What records give you the most energy?

[Guest]

For me that would be Beethoven’s compositions, which are always very full of life. And the last one of those is the best as for me. I’m talking about the disk of his works, which I’ve recently found at onyxclassics, performed by Maxim Rysanov (viola), Kristina Blaumane (cello) and Jacob Katsnelson (piano).
And what music gives you energy?

[Serial_Apologist]

Bartok last movements, such as those to the PCs, Music for Strings, Celesta, Harp and Percussion, Concerto for Orchestra, and the fifth string quartet.

Then there's jazz - but we won't go there...

[teamsaint]

Bartok last movements, such as those to the PCs, Music for Strings, Celesta, Harp and Percussion, Concerto for Orchestra, and the fifth string quartet.

Then there's jazz - but we won't go there...

agree about Bartok SQ5... sensational.

Schumann Spring Symphony never fails.

also things that are new to me and exciting....Adam Zero at present, and also Grieg SQ, which works on all counts.

And Jason and the Scorchers...but we won't go there (seeing them sunday, VERY excited !!)

[Roslynmuse]

Louis Andriessen - especially De Staat and De Stijl.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Do you really mean "What music gives you the most energy?"

If you mean actual records, I would say 78s. They really make me sit up and listen.

[MrGongGong]

If you mean actual records, I would say 78s. They really make me sit up and listen.

then get up again to turn it over ?

[LeMartinPecheur]

Do you really mean "What music gives you the most energy?"

If you mean actual records, I would say 78s. They really make me sit up and listen.

EA: is that because you know you can take it all in for just 4 mins and then it'll stop?

I've probably said before that for me there's something special about a 78 with a complete work on one side - a short piano piece, a song or aria - where you know which work you've put on, you listen, it stops. You've just heard Chopin Etude Op10 No 3 or whatever. On LP you get the complete Op 10: you hear them as a set but don't so well grasp each one's uniqueness. A CD of course will give you the complete Op 10 and Op 25 Etudes and the Trois Etudes Nouvelles in one lump. Yes, I know I can programme the player to play just one track if I want but I'm lazy: if I've gone to the effort of putting on a CD I might as well play all of it

78s the ideal medium for...see above. LPs for individual Haydn, Mozart symph's, quartets etc, Mozza pf conc's etc etc, one per LP side (who wants 3 Mozza pf conc's end to end for Pete's sake? CD for Bruckner, Mahler, Shoster etc symph's etc etc etc . DVDs perhaps for opera rather then CD, unless there's a nice tidy division of acts? Some new extra-long carrier still to come for Gotterdammerung, Parsifal etc, anything that doesn't fit on one DVD?? Though usually it's OK to take a break between discs for a cuppa or whatever. Just as long as they haven't put the break in the middle of an act, of course...

Oh, may i just mention that my liking for this aspect of 78s has nothing to do with buying any new: I'm a child of the LP age and got into 78s from family collections and the days when they were dirt cheap in junk shops, ie before charity shops started thinking that they are old so they must be mega-valuable

[salymap]

As S-A says, the end of almost any Bartok, particularly the Concerto for Orchestra, Kodaly's Hary Janos is fun, Dvorak's Rondo is lively, finales of most Mozart piano concertos.....lots more

[teamsaint]

Just to follow on from MLP's well put post, I always thought pop/rock generally worked best as singles.
Purer..and indeed more energetic.

[Keraulophone]

Mendelssohn Octet - I Musici (Philips SAL 3640)

[Richard Tarleton]

Just to follow on from MLP's well put post, I always thought pop/rock generally worked best as singles.
Purer..and indeed more energetic.

ts that's what I was thinking when i saw this thread. Nothing like a spot of Springsteen, the Stones, Rod S or ZZ Top for pumping you up

Mary - please would you identify the bird in your avatar? The image is a bit small, but a warbler of some kind?

[kernelbogey]

Vivaldi Concerto for two trumpets

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

EA: is that because you know you can take it all in for just 4 mins and then it'll stop?
:

Not really. It's because it take more effort to listen. With a perfect recording, I'm more likely to let the sound drift over me - i.e. I may not listen so attentively. The miracle of recorded sound is more apparent when it's flawed. That said, I prefer hi-fi modern recordings anyday.

[LeMartinPecheur]

Not really. It's because it take more effort to listen. With a perfect recording, I'm more likely to let the sound drift over me - i.e. I may not listen so attentively. The miracle of recorded sound is more apparent when it's flawed. That said, I prefer hi-fi modern recordings anyday.

Ah, most interesting EA. Perhaps for both of us there's an element of 'More effort put in, more enjoyment out'?

I think you're saying that the effort of listening through surface noise, bandwidth restriction, etc helps you to focus better on the music itself - I can relate to that. And perhaps the actual physical effort of pulling out one 78 (finding it first come to that!) and setting it (one 78 AND one musical opusculum) in motion gives a more active physical involvement before we set our ears to work?

[teamsaint]

ts that's what I was thinking when i saw this thread. Nothing like a spot of Springsteen, the Stones, Rod S or ZZ Top for pumping you up

Mary - please would you identify the bird in your avatar? The image is a bit small, but a warbler of some kind?

Richard..if you are into a bit of that kind of thing once in a while, give Jason and the scorchers a listen on youtube....( perhaps Lost Highway or Absolutely Sweet Marie )..blistering american country rock..seeing them tomorrow after a 30 year wait !! Veryexcited !!
As LMP rightly points out, the act of selecting just one song to listen to at a time can be a rewarding way of listening. I certainly spend an evening every so often doing just that. my singles collection is something is very dear to me !

Edit..the kids think its a bit bonkers choosing one song at a time out a big wooden chest of singles, but what do they know ?!