What are you listening to?

jserraglio · Post by **jserraglio** » Fri Apr 14, 2006 4:11 pm

Morton Gould: Symphony No. 2
John Harbison: Cello Concerto
on Albany Troy SACD.
The Gould is immediately accessible and quite arresting, much lighter in tone than his darker 3rd Symphony. A wonderful disk all round, which also includes works by Steven Stucky and Gabriel Ian Gould

Post by **Lance** » Fri Apr 14, 2006 11:02 pm

Am I really going to be poster No. 1001 to this thread? It's amazing. So to stay honest, I've been listening to Gulda performing two sonatas and a fantasy of Mozart ... not the newly-issued 3-CD set from DGG, but the single CD that came out in 1990 [431.084, DDD, 46:25]. This contains the Sonatas in D, K576 and in B-flat, K570, along with the Fantaisie, K475. The playing is incredibly good and it is difficult to understand why Gulda found the music of Mozart more difficult to undertake than Beethoven. I've heard many musicians say this. (Actually, I do understand why Gulda says this.)

Harvested Sorrow · Post by **Harvested Sorrow** » Fri Apr 14, 2006 11:18 pm

Brahms Sonatas For Violin and Piano -- Pinchas Zukerman and Marc Neikrug

CharmNewton · Post by **CharmNewton** » Fri Apr 14, 2006 11:48 pm

Lance wrote:Am I really going to be poster No. 1001 to this thread? It's amazing. So to stay honest, I've been listening to Gulda performing two sonatas and a fantasy of Mozart ... not the newly-issued 3-CD set from DGG, but the single CD that came out in 1990 [431.084, DDD, 46:25]. This contains the Sonatas in D, K576 and in B-flat, K570, along with the Fantaisie, K475. The playing is incredibly good and it is difficult to understand why Gulda found the music of Mozart more difficult to undertake than Beethoven. I've heard many musicians say this. (Actually, I do understand why Gulda says this.)

I recently saw a film clip of Gulda playing Debussy on Classic Arts Showcase. I can see why he would be an engaging performer in the concert hall as his attention was very engaging. It was as if you were thinking along with him. His Beethoven and Mozart would be interesting, but he gives me the impression of a performer who loves modern music looking back into the past.

John

miranda · Post by **miranda** » Sat Apr 15, 2006 8:44 am

I'm listening to a truly sublime piece of music, El Cant de la Sibil-la, Malllorca and Valencia, 1400-1560, performed by the always stellar La Capella Reial De Catalunya, with Jordi Savall and the incomparable Montserrat Figueras.

Haydnseek · Post by **Haydnseek** » Sun Apr 16, 2006 3:45 pm

Three Naxos CDs:

Schubert: Octets D. 803, D. 72 - Schubert Ensemble, Budapest
Schubert: String Quintet, D. 956 - Ensemble Villa Musica
Beethoven: Septet, Op. 20, Quintet, H. 19, Sextet, Op. 81b

Wallingford · Post by **Wallingford** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 2:16 pm

Well, being in recovery these days, I'm using the free time to catch up on my CD-burning projects, so recently I've heard:

Toscanini's all-Brahms concert from 2/11/39......including the Fourth, the first book of Liebeslieder Waltzes, & Academic Festival Overture.

Oscar Fried's take on Scheherazade & the Firebird Suite (on a collectible Dante historical CD I've just sold to somebody else).

Koussevitzky also doing the Brahms Fourth.

Mark Antony Owen · Post by **Mark Antony Owen** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 6:01 pm

Hi all

I've been looking for a decent classical music forum, and it seems I've finally found one! So, as my first post from Southern England, here's what I'm currenly enjoying:

Finzi: Cello Concerto (Naxos recording rather than the Chandos)

Beethoven: String Quartets Op. 18, No. 2 & Op. 131 (free cover CD from Vol. 13 of BBC Music Magazine)

Saint-Saens: Cello Concerti Nos. 1 & 2 (played by my favourite cellist, Maria Kliegel)

Anyway, look forward to chatting with you all!

jserraglio · Post by **jserraglio** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 6:17 pm

