it in my player. The first notes confirm again, how wonderful these performances are.
I have a addictive strain towards Berwald's orchestral works. He paints such a lovely pattern of micro details that reminds me constantly of Mendelssohn's Midsummer Night dream, a magical world that enchants and delights. He is very much his own man in this.
Dausgaard brings it all out, in wonderful sound, truly amazing.

Symphony No. 3 in C major. (Singuliere)

[Willoughby earl of Itacarius]

Play of the Elves, Tone painting for large orchestra.

Symphony No 4 in E flat major. (Naive)

Performers as above.

[Willoughby earl of Itacarius]

Currently listening to a set I bought in 2010.

CD 1.

Verzweiflung und Ergebung.
Nocturne Symphonique for Orchestra.
Suite after Rondo Arlecchinesco for Orchestra.
Divertimento for Flute and Orchestra.

Jean Claude Gerard, Flute.
Robert Worle Tenor.
Radio SO Berlin, Gerd Albrecht.
Recorded in 1991-1992.

First of all I admire the music by Busoni, and secondly I admire the excellent performances and very good sound. Its the extremes in his music that captures my imagination. A composer that composes in images.  Wonderful!

[Fafner]

Janáček: Kostelnička's monologue from Jenůfa
Naděžda Kniplová, National Theatre, Prague, 1964

http://www.youtube.com/v/X_DcmY6UElE

[jlaurson]

Now:



Rodion Shchedrin
Carmen-Suite, Anna Karenina
G.Rozhdestvensky / Bolshoi Strings & Percussion
E.Svetlanov / USSR SO
Melodiya
German link - UK link

His Carmen Ballet (for his wife Maya Plisatskaya, as all his ballet compositions are) and the resulting suite is a liberal transcription for strings and percussion of the original... so more Bizet than anything else. But intriguing by all means!

Later this again.


Franzerl Schubert
Symphonies
Minkowski / LMdLG
Naive
German link - UK link

I still don't know how it might compare to Immerseel, but (Minkowski's recording) being 15 years younger must count for something in the PI industry.

[Karl Henning]

Yes, the Carmen Suite is good clean fun.

[Sadko]

Shostakovich: Piano concerto no. 1
Musorgsky: Pictures at an exhibiton (for piano solo)

Vladimir Ovchinnikov (piano)
John Wallace (trumpet)
The Philharmonia
Maxim Shostakovich (cond.)



For the first listening to this CD I waited for a special "right" moment - now.

[Lisztianwagner]

Sergei Prokofiev
Symphony No.1

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[Sadko]

Shostakovich: Piano concerto no. 1
Musorgsky: Pictures at an exhibiton (for piano solo)

Vladimir Ovchinnikov (piano)
John Wallace (trumpet)
The Philharmonia
Maxim Shostakovich (cond.)



For the first listening to this CD I waited for a special "right" moment - now.

It as good as I expected, one of my top "Pictures" recordings: Full of subtle detail, but always in perspective of the whole work, no banging. Performances of this work for my ear often fall apart into effects, bits and pieces, but not here, everything develops organically. Very good!

[jlaurson]

Pushing the Schubert further down the list, for now particular reason, but now this:



Elliot Carter
Piano Music
C.Rosen
Bridge
German link - UK link

Great fun... spiky, barbed fun. Still heard Rosen in Carter live, in a most amusing recital (partly for non-musical reasons), after which I met Rosen as a kind, indulging, humble man with a gentle, not barbed wit. Not so unlike Carter, come to think of it... whose autumnal humor in his music makes me think of Haydn, more than anyone else.


Franzerl Schubert
Symphonies
Minkowski / LMdLG
Naive
German link - UK link

[Karl Henning]

I've not forgotten what month(s) it is!

Дмитри Дмитриевич [ Dmitri Dmitriyevich (Shostakovich) ]
Симфония № 7 до мажор « Ленинградская », соч. 60 [ Symphony № 7 in C, Opus 60 "Leningrad" ]
CSO
Lenny

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[Opus106]

'Tis the month

http://www.youtube.com/v/4za9JsyFQyI

[Fafner]

Leoš Janáček - On the overgrown path

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[Mirror Image]

I've not forgotten what month(s) it is!

Дмитри Дмитриевич [ Dmitri Dmitriyevich (Shostakovich) ]
Симфония № 7 до мажор « Ленинградская », соч. 60 [ Symphony № 7 in C, Opus 60 "Leningrad" ]
CSO
Lenny

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*Pounds the table!

[SonicMan46]

Today continuing my Vanhal listening - has been awhile but his music is quite enjoyable!

 

[Fafner]

Leoš Janáček - Káťa Kabanová
National Theatre Prague, 1959