American Classics

[teamsaint]

I will try the Sessions #8 if I get time tonight (my playlist is expanding by the minute!). I can't remember if I've heard it before.

Beefy, re read my post, if you have a minute, I edited it.
Sessions 8 won't lull you off to sleep tonight.....probably !

[EdgeleyRob]

Anyone still have that phone number for cd collectors anonymous ?

[teamsaint]

Anyone still have that phone number for cd collectors anonymous ?

ROFL.
I reorganised mine today...kids stuff compared to most of you lot !
!My Amazon birthday voucher is being stretched well beyond its natural limit...I need to happen upon a big collection in need of a home.....

[Black Swan]

I think we've also forgotten George Rochberg and George Crumb. 2 other composers of note. There are so many.

[Beef Oven]

I think we've also forgotten George Rochberg and George Crumb. 2 other composers of note. There are so many.

Crumb I'd forgotten, but not Rochberg.

I was going to ask for a steer on his string quartets, but I can only take so much in one night!

Some say they are almost up there with the Bartok and Shostakovich quartets.

[teamsaint]

Just wondered if anybody would care to comment on this set of the Bernstein symphonies and Chichester Psalms?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bernstein-Chichester-Psalms-Symphonies-Nos/dp/B000031WYI/ref=sr_1_21?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1359319340&sr=1-21

Thanks

[Black Swan]

Agreed, we can save American String Quartets for another day.
thanks for starting an interesting thread.

[Beef Oven]

I think we've also forgotten George Rochberg and George Crumb. 2 other composers of note. There are so many.

And I think the goal we may have subconsciously set ourselves on this thread is to get to every one of them!

Agreed, we can save American String Quartets for another day.
thanks for starting an interesting thread.

Agreed, another day!

[MrGongGong]

Crumb I'd forgotten, .

How could you ?
Total genius IMV
wonderful stuff

[teamsaint]

How could you ?
Total genius IMV
wonderful stuff

well you kept that to yourself, Gongers !!
Still the secrets out. or is it, like sessions 8 , for professionals only?!

Edit.....any particular Crumbs you would throw our way, if we were inclined to listen, please?!

[MrGongGong]

I'm sure we've discussed Crumb before ?
but
Black Angels is one of the greatest string quartets of the last century for starters
the most terrifying opening in music
and definitely not "relaxing classics"

[teamsaint]

I'm sure we've discussed Crumb before ?
but
Black Angels is one of the greatest string quartets of the last century for starters
the most terrifying opening in music
and definitely not "relaxing classics"

I just started listening to it.......woke the cat up !

[Roehre]

Just wondered if anybody would care to comment on this set of the Bernstein symphonies and Chichester Psalms?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bernstein-Chichester-Psalms-Symphonies-Nos/dp/B000031WYI/ref=sr_1_21?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1359319340&sr=1-21

Thanks

Recommendable and preferable to the CBS recordings of the Symphonies.
Both symphonies are played in revised versions, but the differences between the originals (originally recorded on CBS) and the final versions (here on DG) are hardly distinguishable (amended -thinned that is- orchestrations mostly). The Chichester Psalms are in the orchestral version.
It's the serious Bernstein here, but these works are IMO much stronger than his uneven Mass, well recorded with an air of authenticity in the mid 1980s IIRC.

[teamsaint]

Recommendable and preferable to the CBS recordings of the Symphonies.
Both symphonies are played in revised versions, but the differences between the originals (originally recorded on CBS) and the final versions (here on DG) are hardly distinguishable (amended -thinned that is- orchestrations mostly). The Chichester Psalms are in the orchestral version.
It's the serious Bernstein here, but these works are IMO much stronger than his uneven Mass, well recorded with an air of authenticity in the mid 1980s IIRC.

Cheers Roehre....I shall order, on your recommendation !

I loved the Mass at the Proms this year (on TV)....but perhaps its best enjoyed like that.

[EdgeleyRob]

Agreed, we can save American String Quartets for another day.
thanks for starting an interesting thread.

Tomorrow ?