What are you listening to?

Haydnseek · Post by **Haydnseek** » Sun May 29, 2005 4:40 pm

Beethoven Symphonies 1 and 4 this late afternoon by Bernstein and the Vienna Philharmonic. Earlier, Brahms Piano Sonata No. 3 played by Anton Kuerti and Mendelssohn's first string quartet by the Talich Quartet.

Ralph · Post by **Ralph** » Sun May 29, 2005 4:57 pm

In the car today, Beethoven 2 and 8 with Zinman on Arte Nova and Sibelius 4 and 6 with Sir Colin Davis on BMG.

karlhenning · Post by **karlhenning** » Sun May 29, 2005 6:28 pm

I've been on a serious Schoenberg tear: the Piano Concerto, the Chamber Symphony No. 2, the Five Pieces Opus 16 and the Serenade Opus 24.

johnQpublic · Post by **johnQpublic** » Mon May 30, 2005 8:54 am

In honor of Memorial Day, I chose one big work that reflects on such a topic:

Hindemith - A Requiem For Those We Love: "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" (composer/NYPhil/Odyssey LP)

mahlerfan · Post by **mahlerfan** » Mon May 30, 2005 11:09 am

Haydn Piano Sonatas #33, 35, 58, 32, 53 performed intensely by Schornsheim.

Thomas J · Post by **Thomas J** » Mon May 30, 2005 3:06 pm

Bohuslav Martinu - Symphony #2, USSR Ministry of Culture Symphony Orchestra, Gennady Rozhdestvensky

Ralph · Post by **Ralph** » Mon May 30, 2005 4:11 pm

Schubert, "Trout Quintet," Juilliard String Quartet.

Dana · Post by **Dana** » Mon May 30, 2005 6:09 pm

Been methodically going through DSCH's string quartets, as performed by the Fitzwilliam Quartet. SQs #1-3 so far, with #4 coming soon.

Ralph · Post by **Ralph** » Tue May 31, 2005 4:51 am

Bruckner's Fourth Symphony with Tintner conducting on NAXOS.

mahlerfan · Post by **mahlerfan** » Tue May 31, 2005 12:05 pm

Chailly Mahler's first and fourth. Then I needed a break from the hysteria that is Mahler

and so I turned back to Haydn with his String Quartets Op 74 performed by the Griller Quartet.

karlhenning · Post by **karlhenning** » Tue May 31, 2005 12:08 pm

The Shostakovich Viola Sonata

Post by **Corlyss_D** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 7:02 pm

Mendelssohn's 2nd Sym. What a sweet work!

Ralph · Post by **Ralph** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 8:30 pm

Nielsen's First and Fourth symphonies. Excellent performances by the San Francisco Orchestra under Herbert Blomstedt.

Michel · Post by **Michel** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 4:59 pm

Muchos Christoff.

Barry · Post by **Barry** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 5:13 pm

Mendelssohn's "Scottish" Symphony and Hebrides Overtures: Karajan/BPO

Just got this one off of Ebay and liked it a lot. I've only heard it once, so I shouldn't make any judgments, but it may be a nice alternative to the Maag/LSO "Scottish" when I want to hear a different sound.

BWV 1080 · Post by **BWV 1080** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 7:20 pm

Luigi Dallapiccola - Cinque Frammentti di Saphho

Ralph · Post by **Ralph** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 8:11 pm

After a very long day, Beethoven's Third and Fourth symphonies on a Bernstein cycle I haven't listened to in a long time.

Wallingford · Post by **Wallingford** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 3:25 pm

Well, this weekend I'm tackling De Falla's unpublished opera, Atlantida (on the classic Fruhbeck de Burgos EMI recording).

Ralph · Post by **Ralph** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 6:38 pm

Mozart, symphonies 38 and 40 on DG with Bernstein conducting.

Haydnseek · Post by **Haydnseek** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 6:44 pm

I have been listening to a 7 cd set of Grieg's piano music played by Gerhard Oppitz.

