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Re: What are you listening two?
Posted: Sun May 31, 2015 6:37 pm
by fergus
Beethoven: Missa Solmenis....
I really enjoyed this performance!
Re: What are you listening two?
Posted: Sun May 31, 2015 7:44 pm
by Seán
My favourite Myaskovsky symphony:
Nikolai Myaskovsky
Symphony No. 8
Russian State Symphony Orchestra
Evgeny Svetlanov conducting.
Re: What are you listening two?
Posted: Sun May 31, 2015 7:47 pm
by Seán
fergus wrote:Seán wrote:And now this gets the blood flowing, the foot tapping and the spirits rising: it is music written by GOD and performed by angels:
Johann Sebastian Bach
Magnificat BWV 243
La Chapelle Royale
Collegium Vocale Gent
Philippe Herreweghe conducting.
Perfection!
You really do like the Bach Magnificat Seán!
I fell in love with it the first time I listened to it, it is an extraordinary work. I am inclined to get a wee bit carried away when I comment on it too I suppose. =D
Re: What are you listening two?
Posted: Sun May 31, 2015 8:35 pm
by Seán
Dmitri Shostakovich
Symphony No. 5
Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra
Evgeny Mravinsky conducting.
This is a powerful and beautiful performance of Shostakovich's monumental work, it is BRILLIANT!
Re: What are you listening two?
Posted: Sun May 31, 2015 10:37 pm
by fergus
Seán wrote:
I fell in love with it the first time I listened to it, it is an extraordinary work. I am inclined to get a wee bit carried away when I comment on it too I suppose. =D
Enthusiasm is always allowed!!
Re: What are you listening two?
Posted: Sun May 31, 2015 10:38 pm
by fergus
Mahler 7, Abbado....
....no more need be said.......other than on vinyl!!
Re: What are you listening two?
Posted: Sun May 31, 2015 10:59 pm
by Seán
fergus wrote:Mahler 7, Abbado....
....no more need be said.......other than on vinyl!!
Bloody marvellous, isn't it?
Re: What are you listening two?
Posted: Sun May 31, 2015 11:25 pm
by Jose Echenique
fergus wrote:Beethoven: Missa Solmenis....
I really enjoyed this performance!
Some 40 years ago when you talked about the Missa Solemnis the options were mainly Klemperer and Karajan in DG, but this gorgeous performance hold it´s own. The vocal quartet is excellent and the choral work more than acceptable, but most important, Jochum brings great dignity and pathos to his interpretation. Now it´s almost forgotten, but fortunately it was briefly available on CD and I managed to get a copy.
Re: What are you listening two?
Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2015 9:21 am
by fergus
Seán wrote:fergus wrote:
Bloody marvellous, isn't it?
I could not have been more eloquent had I tried!!!
Re: What are you listening two?
Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2015 9:27 am
by fergus
Jose Echenique wrote:fergus wrote:
Some 40 years ago when you talked about the Missa Solemnis the options were mainly Klemperer and Karajan in DG, but this gorgeous performance hold it´s own. The vocal quartet is excellent and the choral work more than acceptable, but
most important, Jochum brings great dignity and pathos to his interpretation. Now it´s almost forgotten, but fortunately it was briefly available on CD and I managed to get a copy.
That is exactly it Pepe! I did not know of this interpretation until this recent purchase but I did not hesitate once I discovered it. I have Jochum conducting a lot of Bruckner [which I particularly like] and Jochum's version of Bruckner's Masses are particularly impressive so the Missa Solemnis was a safe bet I reckoned. It turned out to be a little more thankfully.