Marian Schedenig 8,193 Posted December 25, 2013 Share Posted December 25, 2013 Exactly. Since the organ is my "main" instrument I was surprised I came to Bruckner so late. It's a shame that hardly any of his actual organ music survives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,482 Posted December 27, 2013 Share Posted December 27, 2013 Mozart: Das Kinderspiel, K 598 by Elly Ameling, Dalton Baldwin on Grooveshark Das Veilchen by Elly Ameling on Grooveshark Die Kleine Spinnerin, K. 531 by Elly Ameling on Grooveshark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glóin the Dark 1,221 Posted December 28, 2013 Share Posted December 28, 2013 I love the sense of propulsion in this. Dixon Hill and Bespin 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,482 Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 Adagio un poco moto by Ludwig van Beethoven, Murray Perahia, Bernard Haitink on Grooveshark Piano Concerto No.5 in E flat major, Op. 73, "Emperor"; III. Rondo: Allegro by Murray Perahia - Bernard Haitink - Concertgebouw on Grooveshark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 Thanks to Carl Sagan for introducing me to this by using it in Cosmos.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3arC3kbOilQ karelm 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romão 2,274 Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 I love that symphony, but I find that tempo to be too sluggish. I much prefer Haitink's version Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 That was my first Shostakovich symphony, and one of my person favourites from the man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muad'Dib 1,802 Posted January 3, 2014 Author Share Posted January 3, 2014 I found about this piece (and this particular performance) on this very forum a year ago or so. It's so worth revisiting and sharing it for people who aren't familiar with it. Such wildness, I adore it... Dixon Hill 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 I love that symphony, but I find that tempo to be too sluggish. I much prefer Haitink's versionI'm notorious for preferring unpopularly slow tempi! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glóin the Dark 1,221 Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 I love that symphony, but I find that tempo to be too sluggish. I much prefer Haitink's versionI'm notorious for preferring unpopularly slow tempi!I like both performances, but the clincher for me is the moment at 1:07:46 in the Rostropovich video (the transition to the final passage). In Haitink's performance there's (what feels like) a small reduction in tempo at that point, where Rostropovich hurtles along a full speed leading to a more ecstatic climax. At some other places in the symphony I find Rostropovich's slowness a tad excessive, but I would probably choose this one to listen to on account of the ending. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,193 Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 I'm notorious for preferring unpopularly slow tempi! Celibidache fan? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 Bernstein usually does it for me. I can't listen to anyone else's Enigma Variations anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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KK 3,307 Posted January 4, 2014 Share Posted January 4, 2014 I found about this piece (and this particular performance) on this very forum a year ago or so. It's so worth revisiting and sharing it for people who aren't familiar with it. Such wildness, I adore it...Yeah, it's a great piece!I also love this. This piece basically sums up quite well the kind of wild writing that Revueltas became known for. It's fantastic. karelm 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted January 4, 2014 Share Posted January 4, 2014 Hm. Interesting. Different. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,482 Posted January 4, 2014 Share Posted January 4, 2014 Brahms and coffee this morning :-)Brahms: Symphony #3 In F, Op. 90 - 3. Poco Allegretto by Herbert Von Karajan: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra on Grooveshark Violin Concerto Op. 77 - II. Adagio by Vadim Repin; Truls Mork; Riccardo Chailly; Gewandhausorchester; on Grooveshark Horn Trio Op 40 in Eb - 1. Andante - Poco più animato by Johannes Brahms on Grooveshark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightscape94 965 Posted January 4, 2014 Share Posted January 4, 2014 Thanks to Carl Sagan for introducing me to this by using it in Cosmos.