What are you listening to now?

[Sadko]

Puccini

Butterfly

Callas, Gedda, Danielli
La Scala Orchestra
Karajan

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[Mirror Image]

You stick to those cocktail interpretations, and I'll have my pure cold water Sibelius from Vänskä. 

+1

[NikF]

Chopin: Piano Concerto 1 - Pollini/Kletzki/Philharmonia.

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[Mandryka]

Beauty Farm sing some of Nicolas Gombert's motets, CD 1 in fact.  The recording is close and the bass is prominent; the sound is rich and deep, suave; they sing forth with gusto, in an extrovert way; the overall impression is that the Marian motets are charged, wired, intense.   

The booklet says that they have created new  editions of  the music for the CD, and that these are responsible for the distinctive darkness and complexity of their interpretations. They also claim that the editions add accidentals to enhance the music/text relation. I still haven't paid attention to the text to see how sensitive they really are to meaning, I may do that tomorrow if I have time.

[Marsch MacFiercesome]

Have you heard the Sinaisky recording on Chandos, Blair? My vote for the all-around best Liadov orchestral recording.

I'm 'bleached-platinum-blonde, glazed-doughnut-facial-expression, deer-in-the-headlights' on that one, Mirror-y.

Yet another recording I'd like to hear.

In fact, the only thing I can recall having by Sinaisky is his Schrecker cd on Chandos. I might have others- but that's the only one that immediately comes to mind. . .

But you'd take Sinaisky's reading over Evegny-ovitch's?

I just love Svetlanov's whiplash sense of rhythm and his gorgeous musical line- 'so' stylish.

[Marsch MacFiercesome]

Puccini

Butterfly

Callas, Gedda, Danielli
La Scala Orchestra
Karajan

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^ I 'worship' that recording.

That is to say, if I can pick up my 'quivering-and-emotionally-devastated-self' after hearing it.

[Dancing Divertimentian]

Ha.  Ha.  Ha.  Ha.  Ha.

One Vanska to fool them all,
One Vanska to thrall them,
One Vanska to string them all,
And with his artlessness bind them.

I see Blair is having another breakdown...

[SimonNZ]

This superb disc starts with a most frolicsome and insouciant Die Forelle and ends with a truly demonic Erlkonig that sent shivers down my spine.

One of the finest Schubert lieder discs. Or rather: one of the finest anything discs by any composer.


playing now, on the radio:



Hummel's Trumpet Concerto - Håkan Hardenberger, trumpet, Neville Marriner, cond.

[Marsch MacFiercesome]

I can second these - excellent performances. Schwarzkopf is sublime. DFD strikes me as a bit more declamatory (yet, always polished and sings with great warmth). They can be had in a separate double disc:

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fA1T26k081E

(0:50+)

[Brian]

I see Blair is having another breakdown...

If these are breakdowns, they're the most harmless breakdowns on GMG!

I'm curious if MMF has a giant directory of all these actor pictures.

[Dancing Divertimentian]

If these are breakdowns, they're the most harmless breakdowns on GMG!

Yes, only juuuussstt missing the frisson of real television...

[North Star]

Stravinsky
Apollo
LSO
Craft

Sibelius
The Tempest
Lahti
Vänskä

'One Vänskä to Rule them all', or what was it, Marsch?
https://www.youtube.com/v/VPrDP0e3edU

[Marsch MacFiercesome]

I see Blair is having another breakdown...

I call it 'performance art,' myself.

At least when my friends have to pull me off of the restaurant table while I'm lip-sync-ing "Dancing Queen."



Sibelius VI time.

[SimonNZ]

on the radio:

Tavener's The Protecting Veil - I Fiamminghi

[Marsch MacFiercesome]

Stravinsky
Apollo
LSO
Craft

Sibelius
The Tempest
Lahti
Vänskä



'One Vänskä to Rule them all', or what was it, Marsch? [/color]
https://www.youtube.com/v/VPrDP0e3edU

You can have your Vanska, North Star. I love that it makes you happy- and I love that you love Sibelius.

Its just not 'Blair-Level' Sibelius.

<moue>

[Marsch MacFiercesome]

Wow, I had been wanting to comment that I thought she looked like Blair from The Facts of Life. 

<Ping!>

Point: Chamber Nut.

[Dancing Divertimentian]

I call it 'performance art,' myself.

At least when my friends have to pull me off of the restaurant table while I'm lip-sync-ing "Dancing Queen."

Lip-syncing? Bite your tongue...(no pun intended).

[Marsch MacFiercesome]

Lip-syncing? Bite your tongue...(no pun intended).

Well, my Bach is worse than my bite.

Besides, its the job of others to be witty, and clever, and to entertain me.

My job is just to be gorgeous.

[aligreto]

Schubert: Die Winterreise [Schreier/Schiff]....

[ritter]

From the big Stravinsky box:



This is the first of Stravinsky's two recordings of Perséphone, from 1957 (not previously transferred to CD AFAIK). It was released on LP in mono only, and  according to the booklet it is offered here in a stereo version never previously available.

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