Disk 28 of the Complete Messiaen box, featuring the Quartet for the End of Time and Exotic Birds.
What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III
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Originally posted by cloughie View PostHow did you get on with it? - I’ve never had problems with it, but then I have not got J L-W’s Bruckner fine toothcomb!
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The Real Life is really getting in the way of listening just now but I'm in medias res with:
Bruckner
Symphony No.2 (1872 Original version ed. Carragan). Mozarteumorchester Salzburg/Ivor Bolton. OEHMS CD.
Long, lovely and lyrical at 71'36, scherzo 2nd, probably the best and certainly the most flowingly continuous of the versions of the 2nd. This beautifully-played-and-recorded performance emphasises the feeling of a Pastoral Symphony - only with the Storm at the end!
So if you still find the 2nd a challenge, think of it that way - and listen to a leisurely recording like this one...
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Originally posted by DracoM View Posthttps://areena.yle.fi/radio/ohjelmat/yle-klassinen/
- Finnish online station.
Q: why is it that so many of the online classical stations play so much more adventurous programmes than BBC R3?
I regularly hear pieces / composers I have never heard before.
I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
I am not a number, I am a free man.
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ZOriginally posted by HighlandDougie View PostThanks to a tip-off from a fellow Forumista, I see that Eloquence have announced the forthcoming release of a box of Jochum's Philips recordings, including the LvB cycle.
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Originally posted by cloughie View PostZ
I look forward to that as I remember an old Philips LP of Beethoven Overtures and just googled this - looks exceedingly good
https://www.marbecks.co.nz/detail/10...ngs-on-Philips
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Originally posted by Bryn View PostHopefully, this will turn up on QOBUZ."The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink
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Takemitsu: "Quotation of Dream" - various pieces, including the eponymous work of the CD's title
Peter Serkin/Paul Crossley (Pianos)/London Sinfonietta/Oliver Knussen
Something of a favourite CD, I realised with a degree of melancholy that it might also act as something of a memorial to Peter Serkin and to the much-missed Oliver Knussen. I know that Takemitsu isn't everyone's cup of (green) tea. As Oliver Knussen says in his notes, " ... the most often-voiced reservation about his later work is that it can sound as if it were all cut from the same gently hedonistic roll", but I think that it repays careful listening, rather than, say, letting it all wash over one. Whatever, difficult to imagine these pieces being better played.
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Just downloaded the recommended Takemitsu and Bruckner above.
Currently
Harold in Italy.
LSO/ Davis/Imal
Which with the fillers ( CD 16 in the Philips Analogue box), adds up to 85 mins of music, apparently.
Is this a record ? No its a CD of course.......coat......I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
I am not a number, I am a free man.
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Bruckner: Symphony No 8 (1892 Version by Bruckner and Joseph Schalk)
Münchner Philharmoniker
Hans Knappertsbusch
This is a terrific recording, made in 1963 and technically way ahead of the others in this set. Superb performance too 'where', in the words of Anthony Hodgson, 'majestic grandeur and quiet sensitivity are magically combined'."The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink
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Bruckner
Symphony No.2 (1872 Original version ed. Carragan). Mozarteumorchester Salzburg/Ivor Bolton. OEHMS CD rec. 2015.
I had to come back..... to this exceptional performance, in wonderfully full, vivid sound, of what is, in its original uncut version an amazing symphony.
One that could make a very good primer in Bruckner's true, startlingly original symphonic methods for any listener only familiar with the later, truncated versions. How baffling the pausensymphonie can seem with those leaps and breaks, all so stop-go in the wrong hands...!
So take this one on - that 21' finale is a fantastical symphony in itself. (I recall Caliban saying that the start of the development reminded him of Elliott Carter....! It is a remarkable, quirky passage for brief wind/string figures).
The Mozarteum have a lovely warmth, delicacy - and considerable climactic robustness! Any Brucknerian owes it to themselves to hear this marvellous achievement.
The 2nd is a work I can become obsessed with.... I may have to seek out Blomstedt again just to hear how he fits all this into 62'....Last edited by jayne lee wilson; 13-03-20, 09:47.
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