What is the last piece of classical music you listened to?

[GerateWohl 4,338]

Right. I even think, mostly his tango nuevo pieces of his band have been widely arranged and adapted by classical musicians. Therefore, it is mostly like you say.

But this concerto is to my knowledge an actual arrangement by Piazzolla.

[bruce marshall 1,315]

[publicist 4,643]

[Tom Guernsey 2,280]

5 hours ago, publicist said:

Great choice, absolutely love Bartok. Is this a recommendable performance? I have a number of them, but happy to have more Bartok!

 

A World Requiem (John Foulds) - Probably a fairly obscure composer, but one whose stuff is well worth seeking out. Having said that, the World Requiem isn't perhaps his most idiomatic work, but a fine secular requiem that stands well as a companion to Britten's War Requiem, even if it's not quite up to the Britten. However, I would more highly recommend Fould's Dynamic Triptych and Three Mantras which are vibrant orchestral works.

 

Currently on Frank Bridge Orchestral Works (volume 3 from the Chandos series). Not a composer I know well but enjoying exploring. The mini piano concerto Phantasm is especially fine.

[Marian Schedenig 8,173]

 

[bruce marshall 1,315]

I just received " Five Sacred Trees" from the library.

Any fans know it?

[Will 2,215]

 

[A24 4,326]

[TheUlyssesian 2,473]

Can someone help me identify this theme at 1:41. It is very famous but I am unable to recall what it is.

 

 

[Jurassic Shark 12,030]

Brahms' Wiegenlied.

[bruce marshall 1,315]

" Magic Fire"

Entry of the Gods\ Gotterdamerung

5 hours ago, Jurassic Shark said:

Brahms' Lullaby

 

[Jurassic Shark 12,030]

5 hours ago, bruce marshall said:

" Magic Fire"

Entry of the Gods\ Gotterdamerung

 

 

Great recording.

[publicist 4,643]

On 3/1/2021 at 12:22 PM, Tom Guernsey said:

Great choice, absolutely love Bartok. Is this a recommendable performance? I have a number of them, but happy to have more Bartok!

 

I like this one better:

 

 

[bruce marshall 1,315]

2 hours ago, Jurassic Shark said:

 

Great recording.

Do you think I would listen to less than.great?

😝

[bruce marshall 1,315]

No, that's NOT JW conducting the LSO😝

[Loert 2,510]

Love the sequence from 59:42 to 1:05:36! I've listened to it at least 5 times today...

 

 

[Marian Schedenig 8,173]

31 minutes ago, Loert said:

Love the sequence from 59:42 to 1:05:36! I've listened to it at least 5 times today...

 

Interesting - that's not Carmen! At least the second part is L'Arlesienne, but not the familiar suite version, so I suppose it's the original incidental music, and the first part might also be from there?

 

Here's the suite version for comparison:

 

[Bespin 8,480]

Listening to a Kunzel that was in my Aunt collection:

[Jay 37,287]

I love the super clean and very early 90s art design there

[Bespin 8,480]

You mean the Kunzel album?

 

It's very Streamline Moderne, Art Deco. Nothing to do with the 90s.

[Naïve Old Fart 9,498]

More weird shit, on Radio 3. I couldn't, for the life of me, tell you what it was called, or who it was by, but I liked it.

[Bespin 8,480]

OMG you actually loved a classical music piece??? 

[Jay 37,287]

11 minutes ago, Bespin said:

You mean the Kunzel album?

 

 

It's very Streamline Moderne, Art Deco. Nothing to do with the 90s.

 

Huh? I was responding to the back cover art you posted directly before my post.  I wasn't talking about the front cover

[Bespin 8,480]

TELARC Back covers, art design... ok... 

[Naïve Old Fart 9,498]

1 hour ago, Bespin said:

It's very Streamline Moderne, Art Deco. Nothing to do with the 90s.

The POPS AROUND THE WORLD album, is pretty Art Deco, too.

 

 

1 hour ago, Bespin said:

OMG you actually loved a classical music piece??? 

Oh, yeah. I like a lot of classical music.

Vaughan Williams, Holst, Maw, Rautavara, Holst, Walton, Butterworth, Ives, Orff, Bartók, Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Stravinsky; they're all great.

[Jurassic Shark 12,030]

Well, that's because they're all dead.

[Bespin 8,480]

It's well known, when a composer is dead, his music is better.

[Naïve Old Fart 9,498]

Love to prove that wouldn't you, get your name into the National Geographic.

[bollemanneke 3,337]

Handel's concerti grossi conducted by Karajan. Did that guy ever record something that does not sound like the apocalypse is upon the listener? It's all SO LOUD AND BIG!!!!!!

[Marian Schedenig 8,173]

22 minutes ago, bollemanneke said:

Handel's concerti grossi conducted by Karajan. Did that guy ever record something that does not sound like the apocalypse is upon the listener? It's all SO LOUD AND BIG!!!!!!

