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Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2012 3:12 pm
by fergus
This is a lovely recording and anyone looking for an introduction to the sound world of Monteverdi would do well to start with this CD as the music it contains is very accessible and very well performed.
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2012 4:08 pm
by bombasticDarren
Brahms - Symphony No.3 (Wolfgang Sawallisch, Wiener Symphoniker, Philips)
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2012 4:24 pm
by Seán
bombasticDarren wrote:Brahms - Symphony No.3 (Wolfgang Sawallisch, Wiener Symphoniker, Philips)
The Sawallisch/LPO Brahms cycle is truly awful. Are you enjoying that cycle with the VPO, Darren?
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2012 4:28 pm
by bombasticDarren
Seán wrote:bombasticDarren wrote:Brahms - Symphony No.3 (Wolfgang Sawallisch, Wiener Symphoniker, Philips)
The Sawallisch/LPO Brahms cycle is truly awful. Are you enjoying that cycle with the VPO, Darren?
The VSO I think Sean....;-)
As you may know, I do not enjoy the Sawallisch/LPO recordings either. These ones are much more adventurous; the recording is slightly rough, but the orchestra play with energy and drive (that is sometimes
too much). A massive improvement on the LPO set, I like Sawallsich so thought he deserved a second chance. I don't know how
great this set is, but I do like it a lot.
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2012 5:35 pm
by bombasticDarren
Bax -
November Woods (David Lloyd-Jones, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Naxos)
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2012 6:12 pm
by ravel30
bombasticDarren wrote:Bax -
November Woods (David Lloyd-Jones, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Naxos)
Nice! This is the only cd that I have of Bax's music and I enjoy it. I always wondered about his other symphonies. Some people suggested me to try his 6th.
Matt.
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2012 6:47 pm
by bombasticDarren
Verdi -
Un ballo in maschera: Act 2 (Placido Domingo/Katia Ricciarelli/Renato Bruson/Elena Obraztsova/Edita Gruberova/Claudio Abbado, Coro e Orchestra del Teatro all Scala, DG)
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2012 7:13 pm
by Seán
Darren, this may be of interest to you:
Tuesday, 19:30 on BBC Radio 3
Michael Tilson Thomas returns to conduct the LSO in music by Debussy, in this his 150th anniversary year. The enigmatic quality of Debussy's piano Preludes has been magically captured in these orchestrations by Colin Matthews. The piano Fantaisie has an intriguing history, as Debussy withdrew it from publication just before the first planned performance. It was revived after his death, and deserves to be better known.
The work concluding the concert is by a Frenchman dramatically different in style to Debussy - Berlioz. His Symphonie fantastique recounts the doomed love affair of a man who has poisoned himself with opium, causing hallucinations of a masked ball, the countryside, a march to the scaffold and finally a witches' Sabbath.
Debussy, orch. Colin Matthews: Preludes (selection)
Debussy: Fantaisie for piano and orchestra
20:10
Interval: Interval Music
20:30
Part 2:
Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique
Nelson Freire (piano)
London Symphony Orchestra
conductor Michael Tilson Thomas.
Friday, 19:30 on BBC Radio 3
Debussy Nocturnes
Prokofiev Violin Concerto No 1
Friday, 20:20 on BBC Radio 3
Synopsis Roussel Bacchus et Ariane
A rare performance of Roussel's thrilling and jazz-influenced ballet music Bacchus et Ariane together with the ethereal first violin concerto by Prokofiev makes for an evening of great drama conducted by Stephane Deneve.
Hilary Hahn (Violin)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Stéphane Denève (Conductor)
Ladies of the RSNO Chorus
Tim Dean (Chorus Director).
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2012 7:17 pm
by bombasticDarren
Seán wrote:Darren, this may be of interest to you:
Friday, 19:30 on BBC Radio 3
Debussy Nocturnes
Prokofiev Violin Concerto No 1
Friday, 20:20 on BBC Radio 3
Synopsis Roussel Bacchus et Ariane
A rare performance of Roussel's thrilling and jazz-influenced ballet music Bacchus et Ariane together with the ethereal first violin concerto by Prokofiev makes for an evening of great drama conducted by Stephane Deneve.
Hilary Hahn (Violin)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Stéphane Denève (Conductor)
Ladies of the RSNO Chorus
Tim Dean (Chorus Director).
Looks wonderful Sean! I will have to catch it on the Saturday as I am in London for the Lahti Symphony Orchestra that night!
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2012 7:23 pm
by Seán
bombasticDarren wrote:
Looks wonderful Sean! I will have to catch it on the Saturday as I am in London for the Lahti Symphony Orchestra that night!
Name dropper! Who is the conductor? What is the programme? Where are they playing, pray tell?
Pleasae note, I have updated the original post.