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Re: What are you listening two?
Posted: Mon Oct 21, 2013 8:45 pm
by Diapason
Motivated by DaveF, very impressed with this set so far. Ben van Oosten is such a legend!
Re: What are you listening two?
Posted: Mon Oct 21, 2013 8:53 pm
by fergus
Strauss - Salome - von Karajan....
What wonderful music this is; full of passion and intensity! I thoroughly enjoyed this performance which for me had the requisite passion and intensity and then some! I am not familiar with Strauss’ operatic works to any great extent but I certainly enjoyed this far more that I did Elektra.
Re: What are you listening two?
Posted: Mon Oct 21, 2013 9:29 pm
by Jared
well, it arrived, I'm on my 2nd listen and yes, it's very beautiful!
Re: What are you listening two?
Posted: Mon Oct 21, 2013 10:58 pm
by fergus
Jared wrote:
well, it arrived, I'm on my 2nd listen and yes, it's very beautiful!
Delighted but not surprised that you liked it!
Re: What are you listening two?
Posted: Mon Oct 21, 2013 10:59 pm
by fergus
As a complete contrast to the Strauss earlier, some Vivaldi Oboe Concerti....
Re: What are you listening two?
Posted: Mon Oct 21, 2013 11:28 pm
by Peter
fergus wrote:Jared wrote:
well, it arrived, I'm on my 2nd listen and yes, it's very beautiful!
Delighted but not surprised that you liked it!
Hmm, it seems like I need to check that one out one of these days.......
Re: What are you listening two?
Posted: Tue Oct 22, 2013 12:33 am
by Jose Echenique
Peter wrote:fergus wrote:Jared wrote:
well, it arrived, I'm on my 2nd listen and yes, it's very beautiful!
Delighted but not surprised that you liked it!
Hmm, it seems like I need to check that one out one of these days.......
Frieder Bernius has recorded several Zelenka masses, ALL are glorious and needless to say highly recommended.
Re: What are you listening two?
Posted: Tue Oct 22, 2013 12:39 am
by Jose Echenique
fergus wrote:Strauss - Salome - von Karajan....
What wonderful music this is; full of passion and intensity! I thoroughly enjoyed this performance which for me had the requisite passion and intensity and then some! I am not familiar with Strauss’ operatic works to any great extent but I certainly enjoyed this far more that I did Elektra.
Salomé is far easier on the ear than Elektra, Fergus. Elektra is so violent, musically violent that is.
And you chose one of the finest Salomés ever recorded. Did you know that it was recorded by DECCA for EMI? That is, they used DECCA engineers and equipment but the recording was expressly made for EMI.
I was in Salzburg in the summer of 1977 when Karajan was performing Salomé with Hildegard Behrens, but unfortunately -tragically!- didn´t have tickets. In the black market they were asking $5,000.00 that is, THOUSAND dollars for 1 ticket -sigh-
Behrens, unknown until then, became an overnight sensation and of course a star.
Re: What are you listening two?
Posted: Tue Oct 22, 2013 7:38 am
by Jared
Jose Echenique wrote:Salomé is far easier on the ear than Elektra, Fergus. Elektra is so violent, musically violent that is.
yes, Elektra is the musical version of doing 12 rounds with one of the Klitschko brothers...
Re: What are you listening two?
Posted: Tue Oct 22, 2013 3:28 pm
by Jose Echenique
Jared wrote:Jose Echenique wrote:Salomé is far easier on the ear than Elektra, Fergus. Elektra is so violent, musically violent that is.
yes, Elektra is the musical version of doing 12 rounds with one of the Klitschko brothers...
It takes a conductor like Claudio Abbado to make Elektra frightening and beautiful at the same time. He never recorded the opera commercially, but there is a DVD of a performance with him and Eva Marton at the Vienna State Opera, where Abbado is actually booooooed!!!! Not because of his superb conducting of course, but because he just announced his resignation to the Vienna State Opera.
