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- Sat May 18, 2024 11:38 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What I listened to today
- Replies: 3189
- Views: 2398555
Re: What I listened to today
Giuseppe Martucci (1856-1909) was one of those composers who bucked the prevailing operatic trend in Italy during the nineteenth century. His symphonies and piano concertos are stylish and romantic, as is his solo piano music. (And equally fine, apparently, was his formidable moustache.) One of my f...
- Fri May 17, 2024 6:51 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Verdi's Requiem (Messa da Requiem) CD recordings
- Replies: 9
- Views: 209
Re: Verdi's Requiem (Messa da Requiem) CD recordings
So many ways to hear this masterpiece, for sure.
I stick with one from the '50s - and it's a mono recording, but an exquisitely engineered one - DiStefano, Siepi, Nelli, Barbieri/Toscanini/NBC SO/Robert Shaw Chorale. (Coupled with Verdi's Te Deum and the Cherubini Requiem.)
I stick with one from the '50s - and it's a mono recording, but an exquisitely engineered one - DiStefano, Siepi, Nelli, Barbieri/Toscanini/NBC SO/Robert Shaw Chorale. (Coupled with Verdi's Te Deum and the Cherubini Requiem.)
- Fri May 17, 2024 9:46 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: 3 Tenors sons clip
- Replies: 5
- Views: 180
Re: 3 Tenors sons clip
I bought it, too, at first.
- Fri May 17, 2024 7:27 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 6 (?)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 146
Re: Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 6 (?)
Thanks, Lance. So both of Beethoven's "Unfinished Concertos" are paired on one CD. Interesting.
- Fri May 17, 2024 7:17 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: 3 Tenors sons clip
- Replies: 5
- Views: 180
Re: 3 Tenors sons clip
According to many of the notes below the video, particularly the ones in Russian (used Google translate), these are not the "sons" as advertised. A check of Wikipedia, for instance, shows that Pavarotti had four daughters (with two different wives) and that one son was stillborn. So much, I guess, f...
- Wed May 15, 2024 2:50 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 6 (?)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 146
Re: Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 6 (?)
Lance: I don't know about that earlier (1784) concerto which Beethoven would have done at age 14, and which apparently has nothing to do with the so-called "Sixth." This is the "unfinished" one from 1815 to which I am referring and what is performed on that YouTube link.
- Wed May 15, 2024 2:26 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 6 (?)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 146
Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 6 (?)
While I was driving in my car today I heard, on the satellite radio broadcast, a work which was titled thus: Beethoven - Piano Concerto "6". After a few minutes I realized it was his Violin Concerto transcribed for piano and orchestra. But: Apparently there is an actual Sixth Piano Concerto, unfinis...
- Fri May 10, 2024 6:42 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What I listened to today
- Replies: 3189
- Views: 2398555
Re: What I listened to today
And a fine cello concerto, too.
- Fri May 10, 2024 5:02 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What I listened to today
- Replies: 3189
- Views: 2398555
Re: What I listened to today
Otar Taktakishvili (1924-1989) has been pretty well unknown in the West, his music more or less wrapped up behind the Iron Curtain, inside of which was his native (and former Soviet Republic) Georgia. His opera Mindia was a hit in the aforementioned Soviet Union, although its themes of non-conformis...
- Wed May 08, 2024 9:31 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Can Marin Alsop Shatter Another Glass Ceiling?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 219
Re: Can Marin Alsop Shatter Another Glass Ceiling?
Her performance, recorded on Naxos, of the Brahms Third, with the LPO, is right at the top of my list for this symphony.
- Mon May 06, 2024 4:14 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: The 19th Century Saxophone
- Replies: 6
- Views: 222
Re: The 19th Century Saxophone
Camille Saint-Saëns, I believe, as a contemporary of Adolphe Sax, took to the instrument. I know he used a saxophone in one of his operas, Henry VIII - and in other works which I cannot pin down right now.
- Mon May 06, 2024 4:09 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: A composer I did not know: Ottmar Gerster
- Replies: 1
- Views: 118
Re: A composer I did not know: Ottmar Gerster
Lance - a new name for me, and I'm always ready for that. Apparently, this guy had a checkered past during the Nazi years - being even collaborative with the likes of Baldur von Shirach, head of the Hitler Jugend , et al. Hitler had Herr Gerster on a special list of "divinely gifted artists." I supp...
- Sun May 05, 2024 6:01 pm
- Forum: Classical Concert Reviews
- Topic: Yuja Wang in recital - color, poetry and dazzle
- Replies: 1
- Views: 400
Re: Yuja Wang in recital - color, poetry and dazzle
Nice review, thanks.
I'd settle for that final encore - I've heard her do that brilliant, over-the-top scherzo. Awesome!