Honegger: Les Misérables (complete film score) on Naxos

miranda · Post by **miranda** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 2:46 pm

Ayre--Dawn Upshaw, Osvaldo Golijov

PJME · Post by **PJME** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 5:02 pm

Ludwig Van beethoven: violinsonata op 24 "Spring" with Emmy Verhey and Carlos Moerdijk on Aurophon F 71007 ( super cheap CD - but excellent & inspired playing)
Werner Josten : symphony in F on a CRI CD. A short, strange,craggy work...but it has testosterone in it. Polish radio Orch.William Strickland (on the same CD: Stokowsky conducting "Jungle" (1928) and a sacred concerto for piano & strings.)

Haydnseek · Post by **Haydnseek** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 5:45 pm

PJME wrote:Ludwig Van beethoven: violinsonata op 24 "Spring" with Emmy Verhey and Carlos Moerdijk on Aurophon F 71007 ( super cheap CD - but excellent & inspired playing)

I have an ultra-cheap Laserlight recording of Verhey playing the Tchaikovsky concerto with the Budapest Symphony lead by Arpad Joo which I enjoy very much. The other work on the CD is the Piano Concerto No. 1 played by Jeno Jando with the Budapest Philharmonic conducted by Andras Ligeti. I'm pretty sure this disc was praised in the Penguin Guide to Budget CDs, or whatever it's called.

jserraglio · Post by **jserraglio** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 9:37 pm

Les Misérables (Complete Symphonic Recording) on Relativity.

RebLem · Post by **RebLem** » Wed Apr 19, 2006 1:01 am

In the last 9 days, Monday, 10 APR 2006 through today, Tuesday, 18 APR 2006, I have listened to the following:

1) 9/1 Mozart: Marriage of Figaro--Fritz Busch, cond 1934 Glyndbourne Festival Orch & Chorus--2 Aura CDs. Way better sound than what you might expect from 1934, and the orchestra and the singers play with verve and evident joy. A fine performance, good sound for the period. I downgraded part 2 of the grade to 1 because of production values.

Anyway, the booklet says CD one has 26 tracks and CD 2 has 19 tracks. Both are incorrect. At first, the production seems to be going along swimmingly. Tracks 1-15 on CD 1 are just fine. But a number of tracks after that, esp. 16, 17, 19, and 23 have very ragged, jagged endings. And it is not because of the length--the longest track on the CD is Tr 20 (5:50) which has a jagged beginning because of problems with the preceding track, but after that proceeds quite nicely. Lots of other tracks with lengths over 4:30 are just fine, while track 16, the first with a jagged end, is only 1:59. Furthermore, Tracks 25 and 26 are missing. The booklet comes with an Italian-only libretto, and CD 1 ends with Act III, Scene 4, the Count's solo, and CD 2 does not begin until, oh, about 7-8 minutes later at the beginning of # 19. Fully half of Act III, Scene 5 is missing.
CD 2, OTOH, extends to 21 tracks, not the 19 listed in the front of the booklet, but there are continuity problems with Tracks 1, 4, 9, 10, 15, 16, 17, and 18, and only two of these tracks, (4 and 18 ) are over 2:33 in length, so its not that they bit off more than they could chew, trying to get too much in on a take. Is this a problem with all transfers of this particular production, or is it just Aura's?

2) 10/8 Mozart: Piano Concerto 13, 20, 25, Piano Sonata, K. 331--Katchen, Maag cond (13) Munchinger (20, 25)--Decca twofer.

3) 10/9 Beethoven: PC 4; Choral Fantasy--Katchen, Gamba, LSO--same twofer as above.

4) 9/9 Beethoven Piano Trios 4, 5, and WoO 38--Barenboim, Zukerman, DuPre--EMI twofer
6/9 Beethoven: Cello Sonatas 3, 5--du Pre, Kovacevich--same EMI twofer--really ragged playing by du Pre.

5) 10/9 Chopin: Andante Spianato & Grand Polonaise. 4 other polonaises--Brendel--MHS, lic from Vanguard.

6) 9/10 Bizet: Carmen Suite 1 & 2, Pearl Fishers prelude, Patrie Overture--Batiz, Mexico City Phil.--CD 1 of a 3 CD Brilliant set of Bizet's complete orchestral music.

