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« Reply #3210 on: 16:56:11, 09-08-2008 » |
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Brahms Piano concerto #1 in D m inor(Emil Gilels/BerlinerPhilharmoniker/Jochum). What a performance of this monster of a concerto. One of the best? If not the best?
This is by some distance my favorite recording. |
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« Reply #3211 on: 17:41:46, 09-08-2008 » |
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Brahms Piano concerto #1 in D m inor(Emil Gilels/BerlinerPhilharmoniker/Jochum). What a performance of this monster of a concerto. One of the best? If not the best?
This is by some distance my favorite recording. Mine too. Don't like the piece that much though. NS here: Scarlatti sonatas on fortepiano by Aline Zylberajch. As I've said ad nauseam no doubt, for me this is the kind of instrument the music works best on, and for which I suspect much of it was intended. Beautiful playing of a beautiful selection (including a fugue and an "aria" to break up the stereotyped forms). |
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« Reply #3212 on: 17:42:45, 09-08-2008 » |
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Spinning now, a disc of songs from RVW operas. I don't know Hugh the Drover, but the songs are most attractive.
Mary's Here queen uncrowned or In the night time I have heard you calling calling.They've brought tears to my eyes. |
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To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.
A time to weep, and a time to laugh: a time to mourn, and a time to dance
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perfect wagnerite
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« Reply #3213 on: 18:01:57, 09-08-2008 » |
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Just downloaded Nagano's Turangalila. Isn't movement 5 fun!
It is indeed. And what a performance and recording! |
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At every one of these [classical] concerts in England you will find rows of weary people who are there, not because they really like classical music, but because they think they ought to like it. (Shaw, Don Juan in Hell)
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« Reply #3214 on: 19:10:38, 09-08-2008 » |
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Easter Sunday Mass (in Latin) from Westminster Cathedral, play it loads of times.
Blimey, Welsh Catholics!! What are they like? In a World of their Own?
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Reality, sa molesworth 2, is so sordid it makes me shudder
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« Reply #3215 on: 19:19:03, 09-08-2008 » |
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Brahms Piano concerto #1 in D m inor(Emil Gilels/BerlinerPhilharmoniker/Jochum). What a performance of this monster of a concerto. One of the best? If not the best?
This is by some distance my favorite recording. Well, it's my fabvourite recording of the work available on a standard issue CD. However, the old Gilels/Chicago/Reiner recording has rather more than the edge on it, for me. That recording really cries out for re-issue in a modern transfer. |
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« Reply #3216 on: 22:31:28, 09-08-2008 » |
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Just downloaded Nagano's Turangalila. Isn't movement 5 fun!
It is indeed. And what a performance and recording! Compared to the Previn and Rattle? Whats the verdict. |
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« Reply #3217 on: 10:13:03, 10-08-2008 » |
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I'm listening online to Wojciech Kilar's magnificent music for Paul Grimault's masterpiece The King and the Mockingbird: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocMZc3B_7gE  |
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"People hate anything well made. It gives them a guilty conscience." John Betjeman
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« Reply #3218 on: 11:28:38, 10-08-2008 » |
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Have that classic Elgar Dream of Gerontius recording that Sir John Barbirolli did with Dame Janet Baker, Richard Lewis, Borg, Niccolai Gedda, Helen Watts,Halle & Sheffield philharmonic Choirs, Ambrosian Singers.
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« Reply #3219 on: 16:01:43, 10-08-2008 » |
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Bristol Cathedral Choir, Dvorak Mass in D plus motets from Bruckner and Brahms.
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Reality, sa molesworth 2, is so sordid it makes me shudder
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« Reply #3220 on: 16:06:28, 10-08-2008 » |
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I just listened for the first time to some of J.J. Fux's orchestral works (a Carus CD titled 'La Grandezza della Musica Imperiale'), Freiburg Baroque Orchestra/von der Goltz. This was recommended ages and ages ago by Member Barrett or Member Sudden - I'm not sure which now - and I'm very glad I made a note of it. Great bass sound, especially!
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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« Reply #3221 on: 16:09:47, 10-08-2008 » |
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I just listened for the first time to some of J.J. Fux's orchestral works (a Carus CD titled 'La Grandezza della Musica Imperiale'), Freiburg Baroque Orchestra/von der Goltz. This was recommended ages and ages ago by Member Barrett or Member Sudden - I'm not sure which now - and I'm very glad I made a note of it. Great bass sound, especially!
Yes, that's very nice. If it wasn't me who recommended it it might as well have been. |
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« Reply #3222 on: 16:11:18, 10-08-2008 » |
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Have that classic Elgar Dream of Gerontius recording that Sir John Barbirolli did with Dame Janet Baker, Richard Lewis, Borg, Niccolai Gedda, Helen Watts,Halle & Sheffield philharmonic Choirs, Ambrosian Singers.
 Two basses and mezzos? Surely not? Aren't Gedda and Watts on the Boult recording? (Same label - EMI - but over a decade later: John Alldis and LPO Choirs with the NPO, IIRC.) |
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« Reply #3223 on: 18:26:04, 10-08-2008 » |
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Just finished spinning: Wilhelm Killmayer, Heine-Lieder, inspired by the Poetry Appreciation Thread. I find it hard to be as unaware of what you might call 'metastylistic' issues as I would be listening to 19th-century settings of these poems, but I never cease to be amazed by Killmayer's ability to do something inventive and fresh and yet still identifiably Schumannesque without actually setting any given text in a way too reminiscent of Schumann's own setting.
Ron is quite right about the Gerontius soloists. BBM's performer listing was otherwise accurate, except that if we're going to be fussy the Hallé is (or was then) a Choir - no 'Philharmonic' - and the Sheffield is a 'Philharmonic Chorus'.
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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« Reply #3224 on: 18:32:47, 10-08-2008 » |
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Hmmm... Killmayer is someone I really haven't managed to get to grips with. What is it you like so much about his music? I've dipped into it a bit but somehow the connection hasn't been made.
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