Peter Friedman Posted May 3, 2022 Report Posted May 3, 2022 Schumann - String Quartet No.2, Op.41/2 and Glazunov - Violin Concerto Op.82 Quote
JSngry Posted May 3, 2022 Report Posted May 3, 2022 On 5/1/2022 at 4:48 PM, Chuck Nessa said: I became familiar with the music of Webern via the Robert Craft set recorded in the '50s. The old box is long gone and I was delighted to discover this reissue now available. Arrived yesterday, Playing now until further notice. Quote
Chuck Nessa Posted May 3, 2022 Report Posted May 3, 2022 19 minutes ago, JSngry said: Arrived yesterday, Playing now until further notice. If you haven't already, please read the Amazon review of this set by "jonsj". Quote
JSngry Posted May 3, 2022 Report Posted May 3, 2022 1 hour ago, Chuck Nessa said: If you haven't already, please read the Amazon review of this set by "jonsj". That was a good read, especially this: I preface this review with an excerpt from a book of conversations with the conductor Otto Klemperer, conducted by his biographer Peter Heyworth: HEYWORTH: What about Webern's music? KLEMPERER: I don't understand it. I know it, of course. I conducted his symphony in Berlin, as well as in Vienna. But I couldn't find my way into it. I found it terribly boring. So I asked Webern - I was staying in Vienna - to come and play it to me on the piano. Then perhaps I would understand it better. He came and played every note with enormous intensity and fanaticism. HEYWORTH: Not cooly? KLEMPERER: No, passionately! When he had finished, I said, "You know, I cannot conduct it in that way. I'm simply not able to bring that enormous intensity to your music. I must do as well as I can." I did so, and it went quite well. I think that Webern was happy when anyone played his music at that time - that was in 1936... Quote
JSngry Posted May 3, 2022 Report Posted May 3, 2022 9 hours ago, JSngry said: Arrived yesterday, Playing now until further notice. How is Marni Nixon's German? I don't know enough to tell. Quote
HutchFan Posted May 3, 2022 Report Posted May 3, 2022 55 minutes ago, JSngry said: How is Marni Nixon's German? I don't know enough to tell. I can't comment on Nixon's German . . . but I think her recordings of Charles Ives' songs are terrific. As heard on this CD: Quote
HutchFan Posted May 4, 2022 Report Posted May 4, 2022 43 minutes ago, JSngry said: Why did she sing Ives in German? Nixon sings Ives' songs in English. I was just commenting on her singing abilities. Not her German pronunciation abilities. Quote
Rooster_Ties Posted May 4, 2022 Report Posted May 4, 2022 1 hour ago, HutchFan said: Nixon sings Ives' songs in English. I knew he played piano, but had no idea he could sing too… Quote
JSngry Posted May 4, 2022 Report Posted May 4, 2022 Jack Marshall is playing amplified/electric guitar on some Webern Lieder, on disc two. Did Webern write it for that type of instrument, or was it originally written for standard classical guitar? Quote
JSngry Posted May 4, 2022 Report Posted May 4, 2022 Ok, cheap mini-speakers. It is classical guitar. Quote
Peter Friedman Posted May 4, 2022 Report Posted May 4, 2022 Schumann - String Quartet No.1, Op.41/1 (Quatuor De Berne) & Saint-Saens - Symphony No.1, Op.2 Quote
Referentzhunter Posted May 6, 2022 Report Posted May 6, 2022 Années de Pèlerinage, book 1 (Lazar Berman Live recording, Melodiya) * Paino Sonata in B Major (Sviatoslav Richter, Melodiya) * Opera Transcriptions and Paraphrases & Paganini Etudes (Alfred Brendel, Vox) Quote
Referentzhunter Posted May 6, 2022 Report Posted May 6, 2022 Johannes Brahms - Violin Concerto (Rudolf kempe, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra) Quote
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