What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[Pulcinella]

Vaughan Williams: Job + Symphony No. 9 (Bergen Philharmonic, Andrew Davis)

I'm sure BBM sang the praises of this release (well, he is an Andrew Davis fan ) but I wasn't that taken with Job when it was broadcast, preferring other versions I have (and not looking for another anyway!).
I'll be interested to read what you make of it; perhaps the symphony fares better.

[Bryn]

I'm sure BBM sang the praises of this release (well, he is an Andrew Davis fan ) but I wasn't that taken with Job when it was broadcast, preferring other versions I have (and not looking for another anyway!).
I'll be interested to read what you make of it; perhaps the symphony fares better.

I will have to listen again. I fell asleep during Job (not an implied value judgement) but was suitably impressed with the performance of the 9th.

[Serial_Apologist]

I will have to listen again. I fell asleep during Job (not an implied value judgement) but was suitably impressed with the performance of the 9th.

People can get fired for falling asleep on the Job!

[Pulcinella]

I will have to listen again. I fell asleep during Job (not an implied value judgement) but was suitably impressed with the performance of the 9th.

There's a BBC MM CD of a BBCSO/Davis Proms performance of RVW 9 (Vol 19, No 10), which I think was pretty well thought of.
The CD even has a quote from the Telegraph (yes, I know) on its cover: Maybe in the hands of Andrew Davis the Ninth's time has come (presumably from a review of the Prom).

[Bryn]

People can get fired for falling asleep on the Job!

No problem. I have been retired for over 2 years now.

Now listening to Steve Reich: Music for 1[8] Musician[s] (Erik Hall)



QOBUZ streaming, not the vinyl disc.

I am reminded of a line from Crocodile Dundee II: "Need garlic".

[Bryn]

Hmm. That's quite enough of that!

[Richard Barrett]

People can get fired for falling asleep on the Job!

... but then again...

There are people who say, "If music's that easy to write, I could do it." Of course they could, but they don't. I find Feldman's own statement more affirmative. We were driving back from some place in New England where a concert had been given. He is a large man and falls asleep easily. Out of a sound sleep, he awoke to say, "Now that things are so simple, there's so much to do." And then he went back to sleep.

[Serial_Apologist]

... but then again...

[Petrushka]

Bruckner: Symphony No 8
London Symphony Orchestra
Jascha Horenstein

Live recording from the Royal Albert Hall, London, exactly 50 years ago tonight, September 10 1970.

[BBMmk2]

Bruckner: Symphony No 8
London Symphony Orchestra
Jascha Horenstein

Live recording from the Royal Albert Hall, London, exactly 50 years ago tonight, September 10 1970.

I bet this is self recommended!

[Stanfordian]

Renee Fleming - ‘Homage’ - The Age of the Diva
Opera Arias from Cilea, Smetana, Tchaikovsky, Puccini, Korngold, Gounod, R Strauss,
Rimsky-Korsakov, Verdi, Massenet, Janacek, Korngold
Renee Fleming (soprano)
Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre / Valery Gergiev
Recorded 2006 Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg
Decca

Pierné
Piano Trio, Op. 45
Fauré
Piano Trio, Op. 120
Trio Wanderer
Recorded 2014, Teldex Studio, Berlin
Harmonia Mundi

[Bryn]

Sonatina for 2 Tubas
3 Morgenstern Songs
Suite of 3 Pieces for 2 Euphoniums
Five Allegories on the Banks of the Nile
2nd Sonatina for 2 Tubas
Symphony for Organ and 6 Tubas.

[Serial_Apologist]

Sonatina for 2 Tubas
3 Morgenstern Songs
Suite of 3 Pieces for 2 Euphoniums
Five Allegories on the Banks of the Nile
2nd Sonatina for 2 Tubas
Symphony for Organ and 6 Tubas.

Loose tubas??

[Bryn]

Loose tubas??

No, no. Jay and his colleagues play tight. No Batey Djangling here. I have been after this disc for some time, finally managing to get it from CDBaby via the amazon.com marketplace. I already know some of the pieces from a concert at Red Hedgehog, some years ago which I recorded in rather less than ideal conditions and microphone placing.

[Joseph K]

eye-blink - Richard Barrett

Enjoying it even more than the first time listening to it.