Webern, Beethoven, Kurtag
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 20 November 2012 14:21 (eleven years ago) link
Cesar Franck continues to frustrate and confound us
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOtejkH8jjw
― a funny thing happened on the way to the forum (flamboyant goon tie included), Saturday, 24 November 2012 20:27 (eleven years ago) link
The last 1:30 of the last movement of Shostakovich's last symphony: one of my favorite passages of music ever.
― my other pug is a stillsuit (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 29 November 2012 22:04 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2012/11/ten-notable-classical-music-recordings-of-2012.html
― Terabytes of FLACS of screaming (Call the Cops), Friday, 30 November 2012 19:28 (eleven years ago) link
there is some shitty programme about westminster abbey on tv and all the choirboys are auditioning for the soloist in allegri's miserere and oh god this kid's voice just cuts out for the high c
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Monday, 10 December 2012 23:50 (eleven years ago) link
same programme had zadok the priest all over it and now i can't stop playing zadok the gd priest so i downloaded a couple of oratorios but none of them remotely approximate that awed stately plaintively phasing intro or or the sudden choral exultation (the second half of zadok is no good)
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Friday, 14 December 2012 01:22 (eleven years ago) link
will try to find that
― clouds, Friday, 14 December 2012 01:26 (eleven years ago) link
Recs for watching Don Giovanni on Netflix DVD or streaming?
― Johnny Hotcox, Saturday, 15 December 2012 15:49 (eleven years ago) link
Just got a CD of Philip Glass music - "Metamorphosis" and some selections from Glassworks and the score to The Hours performed on harp by Lavinia Meijer. Pretty nice. Here's a bit of it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_54NQciqofU
― 誤訳侮辱, Saturday, 15 December 2012 17:38 (eleven years ago) link
To bring this thread (almost) full cycle - this is out a week today: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sibelius-Complete-Symphonies-Tapiola-Finlandia/dp/B0091JQH2Q/
― Terabytes of FLACS of screaming (Call the Cops), Monday, 31 December 2012 12:06 (eleven years ago) link
Oh that's great! Cheap too! Shame they are not including Kullervo but that Bournemouth recording has already been available for a while.
The Berglund/Bournemouth team is almost always worth hearing. Their Shostakovich 10 and 11, Vaughan Williams 4 and 6, and sibelius Kullervo are all close to top choices IMO. So I'll want to hear these Sib symphonies.
― ~farben~ (Jon Lewis), Monday, 31 December 2012 15:47 (eleven years ago) link
Is there a new thread? (long time reader, first time poster)
― flag this post and die (roxymuzak), Sunday, 6 January 2013 20:29 (eleven years ago) link
the 'an attempt at a...' thread is v active right now and for the last couple weeks!
― ~farben~ (Jon Lewis), Monday, 7 January 2013 17:31 (eleven years ago) link
Rued Langgaard's Music Of The Spheres for the first time--a new recording is out conducted by Dausgaard--and was bowled over
from the bowls of ILM, I resurrect this thread to say this is indeed an amazing piece. Watched a youtube of Per Norgard saying he'd slipped this score to Ligeti in 1968, without L's knowledge of Langgaard's music, and Ligeti immediately confessed to a sudden realization of seemingly having been "influenced" by it. Tone clusters, weird, repetitive motifs, harmony that goes even further than Debussy in its total disregard for typical tension/release. The only thing that really gives it away as being a kind of Romantic tone poem is Strauss-y/Wagnerian orchestration. (It also reminds me a bit of Sibelius' later stuff which might support further Norgard connections)
― Dominique, Wednesday, 2 December 2015 23:05 (eight years ago) link
Is it OK if I c&p this to the thread I just started: Rolling Classical (Late 2015-)
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Saturday, 5 December 2015 20:29 (eight years ago) link