RebLem · Post by **RebLem** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 3:49 am

This week, I am listening to Beethoven symphonies. I have two new sets, bringing my total of complete sets to 14. They are the Abbado and Rattle sets. I am going through each symphony and listening to the two performances back to back. I have already listend to the first two symphonies in each set. In general, so far, Abbado seems to have the better sense of classical structure, but Rattle the better sense of drama--each movement in the Rattle has a sense of a dramatic beginning, middle and denouement. Not always true with the Abbado.

Ralph · Post by **Ralph** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 5:38 am

Shostakovich, Symphony No. 5, Mravinsky and his Leningrad orchestra (Melodiya).

karlhenning · Post by **karlhenning** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 5:44 am

Berlioz, Symphonie funèbre et triomphale

Ralph · Post by **Ralph** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 7:16 am

On to Schumann's Third Symphony with Bernstein conducting on DG.

jserraglio · Post by **jserraglio** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 7:48 am

Britten's Peter Grimes, Jon Vickers, Colin Davis on Philips.

[I didn't think I'd ever appreciate Britten's operas till I heard an in-concert performance of the Rape of Lucretia and a staged version of Albert Herring at Oberlin College a couple of years ago. The door to Britten's music finally opened for me.]

karlhenning · Post by **karlhenning** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 7:56 am

Welcome, jserraglio! It's some little while since I've been in Cleveland, but I did my undergraduate work in Wooster, and an old chum of mine studied with Don Erb at CIM.

In Buffalo, I played in the pit for a university production of Albert Herring.

jserraglio · Post by **jserraglio** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 9:35 am

Thanks, Karl.

You are making me feel remiss for never having ventured to the College of Wooster to take in the Ohio Light Opera. I have several of their recordings but have never seen them live.

I started attending CIM (Cleveland Institute of Music) recitals off and on several years ago and was astonished at the level of the playing (esp the violins) and the enthusiasm of the performers. Their eyes lit up and they practically rose out of their chairs, but then I started attending a few Cleveland Orchestra concerts and noticed the same body language characterized their teachers. My favorites at CIM were Louis Lane's concerts and those of a young cellist, Alicia Weilerstein. Donald Erb still teaches there, I think.

Thomas J · Post by **Thomas J** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 10:39 am

Welcome aboard Joe. Glad to have given you the headsup about this place. Visit us whenever you can. Things have been picking up here recently. Presently listening to Khachaturian. Spartacus(Suites 1 - 3) St. Petersburg Symphony Orch., Andre Anichanov cond. on NAXOS.

Ralph · Post by **Ralph** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 4:22 pm

I welcome you too while I prepare for my class this evening listening to "Pictures at an Exhibition" performed by the New York Philharmonic under Kurt Masur.

karlhenning · Post by **karlhenning** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 7:17 pm

Berlioz
La damnation de Faust
Part IV

Ralph · Post by **Ralph** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 5:30 am

Sibelius 4 and 6 this morning with a long breakfast. Sir Colin Davis and the LSO.

jserraglio · Post by **jserraglio** » Wed Jun 08, 2005 3:27 am

Harrison Birtwistle
Panic {for sax, drum kit & orchestra} (A. Davis/BBCSO)
Earth Dances (Dohnanyi/CO)
on Decca/Argo

Just found it today in a used shop. Wild and wildly original.

Beecham, Bax, Britten, Boughton, Bancock, Bridge, Bliss, and Birtwistle. I belove the Brits.

Ralph · Post by **Ralph** » Thu Jun 09, 2005 7:16 am

Beethoven's Third for breakfast, Bernstein on DG.

Jo · Post by Jo » Thu Jun 09, 2005 7:11 pm

Ralph · Post by **Ralph** » Thu Jun 09, 2005 8:27 pm

Mahler 5, Chailly, the Royal Concertgebouw O.

jserraglio · Post by **jserraglio** » Sat Jun 11, 2005 4:28 am

Giuseppe di Stephano Songs of Naples Angel LP 35470

10 guilty pleasures to complement Cherry Garcia ice cream

Thomas J · Post by **Thomas J** » Sat Jun 11, 2005 5:33 pm

Borodin - Symphony #1 Loris Tjeknavorian and the National Philharmonic Orchestra. RCA Red Seal

Pretty good stuff. It contains all 3 of Borodin's symphonies on a single disc.

