What are you listening to right now?
Mon, Jun 21 2010, 1:04AM
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RE: What are you listening to right now?
Piazzola's tango opera Maria de Buenos Aires.
Mon, Jun 21 2010, 9:25AM
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Continuing my Vanska/Lahti Sibelius odyssey, the 2nd and 3rd symphonies. I'm almost at the stage of thinking the third is my favourite Sibelius symphony - the slow movement is to my ears one of the most intimate and humane compositions in the canon.
This work also shares some similarities with another favourite 3rd of mine - Tubin's. Actually, they don't have a lot in common apart from both being in three movements and each's first movement ending with a thrilling coda.
Thu, Jul 1 2010, 11:12PM
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I've just heard the new Decca reocrding of "Carmen" with Marina Domashenko, Andrea Bocelli, and Bryn Terfel , with Myung Whun Chung and the French Radio orchestra. It's surprisingly good, and Bocelli isn't nearly as bad as his detractors would have us believe he is.
And Chung's conducting is both lively and elegant. It may not be quite the equal of other Carmens with Horne, DeLos Angeles, Callas, Price, Berganza etc, but it's worth hearing.
Tue, Aug 24 2010, 9:43PM
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Hadn't played played any Russian recordings from the Soviet era for a long time and had forgotten just how exciting and passionate they could be in Tchaikovsky! Rozhdestvensky and the Moscow Radio Symphony Orch in what is said to be an absolutely complete Swan Lake on 3 HMV/Melodiya LPs. Good recording and not too "wobbly" Russian brass.
Wed, Aug 25 2010, 12:35PM
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Finzi's A Farewell to Arms and clarinet concerto on that long deleted Virgin Classics CD (Hickox, City of London Sinfonia, Michael Collins). Ravishingly beautiful music (and performances)! Why are these pieces - especially the concerto - not played more often? (Though the Scottish Ensemble have treated us to a lot of Finzi over the years, including the same soloist in this concerto - bless them!).
Also Julia Fischer's Pentatone SACD of Russian concertos - superb sound and playing.
Sat, Sep 18 2010, 1:49AM
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Arvo Pärt's Mein Weg hat Gipfel und Wellentäler, played by Christopher Bowers-Broadbent
Tue, Sep 28 2010, 5:50PM
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Sat, Sep 18 2010, 10:01AM
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Paysages et Marines by Charles Koechlin. A wonderful cycle of piano pieces written during the First World War on Hanssler.
Mon, Oct 11 2010, 12:54PM
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Wed, Sep 29 2010, 8:39PM
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Arvo Pärt's Symphony No4...
Wed, Sep 29 2010, 9:44PM
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The Cecil Taylor Unit: "One Too Many Salty Swift And Not Goodbye" (Hatology 2-599)
Cecil Taylor (pno), Raphe Malik (tp), Jimmy Lyons (as), Ramsey Ameen (vln), Sirone (db), Ronald Shannon Jackson (d); recorded June 1978.
Biting the head off music; creating sound bigger than music. Beautiful, terrifying, essential.
Fri, Oct 1 2010, 10:21PM
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Two Stanchinksy sonatas that someone on this site suggested. Can't seem to get into the 12 sketches that he/she raved about though.
Thu, Oct 7 2010, 11:52AM
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Beethoven's 7th Furtwangler's 1943 interpretation - still the best; the last movement is almost frenzied, like a mad dance to hell.
Andrew
Wed, Jan 26 2011, 1:38PM
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A recent trip to Sweden allowed me some time to listen to stuff, so:
Tubin 4th Symphony (Järvi): The last movement is so life affirming and joyous!
Schubert 5th Symphony (Abaddo): Likewise.
Ives 4th Symphony (Tilson-Thomas): Somehow manages to be both profound and great fun.
Tubin Suite on Estonian dances (Järvi)
At home I listened to the new recording on Naxos of Ginastera's Popol Vuh - quite different to anything of his I'd heard before and one I'm looking forward to getting to know better.
At the risk of this becoming the 'what am I listening to right now' thread...
Starker Plays Kodály - Kodály Cello Sonata, Cello Duo (with Josef Gingold), and Variations on a theme by Paganini. (On Delos.)
Utterly mesmerizing and displaying staggering technique, this is the definitive performance of the Sonata* - it certainly had Kodaly's approval (shortly before his death Kodály told Starker: "If you correct the retard in the third movement, it will be the Bible performance.")
* and even if it's not, it's just so, so good.
The rest of the album is remarkably good, too :-)
"Louder! Louder! I can still hear the singers!"
- Richard Strauss to the orchestra, at a rehearsal.