What are you listening to now?

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Ahhhh, that explains all the sloppy playing. Not bad for what they are, then, I guess, but there are just too many other options.

There certainly are which is why I mentioned Vanska and Segerstam.

[North Star]

If I did plagiarize you . . . at least I had committed your remarks to memory 

Very true - and also you knew what to think of the performance beforehand. 

Thread duty
Mozart
Serenade in B flat major, KV 361, 'Gran Partita'
Nachtmusique
Eriic Hoeprich

[Karl Henning]

Very true - and also you knew what to think of the performance beforehand. 

Well, that's planning, isn't it? 

Is that Horowitz the 1932 performance that everyone thinks is great(est), or the much later one (1977?) that everyone thought was strange?

Will check the booklet (which I've left at home).

[San Antone]

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Guess?

[Mandryka]

Friedhelm Flamme plays some magnificats by Hieronymus Praetorius on the Scherer TagermÜnde- good choice. The performances are breathtaking and the music is outstanding. I think Flamme's the only person to have ever recorded any of these organ pieces. Some of them are as good as any magnificat ever written for organ before Hieronymous, the magnificat 5th tone for example.

Flamme's always distinctive by his enthusiasm and his registrations, I love it, he reminds me of Schoonbroodt, same penchant for cosmic virtuosity. Flamboyant in the sense of "aflame". Flamme should record Buxtehude and Bruhns and Lubeck.

[Mandryka]

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Guess?

Given how interested you are in the big bad sonata, I hope you have a chance to read the long discussion of it in Joseph Horowitz's set of interviews with Claudio Arrau. Arrau has some serious ideas about what the sonata means, archetypes, what its structure is. The book's outstanding anyway.

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Oh, and here's a special performance of it

https://youtube.com/v/6d7K6JRHFr8

[Ken B]

Monkey's Uncle!  Add me to the Liszt :

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Henk! Paging Henk!

[Karl Henning]

Henk! Paging Henk!

There's nothing Nietzsche couldn't teach ya 'bout the raising of the wrist;
Socrates himself was permanently pissed . . . .

[bhodges]

Nielsen: Symphony No. 3, "Sinfonia espansiva" (New York Philharmonic / Alan Gilbert) - First listen to some of this box, and so far, liking it. I heard Gilbert and the orchestra live in some of the later symphonies, and will be curious to see how they made the leap onto recording. I have Colin Davis's recent set of the symphonies with the LSO, so will be doing a little A/B comparison at some point.

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--Bruce

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Nielsen: Symphony No. 3, "Sinfonia espansiva" (New York Philharmonic / Alan Gilbert) - First listen to some of this box, and so far, liking it. I heard Gilbert and the orchestra live in some of the later symphonies, and will be curious to see how they made the leap onto recording. I have Colin Davis's recent set of the symphonies with the LSO, so will be doing a little A/B comparison at some point.

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--Bruce

I didn't really connect with Gilbert's Nielsen for some reason. I don't think Gilbert really brought anything different to the table interpretatively. Oramo, on the other hand, has adopted some swifter tempi and really dug into those climaxes a bit more than Gilbert. I also think Royal Stockholm PO sounded much better in Nielsen than the New York PO. I have yet to hear Storgards' Nielsen cycle (it's in the mail).

Don't believe I've heard heard all of Davis' Nielsen, does he grunt a lot in those recordings? If he does, I'll pass.

[San Antone]

Given how interested you are in the big bad sonata, I hope you have a chance to read the long discussion of it in Joseph Horowitz's set of interviews with Claudio Arrau. Arrau has some serious ideas about what the sonata means, archetypes, what its structure is. The book's outstanding anyway.

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Oh, and here's a special performance of it

https://youtube.com/v/6d7K6JRHFr8

I've heard the violin transcription; in fact was listening to it yesterday - that very clip.  Thanks for the book suggestion, will probably get it eventually.  Right now I am going through the Alan Walker three volume biography (which has plenty of musical analysis) but the really great book on Liszt's music is by Humphrey Searle.  Fantastic if you have not read it.

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Listening to Martinon's performance of Symphony No. 4 "The Inextinguishable" for the first-time. Sounds absolutely fantastic.

[Karl Henning]

Liszt
Venezia e Napoli, S.162
Kosuge

[Karl Henning]

Liszt
Venezia e Napoli, S.162
Kosuge

All right, I'll say it:  this Tarantella strikes me as bizarrely mechanical.

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Listening to Martinon's performance of Symphony No. 4 "The Inextinguishable" for the first-time. Sounds absolutely fantastic.

Yikes! That 'side drum battle' sounds absolutely fantastic here. A scorching performance. Now onto the Helios Overture.

[San Antone]

Etudes Symphoniques

[listener]

Last night:  SIBELIUS:  The Bard    (when did you last hear that live?)
RAVEL:  Tzigane       Lucy Wang, violin    terrific, better than a couple of visiting players who seemed bored by it.    MAHLER: Symphony no.5   at least watching the horns and clarinets made it interesting, played quite well for what I think is bad Reger.  (Vancouver S.O., Bramwell Tovey cond.)
now:  SOUSA CARVALHO: Testoride Argonauta
soloists, Clemecic Consort Baroque Orch., René Clemencic, cond.

[NikF]

Brahms: The Viola Sonatas - Gulda/Hagen

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[aligreto]

Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 / Cluytens....

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Listening to Symphony No. 7 "Sinfonia Romantica," Op. 45. Great work and performance.