The Classical Music Recommendation Thread

[Tom Guernsey 2,731]

2 hours ago, Glóin the Dark said:

 

Yeah, I might prefer some non-Boulez performance for many of the other symphonies, but if I had to pick just one complete cycle then the Boulez collection would be an easy choice. I've never liked the Bernstein approach...

I have to admit that I don't rush back to my Bernstein Mahler recordings despite his lauded status as a Mahlerian. I don't dislike them but I guess I do prefer a more precise style of conducting.

 

35 minutes ago, Marian Schedenig said:

As I said, the third is more an expansive progression of minimalism (where Bruckner's proto-Glass style originates) mixed with extensive Wagner quotes. And both those aspects are rather broken (or in the case of the Wagner quotes, almost completely removed) in the revision, which is the usual version (especially when we're talking older recordings; the original version wasn't recorded until 1983). If you're looking for his religioso stuff in the symphonies, I'd suggest looking into the 4th (especially the coda) and the 7th - those being also his most popular (and I guess most accessible) works.

I'm going through my Tintner conducted Bruckner collection so will have a listen out for these various things.

[Marian Schedenig 9,147]

4 hours ago, Tom Guernsey said:

I'm going through my Tintner conducted Bruckner collection so will have a listen out for these various things.

Tintner does a proper Bruckner 3. (Of course, he selected the original versions of several of the other symphonies as well, which in the case of several of them definitely wouldn't be my preferred choice)

 

Re the "religioso" thing, I forgot to mention that there's a very brief snippet in the 3rd that perhaps slightly qualifies (though much less so than that from the other symphonies I've mentioned), but stands out more for another reason: A little horn figure in the finale that always reminds me of Kamen's Tristar fanfare.

 

(There's also a moment in there that my aunt thought he'd stolen from Dvorak's 9th symphony, before I told her that Bruckner wrote it first)

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[Tom Guernsey 2,731]

3 hours ago, Dave Reebo said:

I have the Gielen set of Mahler symphonies (and very fine it is too) although annoyingly the boxed set misses the original couplings, which include some quite interesting choices. I mean, I'm usually happy to listen to a Mahler symphony on its own, but I think the couplings were likely to have been chosen with thought.

 

I love that Dvorak album though, Honeck seems to be one of those "every recording he does is great" type conductors (but perhaps that's just me) and the Janacek coupling is great too. Indeed, that's another case where the somewhat mainstream work is coupled with something less well known and makes for some interesting programming.

[Chen G. 4,705]

On 22/08/2024 at 10:11 PM, Marian Schedenig said:

But Wagner generally doesn't sound like Bruckner

 

The massed brass sound of Lohengrin sometimes reminds me of Bruckner. I've heard it said, maybe a little unfairly, that the prelude to act three of Meistersinger sounds like "all the best things about all the Bruckner symphonies combined."

[Marian Schedenig 9,147]

Happy 200th!

[Schilkeman 1,331]

2 hours ago, Marian Schedenig said:

Happy 200th!

[Will 2,254]

Adrian Sutton's new Violin Concerto is beautiful and brimming with energy:

 

 

[Loert 2,740]

 

[Tom Guernsey 2,731]

On 09/11/2024 at 1:04 AM, Will said:

Adrian Sutton's new Violin Concerto is beautiful and brimming with energy:

 

 

Agreed, and a lovely album all round. The suite from his score to the original stage version of War Horse is excellent - and if JW hadn't scored the film, I'd have said it was a shame he didn't get to score the film. I wonder if he would have been given the opportunity had someone other than Spielberg made it. Highly recommended.

[Chen G. 4,705]

Another Parsifal of unbelievable depth of feeling and musicality, both from Rattle at the stern and Robert Lloyd, who is beyond poetic as the old knight Gurnemanz. Glorious.

 

 

[Loert 2,740]

This piece sums up the weather we've been having in the UK so far:

 

 

[Doo_liss 6,604]

Listening to Symphony No. 5 in E-Flat Major, Op. 82: I. Tempo molto moderato by Sibelius, sounds like something from a 50's Disney film, like Swiss Family Robinson or Treasure Island

[karelm 3,099]

20 hours ago, Loert said:

This piece sums up the weather we've been having in the UK so far:

 

 

 

I listened to that same piece two days ago.  What the hell??  

[Jurassic Shark 13,351]

I listened to it a few years ago!