What are you listening to now - I ?

[Richard Barrett]

Bruckner 8,VPO,Giulini.

I've listened to dozens of recordings of that piece and I keep coming back to this one. The first movement in particular is shattering.

That's interesting about the Ligeti violin concerto, the Gawriloff/Boulez recording is the only one I have (though I heard Irvine Arditti play it some time in the late 20th century) and I had no idea it was supposed to contain microtones.

[slarty]

Watching rather than listening, opening night from La Scala - La Traviata c. Gatti, with Damrau, Beczala and Lucic.
Act I going very well, both in good voice. modern day production.

[BBMmk2]

Is that the one that you gave a youTube link for a week or so ago, ts? If so; yep - it's ryddu good! The opening much closer to what Ligeti writes in his score than the (excellent in its own terms, but tame by comparison) Gawriloff/Boulez recording, even though the composer was present at those sessions. The briney tang of the different tunings really comes out in the Kopo/Eotvos version - I don't think Boulez much cared for microtonal tunings once he turned 40.

Perhaps once passed 40, life changes!?!?!?

[Roehre]

Today:

Schnittke:
Requiem (1975)

Stockhausen:
Tierkreis (1975/’77) (piano-version)

Strauss:
Orchestral songs opp.36/1, 68/2-4, 39/4, 27/1, 10/1 and 27/4

Schein;
Banchetto musicale (1617)

Brian:
English suite no.1 op.12 (1905/’06)

JSBach:
Cantatas BWV 128 and 154

[Flosshilde]

Vol 5 in Hypewrion's Complete Strauss songs, with Kiera Duffy. At this moment it's Morgen (Op 27 No. 4)

[teamsaint]

Is that the one that you gave a youTube link for a week or so ago, ts? If so; yep - it's ryddu good! The opening much closer to what Ligeti writes in his score than the (excellent in its own terms, but tame by comparison) Gawriloff/Boulez recording, even though the composer was present at those sessions. The briney tang of the different tunings really comes out in the Kopo/Eotvos version - I don't think Boulez much cared for microtonal tunings once he turned 40.

I have to assume it was that one. Petrushka seemed to confirm this.
Interesting comments, Ferney, as ever, especially re the score.

[Stanfordian]

Bruckner:
Symphony No. 9
Berliner Philharmoniker/Gunter Wand
Recorded live 1998 Berlin
RCA Victor Red Seal

Bryn Terfel - Bad Boys
Boito, Puccini, Donizetti, Verdi, von Weber, Gershwin, Weill, Sullivan, Sondheim, C.M. Schonberg, Ponchielli, Rossini, Beethoven, Gounod, Mozart;
Bryn Terfel, bass-baritone
Balcarras Crafoord, baritone (Spoletta, Tosca)
Anne Sophie von Otter, mezzo-soprano (Mrs Lovett, Sweeney Todd)
Swedish Radio Choir and Symphony Orchestra/Paul Daniel
Recorded 2009 Stockholm
Deutsche Grammophon

[Mahler's3rd]

Shostakovich Symphony No 11, BBC National Orchestra Of Wales/Thomas Sondergard from this years Proms

[Petrushka]

Shostakovich Symphony No 11, BBC National Orchestra Of Wales/Thomas Sondergard from this years Proms

I only went to this Prom because I wanted to go to the John Le Carre talk at the Royal College of Music earlier that same evening. In the event it proved to be one of the best Proms of the season

[Mahler's3rd]

Alas Petrushka, I couldnt get there but the performance is superb, it's so great I can access so many proms via you tube, we almost have an unlimited selection of recording's we can watch/listen to. The Nintendo Wii is good for one thing at least, can pull up you tube and watch anything in widescreen

[Black Swan]

John Adam's El Nino
Christmas Oratorio

New recording recommended yesterday on CD review.
Cristobal de Morales
O Magnum Mysterium
Christmas Motets
Weser-Renaisance
Manfred Cordes

Now Early Music Show
Academy of Ancient Music 40th Anniversary

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Bach: Cantata BWV 135 (Leusnik & co) BRILLIANT
Feldman: Violin and Orchestra; Wildman/FRSSO/Pomarico ECM
Lachenmann: Interieur; Caskel, Schwankungen am Rand; SWFSO/Bour, Air; Diersten/Stuttgart State Orhestra/Zagrosek.

[Bryn]

Disc 97 from the RCO's "The Radio Legacy" set:

Henze: Antifone
Ligeti: Lontana
Takemitsu: November Steps
Ligeti: San Francisco Polyphony
Lutoslawski: Mi-parti

All RCO, Haitink

Having thought it a bargain getting the set direct from the RCO (£424.26), I see that amazon.co.uk have it at £400.37 including p&p.

[Petrushka]

Having thought it a bargain getting the set direct from the RCO (£424.26), I see that amazon.co.uk have it at £400.37 including p&p.

That's the gamble!

[soileduk]

Richard Strauss.
Don Juan.
Death and Transfiguration
Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks
Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.