Bespin 8,481 Posted June 25, 2018 Share Posted June 25, 2018 47 minutes ago, Jurassic Shark said: Just as well, considering the high alcohol prices... Jurassic Shark 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrJosh 892 Posted June 25, 2018 Share Posted June 25, 2018 Any of Anton Reicha's wind quintets are just extremely nice, pleasant and delightful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Parker 3,040 Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 11 hours ago, Steve McQueen said: While I have no qualms agianst harpsichord, I must agree that the full effect of Bach's keyboard works can only be heard on piano. Bach is remarkable in that way. His music sounds good on just about any instrument. (I eagerly await someone seriously performing the Well - Tempered Clavier on Yamaha DX-7 MkII or SY99 electric piano) @Nick Parker, thoughts? We're uppin' the ante, FS1R or bust! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Illustrious Jerry 3,356 Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 On 6/25/2018 at 7:12 AM, Bespin said: About Bach, Beethoven and Mozart, I remember I made 22 volumes compilation... for each in Spotify.It's chronologically ordered... That's was a challenge to make... and well it's an interesting way to (re)discover all these works!For beginners in classical music... it helps to understand that Beethoven didn't wrote all his 9 symphonies and 32 piano sonatas the same day! Well Mozart's kochel listings help, and Beethoven's opus recordings likewise. Tricky about Bach though, yes. On 6/25/2018 at 11:13 AM, Bespin said: My favorite Well-Tempered Clavier version is by Ashkenazy. Ashkenazy is quite masterful. I like his work, especially Rachmaninoff. Highly recommended recording and a great introduction to Rachmaninoff! karelm 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pellaeon 593 Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 I second that recommendation! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Illustrious Jerry 3,356 Posted June 27, 2018 Share Posted June 27, 2018 5 hours ago, Pellaeon said: I second that recommendation! Yeah. If found it at a garage sale (a real gem) in great condition, and it's actually some of my favorite classical works in terms of recording. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Illustrious Jerry 3,356 Posted June 27, 2018 Share Posted June 27, 2018 Today's lineup. Mozart's Violin Concertos, Tchaikosvksy's Sixth and Slavonic March, and Bizet's Carmen and L'Arlesienne Suites. All great! Jurassic Shark 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loert 2,511 Posted June 27, 2018 Share Posted June 27, 2018 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrJosh 892 Posted June 28, 2018 Share Posted June 28, 2018 2 hours ago, Loert said: What a fun piece! I'm not familiar with Koechlin. Thanks for introducing me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loert 2,511 Posted June 29, 2018 Share Posted June 29, 2018 Jurassic Shark 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,075 Posted June 29, 2018 Share Posted June 29, 2018 @Loert, I have the impression you're a professional composer. May I ask what you do, more specifically? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrJosh 892 Posted June 29, 2018 Share Posted June 29, 2018 I've been listening to Joaquín Rodrigo lately. Really enjoyed this lovely concerto. Marian Schedenig 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Parker 3,040 Posted June 29, 2018 Share Posted June 29, 2018 7 minutes ago, MrJosh said: I've been listening to Joaquín Rodrigo lately. Really enjoyed this lovely concerto. Thanks for sharing! I've only been familiar with his Concierto de Aranjuez through Chick Corea and Gil Evans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,075 Posted June 29, 2018 Share Posted June 29, 2018 1 minute ago, Nick Parker said: Thanks for sharing! I've only been familiar with his Concierto de Aranjuez through Chick Corea and Gil Evans. JW's version is quite good! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Parker 3,040 Posted June 29, 2018 Share Posted June 29, 2018 10 minutes ago, Jurassic Shark said: JW's version is quite good! According to auto-generated YouTube channels over the past week or so, our John Williams is now called Memphis Piano Red. Finally, no more confusion! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,193 Posted June 29, 2018 Share Posted June 29, 2018 54 minutes ago, MrJosh said: I've been listening to Joaquín Rodrigo lately. Really enjoyed this lovely concerto. Concierto andaluz is fun, too. MrJosh 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loert 2,511 Posted June 29, 2018 Share Posted June 29, 2018 9 hours ago, Jurassic Shark said: @Loert, I have the impression you're a professional composer. May I ask what you do, more specifically? I wish I had the financial indepedence to do that. Music is just a hobby for me at the moment. Jurassic Shark and MrJosh 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Jurassic Shark 12,075 Posted June 29, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted June 29, 2018 4 minutes ago, Loert said: I wish I had the financial indepedence to do that. Music is just a hobby for me at the moment. It's a great hobby to have! Loert, MrJosh and Maglorfin 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Illustrious Jerry 3,356 Posted June 29, 2018 Share Posted June 29, 2018 An essential Mozart boxset. The highest of recommendations I will ever give, from beginner to long time enthusiast! Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade (with my favorite- Mariss Jansons) and Paganini's two best violin concertos! Jurassic Shark 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pellaeon 593 Posted June 29, 2018 Share Posted June 29, 2018 Dutoit and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra recorded a splendid Scheherazade. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loert 2,511 Posted June 30, 2018 Share Posted June 30, 2018 Anna S. Þorvaldsdóttir - In the Light of Air Very nice piece, actually. It takes me back to my trip to Iceland a couple of years ago and witnessing the unforgettable views of Hekla, as well as the vast tundra as it stretched far back into the horizon until you could just about see the edge of the great Vatnajökull ice cap. I imagine this is what you would get if you took the Icelandic landscape and converted it into music format. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Illustrious Jerry 3,356 Posted June 30, 2018 Share Posted June 30, 2018 Carmina Burana by Carl Orff This is probably my favorite choral work ever. I went to see it in concert with the Canadian National Academy Orchestra and it was absolutely splendid. O Fortuna is so powerful and darn epic, and many of the solos were well done. If you haven't heard this, it's high on my list. Jurassic Shark 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loert 2,511 Posted July 1, 2018 Share Posted July 1, 2018 A classic for today: Listen to the beautiful way Ansermet brings out the distant low horns and bassoons on the "downbeats" from 4:21. SteveMc 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post karelm 2,913 Posted July 2, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted July 2, 2018 John Adams' complete opera recording of Dr. Atomic has finally been released on recording. Previously, it was only available in the symphonic suite or on blue ray. Sit back and give the whole thing a listen in one sitting. Very much worth the 2.5 hours! This is an extremely interesting topic for an opera since the subject isn't so much about the first atomic bomb but that is the context in which the story is set. It is the days just before the very first testing of the first bomb at the trinity test sight in Nevada. The opera is really more of a psychological exploration of the internal turmoil of the conflicting emotions of what they have created and what they are about to unleash on the world, changing it forever. As fans of history and this subject know, Oppenheimer, the extremely brilliant mastermind of the project is ultimately reduced to a very broken man and rejected by all his peers as he takes up an anti-nuclear position. Very Faustian in that he conquers the secrets of the universe and loses his soul in the process and this opera is absolutely brilliant and quite intense if experienced in a single sitting. I found the final seconds nail bitting and full of tension as the countdown reaches zero and the opera ends in silence as a new weapon is detonated. You really get a sense for how bitter and broken he was at the end of his life in just about any late interview such as this one: Jurassic Shark, Dixon Hill and Loert 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maglorfin 196 Posted July 2, 2018 Share Posted July 2, 2018 An outstanding performance of this old favorite (my personal all-time favorite Shostakovich's symphony). karelm 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted July 2, 2018 Share Posted July 2, 2018 3 hours ago, karelm said: John Adams' complete opera recording of Dr. Atomic has finally been released on recording. Previously, it was only available in the symphonic suite or on blue ray. Sit back and give the whole thing a listen in one sitting. Very much worth the 2.5 hours! This is an extremely interesting topic for an opera since the subject isn't so much about the first atomic bomb but that is the context in which the story is set. It is the days just before the very first testing of the first bomb at the trinity test sight in Nevada. The opera is really more of a psychological exploration of the internal turmoil of the conflicting emotions of what they have created and what they are about to unleash on the world, changing it forever. As fans of history and this subject know, Oppenheimer, the extremely brilliant mastermind of the project is ultimately reduced to a very broken man and rejected by all his peers as he takes up an anti-nuclear position. Very Faustian in that he conquers the secrets of the universe and loses his soul in the process and this opera is absolutely brilliant and quite intense if experienced in a single sitting. I found the final seconds nail bitting and full of tension as the countdown reaches zero and the opera ends in silence as a new weapon is detonated. You really get a sense for how bitter and broken he was at the end of his life in just about any late interview such as this one: Could be the greatest opera since Pelleas. karelm 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Parker 3,040 Posted July 2, 2018 Share Posted July 2, 2018 It's pretty solid, for sure! I like Sakamoto's multimedia opera take on it, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loert 2,511 Posted July 3, 2018 Share Posted July 3, 2018 Great performance of an interesting piece. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,193 Posted July 4, 2018 Share Posted July 4, 2018 Still one of my Nyman favourites. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loert 2,511 Posted July 6, 2018 Share Posted July 6, 2018 I have become a little obsessed with this piece and performance lately: Especially the last two movements. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,075 Posted July 6, 2018 Share Posted July 6, 2018 The work is indeed awesome! What's your favourite recording? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maglorfin 196 Posted July 6, 2018 Share Posted July 6, 2018 The last performance of Symphonie fantastique I've heard was by Junge Deutsche Philharmonie back in March and it was AWESOME. It was a part of the orchestra's European tour and the same concert can still be seen e.g. in the Digital Concert Hall of the Berlin Philharmonic (I think it's even free of charge to watch). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted July 6, 2018 Share Posted July 6, 2018 Feeling a little wild this morning... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Illustrious Jerry 3,356 Posted July 6, 2018 Share Posted July 6, 2018 1 hour ago, KK said: Feeling a little wild this morning... I used to wake up to Night on Bald Mountain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loert 2,511 Posted July 6, 2018 Share Posted July 6, 2018 12 hours ago, Jurassic Shark said: The work is indeed awesome! What's your favourite recording? I don't really know it well enough to answer that! I have listened to the early Munch recording with the BSO, and a little of Bernstein's studio recordings with the NYPO and French National Orchestra. But so far the one I linked sounds to me the best performance. EDIT: Now I'm listening to Stokowski, which is pretty good too! Jurassic Shark 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karelm 2,913 Posted July 6, 2018 Share Posted July 6, 2018 3 hours ago, Loert said: I don't really know it well enough to answer that! I have listened to the early Munch recording with the BSO, and a little of Bernstein's studio recordings with the NYPO and French National Orchestra. But so far the one I linked sounds to me the best performance. EDIT: Now I'm listening to Stokowski, which is pretty good too! It is really fun to play too especially if you are in the low brass where you are never told you are playing too loudly in the last two movements. I played the bass trombone part with the Pacific Symphony maybe last year. We had three tubas! I forget the specifics but it might have been one tuba and two euphoniums. I was sitting next to Jim Self who we all know as the "mothership" voice from Close Encounters of the Third Kind. I know I asked him something stupid in between rehearsal moments like "what was that like?" or something. Loert 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maglorfin 196 Posted July 7, 2018 Share Posted July 7, 2018 22 hours ago, Maglorfin said: The last performance of Symphonie fantastique I've heard was by Junge Deutsche Philharmonie back in March and it was AWESOME. It was a part of the orchestra's European tour and the same concert can still be seen e.g. in the Digital Concert Hall of the Berlin Philharmonic (I think it's even free of charge to watch). Here it is, in case anybody wants to watch it: https://www.digitalconcerthall.com/en/concert/51156 It also includes a great performance of Messiaen's Les offrandes oubliées. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted July 8, 2018 Share Posted July 8, 2018 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,481 Posted July 8, 2018 Share Posted July 8, 2018 Bach and coffee, have a great sunday group. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,075 Posted July 8, 2018 Share Posted July 8, 2018 7 minutes ago, Bespin said: Bach and coffee, have a great sunday group. Then you should listen to this: Bespin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loert 2,511 Posted July 8, 2018 Share Posted July 8, 2018 Very fitting for today's London weather! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveMc 2,674 Posted July 9, 2018 Share Posted July 9, 2018 Thought this might be the best place to post this article, if someone hasn't done so already. A titan and a character to be sure. Intriguing that, as a composer, Bernstein never expressed precisely what he felt he could. https://www.weeklystandard.com/joseph-horowitz/a-wunderkind-at-100 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,333 Posted July 9, 2018 Share Posted July 9, 2018 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post KK 3,307 Posted July 9, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted July 9, 2018 I've been musing on Shostakovich a lot lately. His string quartets, especially. So many gems littered across that repertoire. karelm, Muad'Dib, publicist and 1 other 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loert 2,511 Posted July 9, 2018 Share Posted July 9, 2018 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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The Illustrious Jerry 3,356 Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 A little Mozart... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 When the weather gets hot, humid, and sultry, my mind turns to Lucy Honeychurch (god what a sexy name) and George Emerson making out in a barley field Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveMc 2,674 Posted July 11, 2018 Share Posted July 11, 2018 Have been listening to Carl Vine lately. His 5th String Quartet is quite excellent. Mature writing, a full realization of ideas he had been exploring in his other quartets. Some very interesting harmonies to start things off in the 1st movement. Remarkable use of harmonics throughout. Absolutely gorgeous 2nd movement, and a surprisingly lively dance based 3rd. Pleasure to listen to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Illustrious Jerry 3,356 Posted July 11, 2018 Share Posted July 11, 2018 My favourite Grieg piece. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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