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3arC3kbOilQFar and away my favorite Shostakovich symphony. I saw it performed live a couple of months ago. Amazing stuff.Bernstein usually does it for me. I can't listen to anyone else's Enigma Variations anymore.I feel the same way about Barber's Adagio for Strings. Ever since I heard his performance of the piece with the Los Angeles Philharmonic I basically can't listen to anyone else's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 There used to be a video of the sequence featuring this piece planned for Fantasia, similar to the one I posted of Debussy's Clair de Lune a while back, but it has been removed since I last saw it. Too bad, since it was enchanting. Muad'Dib 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted January 6, 2014 Share Posted January 6, 2014 Very useful site here. IMSLP is great but doesn't extend into much contemporary stuff for obvious reasons - this one circumvents that by providing "perusal" scores that can't be downloaded.http://www.musicsalesclassical.com/OnDemandWhoa they have some of George Fenton's stuff from Blue Planet. This is awesome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glóin the Dark 1,221 Posted January 7, 2014 Share Posted January 7, 2014 I once went to HMV to order this on CD. The helpful shop-assistant informed me that the composer's surname was supposed to be spelt with a ch rather than an x. karelm 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted January 7, 2014 Share Posted January 7, 2014 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 Do you have four hours to spare? Do you enjoy classic 70's minimalism? If so, this (no longer) live stream of Glass' Einstein on the Beach performed in Paris may be just for you.http://culturebox.francetvinfo.fr/einstein-on-the-beach-au-theatre-du-chatelet-146813 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightscape94 965 Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 Nice, I'm not familiar with that one. About to give it a listen.One of my favorites from one of my favorites. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 Mahler 2 stretched to 10 hours.https://archive.org/details/Mahler2-The10HourRemix Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glóin the Dark 1,221 Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 Mahler 2 stretched to 10 hours.Holy moly! This is amazing...I'm notorious for preferring unpopularly slow tempi! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 Heh. Whoa, the second theme in the first movement is somehow even more gorgeous like this. And basically all of the choral writing becomes Ligeti The definitive performance in real time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glóin the Dark 1,221 Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 I've just been listening to a few brief highlights from the stretched version. It's taken an hour and twenty minutes.Here's something I was familiar with before I'd ever heard the Mahler symphony: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 Mmmm, wild. I've not heard much of his collage stuff but it's intriguing.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vee8hcOfz6Ihttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vbkbt8g2kSshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlYFJXm6wJg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharkissimo 1,973 Posted January 11, 2014 Share Posted January 11, 2014 Love Ann-Sophie Mutter. Previn was a lucky sod.Recently discovered this piece by Zemlinsky. 6 Gesänge für mittlere Stimme und Kammerorcheste (Op. 13) (AKA: 6 Songs for Mezzo-Soprano and Chamber Orchestra) - based on poems by Maurice Maeterlinck. Moving.One of my favourite commencement du siècle works: Dixon Hill 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joni Wiljami 1,206 Posted January 11, 2014 Share Posted January 11, 2014 When it is about the roughness of the nature our Janne rules. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,482 Posted January 11, 2014 Share Posted January 11, 2014 Mozart in Vienna Mozart: Piano Sonata #13 In B Flat, K 333 - 1. Allegro by Mitsuko Uchida on Grooveshark Twelve Piano Variations on 'Ah, vous dirai-je, Maman', K 265 by Jeno Jando and Piano on Grooveshark Sonata No.10 in C major, K.330 (300h) -- III. Allegretto by Mitsuko UCHIDA, piano on Grooveshark Sonata No.11 in A major, K.331 (300i) -- III. Alla Turca. Allegretto by Mitsuko UCHIDA, piano on GroovesharkA real must-have :http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/album.jsp?album_id=57509 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted January 12, 2014 Share Posted January 12, 2014 Speaking of Previn.