Listenin' to Classical Music and Conversation

Neither did I but I do have many friends who listen to a lot of early pre baroque and post Webern only, not being a musicologist it has always interested me, maybe something to do with structure.

 

Kurt Masur always did the Gorchakov orchestration, and recorded it for Teldec, now Warner. An interesting listen and easy to find.

 

Just as a voice, there was never a more appropriate singer than Reri Grist on Berstein's first M4 on CBS. I dislike boy sopranos or any children's voices as singers unless they are being brought in to specifically play a child's part as in Ancient Voices of Children by George Crumb or in operas.

 

If it is medieval music and very modern music I could see that linkage. Renaissance music is already heading towards modern tonality although it is still modal until the Baroque. Medieval music usually is defined as music written between 1100 and 1420 roughly . Medieval music was quite mathematical in its orientation and structure.

 

Yes I'm thinking of medieval music, the same people tend toward folk music.

 

Thea, Humphrey and Don.

 

Listening on Spotify, The 55 CD version.
CD 1-Brahms: Hungarian Dances 1-21, performed by Claudio Abbado/Vienna Philharmonic.

 

Yesterday I ordered the Boulez Erato box. I'll let you know if it's in there.

 

Amazing that you would say that, because that seems to be the direction I'm going lately.

 

I'm usually just the opposite - stick to the middle and only ocassionally go back to the Baroque and earlier, also rarely go into the later 20th century stuff.

(First post!!!)

 

Stowkowski's exciting transcription of "Pictures" is not to be missed, though I wouldn't want it to be my only version. I have it on the 1965 LP below, coupled with the same Debussy transcription. A wonderful album, though the high end of it seems a bit bright--as if the Phase 4 engineers boosted it a bit to add some (unneeded) sizzle. Still, a great recording.
Is your EMI disc a recording by Sawallisch and the Philadelphia Orchestra (as shown on the cover you posted)?

 

Now listening to "Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto No. 2/Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini" performed by Gary Graffman with the New York Philharmonic led by Leonard Bernstein on CBS Great Performances.

 

And there's nothing wrong with that approach, either.

Welcome!

 

Lovely. As it happens, I'm working late tonight, alone in the office; I have a brand new JBL Flip 4 bluetooth speaker, and I'm playing Reinbert de Leeuw's Satie… it's an excellent recording to start, and it's sounding great on this setup.

 

That is a beautiful thing.

 

Now on the turntable, "George Perle - Piano Works" performed by Michael Boriskin on New World Records.

 

I have a good friend like that; I'd say 90% of his listening is pre-baroque or 20th century modern.

 

Remember EMI? I think I'll pretend they're still around & that a lot of other things that I don't care for never happened. This was recorded in 2002 at Abbey Road & issued in 2003. The works are the Sinfonia concertante, Op. 125 and the Sonata for cello and piano, Op. 119. Pappano conducts the LSO & plays the piano. Producer: David Groves. Engineer: Jonathan Allen. I like Prokofiev & Chang knows her way around the cello.

 

Spotify.

 

First listen to CD 2 from "Works of Igor Stravinsky" on Sony.

• Petrushka - Columbia Symphony Orchestra led by Igor Stravinsky
• The Rite Of Spring - Columbia Symphony Orchestra led by Igor Stravinsky

 

Heavenly lengths.....

 

Just got this SACD from the good people at cdjapan, giving it a first spin (as a friend of ours on the other thread would put it).

 

Well, not really a friend of mine. This version of the Vier letzte Lieder is one of my favourites.