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Post by Admin on Apr 14, 2014 5:42:43 GMT -5
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Post by Admin on Apr 14, 2014 11:07:47 GMT -5
Schubert Symphony #9: fourth movement
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Post by Admin on Apr 15, 2014 2:01:45 GMT -5
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Post by tomd on Apr 15, 2014 18:07:24 GMT -5
Sergey Schepkin playing Bach's Partitas on piano. Next up will be Vladimir Feltsman playing "The Art of the Fugue" on piano.
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Post by tom1960 on Apr 16, 2014 16:38:27 GMT -5
If you don't enjoy hearing this, you're dead!
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Post by Admin on Apr 22, 2014 14:03:51 GMT -5
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Post by kate on Apr 23, 2014 20:27:12 GMT -5
A fortunate day with some remarkable listening at work. First Dorati's renditions of Tschaikovsky's Suites Nos. 3 & 4 while leading the New Philharmonia Orchestra (London, with primary residency in the Royal Festival Hall (visited on a class trip!)) with remarkable support from Hugh Bean on violin...really glorious pieces in which I often discern contemplative, pastoral passages that communicate great trips across sweeping landscapes, which contrast with tumultuous interludes of brazen conflict that bring to mind the nation's long history of a violently secured, strong centralized rule. Though recorded in 1966, the layered sound is crisp and the instrumental components distinct...highly recommended! Here is the remastered original release (67), which also includes the first and second suites:
Thematically rustic European romantic music - this time with Slavic cultural influences - stood on deck in the form of Bartok's Hungarian Peasant Songs and Romanian Folk Dances; while I've heard some dubious excerpts from generic collections, Ivan Fischer is right at home before the Budapest Festival Orchestra, and there's a perfect pacing and articulation of these unique pieces that clearly illuminates the systemic failures of the lesser versions I'd heard.
The next selection constituted my introduction to Faure's Requiem and the added Pavane, the former intensely dark and dramatic (as one would naturally expect from such a piece) accentuated by the hauntingly, gothic organ play of Daniel Chorzempa, which is paired impeccably with the measured, rhythmic, processional cadence of the latter piece.
Finally, I doubt the composition, the conductor, or this very performance require an introduction to most of you - though I had the privilege of a pristine first listen today! Verdi's Requiem conducted by Gardiner leading the very orchestra he founded - the Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique - in the (apparently) well regarded December '92 performance that I hunted down after reading multiple glowing reviews. Additionally, while I am vastly unfamiliar with many of the great operatic voices (outside of conventional names like Callas, Tucker, Bergonzi, Bumbry), I required no introduction to Anne Sofie von Otter, who once again demanded of me that I put pen and paper down (or keyboard and screen, as it were) to give her my undivided attention. Remarkable. Truly the best for last...
I'm out of attachments here, so ..........
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Post by kate on Apr 23, 2014 20:28:05 GMT -5
.................................... here you go:
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Post by karlhenning on Apr 24, 2014 7:07:56 GMT -5
A fortunate day with some remarkable listening at work. First Dorati's renditions of Tschaikovsky's Suites Nos. 3 & 4 while leading the New Philharmonia Orchestra (London, with primary residency in the Royal Festival Hall (visited on a class trip!)) with remarkable support from Hugh Bean on violin...really glorious pieces in which I often discern contemplative, pastoral passages that communicate great trips across sweeping landscapes, which contrast with tumultuous interludes of brazen conflict that bring to mind the nation's long history of a violently secured, strong centralized rule. Though recorded in 1966, the layered sound is crisp and the instrumental components distinct...highly recommended! The Suites are charming, Kate. And of course, I am a big fan of Bartók.
Cheers, ~k.
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Post by karlhenning on Apr 24, 2014 7:09:39 GMT -5
.................................... here you go:
Oooh, interesting. I've been a huge fan of his/their recording of the Brahms Ein deutsches Requiem from the day it was released. I must check out this Verdi release . . . .
Cheers, ~k.
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Post by kate on Apr 24, 2014 22:35:48 GMT -5
I think it can be reasonably understood if one professes a sense of exhaustion, both physical and aesthetic, after listening to an energetically definitive rendition of any Tchaikovsky symphony, but perhaps none more so than the 5th. I spoke yesterday of contrasting themes within PIT's Suite #3, yet these vicissitudes pale in comparison to the veritable psychopathy of the 5th as performed by - what I'm rapidly coming to think of as one of the top 3 orchestras of the 20th century - the Vienna PO under Valery Gergiev's dynamic hand. I covered quite a bit of musical ground with near-constant listening throughout my 10 hour workday, but I could do no better with a month of such patronage on a daily basis than to recommend this release:
For of those you who already possess it, dust it off and give me your feedback!
The next disc in rotation absolutely destroyed any chance that subsequent selections could live up to the day's premier beginning: Gergiev, again, this time performing Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, but with an unfamiliar orchestra to me - the Orchestra of the Maninsky Theatre. I've commented elsewhere on this epochal work's magnificent articulation of rebirth and decay, but VG's insistent pacing and the OMT's steroidal energy have vaulted this rendition to the top of my list!
With the understanding that a high bar had been set, I don't feel quite so bad confessing that Haitink, the Vienna PO (!), and Bruckner's 3rd left me disenchanted...the performance, captured in the release below, struck me as brassy and overbearing, by which I mean, I tired of the ba-booming of the Weiner's heavy metal , which became tedium rather than climax. It's likely just me, on this day, considering the line-up as a whole, so I'll revisit this work soon.
There was some other good stuff, like the Grimiaux Trio's paradigmatic rendition of Mozart's K563 and K516, but I'll let the chamber music buffs wax poetic as they see fit.../k
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Post by tomd on Apr 25, 2014 8:56:09 GMT -5
Something a bit non-standard (Kagel, Sankt-Bach-Passion):
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Post by kate on Apr 25, 2014 23:36:59 GMT -5
"non-standard" is a diplomatic assessment...y'all can audit the piece here:
/k
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Post by tom1960 on Apr 29, 2014 20:52:20 GMT -5
Not ready for bed quite yet. One of those desert island discs.
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Post by karlhenning on Apr 30, 2014 12:41:58 GMT -5
Beethoven piano sonatas played by Friedrich Gulda, and Shostakovich played by the Mandelring String Quartet.
Cheers, ~k.
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