What Classical Music Are You Listening To Tonight?

[bart]

Originally Posted by tima

There's an idea! I love period costume dramas. A movie actually could be pretty neat. (But one definitely not by the same guy who made that Savall soundtracked movie.) I suppose Connery is too old for the part - I liked him in that Eco movie.

Have you seen "Mozart in the Jungle"?

Meanwhile back at the scriptorium ...

The music on the CD at hand (2 discs) is a delight; you can click on the album picture.

Alamire even has an institute in Bart country, Huis Polyphonie or some such with his name and in association to the Univ. at Leuven. The guy's rep is bigger than imagined.

Thank you Tim.
I have to examine this.

By the way I did like 'Tous Les Matins Du Monde'.
But perhaps it is more beautiful if you speak French...

[bart]

Julian, this one is for you:

Händel - Water Music & Music For The Royal Fireworks - Concerto Grosso No. 5 - Xerxes: Largo
RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski
Alexander Schneider and his Chamber Orchestra
Boston Pops Orchestra, Arthur Fiedler



The works conducted by Stokowski are... something else. He really always did things his way!
Personally, I prefer a little bit more bite in this music.
Recorded in 61, 66, 59 respectively.
Sound is decent.

[AudioNut]

Listening to the glorious sound of very early high fidelity stereo LP records.

Today its HiFi Stereo Festival Volume 1
Berliner Philharmoniker - Herbert von Karajan, Conductor

Gorgeous music played by the best orchestra in the world (for at least a couple of weeks in years gone by.), led by the worlds greatest conductor (during the same period.)

Liszt - Les Preludes, Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2
Tchaikovsky - 1812 Overture (very well done)
Sibelius - Finlandia

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[AudioNut]

Originally Posted by bart

Julian, this one is for you:

Händel - Water Music & Music For The Royal Fireworks - Concerto Grosso No. 5 - Xerxes: Largo
RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski
Alexander Schneider and his Chamber Orchestra
Boston Pops Orchestra, Arthur Fiedler



The works conducted by Stokowski are... something else. He really always did things his way!
Personally, I prefer a little bit more bite in this music.
Recorded in 61, 66, 59 respectively.
Sound is decent.

Aha . . . back in the days when the world, and I, were young. And thank you Bart.

Herr Handel and I used to have coffee together a couple of mornings a week - and Leopold would join us on occasion.

Whose more biting music do you prefer?

[tima]

Originally Posted by bart

Thank you Tim.
I have to examine this.

The International Centre for the Study of Music in the Low Countries "... where the digitization of the musical heritage of the Low Countries is taking place in the new Alamire Digital Lab." ... From Scriptorium to Digitorium, the future is now.

... 'Tous Les Matins Du Monde' ...
perhaps it is more beautiful if you speak French...

Alas, my (non-digitized) heritage is French and there is a certain sweetness to the movie but I am insufficiently continental. (sub-continental?)

[Toccata]

Disc 3 from this set: Geminiani's Concerti Grossi after Corelli No.7-12. Delightful.

[bart]

Originally Posted by AudioNut

Aha . . . back in the days when the world, and I, were young. And thank you Bart.

Herr Handel and I used to have coffee together a couple of mornings a week - and Leopold would join us on occasion.

Whose more biting music do you prefer?

Julian, I think I like Savall's version the best of the ones I own.
But I like this one too, and I am playing it now.



And Julian, from the bottom of my heart, I hope you share Stokowski's health.
This way we can keep on sharing music till 2040 or so.
Seems he was a womanizer too...

[Toccata]

I mainly bought this for the Britten, but the two Shostakovich Symphonies are very well played. Good sound, too--the Sinfonia da Requiem is a bit light in the bass, though.

[AudioNut]

Listening to another old record . . .

Vivaldi, Tartini, Boccherini Cello Concertos

Mstislav Rostropovich, Cello
Collegium Musicum Zurich - Paul Sacher, Director

A Deutsche Grammophon LP, recorded in 1978

Amazing virtuosity by Rostropovich - head and shoulders above the current "worlds best". Very nice music, great sound. The cello sounds like it is in the room with you .

"The greatest cellist of modern time" -- well, who could argue with a statement like that? After all, Mstislav Rostropovich is a supreme virtuoso, a charismatic performer, and a sublime interpreter and virtually every one of his recordings is as good as it gets for the repertoire.

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[cma29]

Originally Posted by cma29

Change of pace...

Bartók: String Quartets Nos. 1-6 (complete)
Takács Quartet



These quartets sound probing and deep to me. The Takács play with distinction and the Decca recording is excellent.

CD # 2 from this set tonight (Nos. 2, 4, 6) These quartets are superb and this recording is top notch. I recommend the Takács to all music chamber lovers here - their playing of these quartets has real fire and the music just leaps from the speakers.