What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[FideLeo]

Airs de cour - perfect sing-song music for languid or just bored loyalists     But mark how Dumestre and his singers make it sound all so ravishing!

[Sergeant Rock]

Last night after dinner:



Right now:




Sarge

[karlhenning]

Du Pre/Barbirolli/LSO - Elgar's Cello Concerto.

Hey!  I listened to Du Pre in the Schumann just before retiring for the night!

[karlhenning]

Shostakovich sym 10 - NYPO/Mitropoulos - live 1/10/55 Athens 

Even without hearing a note, that is a fascinating document!

[Sergeant Rock]

Listening to the delightful Eighth now:




Sarge

[marvinbrown]

Just got back home from work- got out early today  .  Halloween is approaching quickly so I'll be watching this : 

 

 

  I can't think of a more terrifying opera (this one even surpasses SALOME horror)

  marvin
 

[karlhenning]

Milhaud
Symphony No. 5
Basel Radio Symphony
Alun Francis

(Nods towards Harry)

[Daverz]

One of the best played and best sounding 9ths I've ever heard.  Seems to be unavailable at the moment.

[Peregrine]

Bartok string quartets No1 + No.2 - Vegh Quartet

[Lethevich]

Bartók - The Wooden Prince; Cantata Profana (Boulez)

One of the best played and best sounding 9ths I've ever heard.  Seems to be unavailable at the moment.

With that cover, I'm not surprised

[BachQ]

Cesar Franck, Symphony no. 1 (BBC)

Not sure what key it's in, but I like it.

I like it.

[BachQ]

Hey!  I listened to Du Pre in the Schumann just before retiring for the night!

....... And this information is supposed to impact our lives how? ....... exactly?

[Harry]

Milhaud
Symphony No. 5
Basel Radio Symphony
Alun Francis

(Nods towards Harry)

Saw that, saw that......

[karlhenning]

....... And this information is supposed to impact our lives how? ....... exactly?

The ways are manifold, mon vieux

[bhodges]

Sheldon Frank: "As I Was Saying" (1978)
Berio: A-Ronne (1975)
David Lang: The Little Match Girl Passion (2007, premiere)

Last night's concert by Paul Hillier and the Theatre of Voices was just great--what a superb ensemble they are!  I somehow didn't realize the group was so small: for this concert just four singers, plus Hillier, who did the first piece by himself.  It's a short, entertaining exercise in speech rhythms; Sheldon Frank is apparently mainly a writer, rather than a composer.

The Berio was really stunning, just in sheer vocal terms alone.  I'd never heard this group live, and their precision is a bit eerie.  And I liked the Lang a lot.  (A guy behind me said he thought it was one of the best he'd ever heard from him.)  It is rather minimal, with the Hans Christian Andersen text set mostly in short, breathy phrases, and each of the four singers also plays a percussion instrument, i.e., bass drum, xylophone, chimes, and (a Lang trademark) brake drum.

--Bruce

[BachQ]

I somehow didn't realize the group was so small: for this concert just four singers, plus Hillier,

Yeah, the number four (4) has always been a difficult concept for me to grasp as well ........

[Peregrine]

Bartók - The Wooden Prince; Cantata Profana (Boulez)

With that cover, I'm not surprised

Yeah, a bit too cool for school that one, but love it!

[orbital]

[Lethevich]

Dvořák - Symphony nos. 4; 5; 6 (Neumann, CzPO, Supraphon)

[Scriptavolant]

Et voilà les Barcarolles!



Maybe George will approve that.