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Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2011 8:35 pm
by Jared
fergus wrote:
I thought that Schwarzkopf was as divine as ever and the highlights version was enough to prompt me to invest in a copy of the full opera!
a full scale late Romantic opera is more than I can bear sadly... although I'm enjoying good lieder, when a thoughtful, well recorded programme is offered...
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2011 8:36 pm
by fergus
Jared wrote:fergus wrote:
What sort of a reaction are you getting to that playlist Jared?
I tend not to get as much reaction to plainchant or pure vocal polyphony as I do to say, Mozart or Mendelssohn, which I guess is to be expected... but it created a tremendous sound which resonates around my desk...
Yes, no surprise there really....that was the answer that I was expecting.
I'm a convert, at any rate!!
Good for you!!
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2011 8:38 pm
by Jared
^^ I've got some Baroque and Renaissance beauties lined up over the next month or so... ;-)
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2011 8:39 pm
by fergus
Jared wrote:fergus wrote:
I thought that Schwarzkopf was as divine as ever and the highlights version was enough to prompt me to invest in a copy of the full opera!
a full scale late Romantic opera is more than I can bear sadly... although I'm enjoying good lieder, when a thoughtful, well recorded programme is offered...
I am generally of the very same opinion my friend but this one is somewhat different....absolutely no shrieking sopranos in anything that I heard....only the wonderful melodic music of Strauss magnificently and sensitively sung by our Betty!!!!
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2011 9:31 pm
by DaveF
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2011 11:00 pm
by fergus
DaveF wrote:
Now that looks like something that I could live with!
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2011 11:41 am
by Jared
Oh, Fergus is going to be grinning like a Cheshire Cat! He'll either be searching his collection for some very joyous, triumphant music as we speak.... or heading back to bed...
Anyway, Congrats Ireland... a TERRIFIC result!!
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2011 1:12 pm
by DaveF
As usual in this series there is plenty of interesting 'filler' on this disc.
Beethoven
Overture, Coriolan Op.62 (1807)
Giovanni Gabrieli
Sanctus & Benedictus a 12
Heinrich Schütz
Saul, Saul, was verfolgst du mich? SWV 415 (1650)
Johann Sebastian Bach
from Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich BWV 150 (c.1708-9)
No.6 Meine Augen sehen stets zu dem Herrn
No.7 Ciacona: Meine Tage in den Leiden
Johannes Brahms
Geistliches Lied Op.30 (1865)
Fest- und Gedenksprüche Op.109 (1889)
Symphony No.4 in E minor Op 98 (1885)
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2011 2:28 pm
by DaveF
on vinyl
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2011 3:18 pm
by fergus
Jared wrote:Oh, Fergus is going to be grinning like a Cheshire Cat! He'll either be searching his collection for some very joyous, triumphant music as we speak....
or heading back to bed...
Anyway, Congrats Ireland... a TERRIFIC result!!
I am not too bad as I compromised on a 6:00am start this morning Jared because I want to get up at 4:00am tomorrow to watch the Wales Vs. Samoa match live; that should be a good one!
Anyway, what did you think of that CD?