What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[mc ukrneal]

This morning finishing up the Vanhal discs in my collection (8 @ the moment):

Symphonies w/ the performers listed on the cover art; these are good!  And, just ordered the remained 3 volumes on Naxos -

 

HA! You are ahead of me. I have them in my cart at l'abeille if I can find a few more discs! Otherwise, they will have to wait. Unlesss I can find them for a similar price elsewhere!

[PaulR]

Afternoon!

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Credo

[North Star]

Wuorinen
String Sextet
http://www.youtube.com/v/v_q5qTUo8gI

[Karl Henning]

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

Дмитри Дмитриевич [ Dmitri Dmitriyevich (Shostakovich) ]
Симфония № 10 ми минор, соч. 93 [ Symphony № 10 in e minor, Opus 93 ]
LSO
Максим Дмитриевич [ Maksim Dmitriyevich (Shostakovich) ]

Shostakovich fils takes the tempo of the first movement down a notch or a notch and a half, but keeps it fully juiced.

[North Star]

Dmitri Dmitriyevich
Piano Concertos
Hamelin, Litton & BBC Scottish SO
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[Sergeant Rock]

"This gorgeous performance by Vicki Ray and the Eclipse Quartet has an almost erotically sensual quality."

There is quite a disconnect between the description of the music and the cover photo    I fixed it:




Sarge

[kishnevi]

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

Дмитри Дмитриевич [ Dmitri Dmitriyevich (Shostakovich) ]
Симфония № 10 ми минор, соч. 93 [ Symphony № 10 in e minor, Opus 93 ]
LSO
Максим Дмитриевич [ Maksim Dmitriyevich (Shostakovich) ]

Shostakovich fils takes the tempo of the first movement down a notch or a notch and a half, but keeps it fully juiced.

Nor have I.  To repost what I just put up on the JIASSM thread:
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Finished giving the Barshai set a first listen this mornng. 
Preliminary rating:
Excellent, probably the best available, performances of 2, 3, 9  and 12.
Excellent, possibly the best available performances of 10, 13, 14, and 15.
First rate, but not as good as others I've heard, performances of 1, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8
Either I was having a bad hair day when I listened to it, or it's a total dud, performance: 11

Still, with only one apparent clunker in the group,  it's very well worth having


Humor note: I have this as part of the Brilliant 100 CD Symphonies box, the megaset which also includes Fischer's Haydn,  Blomstedt's Beethoven, and various other cycles or parts of cycles marketed by Brilliant.  It's arranged mostly chronologically, which means that Shostakovich should be the very last composer in the box;  but apparently Brilliant thought he was too heavy or depressing for that position, and inserted two Borodin CDs to finish out the set.
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Following  DSCH in the CD player

Max Reger
Sinfonietta in A major for Orchestra Op. 90
"An die Hoffnung" for Alto and Orchestra, Op. 124
"Hymnus der Liebe" for Baritone(Alto) and Orchestra, Op. 136
Dresden Philharmonie in the Sinfonietta
Liepzig RSO in the orchestral songs
Annelies Burmeister, alto
Heinz Bongartz, conductor

Let's just say that if you want your music to sound like Tristan und Isolde,  you'll love these two orchestral songs.

[North Star]

There is quite a disconnect between the description of the music and the cover photo    I fixed it:




Sarge

You should send this picture to the record company, Sarge! 


Listened to some of Dvorak's symphonic works earlier today

Symphonies nos. 1 & 2
Polednice (Noon Witch), Op. 108
Neumann & CzPO
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[Sergeant Rock]

You should send this picture to the record company, Sarge! 

If record companies hired me to design their covers, they'd increase their sales tenfold 


Sarge

[Mirror Image]

Afternoon!

[asin]B000000AR1[/asin]
Credo

Nice! I've got that recording (somewhere). I remember it being quite good.

[Mirror Image]

If record companies hired me to design their covers, they'd increase their sales tenfold 


Sarge

Who is that woman on that cover, Sarge? Some random chick?

[Karl Henning]

If record companies hired me to design their covers, they'd increase their sales tenfold 

If ever there is a commercially distributed CD of Henningmusick, Sarge, you are entirely in command charge of the cover art.

[Sergeant Rock]

Who is that woman on that cover, Sarge? Some random chick?

Mrs. Rock's sister; my sister-in-law.

Sarge

[Sergeant Rock]

If ever thiere is a commercially distributed CD of Henningmusick, Sarge, you are entirely in command charge of the cover art.

Thanks, Karl. But won't your incredibly gifted wife feel jilted 

Sarge

[Mirror Image]

Now:



Listening to The Noon Witch. Splendid performance.

[Karl Henning]

1971 born in Marl.

Eleventh Ear of Marl?

[Sadko]

Thank goodness people born in early September aren't referred to that way, otherwise I would be one for life.

Hello fellow Virgos out there

[madaboutmahler]

Listening to this incredible piece again :
http://www.youtube.com/v/zgn-OlLuldU

Geysir by Jon Leifs.

[Opus106]

This set of miniatures by Medtner (Skazki - "Fairy Tales") is wonderful! It ought to be popular.

[Daverz]

Morton Feldman: Piano and String Quartet (1985)

Gotta be better than those amateur scrapers on Nonesuch.  And who says Uncle Morty couldn't be sensual and erotic all by himself.