What are you listening to now?

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Continuing on with the Sinopoli Second Viennese School box set on Teldec:





Listening to Berg's Der Wein. Fantastic, just fantastic! I'm really impressed with all of the performances so far from Sinopoli/Dresden.

[Mirror Image]

Continuing on with the Sinopoli Second Viennese School box set on Teldec:





Listening to Berg's Three Pieces for Orchestra. My goodness! These must be the loudest hammer blows on record and those familiar with the work know what I'm talking about.

[Que]

New (but not from the BRO haul):

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http://www.amazon.co.uk/Orgelsonaten-Bernardo-Pasquini/dp/B0030CNQ2O/

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[Florestan]

This is indeed as esoteric as it gets: how is one supposed to follow between two and four different texts sung simultaneously in different melodic lines with different rythms? Those Medievals must have had a much more complex mind than is currently supposed.

[Moonfish]

Beethoven: Symphonies Nos 2 & 4      Wiener Philharmoniker/Schmidt-Isserstedt



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[Wanderer]

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[Harry]

Heavenly Tallis, an unique experience..........

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2014/12/tallis-thomas-complete-works-cd-2-music.html?spref=tw

[Florestan]

[Harry]

CPE Bach's genius on a organ

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2014/12/bach-cpe-complete-organ-works-cd-2.html?spref=tw

[Florestan]

The full splendor of the Venetian School in this superb disc.

[The new erato]

Small scale  music for advent listening:

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[Harry]

The full splendor of the Venetian School in this superb disc.

Yes as I remember, and that was some time ago, I wrote in the same terms about this CD. Enjoy.

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

Dread Duty :

Jon Lord's (of Deep Purple fame) Concerto for Group & Orchestra on Spotify.

[Florestan]

[Cosi bel do]

Haendel, Rodelinda

Stich-Randall, Forrester, Young, Rössel-Majdan...
Vienna Radio Orchestra, Brian Priestman (Westminster, 1964)



It is so outdated of course, on so many levels, but still has many qualities also. And I don't think the orchestra accompaniment, and the way Priestman conducts the whole thing, is the least of them, whereas most singers have obvious trouble with this music. Most interesting anyway. I shall try Curtis sometime (but not in the near future, 3 hours of Haendel is enough for this year, and also probably for the next one).

[Harry]

A classical great!

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2014/12/arnell-richard-piano-concerto-opus-44.html?spref=tw

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

Not dread, not schwed, either; still, the best of any effort I've heard to synthesize rock and classical imho.  Lord has the chops but cannot make the most of some promising moments; some lessons on development might not be amiss and his attn. span seems limited.  He might have had some concerns himself - some lyrics from the work :  "How shall I know When to stop singing my song?  What shall I do  If they all go wrong?  What shall I do?" Interesting...thanks Ken, glad to know about this. May try several of his other works.

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[Karl Henning]

Dvorak, Symphony 9
Harris, Symphony 3
NYPO Bernstein

The Harris is definitive, but the New World is a bit odd. Not a bad thing really, as it is my nth copy and odd is interesting. Driven. No, I will not stop and smell the roses! But it's not a top choice.

Update. Hot damn but that Harris is a performance. Sounds better tha ever.

Hey, with Mook and Brian bailing out who else is gonna work through this box?

Mine landed a week-ish ago, though with all the preparations for my choir's concert this coming Sunday, I've not touched it yet.

Changing that right now, by listening to the Harris.

[Karl Henning]

The Gershwin discussion above made me ponder this : wondering why have so few rock musicians have achieved anything of note in classical forms?  (I can only think of one, actually - Elvis Costello (so multi-talented that he perhaps ought not to be labelled 'rock musician'). I have made some effort in this area - ever hopeful for a miracle.  I'm thinking of new work, here; yes, I do like Yes' Cans & Brahms (though Wakefield thinks it awful - his cover is not Brahms' anymore but it has its own spirited appeal) and Tull's Bourée, etc.

Now jazz composers/musicians, to the contrary, can boast of many worthy "classical" works, inc. this, listening to now :

I need to revisit that.  I remember picking it up for the Concerto, but liking the arrangement of Spain better still.

[Karl Henning]

Dvorak, Symphony 9
Harris, Symphony 3
NYPO Bernstein

The Harris is definitive, but the New World is a bit odd. Not a bad thing really, as it is my nth copy and odd is interesting. Driven. No, I will not stop and smell the roses! But it's not a top choice.

That Bernstein Dvorak 9 is very exciting, and the recording is pretty good as CBS recordings go.

That Scherzo is just this side of manic;  a tour-de-force.