Loert 2,510 Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 Stunning. karelm 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,176 Posted January 19, 2018 Share Posted January 19, 2018 To return once more to my favourite opera: I just received this version of Ariadne auf Naxos. Already having three other recordings (Kempe/Janowitz on CD, Böhm/Janowitz on DVD and the Sinopoli on CD) I didn't expect another recording to have anything particularly worthwhile to offer in addition (unless they release a recording of the stupendous Thielemann performance at the Vienna State Opera). In fact, while the Sinopoli is perfectly fine, I don't really have a use for it when compared to the others. This, however, has an excellent cast (Margaret Price has a very fitting voice for Ariadne, not unlike Janowitz's), and while it won't replace my favourites, it's good enough to provide some change instead of always listening to the same recordings. But more importantly, the original version recorded has more, and more significant, differences to the much more common revised version that I'd anticipated, with several notable passages completely missing from the later version. Even the coda is different. A must have for anyone who enjoys this opera at least half as much as I do. (And it only cost me €6, new and shrinkwrapped) karelm 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idril 86 Posted January 19, 2018 Share Posted January 19, 2018 Anybody else a fan of baroque opera? One of the most sublime arias for me... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,233 Posted January 19, 2018 Share Posted January 19, 2018 My favorite: idril 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,507 Posted January 19, 2018 Share Posted January 19, 2018 Geez, TGP! Your avatar. You went from Mahler, to Stravinsky, in three days? I'm impressed. Dixon Hill 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idril 86 Posted January 19, 2018 Share Posted January 19, 2018 33 minutes ago, TGP said: My favorite: Ahh, lovely. Rameau is an old favourite of mine. I'm a big fan of the Marc Minkowski's Symphonie imaginaire: And absolutely love the Pièces de Clavecin en Concerts album from Trevor Pinnock, Jonathan Manson and Rachel Podger (perhaps my favourite baroque violinist). It might be the most sensuous baroque album in existence. Just exquisite. Example: Dixon Hill 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,480 Posted January 21, 2018 Share Posted January 21, 2018 Some magristral choral works I've listened recently. Probably the three best masses or requiem ever wrote (of course, after the Mass in B minor by Bach!) Mozart - Requiem (Christopher Hoowgood, Maunder ed, with a Boys Choir, it makes all the difference) Beethoven - Missa Solemnis (Gardiner or Klemperer, according to your tastes) Brahms - Deutsch Requiem (Yannick Nézet-Séguin) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idril 86 Posted January 21, 2018 Share Posted January 21, 2018 Can't argue with those as some of the best Masses or Requiems ever written. Got to give some love to my beloved Dvořák too though: Bespin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,480 Posted January 21, 2018 Share Posted January 21, 2018 23 minutes ago, idril said: Can't argue with those as some of the best Masses or Requiems ever written. Got to give some love to my beloved Dvořák too though: Ah I don't know his Requiem, I have to discover it! Speaking of "the greatest masses", I can't speak not about the Great Mass in C minor from Mozart. This version sung by the wonderfull, sublime and gorgeous Barbara Hendricks. It's like being already in heaven :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idril 86 Posted January 21, 2018 Share Posted January 21, 2018 5 minutes ago, Bespin said: Ah I don't know his Requiem, I have to discover it! Speaking of "the greatest masses", I can't speak about the Great Mass in C minor from Mozart. This version sung by the wonderfull, sublime and gorgeous Barbara Hendricks. It's like being already in heaven :-) Ahhh, yes, divine! I haven't yet had the pleasure of discovering the Barbara Hendricks recording. Bespin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,507 Posted January 21, 2018 Share Posted January 21, 2018 The Mozart Requiem is amazing, but favourite requiem is the Fauré, which I've sung, many times (and I don't mean in the shower! ). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,480 Posted January 21, 2018 Share Posted January 21, 2018 2 minutes ago, Richard said: The Mozart Requiem is amazing, but favourite requiem is the Fauré, which I've sung, many times (and I don't mean in the shower! ). You've been in a Boys Choir? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,507 Posted January 21, 2018 Share Posted January 21, 2018 I've sung it as an adult. I've also sung the Mozart, and (I shit you not) Handel's Messiah (four-part, not five-part). The Amen Chorus is my favourite! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,480 Posted January 21, 2018 Share Posted January 21, 2018 1 minute ago, Richard said: I've sung it as an adult. I've also sung the Mozart, and (I shit you not) Handel's Messiah (four-part, not five-part). The Amen Chorus is my favourite! Alleluia! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,480 Posted January 21, 2018 Share Posted January 21, 2018 @idril I'm currently listening for the first time to the Requiem of Dvorak. Great, very musical. A little less exuberant than Verdi's Requiem, but we are in the same genre... definitely we go away from the Church a little bit, and come closer to the stage, but it's a great powerfull and intense work, thanks for the recommendation! idril 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idril 86 Posted January 21, 2018 Share Posted January 21, 2018 Yeah, definitely close to Verdi's requiem in terms of being dramatic (though I'm not sure anything touches Verdi's for exuberance!). Glad you enjoy it! Bespin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,176 Posted January 21, 2018 Share Posted January 21, 2018 3 hours ago, Richard said: I've sung it as an adult. I've also sung the Mozart, and (I shit you not) Handel's Messiah (four-part, not five-part). The Amen Chorus is my favourite! I've sung the Mozart a couple of times. I still can't listen to it at work because I couldn't help singing along. Naïve Old Fart and Bespin 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omen II 1,235 Posted January 21, 2018 Share Posted January 21, 2018 5 hours ago, idril said: Can't argue with those as some of the best Masses or Requiems ever written. Got to give some love to my beloved Dvořák too though: Have you heard his compatriot Bohuslav Martinu's Field Mass? Disgusted at the Nazis' invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1939, Martinu intended it as a sort of sacred cantata for the free Czechoslovak army. I had never heard of it until I saw it at the BBC Proms last year and was mightily impressed. Czech it out! karelm 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,480 Posted January 21, 2018 Share Posted January 21, 2018 1 minute ago, Omen II said: Czech it out! idril 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idril 86 Posted January 21, 2018 Share Posted January 21, 2018 I have not heard this particular piece. My knowledge of Martinu extends to playing a fiendishly difficult little piece of his on violin as a teenager (though admittedly it was a lot of fun to play and was a fantastic piece!). The story behind the mass is very interesting. I will definitely, ahem, czech this out... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted January 21, 2018 Share Posted January 21, 2018 6 minutes ago, idril said: I will definitely, ahem, czech this out... Don't encourage him! Omen II 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omen II 1,235 Posted January 21, 2018 Share Posted January 21, 2018 You have Brno sense of humour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,480 Posted January 21, 2018 Share Posted January 21, 2018 Oh this one is hard. When you need Wikipedia to understand a joke, that's not good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,507 Posted January 21, 2018 Share Posted January 21, 2018 Just Holst on to what you've got, Bes, and get a Handel on it. The Janacek's in the post. You've got to Karajan that weight! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,480 Posted January 22, 2018 Share Posted January 22, 2018 This forum really starts to disturb me!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karelm 2,903 Posted January 22, 2018 Share Posted January 22, 2018 3 hours ago, Omen II said: Have you heard his compatriot Bohuslav Martinu's Field Mass? Disgusted at the Nazis' invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1939, Martinu intended it as a sort of sacred cantata for the free Czechoslovak army. I had never heard of it until I saw it at the BBC Proms last year and was mightily impressed. Czech it out! I have ben'jamin to quite a bit of Martinu lately. As in Arthur Benjamin, the excellent Australian composer...so will listen to this after my current disc finishes. I especially enjoy Martinu's protosymphony, "Vanishing Midnight" which was just released and never even fully performed until this recording! Something quite Mahlerian about this massive and exciting work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muad'Dib 1,801 Posted January 22, 2018 Author Share Posted January 22, 2018 6 hours ago, Richard said: Just Holst on to what you've got, Bes, and get a Handel on it. The Janacek's in the post. You've got to Karajan that weight! Luka and Naïve Old Fart 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,480 Posted January 28, 2018 Share Posted January 28, 2018 L.V. Beethoven - The Artistic Maturity Piano Concert No. 5 (Perahia) String Quartet Op. 74 (Talich Qt) Sonata No. 26 Op, 81a "Les adieux" (Rubinstein) Piano Trio, Op. 96 "Archduke" (Perlman, Ashkenazy, Harrell) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lewya 360 Posted January 28, 2018 Share Posted January 28, 2018 Hoodoo Zephyr - John Adams I am not the biggest fan of Adams, he is more of a composer I respect than enjoy in general - like most living top contemporary composers in other words. He has done some works that I enjoy though. This piece of work I perhaps surspringly (it is a minor work and very different from the usual Adams) prefer over a number of his latest disappointing concert works like the saxophone concerto to mention one of his weakest works. It is nothing great, but it is Adams having fun and it shows. I like it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted