Listenin' to Classical Music and Conversation

Discussion in 'Music Corner' started by bluemooze, Feb 22, 2017.

  1. Klavier

    Klavier Forum Resident

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    This is the first recording I've heard this this composer's music--very good! It sounds more complex than other Italian composers' music from that era, and apparently makes huge demands on the musicians, hence the relative neglect.

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  2. shanebrown

    shanebrown Forum Resident

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    I love the Turnabout discs. Often the works included are a little unusual or less-recorded than the major warhorses (although they recorded those too). And the performances and sound are generally very good. If I'm short of time and looking through records in a charity or used record shop, I'll invariably flick through for the Turnabouts - and they're easy to find because of the artwork!
     
  3. royzak2000

    royzak2000 Senior Member

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  4. royzak2000

    royzak2000 Senior Member

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  5. sherrill50

    sherrill50 Well-adapted Melomaniac

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    Mukilteo, WA
    First listen to Disc 8 of this set, the Telemann Chamber Works; Rampal with the Ensemble Baroque de Paris (1963).

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  6. Mirror Image

    Mirror Image 200 Years Of Anton Bruckner

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    United States
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    Zorn
    Necronomicon
    Crowley Quartet

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  7. royzak2000

    royzak2000 Senior Member

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    I don't know this one but you reminded me of when I worked in a second hand record shop, 90s. Once a week I would go to another store to buy in Hi-Fi . I hated it, but there was this girl in the basement who introduced me to Zorn. All on her own downstairs playing odd stuff.
     
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  8. Mirror Image

    Mirror Image 200 Years Of Anton Bruckner

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    Very cool. This work is one of many string quartets he wrote. Zorn has been a long obsession with me that started in my early teens with discovering Naked City and The Big Gundown. From here, I went in a multitude of directions. I probably own around 200 Zorn recordings at this juncture.
     
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  9. royzak2000

    royzak2000 Senior Member

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    Schoenberg Pelleas und Melisande.
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  10. bluemooze

    bluemooze Senior Member Thread Starter

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    Frenchtown NJ USA
    Listening to CD 5 from the "Sigiswald Kuijken & La Petite Bande Edition" 10-CD box set.

    Haydn - Cello Concertos / Sinfonia Concertante La Petite Bande /Sigiswald Kuijken / Hidemi Suzuki (violoncello)

    (This disc is also included in the Deutsche Harmonia Mundi: 100 Great Recordings box FYI.)

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  11. Klavier

    Klavier Forum Resident

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    Marc-Andre Hamelin playing his own Paganini Variations. Whew!

     
  12. coopmv

    coopmv Newton 1/30/2001 - 8/31/2011

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    CT, USA
    Now playing the following CD from my Mozart collection ...

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  13. Starwanderer

    Starwanderer Senior Member

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    Valencia, Spain
    Streaming Gustav Mahler - Symphonie Nr. 1 "Titan" 16/44.1 on Qobuz


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  14. bluemooze

    bluemooze Senior Member Thread Starter

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    Listening to "Pierre De La Rue - Missa De Feria / Missa Sancta Dei genitrix" performed by Gothic Voices directed by Christopher Page on Helios.

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  15. Mirror Image

    Mirror Image 200 Years Of Anton Bruckner

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    United States
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    Zorn
    The Turner Études
    Stephen Gosling


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  16. Andy Pandy

    Andy Pandy Forum Resident

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    Thanks for the input! I will put these aside as well then for listening. Several of the Turnabout albums were by Carl Nielsen.
     
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  17. royzak2000

    royzak2000 Senior Member

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    Playing the Berio Sinfonia and Eindrucke.
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  18. royzak2000

    royzak2000 Senior Member

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    I live in an apartment, for about a year I have had no one above or below, maybe Covid, now I have to find after an input of others if they can handle my music. Hope they are cool.
     
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  19. coopmv

    coopmv Newton 1/30/2001 - 8/31/2011

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    CT, USA
    Now playing the following CD from my Vivaldi collection ...

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  20. bluemooze

    bluemooze Senior Member Thread Starter

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    Frenchtown NJ USA
    Listening to "Stravinsky - Symphony of Psalms / Poulenc - Gloria" performed by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chorus led by Robert Shaw on Telarc.

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  21. Jamsterdammer

    Jamsterdammer The Great CD in the Sky

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    Málaga, Spain
    Now playing: Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel - Das Jahr - Lauma Skride - 2007

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  22. royzak2000

    royzak2000 Senior Member

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    London,England
    Playing Boulez Pli selon pli my favourite of all the variations with Phylis Bryn- Julson.
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  23. layman

    layman Forum Resident

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    New York, NY
    1st Listen Beethoven Symphony No. 7, Franz Konwitschny & the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, CD 8, Box set (thank you @HiResGeek for the suggestion):
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    My first thoughts listening to the first movement (Poco sostenuto) are that the recorded sound does not sound bad but it could be a little better. It's not state of the art by any means. These recordings (from June 1959) were remastered in 2017 (not in this box) and I am curious to hear if that offered sonic improvements (over what I am hearing here). I hear tape hiss, so this is not the version of this recording that was run through a no-noise filter (the version that came out on Berlin Classics). I am trying to listen through the recording quality (to identify details of the interpretation). I hear nice interpretation of the rhythms in the first movement.

    I like the change of mood in the 2nd (slow) movement (Allegretto). I hear elements of tragedy in this movement. Brahms wrote a "tragic" overture but I hear a great deal more tragedy in this movement. I like the way that Konwitschny and his Gewandhaus players handle the rhythms.

    The rhythms in the 3rd movement (Presto) stand out.

    I also hear sprightly rhythms (and a sense of excitement) in the opening of the 4th movement (Allegro con brio). My foot's tapping (a good sign).

    Overall, this sounds like quite a traditional approach to the interpretation of this symphony.
     
  24. HiResGeek

    HiResGeek Seer of visions

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    Glad you gave it a listen. I hope you liked it?

    I wonder how that Scribendum box set sounds compared to my set on Berlin Classics; I always thought the sound was more than acceptable given the vintage.
     
  25. layman

    layman Forum Resident

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    New York, NY
    The interpretation sounds fine. The recorded sound...could be better. I have ordered the 2017 remaster...this one:
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    Looking forward to hearing if the recorded sound has been improved.
     
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