You've found the cover for their next release. Right now I'm listening to a radio program 0f 60s garage & psychedelic rock, so these covers fit right in.
Now playing: Ernest Chausson - Symphony In B Flat; Soir De Fête; The Tempest: 2 Scenes - L'Orchestre Symphonique De La RTBF, Jose Serebrier - rec. 1984
I know I posted this yesterday because it showed up in the mail, but I am just getting around to listening to this performance tonight. I will say that I've heard quite a few "Ninths" but this Adagio third movement is sublimely beautiful IMO, it's brought tears.
Listening to CD 3 from "Chopin - Piano Works" performed by Tamas Vasary on DG. Ballades 1-4 / Scherzi 1-4
Now playing: Olivier Messiaen - Messe De La Pentecôte / Diptyque / Apparition de L’église éternelle / L'Ascension - Thomas Trotter - recorded 1991 Some of the creepiest organ music I've ever heard. But also some of the most beautiful and mesmerizing...
Listening to CD 1 from "Tchaikovsky - Symphonic Poems / Manfred Symphony" performed by the Russian National Orchestra directed by Mikhail Pletnev on DG. Romeo and Juliet / Francesca da Rimini / Voyewoda / The Tempest
Pärt: Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten; Summa; Tabula Rasa; Fratres, etc. various performers Warner Classics Schnittke: Concerto Grosso No.1; Quasi una Sonata; Mozart a la Haydn; A Paganini Chamber Orchestra of Europe & Heinrich Schiff Tatiana Grindenko, Yuri Smirnov, Gidon Kremer DG I love this Concerto Grosso. His dualistic impulse towards construction and subsequent destruction of forms can be quite mesmerizing.
NP: Poulenc Improvisations Nos. 1-15 (Tacchino) From this set: An outstanding series of compositions. Tacchino performs these works incredibly well. Gorgeous playing.
Last album before bed tonight... Listening to Chopin Ballades, played by Artur Rubinstein. RCA "Living Stereo" Red Seal / Originially issued 1960; mine is a later reissue (date unknown).
Listening to "Shostakovich - Violin Concertos" performed by Alina Ibragimova and the State Academic Symphony Orchestra Of Russia 'Evgeny Svetlanov' conducted by Vladimir Jurowski on Hyperion.
Recorded 5/52, Victoria Hall, Geneva. Producer: Victor Olof. Engineer: Gil Went. Issued 8/52, when I was two months old. There is considerable low-level surface noise, but the music is clear, undistorted & well-recorded.
To finish off the night... Schoenberg: Verklarte Nacht Berlin Philharmonic, Herbert von Karajan cond. DGG While HvK isn't my cuppa in all classical repertoire (despite the fact that he recorded everything) - he is a real master in the late Romantic idiom, a la R.Strauss, Bruckner et al. This is a sumptuous recording, and the BPO's lush string tones are a perfect complement to Schoenberg's late Romantic masterpiece, before his transition to full-fledged Serialist.
To offer a correction, Schoenberg never fully abandoned tonality. He actually, in fact, continued to write tonal works throughout his life.
Perhaps so, but I hear a distinct departure from a root key in works like the second Chamber Symphony, the Violin Concerto, and the later quartets. Perhaps not strict serialism though; I’m no musicologist...
