What Classical Music Are You Listening To?

[soulpope]

(One) of the veritable alternatives ....

[A Lark Ascending]

1 hour ago, soulpope said:

(One) of the veritable alternatives ....

I'm sure. But, as we've discussed before, I'm more for getting to know the scenery than comparing bus drivers (one of those smiley faces)! One version suits me fine.

Planning to give it another listen in a little while with the help of:

 

Short, non-specialist, accounts of the music that point out the basic structures, drawing attention to a few details en route. Kids stuff, I imagine, for those with a musical background but it's helped me over the last few years to increase my enjoyment of an area of music (chamber music) I never really took to initially. 

In the meantime:

Another early 20thC composer working out a Wagner fixation. Very enjoyable. 

Edited August 15, 2016 by A Lark Ascending

[soulpope]

1 hour ago, A Lark Ascending said:

Another early 20thC composer working out a Wagner fixation. Very enjoyable. 

Excellent ....

[soulpope]

1 hour ago, A Lark Ascending said:

I'm sure. But, as we've discussed before, I'm more for getting to know the scenery than comparing bus drivers (one of those smiley faces)! One version suits me fine.

Planning to give it another listen in a little while with the help of:

 

Short, non-specialist, accounts of the music that point out the basic structures, drawing attention to a few details en route. Kids stuff, I imagine, for those with a musical background but it's helped me over the last few years to increase my enjoyment of an area of music (chamber music) I never really took to initially. 

 

Well, ideally some of these bus drivers choose different routes still to reach the same destination .... which makes the journey interesting ....

[l p]

emi v/a compilation

[alankin]

Johannes Brahms – Concerto for Violin in D major Op.77
— Nathan Milstein (violin) – Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra – Pierre Monteux
Antonín Dvorák – Symphony No.7 in D minor Op.70/B 141
— Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra – Rafael Kubelik (Q Disc / Radio Netherlands Music)

 

[Balladeer]

On 14.8.2016 at 4:55 PM, soulpope said:

Looks interesting .... wonder about the "Deutsche Lieder" part ....

Excellent all around. Schumann, Brahms part is not your usual interpretation what you are expecting by Sabine Meyer or Andreas Ottensamer.
Kind of more down to earth - that´s why I like it even more.
American and Latin American part are superb. 
Highpoint for me is D. Gauses´s almost eight minute long "Lunar Lace" a contemporary gem that´s almost modern jazz in its rough expressivness.

[Peter Friedman]

D.850

[soulpope]

2 hours ago, Balladeer said:

Excellent all around. Schumann, Brahms part is not your usual interpretation what you are expecting by Sabine Meyer or Andreas Ottensamer.
Kind of more down to earth - that´s why I like it even more.
American and Latin American part are superb. 
Highpoint for me is D. Gauses´s almost eight minute long "Lunar Lace" a contemporary gem that´s almost modern jazz in its rough expressivness.

Thnx - didn't expect an conservative classical approach at all. Looking back the clarinet was not a favourite instrument of mine but in the last year's things started to change .... so will likely give this recording a try ....

[A Lark Ascending]

12 hours ago, soulpope said:

Well, ideally some of these bus drivers choose different routes still to reach the same destination .... which makes the journey interesting ....

Of course - always an option but not an imperative. Just gets a bit tedious when it degenerates into "You travelled with Bill? You should have travelled with James." Usually followed by "But nothing lives up to the sublime journey I took with Archibald in 1937." 

[l p]

12/07/1957 Un Ballo in Maschera @ Milano, Teatro all Scala

 

[soulpope]

1 hour ago, A Lark Ascending said:

Of course - always an option but not an imperative. Just gets a bit tedious when it degenerates into "You travelled with Bill? You should have travelled with James." Usually followed by "But nothing lives up to the sublime journey I took with Archibald in 1937." 

It is an option ideed .... which - if exercised - can bring you to places you even didn`t know they existed ....

Edited August 15, 2016 by soulpope

[l p]

studio 1963/64

[l p]

1959 studio

[alankin]

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 
– Quartet for Strings No.18 in A major K 464
– Quartet for Strings No.19 in C major K 465 "Dissonance"
Hagen Quartett (Deutsche Grammophon), CD 23 from:

 

Edited August 16, 2016 by alankin

[Peter Friedman]

Haydn - Op71/3

Kiel - Piano Quintet No.2

[StarThrower]

 

[l p]

01/19/1956  Milano, Teatro alla Scala
 

[l p]

1961 & 1963 studio

[Peter Friedman]

[A Lark Ascending]

67 once more - trying to get it lodged in my head before moving on.

Disc 9 - CHARPENTIER: Te Deum H.146 LULLY Dies Irae LALANDE: Concert de Trompettes; Te Deum

The Charpentier includes the piece he wrote for the European Broadcasting Union (he must have been very old by then) which I recall hearing as a kid when some international event happened on TV. Played it as an act of defiance. 

Edited August 17, 2016 by A Lark Ascending

[l p]

06/30/1959  London, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
 

[soulpope]

Earlier today .... :

[A Lark Ascending]

Particularly like the Five Songs - very much in the world of the orchestral songs of Mahler, Strauss or Zemlinsky. 

Edited August 18, 2016 by A Lark Ascending

[soulpope]

19 hours ago, l p said:

01/19/1956  Milano, Teatro alla Scala
 

This is a beautiful performance ....