7) 10/10 Brahms: Violin Concerto--Berika van den Booren, violin, Eduardo Marturet, cond, Berlin Sym Orch--Double Concerto--Emmy Verhey, violin, Janos Starker, cello, Arpad Joo, cond. Amsterdam Philharmonic Orch.--Classic collection

8 ) 10/10 Mahler: Syms 6, 7--Solti, CSO

9) 10/10 Bridge: String Sextet in E Flat Major; Lament for 2 violas; String Quintet in E Minor--The Raphael Ensemble--hyperion

10) 10/10 Bax: Spring Fire Symphony; Northern Ballad 2 & 3; Mediterranean; Symphonic Scherzo--Handley, RPO & Thomson, LPO--MHS, lic. from Chandos.

11) 10/10 Prokofiev: Piano Concerto 2-5--Browning, Leinsdorf, BSO; Violin Concerto 1--Erich Friedman, Lensdorf, BSO--2 Testament CDs lic from RCA

12) 9/10 Bloch: 2 Piano Quintets--Ivan Klansky, Kocian Quartet--Praga

13) 9/9 Tubin: Sym 1, Balailaika Conc; Music for Strings--Neemi Jarvi, cond. Swedish RSO--BIS

RebLem · Post by **RebLem** » Wed Apr 19, 2006 8:28 am

Haydnseek wrote:
PJME wrote:Ludwig Van beethoven: violinsonata op 24 "Spring" with Emmy Verhey and Carlos Moerdijk on Aurophon F 71007 ( super cheap CD - but excellent & inspired playing)
I have an ultra-cheap Laserlight recording of Verhey playing the Tchaikovsky concerto with the Budapest Symphony lead by Arpad Joo which I enjoy very much. The other work on the CD is the Piano Concerto No. 1 played by Jeno Jando with the Budapest Philharmonic conducted by Andras Ligeti. I'm pretty sure this disc was praised in the Penguin Guide to Budget CDs, or whatever it's called.

Just early this morning, I posted about a CD I listened to yesterday involving Ms. Verhey and Arpad Joo. It is a fine CD with wonderful performances--

10/10 Brahms: Violin Concerto--Berika van den Booren, violin, Eduardo Marturet, cond, Berlin Sym Orch--Double Concerto--Emmy Verhey, violin, Janos Starker, cello, Arpad Joo, cond. Amsterdam Philharmonic Orch.--Classic collection label

I don't know who the Berlin Sym Orch or the Amsterdam Phil are, but from the sound of them, they may be, uhmmm, more famous ensembles.

DavidRoss · Post by **DavidRoss** » Wed Apr 19, 2006 10:19 am

Sibelius, Piano Music v.3, Håvard Gimse –op.58, 67, 68 -- not the old grouch’s forte, perhaps, but pretty damned good, written as real chamber music and not for virtuoso display. Like his songs (romans or lieder) delightful and deserving to be better known. Gimse on Naxos is a fine advocate, offering thoughtful, sensitive readings in good sound.

I've also been listening to a lot of Sibelius songs lately: discs of orchestral songs by Hynninen/Häggander/Panula/Gothenburg and Mattila/Oramo/CBSO, and the wonderful recital discs by Karnéus/Drake and Bonney/Pappano. Y'all can keep the Schu's--I'll take Sibelius and Grieg any day.

RebLem · Post by **RebLem** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 2:54 am

Yesterday, Wednesday, 19 APR 21006, I listened to

1) 10/10 Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos--Sinopoli, 2 DG--his last recording, and a great one it is.

2) 10/10 Mahler: Sym 9--Solti, CSO. Decca

Gary · Post by **Gary** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 3:05 am

jserraglio · Post by **jserraglio** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 7:30 am

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Dimitri Tiomkin - Red River

Barry · Post by **Barry** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 9:46 am

The new Eschenbach/Philadelphia Tchaikovsky fifth on Ondine.

I have to say I'm very pleasantly surprised by the recording, having seen them play it live last season and not thinking it was anything special. The recording is from the same set of concerts, but a combination of the best parts of all of them (as is generally the case with live recordings). Perhaps the engineer/producer worked some magic too.

