What are you listening to now?

[Ken B]

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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*ahem*
Told ya so

That is all.

[The new erato]

A sizzler of a disc with several works that are ne to me:

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[Harry]

A sizzler of a disc with several works that are ne to me:

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If we would only see what sizzles

[SonicMan46]

Haydn, Joseph - String Quartets, Op. 20 & 33 w/ the London Haydn Quartet - continuing on today w/ my other two sets w/ this group - again wondering if this is still on 'ongoing' project?  Dave

 

[Harry]

Haydn, Joseph - String Quartets, Op. 20 & 33 w/ the London Haydn Quartet - continuing on today w/ my other two sets w/ this group - again wondering if this is still on 'ongoing' project?  Dave

 

No Dave it is discontinued, quite some time ago.

[EigenUser]

Ligeti's colorful San Francisco Polyphony. A great masterpiece.

I like the quote of the 1st movement of his Chamber Concerto around 2'15'' in.
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[SonicMan46]

No Dave it is discontinued, quite some time ago.

Hi Harry - picked up the Op. 33 set only a year ago and from the notes the recordings were done in June 2012, so hoping that there would be some further releases, but nothing mentioned on the Hyperion website - thanks.  Dave

[Harry]

Hi Harry - picked up the Op. 33 set only a year ago and from the notes the recordings were done in June 2012, so hoping that there would be some further releases, but nothing mentioned on the Hyperion website - thanks.  Dave

What I meant that the decision was made quite some time ago, I saw it pass by in a press conference, that they would nor complete it.

[jfdrex]

In recent days, I have been listening to the following:

1)  Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth) (63:12)--Fritz Reiner, cond. Chicago Sym. Orch. with Maureen Forrester, contralto and Richard Lewis, tenor.  Recorded 9 NOV  1959 in Orchestra Hall, Chicago, presented here as a newly remastered Hybrid Superaudio CD.

My favorite performance of this work is the Bruno Walter, Julius Patzak, Kathleen Ferrier recording from the 1950's.  Bruno Walter didn't like it at all, and re-recorded it later.  That probably had more to do with the emotional trial of the recording than with a detached assessment of the performance, because Ferrier was dying of cancer at the time and broke down in tears several times during the recording sessions, particularly during the Abschied (Farewell), which is by far the longest movement of the work.

This recording by Reiner is my second favorite, mostly because of the contributions of Reiner and, especially, Maureen Forrester, who was one of the great low female voices of all time, the only such singer, in my opinion, who sometimes rivals Janet Baker.]

In addition to the Reiner recording, Maureen Forrester can be heard in at least three recorded concert performances of Das Lied von der Erde.  She and Richard Lewis sang it with Bruno Walter and the New York Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall in April, 1960 (available on several different labels) and with George Szell and the Cleveland Orchestra in Berlin in April 1967 (available on the Living Stage label and perhaps others).  She also sang it with Jon Vickers at Symphony Hall, Boston, in January 1970, with William Steinberg conducting the BSO; a recording of the broadcast can be downloaded at the MetroGnome Music blog: http://metrognomemusic.blogspot.com/2013/07/mahler-das-lied-von-der-erde-vicker.html

[listener]

My ISP has been down for a day or two so I have a small backlog to report:
RUFINATSCHA (1812-1893):  Symphony no.6, Overture to The Bride of Messina
BBC Philharmonic/Noseda
A  cheery sounding symphony in a solid D Major, recommended to anyone wanting something more like Mendelssohn, Brahms or Dvořák.
Some recorder sonatas by TELEMANN, HANDEL (op..1/7), CIMA, Canzonas by FRESCOBALDI, and some GABRIELI and BASSANO
Peter Hannan, Christel Thielmann, Colin Tilney  rec/gmba/hschd
Nice program, did not seem over-long.
And a cappella music from Finland by SIBELIUS (Rakastava), RAUTAVAARA, MÄNTYJÄRVI, and KUULA
Accentus Chamber choir, Eric Ericson, cond.
And I decided to play through the 3 discs of the music by Théodore GOUVY, "The French Mendelssohn",  There's a fat hardback book of notes (French and English only) like the deluxe Alia Vox releases with the discs.

[Sadko]

Rachmaninov

Piano sonata no. 1
13 Préludes op. 32

Santiago Rodriguez

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[pjme]

First listen to this recording:

Copland
Symphony for organ and orchestra (1924)
E. Power Biggs
NY Phil
Lenny

Ah! organ and orchestra!  This music keeps me healthy!
Peter

[Daverz]

Kinsella, Symphony No. 10

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Fabulous music, impressively recorded and performed.  I hear shades of Bernard Herrmann and Shostakovich.

[Ken B]

Kinsella, Symphony No. 10

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Fabulous music, impressively recorded and performed.  I hear shades of Bernard Herrmann and Shostakovich.

Yes. I wasn't so happy with 5 but liked 10.

TD Prokkers. PCs 1,5 Krainev, Kitajenko

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

Thinking of re-re-re-re-re-reading the Wolfram von Eschenbach romance (circa 1220) of the same name, highly recommended.

All four discs this evening.  Harry just does not know what he's missing.  He must be assimilated...

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[Ken B]

Thinking of re-re-re-re-re-reading the Wolfram von Eschenbach romance (circa 1220) of the same name, highly recommended.

All four discs this evening.  Harry just does not know what he's missing.  He must be assimilated...

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The 7th reading might well be a dilly. The first though ...

[Sadko]

Thinking of re-re-re-re-re-reading the Wolfram von Eschenbach romance (circa 1220) of the same name, highly recommended.

Chrétien de Troyes' Perceval is also very beautiful. Wolfram's German is quite clumsy compared to Chrétien's French. (And he (Eschenbach) was "inspired" by him anyway :-) )

[RebLem]

Since my last report earlier today, I have been listening to the following:

Mahler: Sym 1 in D Major (52:08)--Michael Gielen, cond. SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden  und Freiburg.  Rec. 11-13 JUNE 2002 Konzerthaus, Freiburg.  hanssler classics.  CD 1 of a 13 CD set of all the Mahler Symphonies.

This is an excellent peformance which emphasized the relaxed lyricism in Mahler's music.

Borodin: String Quartet 1 in A Major (1979) (39:21)   |   Piano Quintet in C Minor (1862) (26:08)--Moscow String Quartet--Alexander Detisov, Alexander Gelfat, violins, Igor Suliga, viola, Alexander Osokin, cello and Alexander Mndoiantz, piano, in the Quintet.  CD 1 of a 3 CD Brilliant set of all the Borodin chamber music.

These are lovely, lyrical works with interesting developments, especially in the quartet.

[Ken B]

Gus, 10
Felix, 3
Lennie and his band

[André]

Monteverdi: Combattimento. A disc that includes the famous Combattimento di Tirsi e Clorinda. Emmanuelle Haïm conducts the instrumental ensemble, soloists are Rolando Villazon, Patrizia Ciofi and Tohpi Lehtipuu.