What Classical Music Are You Listening To?

[soulpope]

[Balladeer]

Spring Fantasy (Potenza) - Jeremy Reynolds (clarinet), Gal Faganel (cello) and Caleb Harris (piano) play 
music by Nino Rota, Pavle Merku, Robert Muczynski and Carl Fruhling

[soulpope]

[soulpope]

Earlier today .... :

[soulpope]

Thereof CD1 Martinu + Ibert + Hindemith ....

[soulpope]

Outstanding interpretation ....

[HutchFan]

Mahler - Symphony No. 7 / Boulez, Cleveland Orchestra (DG)

[Larry Kart]

1 hour ago, HutchFan said:

Mahler - Symphony No. 7 / Boulez, Cleveland Orchestra (DG)

Just listened to Tilson Thomas' 1999 Mahler 7th with the LSO. Perhaps the best interpretation I've ever heard, and a superb recording job too. The 7th probably is my favorite Mahler symphony, in part because it's kind of a stepchild to the others in the eyes of a fair number of Mahlerians. Also, I recall the story of Schoenberg and, I think, Berg and Webern as well listening to the Vienna premiere with ears wide open, thinking something like "Mahler wrote this for us." 

P.S.  "Arnold Schoenberg, certainly not a proliferator nor fan of uninspired correctness, was famously “converted” into a Mahlerian by the Seventh. He showered Mahler with praise after hearing the work’s premiere on Sept. 19, 1908.

“'As for which movement I liked best: All of them!' said the not normally effusive man, who was soon to unleash Erwartung on the world. 'From minute to minute I felt happier and warmer. And it did not let go of me for a single moment. In the mood right to the end. And everything struck me as pellucid. Finally, at the first hearing I perceived so many formal subtleties, while always able to follow a main line. It was an extraordinarily great treat.'”

[HutchFan]

1 hour ago, Larry Kart said:

Just listened to Tilson Thomas' 1999 Mahler 7th with the LSO. Perhaps the best interpretation I've ever heard, and a superb recording job too. The 7th probably is my favorite Mahler symphony, in part because it's kind of a stepchild to the others in the eyes of a fair number of Mahlerians. Also, I recall the story of Schoenberg and, I think, Berg and Webern as well listening to the Vienna premiere with ears wide open, thinking something like "Mahler wrote this for us." 

Interesting. I like the Seventh very much. You can hear why artists like Schoenberg would regard it as a turning point, a new beginning.

[Larry Kart]

4 hours ago, HutchFan said:

Interesting. I like the Seventh very much. You can hear why artists like Schoenberg would regard it as a turning point, a new beginning.

The guitar of Nachtmusik #2 gave rise to Schoenberg's Serenade. S. went on about Mahler's use of the guitar in that movement with much eloquence. “...{T]he entire movement is based on [the guitar’s] sonority. It belongs to it from the start, a living organ in the piece: not perhaps the heart, but the eyes, their gaze giving the face its characteristic aspect. We are very close here, but in a modern context, to the classical composers who built  whole works and movements around the sonority of a particular instrumental group."

[soulpope]

7 hours ago, HutchFan said:

Mahler - Symphony No. 7 / Boulez, Cleveland Orchestra (DG)

Quality Boulez/Mahler here ....

[soulpope]

[JSngry]

I can hear the math. It's good math, but I like it better when I'm able to intuit it more than hear it.

Occupational hazard, I guess, on both ends.

[HutchFan]

After enjoying Mahler's Seventh so much yesterday, I'm giving the symphony another listen.  

Today, I'm playing the first Bernstein M7 with the NYPO:

 

Edited July 4, 2017 by HutchFan

[soulpope]

Thought about Mahler 7, probably will spin later this one .... :

[Balladeer]

Carl Vollrath - Lingering Longings: Music for clarinet and piano, Vol 2 (Navona)

[Kukyukuwai]

Dutilleux & Lutoslawski: Cello Concertos
 

 

[HutchFan]

I'm listening to Mahler's Seventh again today.  

Today's recording is by James Levine & the Chicago SO.

As reissued in this box set:

I guess I have five or six recordings of this symphony.  It's always fun to compare performances.

 

 

On 7/4/2017 at 3:02 PM, soulpope said:

Thought about Mahler 7, probably will spin later this one .... :

soulpope - I've never heard Abbado's M7 with the BPO. You're a fan?  

Edited July 5, 2017 by HutchFan

[soulpope]

1 hour ago, HutchFan said:

I'm listening to Mahler's Seventh again today.  

Today's recording is by James Levine & the Chicago SO.

As reissued in this box set:

I guess I have five or six recordings of this symphony.  It's always fun to compare performances.

 

 

soulpope - I've never heard Abbado's M7 with the BPO. You're a fan?  

These late Abbado Mahler recordings do offer a lot of details and insight - (IMO) not to be missed ....

[soulpope]

[erwbol]

Mari Kodama Ludwig van Beethoven The Complete Piano Sonatas

New arrival on hybrid SACD from the Dutch Pentatone label with outstanding audiophile sound. Superbly recorded Steinway piano.

Performances to match the great sound. 

 

 

[HutchFan]

Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 8, 14, 26, 27 / Ivan Moravec (Supraphon)

 

 

 

19 hours ago, soulpope said:

These late Abbado Mahler recordings do offer a lot of details and insight - (IMO) not to be missed ....

O.K. You sold me. I just ordered it.  

Edited July 6, 2017 by HutchFan

[soulpope]

1 hour ago, HutchFan said:

Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 8, 14, 26, 27 / Ivan Moravec (Supraphon)

 

 

 

O.K. You sold me. I just ordered it.  

You are in for a treat .... btw Moravec/Beethoven is splendid ....

Edited July 6, 2017 by soulpope

[HutchFan]

Mahler: Symphony No. 5 / Tennstedt, LPO (Warner Classics)

as issued in this box set:

[soulpope]

2 hours ago, HutchFan said:

Mahler: Symphony No. 5 / Tennstedt, LPO (Warner Classics)

as issued in this box set:

Outstanding - Tennstedt's Mahler in a live setting usually was a sure bet .....