There are times, especially during the second and fourth movements, when I could close my eyes and think Ormandy was on the podium. The strings have tremendous luster, as I think they should in this music, and the brass can be heard with clearly, but it's not so loud as to blair over the strings and woodwinds. Eschenbach also has a way of restraining his forces early in movements so that it really sets up the late-in-movement climaxes, when he cuts them loose to play all out.

This is high up on my list of favorite recordings of this piece. The only downside is that it's such an expensive CD (list for $20, although it may be available for a little less used on Amazon).

PJME · Post by **PJME** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 2:18 pm

RebLem wrote:
Haydnseek wrote:
PJME wrote:Ludwig Van beethoven: violinsonata op 24 "Spring" with Emmy Verhey and Carlos Moerdijk on Aurophon F 71007 ( super cheap CD - but excellent & inspired playing)
I have an ultra-cheap Laserlight recording of Verhey playing the Tchaikovsky concerto with the Budapest Symphony lead by Arpad Joo which I enjoy very much. The other work on the CD is the Piano Concerto No. 1 played by Jeno Jando with the Budapest Philharmonic conducted by Andras Ligeti. I'm pretty sure this disc was praised in the Penguin Guide to Budget CDs, or whatever it's called.

Just early this morning, I posted about a CD I listened to yesterday involving Ms. Verhey and Arpad Joo. It is a fine CD with wonderful performances--

10/10 Brahms: Violin Concerto--Berika van den Booren, violin, Eduardo Marturet, cond, Berlin Sym Orch--Double Concerto--Emmy Verhey, violin, Janos Starker, cello, Arpad Joo, cond. Amsterdam Philharmonic Orch.--Classic collection label

I don't know who the Berlin Sym Orch or the Amsterdam Phil are, but from the sound of them, they may be, uhmmm, more famous ensembles

PJME wrote:
The Amsterdam Philharmonic was dismantled years ago.Joo was ,if my memory is correct, its last conductor. He tried very hard to become a star,but seems to have dsisappeared. Berlin has several orchestras. It is probably one of the radio orchetras. - I suppose. Emmy Verhey is still going strong .

Haydnseek · Post by **Haydnseek** » Sat Apr 22, 2006 2:25 pm

Dvorak: Symphony No. 7 - Colin Davis, Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam
Bruckner: Symphony No. 3 - Tintner, Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 3 - Bernard Haitink, London Philharmonic with Amanda Roocroft
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 2 - Claus Peter Flor, Bamberg Symphony Orchestra and Chorus with Lucia Popp, Josef Protschka, Julie Kaufmann

CharmNewton · Post by **CharmNewton** » Sat Apr 22, 2006 5:27 pm

Mahler: Symphony No. 6--Cleveland Orchestra/Szell (Sony Essential Classics CD).

This was taken from a live concert recording in October, 1967. This performance reveals a great deal of color in Mahler's orchestration, particularly the winds along with a good deal of intensity (the amount of detail is amazing through headphones). I think it is a tribute to Szell that while known as a classicist, he has a firm grip on the idioms of Bruckner and Mahler as well. Szell skips the first movement repeat, but to me it isn't a notable omission as his reading is very direct.

John

lmpower · Post by **lmpower** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 2:25 pm

I recently listened to "The Merry Widow" with the Wiener Philharmoniker conducted by John Eliot Gardiner. Cheryl Studer was the widow. Boje Skovhus sang Danilo. Brynn Terfel was Mirko. Barbara Bonney and Rainer Trost were the almost adulterous lovers. I have to admit to having a great fondness for this work. It always makes me feel good. I think it reflects the optimism and hedonism of La Belle Epoque. The middle classes were prospering and some of it had even trickled down to the working class. There hadn't been a major war in Europe for nearly a century. After the Great War Lehar's work became far more painful and bittersweet.

jserraglio · Post by **jserraglio** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 4:13 pm

Bach, Brandenburg Concertos 1 and 6
Koussevitzky, BSO. RCA LM 1063
what a surprise, a wonderful performance

Haydnseek · Post by **Haydnseek** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 4:20 pm

lmpower wrote:I recently listened to "The Merry Widow" with the Wiener Philharmoniker conducted by John Eliot Gardiner. Cheryl Studer was the widow. Boje Skovhus sang Danilo. Brynn Terfel was Mirko. Barbara Bonney and Rainer Trost were the almost adulterous lovers. I have to admit to having a great fondness for this work. It always makes me feel good. I think it reflects the optimism and hedonism of La Belle Epoque. The middle classes were prospering and some of it had even trickled down to the working class. There hadn't been a major war in Europe for nearly a century. After the Great War Lehar's work became far more painful and bittersweet.

I was given this recording as a birthday gift the year it was released and I listen to it at least a couple of times every year with great pleasure.

Gary · Post by **Gary** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 2:20 am

Haydnseek wrote:
lmpower wrote:I recently listened to "The Merry Widow" with the Wiener Philharmoniker conducted by John Eliot Gardiner. Cheryl Studer was the widow. Boje Skovhus sang Danilo. Brynn Terfel was Mirko. Barbara Bonney and Rainer Trost were the almost adulterous lovers. I have to admit to having a great fondness for this work. It always makes me feel good. I think it reflects the optimism and hedonism of La Belle Epoque. The middle classes were prospering and some of it had even trickled down to the working class. There hadn't been a major war in Europe for nearly a century. After the Great War Lehar's work became far more painful and bittersweet.
I was given this recording as a birthday gift the year it was released and I listen to it at least a couple of times every year with great pleasure.

To me, this is the definitive recording of the Widow.

Wallingford · Post by **Wallingford** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 3:25 pm

Schumann's Third (Toscanini).........

......and one of these days, if I'm not spending my recuperation watching Judge Judy or DVDs of Walter Lantz cartoons, I'll listen to some of that Reader's Digest set "Scheherazade"--probably the TRICKIEST of any of those LP sets to find (finally got it for a buck last Wednesday).

Gary · Post by **Gary** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 3:45 am

karlhenning · Post by **karlhenning** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 2:52 pm

Karel Husa :: Music for Prague 1968
Hindemith :: Konzertmusik (brasses), Opus 41
Eastman Wind Ensemble / Hunsberger

Markevich
La taille de l'homme
Lucy Shelton, soprano
Arnhem Phil
Christopher Lyndon-Gee

Honegger
Symphony No. 3 'Liturgique'
Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse / Plasson

RebLem · Post by **RebLem** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 9:15 am

In the period from Thursday, 20 APR 2006 through Wednesday, 24 MAY 2006, I have listened to the following:

1. Beethoven: Complete Music for Cello & Piano--Andras Schiff, piano, Miklos Perenyi, cello. 2 ECM 1819/20. This set contains not only the standard 5 sonatas, but also, as in various other complete sets, 2 WoO works (works without opus numbers, usually early works unpublished in the composer's lifetime). and the 12 Variations, Op. 68. It also has the Op. 17 sonata, a transcription for cello and piano of a sonata for horn and piano. Excellent performances, good sound.

2. Bizet: CDs 2 & 3 of the complete orchestral works. On CD 2 are the L'Arlesienne Suites 1 & 2, La Jolie Fille de Perth Suite, and Jeux d'Enfants Suite, Op. 22. CD 3 has the two symphonies, the Symphony in C Major, and the Roma Symphony. Enrique Batiz, cond. 3 CD Brilliant. When I started listening to CD 3, I noticed almost immediately a palpable improvement in the quality of the performances. Dynamic ranges were vaster, ensemble was tighter, and the recording ambience was more felicitous. I had thought that the whole set was performed by the Orquestra Filarmonica de Mexico. But when I took a closer look, I found the last CD was performed by the Royal Philharmonic in London. Unfortunately, the set is marred by a terrible defect--what sounds like some recorded audio feedback, very loud, which completely obscures the music, in the last 4 seconds or so of the Roma Symphony.

3. Bloch: Music for cello. 3 Suites for Cello Solo, which seem modelled on the Bach solo cello suites, and other works for cello and piano--Meditation hebraique, Jewish Life, Nirvana, and Nigun. Emanuelle Bertrand, cello, Pascal Amoyel, piano.-- French Harmonia Mundi. Excellent performances and sound.

4. Brahms: a Philips 2 CD set in the DUO series--the two piano concerti, the Academic Festival Overture, the Tragic Overture, and the Haydn Variations performed by the Concertgebouw Orch cond by Bernard Haitink. Pianist Claudio Arrau in the concerti. Fine performances of standard repertoire. Good sound.

5. Felix Draeseke: Sym 3 in C Major, Op. 40 "Symphonia tragica." Funeral March in E Minor, Op. 79--Jorg Peter Weigle, cond. Radio Philharmonie Hannover des NDR. cpo. A lot of bombast without much substance. A neglected composer who seems, from this evidence, to have deserved it. Excellent performances and sound.

6. Mahler: Sym 8--Solti, Chicago Sym Orch. & Chorus, soloists--half of CD 9, all of CD 10 in a set of all the Mahler Symphonies. One of the great performances, superbly recorded. 10 London CDs.

7. Weber: Der Freischutz--Carlos Kleiber, cond., Dresden State Orch & Leipzig Radio Chorus, and singers Bernd Weikl, Siegfried Vogel, Gundula Janowitz, Edith Mathis, Theo Adam, Peter Schreier, & Franz Crass. 2 CD DGG set. One of the great performances, absolutely perfect. The one to have. Superbly recorded.

BWV 1080 · Post by **BWV 1080** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 9:28 am

karlhenning wrote:Karel Husa :: Music for Prague 1968

Husa came to UNT when I was in school and conducted this piece with the school's concert band. That was the first and only time I have heard the piece - what are your thoughts on it?

Harold Tucker · Post by **Harold Tucker** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 4:59 pm

Reblem wrote:
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In the period from Thursday, 20 APR 2006 through Wednesday, 24 MAY 2006, I have listened to the following:

1. Beethoven: Complete Music for Cello & Piano--Andras Schiff, cello, Miklos Perenyi, piano. 2 ECM 1819/20. This set contains not only the standard 5 sonatas, but also, as in various other complete sets, 2 WoO works (works without opus numbers, usually early works unpublished in the composer's lifetime). and the 12 Variations, Op. 68. It also has the Op. 17 sonata, a transcription for cello and piano of a sonata for horn and piano. Excellent performances, good sound.

Andras Schiff on cello? An amazing find!

PJME · Post by **PJME** » Fri Apr 28, 2006 6:32 am

Arthur Honegger : Judith - oratorio - on the Cascavelle label - coupled with a short (6 mins.) Cantique de Paques for female voices, female chorus & orch. A gorgeous excerpt from a never finished Mystery/Passion )

Frank martin :pianoconcerto nr 1 (Antoniolli)

RebLem · Post by **RebLem** » Fri Apr 28, 2006 9:00 am

Harold Tucker wrote:Reblem wrote:
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In the period from Thursday, 20 APR 2006 through Wednesday, 24 MAY 2006, I have listened to the following:

1. Beethoven: Complete Music for Cello & Piano--Andras Schiff, cello, Miklos Perenyi, piano. 2 ECM 1819/20. This set contains not only the standard 5 sonatas, but also, as in various other complete sets, 2 WoO works (works without opus numbers, usually early works unpublished in the composer's lifetime). and the 12 Variations, Op. 68. It also has the Op. 17 sonata, a transcription for cello and piano of a sonata for horn and piano. Excellent performances, good sound.

Andras Schiff on cello? An amazing find!

You know, I was the only boy in my high school typing class. I took it in the late 1950's, when it was still called typing, and it was on manual typewriters. Boys didn't take it. But I took it anyway, because I knew it would stand me in good stead writing term papers in college.

Anyway, they taught us that the best way to build up speed is to just copy from something without thinking about it and just turn your mind off. Problem is, I was copying from the cover of the booklet, which shows Schiff's name first. I am used to listing the cellist first on my 3 x 5 index card file, and I guess that's what I did.

Sorry about that. I have corrected the original post.

karlhenning · Post by **karlhenning** » Fri Apr 28, 2006 9:04 am

This so far absolutely astounding 10-disc set of Munch and the BSO playing some magnificent Berlioz:

RebLem · Post by **RebLem** » Fri Apr 28, 2006 10:45 am

Yesterday, Thursday, 27 APR 2006, I listened to

1. 9/9 Toch: Piano Conc 1, Op 38 (1926) 29:16; Peter Pan, A Fairy Tale for Orch, Op. 76 (1956) 13:50; Pinnochio, A Merry Overture (1935) 7:33; Big Ben, Variation Fantasy on the Winchester Chimes, Op 62 (1934) 16:16, TT: 66:55--Leon Botstein, cond., NDR-Hamburg Sym Orch, Todd Crow, piano in Concerto--New World Records.

2. 10/10 Mozart: Piano Sonatas 1-5; Klara Wurtz--CD1 of a 5 CD Brilliant set. Ok, I listened to the last 2 movements of #5 today, Friday, 28 APR. So shoot me.

The notes for the Toch CD say that some ppl think Walt Disney first heard of the story of Pinnochio from a performance of the Toch overture.

Well, these last two days have marked a little of an end and a beginning. I finished listening for the first time (mostly) to the Solti Mahler Sym Box and the Bizet Orchestral Works box, and began listening to the Wurtz Mozart box. Now I have five stacks of CDs to listen to next, and 3 of them consist of the Rostropovich Shostakovich Symphonies box, the Davis, LSO Sibelius box, and a big stack of CDs from the Hanssler complete Bach set. The other two stacks consist of what remains of the Wurtz set, and a stack of 4 miscellaneous individual CDs.

Oh, and also, in a separate stack, a whole bunch of operas. I try to listen to 1 or two a week. Next up--the Kempe Lohengrin.

RebLem · Post by **RebLem** » Fri Apr 28, 2006 11:54 pm

Today, Friday, 28 APR 2006, I listened to

1. 10/10 Shostakovich: Syms 1, 9--Rostropovich, National Symphony. Teldec. The last track, the last movement of the 9th, is only 6:24 long instead of the 7:12 listed on the sleeve.

2. 10/10 Sibelius: Syms 1, 4--Colin Davis, LSO RCA

3. 10/10 Mozart: Piano Sonatas 6, 7, 8--Klara Wurtz, pn. CD2 of 5 Brilliant CDs.

4. 9/10 Bach: Cantata 7--Rilling. hanssler

Wallingford · Post by **Wallingford** » Sat Apr 29, 2006 4:21 pm

Oh, and apropos of MUNCH & THE BSO:

I'm listening to some LIVE stuff they never recorded commercially: Honegger's Xmas Cantata (w/New England Cons. Chorus); Chabrier's Bourree Fantasque; Ibert's Saxophone Concerto (w/Marcel Mule); and Dukas' La Peri.

Ralph · Post by **Ralph** » Sat Apr 29, 2006 7:35 pm

On the last Saturday of every month I always listen to music by Telemann. Today I enjoyed a sparkling performance on a new DG disc, "Sinfonia Melodica," with the Berliner Barock Solisten under Rainer Kussmaul.

This ensemble performs beautifully. The disc contains an overture for violin, two oboes, basson and strings and three concertos and a sinfonia melodica for two oboes and strings. These are fairly short pieces. Modern instruments are employed. The sound is crisp and inviting.

DG B0005761-2.

Post by **Corlyss_D** » Sat Apr 29, 2006 8:27 pm

karlhenning wrote:This so far absolutely astounding 10-disc set of Munch and the BSO playing some magnificent Berlioz:

That is a nice set. The Requiem and Nuits d'Ete are particular favorites in that set.

Post by **Corlyss_D** » Sat Apr 29, 2006 8:28 pm

Ralph wrote:On the last Saturday of every month I always listen to music by Telemann.

Any particular reason for this little ritual?

Ralph · Post by **Ralph** » Sat Apr 29, 2006 8:53 pm

Corlyss_D wrote:
Ralph wrote:On the last Saturday of every month I always listen to music by Telemann.
Any particular reason for this little ritual?