 

 

[Jurassic Shark 12,030]

3 hours ago, bollemanneke said:

Handel's concerti grossi conducted by Karajan. Did that guy ever record something that does not sound like the apocalypse is upon the listener? It's all SO LOUD AND BIG!!!!!!

 

There's a reason why regular symphony orchestras don't often perform baroque repertoire anymore... they're too big for many of the works.

[Marian Schedenig 8,173]

And Karajan wasn't really (at all) concerned with historically informed performances. Plus quite a bit of old music *was* loud and big (within the possibilities at the time), so the choice might just be between Romantically loud & big or historically accurately loud & big.

[bruce marshall 1,315]

On 3/26/2021 at 7:15 AM, Naïve Old Fart said:

 

 

 

Oh, yeah. I like a lot of classical music.

Vaughan Williams, Holst, Maw, Rautavara, Holst, Walton, Butterworth, Ives, Orff, ....

Wasn't ORFF a NAZI?😗

11 hours ago, Jurassic Shark said:

 

There's a reason why regular symphony orchestras don't often perform baroque repertoire anymore... they're too big for many of the works.

That's why we have " chamber orchestras".

😊

On 3/26/2021 at 5:43 AM, Bespin said:

You mean the Kunzel album?

 

It's very Streamline Moderne, Art Deco. Nothing to do with the 90s.

Bespin and his compilations and pops recordings..

How middle- brow can you get?

😝

[bruce marshall 1,315]

TBH JW piece didn't impress me that much.

Should I give it another listen?

 

I put this on not knowing the program and would have sworn the Hovannes piece was by RVW.

Anyone else.hear similarity?

[Naïve Old Fart 9,498]

3 hours ago, bruce marshall said:

Wasn't ORFF a NAZI?😗

😊

😝

I don't give a single shit what he was. I like his music. End of.

[bruce marshall 1,315]

1 hour ago, Naïve Old Fart said:

I don't give a single shit what he was. I like his music.
 

Anything besides CARMINA?

[Jurassic Shark 12,030]

The Mengele ballet.

[Thor 7,466]

 

A little Chopin to calm me down after listening to a noisy action score (although calm is relative, these "ballads" are surprisingly busy and action-oriented).

[Jurassic Shark 12,030]

You and your HM box!

[Thor 7,466]

3 hours ago, Jurassic Shark said:

You and your HM box!

 

Expect many more from that. It constitutes about 40% of my entire collection of classical CDs, and probably 15% of my entire classical collection overall (also including files, vinyls etc.).

[Jurassic Shark 12,030]

It's a great box.

[bollemanneke 3,337]

Today I heard part of Handel's Water Music. I knew this work inside out, I thought, until the Musiciens Du Louvre started performing it , conducted by Mark Minkowski. Never heard it performed so well. This man understands how you make baroque music interesting and actually makes all the repetitions worth your time. Ordering it in a few days.

[Jurassic Shark 12,030]

8 minutes ago, bollemanneke said:

Today I heard part of Handel's Water Music. I knew this work inside out, I thought, until the Musiciens Du Louvre started performing it , conducted by Mark Minkowski. Never heard it performed so well. This man understands how you make baroque music interesting and actually makes all the repetitions worth your time. Ordering it in a few days.

 

Minkowski's  recording is indeed good, but to my ears there's several better recordings out there. What do you think about McGegan's Philharmonia recording? Possibly my No. 1 choice. So in control, yet unforced and spontaneous.

 

 

[bollemanneke 3,337]

I found it to be rather dry. What's mainly drawing me to Minkowski is that he genuinely does interesting stuff with the repetitions. Like, he replaces the completely useless da capo of track 3 with the variation that 90% of people refuse to include in their version for some idiotic reason.

[Jurassic Shark 12,030]

10 minutes ago, bollemanneke said:

Like, he replaces the completely useless da capo of track 3 with the variation that 90% of people refuse to include in their version for some idiotic reason.

 

I'll have to check that out. Many of the various sources for Water Music are notoriously unreliable (there's no original manuscript), so that's probably the reason this particular variation is seldom performed.

[bollemanneke 3,337]

I never knew that! And I don't understand either. Who wrote the published sets then, based on what?

[Richard Penna 3,671]

I listen to this when I need to relax into a complete trance. Straight out of Ocean's 11. Aside from this, not a classical listener at all.

 

 

[Jurassic Shark 12,030]

1 hour ago, bollemanneke said:

I found it to be rather dry.

 

Well, it was conceived to be performed outdoors.

 

1 hour ago, bollemanneke said:

I never knew that! And I don't understand either. Who wrote the published sets then, based on what?

 

I can't remember the details, but found this interesting article online.

 

https://www.jstor.org/stable/738700?seq=1

[GerateWohl 4,338]

 

In karge parts this sounds to me like a beautiful golden aera film score. Only annoying thing is, first two movements are online CD, last two in second CD.

[Loert 2,510]

A real earworm, this: