Bespin 8,457 Posted December 19, 2020 Share Posted December 19, 2020 Well it happens I wrote an important post in the Quick Question Thread, related to classical music. Sorry, in advance for posting a link here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted December 26, 2020 Share Posted December 26, 2020 This contains the Alien end credits music too. Same recording. Jurassic Shark and Loert 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruce marshall 1,306 Posted December 26, 2020 Share Posted December 26, 2020 No self respecting Goldsmith fan listens to THAT!😡 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted December 26, 2020 Share Posted December 26, 2020 Even Williams ripped it off in ET! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruce marshall 1,306 Posted December 26, 2020 Share Posted December 26, 2020 "That's a bunch of malarkey" Joseph R. Biden Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,457 Posted December 31, 2020 Share Posted December 31, 2020 Sometimes, we just need some good Bach. Great Arias and Choruses. SteveMc and bruce marshall 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,457 Posted January 2, 2021 Share Posted January 2, 2021 As I am not a fan of the Organ (the instrument), I actually deprives myself of hearing number and number of organ works wrote by J.S. Bach. This little compilation of 10 works arranged for piano (most of them by Kempff) shows a very inventive Bach. Listen carefully, in some fugues, there are 3 voices that are playing together. It always amazed me, because at the piano, you don't have the feet for the base like for the organ, so you have only two hands and 10 fingers to play 3 distinct voices! SteveMc 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveMc 2,674 Posted January 3, 2021 Share Posted January 3, 2021 On 1/2/2021 at 8:23 AM, Bespin said: As I am not a fan of the Organ (the instrument), I actually deprives myself of hearing number and number of organ works wrote by J.S. Bach. This little compilation of 10 works arranged for piano (most of them by Kempff) shows a very inventive Bach. Listen carefully, in some fugues, there are 3 voices that are playing together. It always amazed me, because at the piano, you don't have the feet for the base like for the organ, so you have only two hands and 10 fingers to play 3 distinct voices! The organ can get tiring at times, but Bach's organ works are so very rewarding and some recordings I have heard get the balance so right. But for sure playing Bach's organ pieces on piano or synth really helps hit the amazing quality of Bach's genius home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,457 Posted January 3, 2021 Share Posted January 3, 2021 The only works I really love on the organ are the 6 trio sonatas... and it depends of the player and the sound of the organ. These works are so amazing, they are impossible to adapt for piano, well I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted January 12, 2021 Share Posted January 12, 2021 On 6/8/2020 at 8:41 AM, Disco Stu said: There is *finally* a commercial recording of one of my favorite orchestral pieces of the last 20-or-so years, Lowell Liebermann's fantastic Trumpet Concerto written in 1999. This is really the only trumpet concerto that's truly in competition with John Williams' for me (although I haven't heard Goldenthal's yet!). I think Liebermann's music is perfect for fans of the classic Hollywood romantic film score style. It's tracks 2 - 4 on this album: https://open.spotify.com/album/4K4LWwNxFDemgu61oZ18XV?si=drr9u1E5T7CqgPLLYSBhyg Or here's a playlist Revisiting this piece tonight and it really is just extraordinary. I can’t recommend it more fervently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruce marshall 1,306 Posted January 12, 2021 Share Posted January 12, 2021 Did someone here say they don't like Bach ORGAN works?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Guernsey 2,228 Posted January 12, 2021 Share Posted January 12, 2021 6 hours ago, Disco Stu said: Revisiting this piece tonight and it really is just extraordinary. I can’t recommend it more fervently. I can’t see this available anywhere to buy. It sounds great. Any suggestions?! Disco Stu 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 11,957 Posted January 12, 2021 Share Posted January 12, 2021 Only digital, it seems. https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07ZX76LTY/ref=dm_ws_sp_ps_dp Tom Guernsey and Disco Stu 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Guernsey 2,228 Posted January 12, 2021 Share Posted January 12, 2021 1 hour ago, Jurassic Shark said: Only digital, it seems. https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07ZX76LTY/ref=dm_ws_sp_ps_dp Cheers. I managed to find it in lossless on 7Digital. One to download when I get home. Cheers. Jurassic Shark and Disco Stu 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted January 12, 2021 Share Posted January 12, 2021 1 hour ago, Tom Guernsey said: Cheers. I managed to find it in lossless on 7Digital. One to download when I get home. Cheers. Glad you managed to find it, I bought it on the Qobuz download store https://www.qobuz.com/us-en/album/remission-rubato-live-ryan-anthony/agu2p0zn86mtc Tom Guernsey 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,304 Posted January 13, 2021 Share Posted January 13, 2021 Stumbled onto this lovely Gaelic gem: karelm 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 11,957 Posted January 20, 2021 Share Posted January 20, 2021 Marriner's EMI recordings of Mozart's 40th and 41st symphonies was the first classical CD album I purchased. Great recordings! Paging @bollemanneke. Was it these recordings you were praising? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bollemanneke 3,308 Posted January 20, 2021 Share Posted January 20, 2021 I can't check now, I was listening to the recording in the huge complete Philips set. What do I do about that status update now? Or should Jay do that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 11,957 Posted January 20, 2021 Share Posted January 20, 2021 The Philips recording is an earlier one. Still great, though! Regarding our dialogue in my status update, just let it be there. I don't mind. bollemanneke 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loert 2,496 Posted January 27, 2021 Share Posted January 27, 2021 0:00 - 6:00 The best 6 minutes Shostakovich ever wrote: Fabulin and karelm 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loert 2,496 Posted January 29, 2021 Share Posted January 29, 2021 This has been stuck in my head since yesterday. Well, maybe "stuck" is the wrong word - I enjoy its company! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruce marshall 1,306 Posted January 29, 2021 Share Posted January 29, 2021 " On the Nature of Daylight" Arranged for orchestra by Max Richter karelm 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,304 Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 Another impressive work by Anna Clyne: Disco Stu and Omen II 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruce marshall 1,306 Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 Not exactly a recommendation... I recently explored the music of John Luther Adams who seemed like a composer I would like. Didn't.☺😒😞 Any fans here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omen II 1,234 Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 7 hours ago, bruce marshall said: Not exactly a recommendation... I recently explored the music of John Luther Adams who seemed like a composer I would like. Didn't.☺😒😞 Any fans here? I don't know his music well enough to have a strong opinion either way. However, my only live experience of his music - the European premiere of his In the Name of the Earth at the BBC Proms in 2019 - was one of the most amazing concerts I have been to. I do not think that any audio or video recording of it could adequately convey the impact of the live experience. The work featured eight different choirs totalling more than six hundred singers positioned around the hall before eventually all converging on the stage as the work reached its conclusion. The audience was invited to join in the final 'Arctic Ocean' round and it was really fun to be able to be part of such a vast performance (the music was printed in the programme and LSO choral director Simon Halsey took the audience through it about half an hour before the concert started). Here are a couple of photos I took at the end of the concert. bruce marshall 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 11,957 Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 1 hour ago, Omen II said: The work featured eight different choirs I reckon he got a discount. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fabulin 3,505 Posted February 2, 2021 Share Posted February 2, 2021 . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Disco Stu 15,495 Posted February 5, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted February 5, 2021 The American composer Lowell Liebermann has a new album out today as a pianist. He plays works written by himself and also by Miloslav Kabeláč, Liszt, Schubert, and Busoni. I've only listened to his own pieces, but I'm a big fan of his music and can unequivocally recommend those: Gargoyles 4 Apparitions Nocturne No. 10 karelm, Jurassic Shark and SteveMc 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveMc 2,674 Posted March 26, 2021 Share Posted March 26, 2021 Two different takes on musical postmodernism. Dalbavie. Thorny, but engaging. Kevin Puts. Absolutely lovely. karelm 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karelm 2,890 Posted March 26, 2021 Share Posted March 26, 2021 8 hours ago, SteveMc said: Two different takes on musical postmodernism. Dalbavie. Thorny, but engaging. Kevin Puts. Absolutely lovely. I love, LOVE Kevin Puts! He's a JW fan too! SteveMc 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted March 27, 2021 Share Posted March 27, 2021 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oomoog the Ecstatic 314 Posted May 5, 2021 Share Posted May 5, 2021 Layers, till the closing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,304 Posted May 7, 2021 Share Posted May 7, 2021 Mood of the afternoon: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glóin the Dark 1,216 Posted May 7, 2021 Share Posted May 7, 2021 What a racket. KK and Marian Schedenig 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loert 2,496 Posted May 12, 2021 Share Posted May 12, 2021 Sends shivers down my spine: KK, karelm and Fabulin 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karelm 2,890 Posted May 13, 2021 Share Posted May 13, 2021 2 hours ago, Loert said: Sends shivers down my spine: Wow, that was gorgeous! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fabulin 3,505 Posted May 13, 2021 Share Posted May 13, 2021 I think I have managed to mostly recreate the tutti, but the lead-up causes me some trouble... Das_Wunder_der_Heliane_-_reconstruction_01.mid What's happening in the percussion? The opera features: Glsp. · Xyl. · Trgl. · t. Gl. · Schellen · gr. Gong · hg. Beck. · Beckenpaar · Tamt. · Schellentr. · kl. Tr. · gr. Tr. m. Beck. · Rute https://web.archive.org/web/20120207164703/http://www.schott-international.com/shop/php/Proxy.php?purl=%2Fssh%2F9%2Fshow%2C153340.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,304 Posted May 13, 2021 Share Posted May 13, 2021 Stunning! Listened to Samuel Carl Adams' Movements today. Definitely draws from his father's DNA, but has its own contours: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,090 Posted May 13, 2021 Share Posted May 13, 2021 3 hours ago, Loert said: Sends shivers down my spine: There actually was a staged production of this in Vienna several years ago. Absolutely stunning, definitely deserves to be performed more often. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karelm 2,890 Posted May 13, 2021 Share Posted May 13, 2021 11 hours ago, Marian Schedenig said: There actually was a staged production of this in Vienna several years ago. Absolutely stunning, definitely deserves to be performed more often. I'll definitely have to check out the whole work. The program notes said he considered it his crowning achievement but it was a flop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,090 Posted May 13, 2021 Share Posted May 13, 2021 Apparently, Korngold's father's (in continuation of the Hanslick tradition) strong lobbying against modernists like Krenek had a backslash on the reception of his son's works, which at the time were already viewed as anachronistic. As far as I recall, the story is somewhat abstractly fairy tale like, which didn't bode well for Strauss' Die Frau ohne Schatten 8 years earlier either (which has become much more successful since then, but still isn't regularly staged I believe). I have to retract my earlier comment: The 2017 production at the Volksoper Wien was an unstaged concert performance. Obviously it was impressive enough for me to feel like I've actually "seen" it. I'd also wish the Staatsoper would revive their brilliant stage production of Die Tote Stadt, or at least release it on video. Speaking of which, there is a filmed stage production of Heliane on Naxos (by the Deutsche Opera Berlin). I should probably check that out. Loert 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loert 2,496 Posted May 20, 2021 Share Posted May 20, 2021 This whole suite is a true gem: Tom Guernsey 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveMc 2,674 Posted June 6, 2021 Share Posted June 6, 2021 karelm 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omen II 1,234 Posted June 6, 2021 Share Posted June 6, 2021 A lovely performance of Gerald Finzi's Eclogue for Piano and Strings with the London Mozart Players and Howard Shelley on the ivories, recorded at St. John's Smith Square in Westminster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,090 Posted June 6, 2021 Share Posted June 6, 2021 Potentially relevant info for those within travelling distance to Vienna: The Staatsoper is reviving its production of Korngold's Die tote Stadt for 4 performances next February: https://www.wiener-staatsoper.at/spielplan-tickets/detail/event/983447514-die-tote-stadt/ I'm perhaps biased because it's the first and only production I've seen, but I think it's terrific and I can't imagine any other presentation underlining its psycho-nightmarish qualities so well. Omen II and Jurassic Shark 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muad'Dib 1,800 Posted June 16, 2021 Author Share Posted June 16, 2021 Previn, baby! karelm 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karelm 2,890 Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 On 6/5/2021 at 7:56 PM, SteveMc said: I also enjoy Colin Matthews orchestral arrangement. SteveMc 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,090 Posted June 21, 2021 Share Posted June 21, 2021 Happy 131st birthday to one of my favourite Strauss works: Loert and karelm 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loert 2,496 Posted June 28, 2021 Share Posted June 28, 2021 I just love the opening of the middle movement from Roussel's Symphony No.2: It sounds like the music you hear at the beginning of those "city-suburb" American family films, but in a good way... Tom Guernsey and karelm 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveMc 2,674 Posted July 6, 2021 Share Posted July 6, 2021 Some Morricone concert works KK 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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