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,482 Posted January 12, 2014 Share Posted January 12, 2014 The cantor of St. Thomashttp://youtu.be/Qpxff9fqNJQhttp://youtu.be/7bd3j8iI3Ks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted January 12, 2014 Share Posted January 12, 2014 Ah, Helmut. The trio sonatas are devilishly difficult. Bespin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,482 Posted January 13, 2014 Share Posted January 13, 2014 Ah, Helmut. The trio sonatas are devilishly difficult.Two Hands on Two keyboards... and two feet on the pedals, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted January 13, 2014 Share Posted January 13, 2014 Yep, which is the formula for most organ music. But the trios... you go in thinking that three lines will be a cake walk, and then you come out totally wrecked. Bespin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,482 Posted January 13, 2014 Share Posted January 13, 2014 Yep, which is the formula for most organ music. But the trios... you go in thinking that three lines will be a cake walk, and then you come out totally wrecked.I guess the pedals are usually used for more or less complex bass line.But in the case of these trio, foot plays most of the time the full voice of a fugue, that's completely crazy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted January 13, 2014 Share Posted January 13, 2014 Well there are plenty of ridiculously complex pedal parts in the organ literature, and not only in fugues, but the thing about the trios is they are essentially written for three separate players, then the staves are connected and Bach says, "Here, do this yourself."The degree of independence in each part is really high, even by Bach's standards. Bespin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glóin the Dark 1,221 Posted January 15, 2014 Share Posted January 15, 2014 Asyla by Thomas Adès.When I first heard this (a radio broadcast of its first performance in the late 90s), some aspects of the fourth movement reminded me distinctly of Howard Shore's score for The Silence of the Lambs - though I find it difficult to hear any resemblance nowadays.I can't say from personal experience whether the third movement (Ecstasio) is a close musical approximation to the type of experience induced by a good dose of 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine, but it certainly is the closest emulation by an orchestra that I've ever heard of the sound of a 90s nightclub. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted January 15, 2014 Share Posted January 15, 2014 This is really interesting. I've not heard much of Ades' work, for an admittedly unfair reason. He seems to be the go-to example of a "real" composer for people criticizing other, equally talented contemporaries. Must not let that cloud my judgement anymore, as it has nothing to do with the man himself or his work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glóin the Dark 1,221 Posted January 15, 2014 Share Posted January 15, 2014 He seems to be the go-to example of a "real" composer for people criticizing other, equally talented contemporaries.Is that right? I've occasionally seen Adès scoffed at for being too accessible and popular. But I like his peculiar blend of the strange and the familiar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted January 15, 2014 Share Posted January 15, 2014 Ha, how do you like that? Everyone's a critic, should have known. I like him too now! Doesn't he have a piece called something like These Premises Are Alarmed? That one is real fun. Glóin the Dark 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glóin the Dark 1,221 Posted January 15, 2014 Share Posted January 15, 2014 Yeah - title's funny too; you imagine a building about to take to its heels. Most of his titles seem to have multiple meanings.Eric Whitacre's new to me... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted January 15, 2014 Share Posted January 15, 2014 Bit too saccharine for many, I've learned, but there's a very special place in my heart for him. Here's one of his more challenging pieces.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLa8pN7GHhg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted January 15, 2014 Share Posted January 15, 2014 Ades is new to me. I'll check out those links Gloin.Whitacre is a times too saccharine, but still, he's done a lot of magic.One of Eric Whitacre's choral pieces, arranged for string orchestra by him. This is unbearably tender music. Someone give this man a film to score.https://soundcloud.com/ericwhitacre/a-boy-and-a-girl-stringIsn't that cello line during the climax starting at 2:50 perfect?Beautiful, if typical Whitacre. His choral works are generally quite suited for strings.Its funny how much this piece reminds me of Thomas Newman though. Glóin the Dark 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted January 15, 2014 Share Posted January 15, 2014 Same rising harmonies, I, bIII, IV, that Newman uses often. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted January 15, 2014 Share Posted January 15, 2014 Indeed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glóin the Dark 1,221 Posted January 15, 2014 Share Posted January 15, 2014 I was just about to make the Thomas Newman comparison myself, for the first piece - in particular, it reminds me of that halting string music when Andy Dufresne's on his way to the tree near Buxton. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted January 15, 2014 Share Posted January 15, 2014 Oh yeah, definitely in the same vein as the wonderful Compass And Guns. Also Any Other Name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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