I'd settle for that final encore - I've heard her do that brilliant, over-the-top scherzo. Awesome!
- Sun May 05, 2024 5:54 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What I listened to today
- Replies: 3189
- Views: 2398555
Re: What I listened to today
If interested in solo piano music, here is a very different work by Langgaard I had heard couple months ago, but not for the faint of heart: Afgrundsmusik, En Sonate fur Klaver , BVN 169 (1921) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1DB6pqP02g (Audio with score ) Yikes! He sure was odd. The initial score...
- Sun May 05, 2024 7:04 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What I listened to today
- Replies: 3189
- Views: 2398555
Re: What I listened to today
Yes, Lance. The BPO has recorded this piece. I have some other orchestral works of Langgaard - his "Music of the Spheres" is pretty good - and also a batch of his string quartets. But, as far as I can tell, nothing that he composed ever equaled what he put together in the First Symphony. PS - I also...
- Fri May 03, 2024 2:38 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What I listened to today
- Replies: 3189
- Views: 2398555
Re: What I listened to today
Rued Langgaard (1893-1952), Danish composer whose eccentricity and oddness show in his unconventional 16 symphonies. One of them - the 12th - is about 8 minutes long. But this one - his first, composed when he was 14 and finished at age 17, has had only three performances since its premiere in 1913....
- Thu May 02, 2024 6:45 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What I listened to today
- Replies: 3189
- Views: 2398555
Re: What I listened to today
Thanks for bringing up this name! Do you have the whole set of Koczalski's piano concertos? Yes, I do have all three CDs of the six concertos. Also, a couple of others - one with his violin and cello concertos - and this one which really has some exquisite music: https://acteprealable.com/wp-conten...
- Wed May 01, 2024 12:54 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What I listened to today
- Replies: 3189
- Views: 2398555
Re: What I listened to today
Raul (or Raoul) Koczalski (1885-1948) was a well-known Polish pianist - and appears to have been a specialist in the music of Chopin. His six piano concertos have been recorded by Acte Préalable. They are beautiful, late-romantic pieces and really make for some good listening. https://acteprealable....
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 7:25 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What I listened to today
- Replies: 3189
- Views: 2398555
Re: What I listened to today
I see Miriam Hyde (1913-2005) had quite a career as a pianist and composer, especially in her native Australia. I am curious about her two piano concerto s. How would you describe her music, i.e., it's "similarity" to perhaps another composer? In listening to the YT presentation, I thought the musi...
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 4:14 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What I listened to today
- Replies: 3189
- Views: 2398555
Re: What I listened to today
Thanks,febnyc, my first hearing of the composer.While not a purchase, for me, the concertos were quite enjoyable, especially the 2nd. The influences you note, and, to my ear, English and Irish influences as well , reflecting her time in the UK. The concertos apparently written in the early 1930s.Th...
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 10:34 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What I listened to today
- Replies: 3189
- Views: 2398555
Re: What I listened to today
Two piano concertos by Australian composer Miriam Hyde (1913-2005).
Unremittingly devoted to Brahms and Rachmaninoff.
Unremittingly devoted to Brahms and Rachmaninoff.
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 7:18 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Susan Tomes gives us another book: "Women and the Piano"
- Replies: 6
- Views: 371
Re: Susan Tomes gives us another book: "Women and the Piano"
That one looks interesting - Loose Elbows! Much of what I see with Susan Tomes is chamber music ... this one goes to the other side. I may try to get a copy. Looks pricey on Amazon at $129! Cheaper elsewhere, of course. Her piano playing of these Billy Mayerl pieces...great fun! https://m.media-ama...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 2:37 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What NEW discs/music are you adding to your collection?
- Replies: 4711
- Views: 2522213
Re: What NEW discs/music are you adding to your collection?
Found this on eBay - repertoire of Reinecke's (1824-1910) with which I'm not at all familiar. I listened to some very short samples on the Naxos site and wound up owning the CD for about two bucks. It's certainly worth a try for clarinet chamber music. Clarinet Trio in A Major Fantasiestücke Op.22 C...
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 12:00 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: York Bowen Viola Sonatas: (Timothy Ridout & Kevonna Shuford)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 290
Re: York Bowen Viola Sonatas: (Timothy Ridout & Kevonna Shuford)
Bingo! And, thanks - lovely performance.
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 1:41 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: York Bowen Viola Sonatas: (Timothy Ridout & Kevonna Shuford)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 290
Re: York Bowen Viola Sonatas: With Score (Timothy Ridout)
Yes, indeed. So much lovely music of Bowen's has made it to CD. Thanks for the reminder.
(But, your first link appears to be off the subject. )
(But, your first link appears to be off the subject. )
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 10:27 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Susan Tomes gives us another book: "Women and the Piano"
- Replies: 6
- Views: 371
Re: Susan Tomes gives us another book: "Women and the Piano"
Her piano playing of these Billy Mayerl pieces...great fun!
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 3:20 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What I listened to today
- Replies: 3189
- Views: 2398555
Re: What I listened to today
Vittorio Giannini (1903-1966) was born in Philadelphia and, according to his biography, was best known as a teacher - at Juilliard, Curtis and Manhattan School of Music. His Piano Concerto is a grand evocation of the type. The amazing thing is that, after its première in 1937 (Rosalyn Tureck was the...
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 12:04 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Victor Borge and Anton Kontra
- Replies: 4
- Views: 236
Re: Victor Borge and Anton Kontra
Yes, gentlemen - I think Victor Borge represents the "class" in the word classical.
Thanks.
Thanks.
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 9:14 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Victor Borge and Anton Kontra
- Replies: 4
- Views: 236
Victor Borge and Anton Kontra
Ad libbing Czardas...
Enjoy these awesome artists (and watch the reaction of the orchestra members):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9UN3xFBCcw
Enjoy these awesome artists (and watch the reaction of the orchestra members):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9UN3xFBCcw
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 9:40 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What I listened to today
- Replies: 3189
- Views: 2398555
Re: What I listened to today
Many thanks for this.Very enjoyable, especially the 2 full-length concertos, and of those 2 especially the Adigezalov. Am on my second listening of the cd as I type this.May search for the cd or download, although seem all prices are getting out of hand even for used. I'm glad this appealed to you....
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 2:06 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What NEW discs/music are you adding to your collection?
- Replies: 4711
- Views: 2522213
Re: What NEW discs/music are you adding to your collection?
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61GpxQ5JT1L._SX466_.jpg Violinist Alena Baeva and pianist Vadim Kholodenko have been in my radar ever since they made their debuts, Baeva with Gergiev playing Shostakovich's fiendishly difficult Violin Concerto No. 2, and Kholodenko with his win in the Cliburn Co...
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 11:28 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What I listened to today
- Replies: 3189
- Views: 2398555
Re: What I listened to today
I'm not much attracted to CDs which are compendia of music of different composers. However, I listen to this one pretty regularly. So, for a Wondrous Wednesday it filled the bill. The concertos all are different - some sounding more "Eastern" than others; some with tinges of Romanticism; some includ...
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 10:43 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What I listened to today
- Replies: 3189
- Views: 2398555
Re: What I listened to today
Fww, no less than Frank Peter Zimmermann played the Respighi "Gregorian" Concerto with NDR Symphony in Hamburg this past March, the live broadcast to be again available at Radio Belgium this Friday,April 12 at 2000 Brussels time. I plan to listen: https://www.rtbf.be/musiq3/grille-programme (Scroll...
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 9:32 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What I listened to today
- Replies: 3189
- Views: 2398555
Re: What I listened to today
I've had those two Reber discs on Timpani [1205 & 1239] since 2013 and 2016 respectively, but were reasonably priced per disc (less than $18/USD each), and this is just the kind of repertoire I enjoy discovering. Trio Elegiaque does an admirable job with the trios. I can make a copy of Trios 2, 4 a...
- Sat Apr 06, 2024 7:01 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What I listened to today
- Replies: 3189
- Views: 2398555
Re: What I listened to today
If you're a fan of chamber music, you should not miss this CD. Napoleon Henri Reber (1807-1880) is described in the notes as more or less a holdover from the 18th Century. These three piano trios sound to me like updated versions of Haydn or Mozart, but with a bit more "oomph." They are beautifully ...
- Sat Apr 06, 2024 2:33 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: VIDEO: Barenboim/Staatskapelle Berlin: Bruckner Symphony No. 5
- Replies: 1
- Views: 272
Re: VIDEO: Barenboim/Staatskapelle Berlin: Bruckner Symphony No. 5
Super! Thanks.maestrob wrote: ↑Sat Apr 06, 2024 12:15 pmHere's my favorite Bruckner Fifth Symphony. Barenboim generates crystal-clear lines without lessening the impact of the orchestral climaxes. Awesome balancing!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6weops8oXBI
No disrespect to Jochum, of course!
- Sat Apr 06, 2024 2:31 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What I listened to today
- Replies: 3189
- Views: 2398555
Re: What I listened to today
Those of us who like the music of Ottorino Respighi probably find ourselves listening to his popular and evergreen tone poems - Pines of Rome, Fountains of Rome, Roman Festivals . This CD shows a different side of the composer - with one orchestral work which is for smaller forces and more "intimate...
- Fri Apr 05, 2024 7:19 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What I listened to today
- Replies: 3189
- Views: 2398555
Re: What I listened to today
I should get a medal for hearing two Bruckner symphonies in one day, let alone the same one, but I agree the Jochum /RCO is great, if this 1964 from YT is your fav: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6J4IDfajZHw That, indeed, is the performance I have on the Philips CD. And, duly bestowed for valor in...
- Fri Apr 05, 2024 6:51 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What I listened to today
- Replies: 3189
- Views: 2398555
Re: What I listened to today
British composer Cecil Armstrong Gibbs (1889-1960) mainly wrote songs and choral works. This CD of a batch of his string quartets really makes for delightful listening. The quartets are very much in the early-20th Century English pastoral vein. The slow and mostly-slow movements tend to the lugubrio...
- Fri Apr 05, 2024 12:55 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Franck & Rachmaninoff Violin/Cello Sonatas - Interchangeable
- Replies: 4
- Views: 388
Re: Franck & Rachmaninoff Violin/Cello Sonatas - Interchangeable
Gosh, Lance - the Rachmaninoff Cello Sonata is a masterpiece and, as you note, it's perfectly designed for cello. I can't imagine that a violin could capture those deep sighs.
Although I am a fan of transcriptions, this one seems a bit wrong.
Although I am a fan of transcriptions, this one seems a bit wrong.
- Fri Apr 05, 2024 12:47 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What I listened to today
- Replies: 3189
- Views: 2398555
Re: What I listened to today
I must "confess" probably my first Bruckner 5th Symphony today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IPqiq7nTgs John Storgards,SWR Symphony,live video, 2021 in Stuttgart. Previously, the only Bruckner symphony I listened to, had a recording of, was the 7th, but found even that one taxing.I was thus ple...
- Fri Apr 05, 2024 12:39 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Robo calls starting up big time again.
- Replies: 10
- Views: 588
Re: Robo calls starting up big time again.
When all this type of thing started 2 decades ago the prevailing wisdom was to blow a whistle hard into the phone. Wrong move. Doing that will alert the scammer that there is a live fish on the line. Which then will make your number marketable, resulting in even more unwanted incoming calls. Correc...
- Thu Apr 04, 2024 7:46 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Robo calls starting up big time again.
- Replies: 10
- Views: 588
Re: Robo calls starting up big time again.
Also - I never answer a call if I do not recognize the caller ID. If it's important enough I expect the caller will leave a voice message. The robo calls never do. Of course that doesn't help you when the telephone rings early in the a.m. But, if you don't answer their calls eventually you'll come o...
- Wed Apr 03, 2024 12:06 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Pronunciation question: Dame Ethel SMYTH [and her music]
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1008
- Wed Apr 03, 2024 12:05 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Pronunciation question: Dame Ethel SMYTH [and her music]
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1008
- Wed Apr 03, 2024 12:02 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Robo calls starting up big time again.
- Replies: 10
- Views: 588
Re: Robo calls starting up big time again.
Lance - do you know the website nomorobo.com?
It stops a good percent of the robo calls. When you receive one you can send them the number on their site to block future calls from the same source.
No charge to register a landline.
https://www.nomorobo.com/
- Wed Apr 03, 2024 11:50 am
- Forum: Classical Concert Reviews
- Topic: Yale School of Music
- Replies: 0
- Views: 3732
Yale School of Music
What a nice program for this Friday evening: "I absolutely consider it to be ... the most sincere of all my creations.”—Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, in an 1893 letter to Vladimir Davydov. Peter Oundjian, principal conductor - Yale Philharmonia Apr. 5 | 7:30 p.m. | Woolsey Hall The orchestra, led by Pri...
- Wed Apr 03, 2024 8:16 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Pronunciation question: Dame Ethel SMYTH [and her music]
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1008
- Tue Apr 02, 2024 1:07 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Klaus Mäkelä named to head Chicago Symphony Orchestra
- Replies: 19
- Views: 849
Re: Klaus Mäkelä named to head Chicago Symphony Orchestra
From a friend: There have been others who hold two prestigious positions at the same time, but no one that young and unproven. Right now Yannick Nezet-Seguin is Director of the MET Opera and the Philadelphia Orchestra. Barenboim was Director of Chicago and the Berlin Opera, Maazel was Director of th...
- Tue Apr 02, 2024 12:40 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Klaus Mäkelä named to head Chicago Symphony Orchestra
- Replies: 19
- Views: 849
Re: Klaus Mäkelä named to head Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Has any other chief conductor/music director held 2 such prestigious orchestral positions simultaneously ? Did James Levine lead the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and the BSO at the same time? Perhaps the Met is not in the same class as the CSO and Concertgebouw - but, also, Levine was not a rookie ...