Post by **Corlyss_D** » Sat Jun 11, 2005 5:42 pm

Jo wrote:

How is it?

Ralph · Post by **Ralph** » Sat Jun 11, 2005 7:17 pm

Settling down after a long day - a colleague's son's Upper West Side very expensive bar mitzvah. Nice food. So now Mahler 4 with Bernstein on DG.

jserraglio · Post by **jserraglio** » Sun Jun 12, 2005 3:59 am

Mozart, Symphonies 29, 31, 34 (Beecham-LPO) and 31, 35, 39 (Beecham-OSR)
Haydn, Symphonies 94, 96, 102 (Beecham-RPO)

A friend informs me a music reviewer called Beecham's readings dated, so I rushed to get these in before they're declared totally obsolete.

Post by **Corlyss_D** » Sun Jun 12, 2005 1:31 pm

jserraglio wrote:Mozart, Symphonies 29, 31, 34 (Beecham-LPO) and 31, 35, 39 (Beecham-OSR)
Haydn, Symphonies 94, 96, 102 (Beecham-RPO)

A friend informs me a music reviewer called Beecham's readings dated, so I rushed to get these in before they're declared totally obsolete.

Dated as compared to what? HIP? Gardner? Harnoncourt? OI? As long as they aren't lumbering and gooey, they should be reasonable interpretations. Lumbering and gooey should never be allowed out of the cellar.

Wallingford · Post by **Wallingford** » Sun Jun 12, 2005 2:10 pm

Robert Stolz conducting "Stars & Stripes Forever"!!

It's on a unique old London LP, "Marches Of The World," in which Stolz also leades the Vienna Symphony in "El Capitan," "Entry Of The Gladiators," one of his, & four others.

muzikin · Post by **muzikin** » Sun Jun 12, 2005 3:39 pm

After reading the Fischer-Dieskau interview in this month's BBC mag I was quite keen to hear his Henze "Five Neopolitan Songs"... but ended up listening to Henze "The Tedious Way to Natasha Ungeheuer's Apartment", with no F-D singing at all. Oh well, a nice noisy evening all the same.

Thomas J · Post by **Thomas J** » Sun Jun 12, 2005 3:56 pm

Alexander Borodin - Symphony 2 & 3, National Philharmonic Orch./Tjeknavorian

Brahms - Piano Concerto #2, Piano Sonata #1, Chicago Symphony Orch./Sviatoslav Richter, Erich Leinsdorf

Haydnseek · Post by **Haydnseek** » Sun Jun 12, 2005 8:06 pm

Grieg: Humoresques op. 6 and Albumleaves op. 28 - Gerhard Oppitz
Grieg: String Quartet - Guarneri Quartet
Mozart: Haffner Serenade - Karl Böhm, Berlin Philharmonic
Mozart: various arias sung by Lucia Popp and Cecilia Bartoli

Ralph · Post by **Ralph** » Sun Jun 12, 2005 9:13 pm

Bruckner 3 with Bohm on DG.

jserraglio · Post by **jserraglio** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 3:48 am

Alan Hoddinot Symphony No. 5 (A.Davis RPO) Lyrita SRCD 331

karlhenning · Post by **karlhenning** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 6:27 am

Stravinsky: Cantata, Mass, Svadebka (Les noces)
Karel Ancerl reissue on Supraphon

Ralph · Post by **Ralph** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 6:27 am

Because of the Wagner thread I put on Lorin Maazel's Telarc recording of Wagner's Ring cycle sans words. It's fun although I know some consider it to be sacrilege or worse.

jserraglio · Post by **jserraglio** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 9:11 am

Because of the Wagner thread I put on Lorin Maazel's Telarc recording of Wagner's Ring cycle sans words. It's fun although I know some consider it to be sacrilege or worse.

I haven't heard it yet but I will soon. Bought it yesterday at my favorite used book/record store. When Maazel performs it at next year's reunion concert in Cleveland, I will be there. No way I'm missing that one.

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