*****

It goes back several generations in my wider-world family.

RebLem · Post by **RebLem** » Sat Apr 29, 2006 11:30 pm

Today, Saturday, 29 APR 2006, I listened to

1. 10/10 Bach: Cantatas 8, 9--Rilling, hanssler. I checked in ArkivMusic and they have only 5 recordings of Cantata 8 including this one. I have to say this is the first time I have ever heard it, and it is absolutely ravishingly beautiful. Without the continuo, it would, in places, sound almost like the chorus of Hebrew slaves in Nabucco rather than a baroque work. This is a real find for me.

2. 10/10 Wagner: Lohengrin--Kempe 3 EMI CDs. An excellent example to use when you want to show one of these "digital is the only thing for me because I can't stand analog sound" ppl that it doesn't make a damn bit if difference if its a great performance well recorded. It is quite appropriately in the "Great Recordings of the Century" Series.

3. 9/9 Bax: Violin Conc, Cello Conc, and Morning Song (Maytime in Sussex), a short concerted work for piano and orch--Bryden Thomson, cond London Phil, Lydia Mordkovitch, violin, Raphael Wallfisch, cello, Margaret Fingerhut, piano--MHS, lic from Chandos.

jserraglio · Post by **jserraglio** » Sun Apr 30, 2006 8:57 am

Vincent Persichetti
Symphonies Nos. 3, 4, 7
Albany Symphony / David Alan Miller (Albany Records)

Vincent Persichetti
Divertimento, for band Op. 42
Psalm for Band, Op. 53
Pageant for band, Op 59
Symphony No. 6 ("For Band"), Op. 69
Serenade No. 11, for Band, Op. 85
Mascarade, Op 102
Parable for Band (Poem for band), Op 121
North Texas Wind Symphony, Cincinnati Wind Symphony / Eugene Corporon (GIA Publications)

RebLem · Post by **RebLem** » Sun Apr 30, 2006 11:34 pm

Today, Sunday, 30 APR 2006, I listened to

1. 9/9 Mozart: La clemenza di Tito--Harnoncourt. 2 CD Warner Classics

2. 10/10 Stravinsky: Rite of Spring--Solti, CSO

3. 10/10 Shostakovich: Syms 2, 3--Rostropovich, LSO, London Voices. Teldec.

4. 10/10 Sibelius: Syms 2, 6--Colin Davis, LSO RCA

5. 10/10 Bach: 5 Motets--Rilling, CD 1 of a 2 CD hanssler set of the complete Bach motets.

Wallingford · Post by **Wallingford** » Mon May 01, 2006 1:35 pm

Well, last night I heard the BIBLICAL SONATAS of one of Bach's chief rivals as an organist, JOHANN KUHNAU.

They're almost the earliest examples of "program music," providing a springboard for the 19-year-old Bach's keyboard suite "On The Departure Of His Beloved Brother."

The Sonatas are played by John Butt, alternately on organ, clavichord, and harpsichord......I've reluctantly parted with my copy, now in the hands of an Amazon.com customer; but NOT before I burned a copy for myself.

RebLem · Post by **RebLem** » Tue May 02, 2006 2:08 am

Yesterday, 1 MAY 2006, I listened to the following--

1. 10/10 Mozart: Piano Sonatas 9, 10, 11--Klara Wurtz, CD 3 of 5 CD Brilliant set.

2. 9/9 Chadwick: Melpomene; Rip Van Winkle, Symphonic Sketches; Tam O'Shanter--Neeme Jarvi, cond. Detroit Sym Orch--MHS, lic from Chandos

3. 9/9 Sibelius: Syms 3 & 5--Colin Davis, LSO--for some reason, I never noticed before that the 2nd movement of the 5th recapitulates thematic material from the 2nd movement of the 3rd.

Gary · Post by **Gary** » Tue May 02, 2006 2:39 am

Adolphe Adam's opera Le Toreador. It's a much better work than his Le Postillon de Lonjumeau--plenty of coloratura. Strangely, the plot has nothing to do with bullfighting.

karlhenning · Post by **karlhenning** » Tue May 02, 2006 7:54 am

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