January 28, 2018 Share Posted January 28, 2018 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightscape94 965 Posted January 28, 2018 Share Posted January 28, 2018 On 1/21/2018 at 1:52 PM, Bespin said: @idril I'm currently listening for the first time to the Requiem of Dvorak. Great, very musical. A little less exuberant than Verdi's Requiem, but we are in the same genre... definitely we go away from the Church a little bit, and come closer to the stage, but it's a great powerfull and intense work, thanks for the recommendation! Indeed it is wonderful, and sadly underrated. The recent Wit version is beyond amazing, and another example of Dvorak excelling at everything. Bespin and idril 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,176 Posted January 29, 2018 Share Posted January 29, 2018 Marin Alsop has been appointed as the next Chief Conductor of the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra http://www.albion-media.com/news/marin-alsop-appointed-new-chief-conductor-of-the-vienna-rso-from-september-2019/ Starting in September 2019. This is exciting, I'm hoping for some interesting concert programmes. Some Daugherty perhaps? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightscape94 965 Posted January 29, 2018 Share Posted January 29, 2018 Hope she extends her Baltimore contract and maintains both positions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caliburn 72 Posted January 30, 2018 Share Posted January 30, 2018 I do not really do classical music but there are some pieces that warm my heart: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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KK 3,307 Posted February 6, 2018 Share Posted February 6, 2018 Wolfe's oratario, Anthracite Fields. Not all of it necessarily clicks for me (sometimes leans on the turgid side), but there are really great moments here, the kind that only Wolfe could pull off. Dixon Hill and Loert 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,507 Posted February 6, 2018 Share Posted February 6, 2018 For those interested, Toru Takemitsu is "composer of the week", this week, on BBC Radio 3. Dixon Hill 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted February 6, 2018 Share Posted February 6, 2018 Anyone else ever notice on some sheet music where there are more notes in a single chord than there are fingers on each hand? How the hell is someone supposed to play that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Bespin 8,480 Posted February 6, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted February 6, 2018 13 minutes ago, Denise Bryson said: Anyone else ever notice on some sheet music where there are more notes in a single chord than there are fingers on each hand? How the hell is someone supposed to play that? Jurassic Shark, Naïve Old Fart and Unlucky Bastard 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,033 Posted February 6, 2018 Share Posted February 6, 2018 Sometimes it's possible to play two notes with the same finger, or to play some of the notes with the other hand. Otherwise it has to be played arpeggio. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,507 Posted February 6, 2018 Share Posted February 6, 2018 I can do a lot of things with the same finger, but playing more than one note is not one them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,033 Posted February 6, 2018 Share Posted February 6, 2018 10 minutes ago, Richard said: I can do a lot of things with the same finger, but playing more than one note is not one them. I'm sure you can press your finger in the middle between two white keys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karelm 2,903 Posted February 7, 2018 Share Posted February 7, 2018 7 hours ago, Denise Bryson said: Anyone else ever notice on some sheet music where there are more notes in a single chord than there are fingers on each hand? How the hell is someone supposed to play that? Then they will strum it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,233 Posted February 10, 2018 Share Posted February 10, 2018 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted February 11, 2018 Share Posted February 11, 2018 Found this lovely Jóhannsson piece I was not aware of: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,480 Posted February 17, 2018 Share Posted February 17, 2018 A little bit of Schubert for this quiet afternoon. Jurassic Shark 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loert 2,510 Posted February 17, 2018 Share Posted February 17, 2018 Act 3 from Mlada (Night on Mt. Triglav) - the opening is one of the most magical moments I know of in music...it is impossible not to be transported into the wilderness, standing alone under a starry night sky. Evgeny Svetlanov and the USSR State Symphony Orchestra got it just right in this instance. SteveMc and Jurassic Shark 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,176 Posted February 18, 2018 Share Posted February 18, 2018 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,480 Posted February 19, 2018 Share Posted February 19, 2018 This cutie is now a man, great album! Loert 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted February 21, 2018 Share Posted February 21, 2018 karelm and SteveMc 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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