What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Solitary Wanderer]

Richard Wagner ~ Samtliche Klavierwerke Vol.2. S Moller

This OOP disc goes for ridiculous prices.

I found a used library copy of Vol.2. on Amazon for a great price. It warned of 'usual library stickers'. They weren't kidding! The cover has four large ugly stickers which someone has tried to remove, but only suceeded in defacing the artwork 

But the music is the important thing for this hard-to-find disc and I'm delighted to report that the Fantasia in F minor is superb; preferably to the Nina Kavtaradze version which I also have. Somehow the Moller rendition is more 'Wagnerian'. 

[Mark]

This gem, as introduced to me by Peregrine (thanks, man ):

[Fëanor]

Schoenberg string quartets, numbers 2 & 3.  I quite like them.  The vocal part is a bit strange for a string quartet, but what the heck ...

[Solitary Wanderer]

[gmstudio]

[longears]

This gem, as introduced to me by Peregrine (thanks, man ):

Ohshit!  Now I've got to buy another record.  I should have known better than to visit this thread!

Now playing:  Lalo, cello cto, Han Na Chang

[Brian]

Awesome sir! 

[PaulR]

Mozart: Requiem Harnoncourt/Concentus Musicus Wein

[BachQ]

Liszt Totentanz
Saint-Saens Sym no. 3
Tchaik 5

[Renfield]

Liszt Totentanz
Saint-Saens Sym no. 3
Tchaik 5

All three of them together?

Is that some sort of postmodernist neo-fusion thing?


(Mahler 9th, Bernstein/Concertgebouw: it "snagged" as I was about to go to bed, and, predictably, I'm still listening. )

[Dancing Divertimentian]

Left incomplete at Mussorgsky's death this version uses the Shostakovich orchestration. Although Shostakovich's 'completions' intended to round out acts two and five have been omitted.

Fine work with a solid mixing of two strong aesthetics. It's Mussorgsky all right but with an air of alertness as seen from Shostakovich's vantage point.

[Mozart]

Mozart Idomeneo Karl Bohm.

[Peregrine]

This gem, as introduced to me by Peregrine (thanks, man ):

Glad you like it!

[wilhelm]

[Que]

                      ~ ordre 12 ~

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[Mark]

Glad you like it!

It reminded me of everything that's best in the Walton Violin Concerto - another of those 'neglected' 20th century works (at least where concert programming is concerned).

[Peregrine]

Bet that's a goodun'...

Listening to:

Mahler 4/RPO/Gatti

[val]

Good morning to all.

SYLVIUS LEOPOLD WEISS:  Works for lute   / Hopkinson Smith (ASTREE)

The gravity of this music, almost austere, its inspiration, remind us of JS Bach, who was contemporary of Weiss.

Weiss was probably the greatest composer for the lute. This CD contains two remarkable Sonatas, a Fantasie and, above all, the extraordinary "Tombeau sur la mort de M. de Logy".

Hopkinson Smith is good, in special in the Tombeau.

[Que]

Will post my impressions on this shortly.

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[Que]

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