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Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2012 10:11 pm
by Jared
Sonata Nos 1&2, 2 Rhapsodies op.79
These Sonatas, the product of Brahms' late teens, are op.1 and op.2 in his catalogue (although I believe op.2 was actually written first). The point is that these works, full of teenage bombast, don't really sound very Brahmsian at all... you'd more likely have them down as early Liszt! That aside, the playing from Katchen is wonderfully assured... so very pleased he elected, over the course of 3 years, to record the complete piano output of JB, much of which simply isn't often covered.
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2012 12:38 am
by jaybee
fergus wrote:Palestrina: Missa Papae Marcelli....
ditto: but I went with...
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2012 12:51 am
by Seán
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2012 2:41 am
by Jose Echenique
Seán wrote:
I´m so old that I even got to hear Maureen Forrester live in Das Lied von der Erde circa 1979.
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2012 3:11 am
by Dane
Suffering a bit of insomnia - again - so I listened to this
A client gave me some nice in-ear phones when I grumbled about my old Sennheiser 300 or something that are fatiguing for long sessions and don't shut out enough eurostar noise! Not so with these new ones. Only problem they've become a "reference" really!
bests...
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2012 9:07 am
by Seán
Jose Echenique wrote:Seán wrote:
I´m so old that I even got to hear Maureen Forrester live in Das Lied von der Erde circa 1979.
Oh lovely! Do you remember the orchestra and conductor too?
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2012 2:24 pm
by Jose Echenique
Seán wrote:Jose Echenique wrote:Seán wrote:
I´m so old that I even got to hear Maureen Forrester live in Das Lied von der Erde circa 1979.
Oh lovely! Do you remember the orchestra and conductor too?
Sure, it was our National University Orchestra and Klaus Tennstedt conducted.
By the way the scheduled tenor was Jewish and I think it was not made clear to him that the performance was on a friday evening, so since he was very religious he refused to sing because of the Sabbath, so a late replacement had to be found and the ever reliable Mexican tenor Flavio Becerra came up to the rescue.
Forrester was obviously past her prime by then, but still gave a most moving rendition of Das Abschied.
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2012 9:29 pm
by fergus
jaybee wrote:fergus wrote:Palestrina: Missa Papae Marcelli....
ditto: but I went with...
I have that one on both vinyl and CD JB and it is a magnificent recording no matter what the medium!
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2012 9:31 pm
by fergus
Vinyl....
The Tchaikovsky was particularly good!
Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2012 11:44 pm
by fergus
Vinyl....
