Classical Music

[hectorberlioz]

Originally Posted by Fat middle

Here, here

I'm sorry I haven't posted in months, but I'm still reading the board frequently.

The blame for my absence must go to excesive work and to a classical music forum I'm getting adicted

Well, in fact I'm not only getting adicted to the forum... It is an emule forum so it cames along with the habit of downloading CDs via emule or via bittorrent. I know this sounds dirty, but I'm finding so many great recordings that I cannot stop

I'm glad you like Teresa Berganza and Emma Kirkby!!! Have you got Pergolessi's Stabat Mater with her and James Bowman. One year ago or so I spent almost a whole month listening to that recording again and again. Emma Kirkby is also wonderful in Bach's cantata BWV 81 (I think that's the number) "Jauchzet (sp?) Gott in alles landen", conducted by Gardiner.

I've spent these months in a very baroque mode and also listening a lot of vocal religious music, but right now I'm coming out of it and am listening more piano and sinfonic music.

Well, I hope to post more often from now on.

Pergolesi's Stabat Mater? Nope, not yet.

Originally Posted by Eärniel

For the start of the Mozart-year, Klara (a Flemish classical radio) calculated you could fill 11 days with all the music that Mozart wrote plus commentary and proceeded to play them all one after another for 11 days. I listened to some of it, but am somewhat embarrassed to say I hardly recognized anything.

11 days? Just Eleven? with all the opera I was thinking somewhere in the 20's...
Well, Wagner's "Ring" lasts about half a day... I havent yet braved it for that amount of time though.

Originally Posted by Mercutio

Do you mean anything else in the Planets or in the whole concert?

In addition to Mars, Venus, and Jupiter,
we are doing Movement I (Gandalf) of the Lord of the Rings Symphony (orchestrated version) by Johan De Meij (This was written in the mid-90s before the movies came out)
and the strings are doing something from the Holberg Suite by Grieg.

It really varies by conductor how much music we do. A few years ago they did tons of stuff (but obviously would've worked on the things a lot less).

We have about 15 hours of rehearsal total (when you take out meal times and breaks and warm ups, etc. Thursday, Friday, and a teeny bit on Saturday, then the concert Saturday night.


I've heard/played Mars so much now.....................

I bought that LotR symphony and gave it to someone for a present. I should've kept it. I did hear the hobbit movement a lot on my computer though.

Originally Posted by Last Child of Ungoliant

i love mars, it is definitely the best of the suite

Aha! you're back. But you're wrong, Uranus is the best one, and Saturn...oh! and Jupiter.

Originally Posted by jellyfishannah

Happy Birthday, Wolfie!!!!!

Happy B-Day indeed! though I'm still not sure if his B-day was on Friday or Saturday...

Originally Posted by trolls' bane

Aww...I missed it?
Oh well, I'd forget my own birthday if I didn't have a calendar or someone to remind me.

Mars is great, besides my being a Martian. Ha! Like Obi Wan Kenobi said, but as though referring to me! "Not the last of the old Martians, Bren. The first of the new."
I fail to remember where Obi Wan said that, but I've seen the quotes on several sites, so I'm taking it for granted.

Anyway, Jerry Goldsmith did Planet of the Apes perfectly. I recorded the score with my recording program directly from the DVD as it was in the drive. On with creative, on with PotA, and poof! I only have to wait eight minutes and then wait a little longer for it to convert to MP3. Well, actually, I just saved it as a wave, but you get the idea.

Young man, what are you doing with an mp3? you ought to have an ipod! Like me!

Originally Posted by rohirrim TR

I just bought the most excellent episode I soundtrack.

The double disccer eh? It's good.

Originally Posted by Mercutio

Which piano version of Pictures at an Exhibition would y'all recommend?

I have a NAXOS recording with Jeno Jando, also with Balakirev's wonderful Islamey piece.


All right, now for the joyous news....
Yesterday I went to Hastings (boo), and of course they didn't have my order in...I did buy a La Boheme and also Handel's violin sonatas. In all I spent thirty something on two things.
Then I got curious as to what other music stores carried cd's...and we drove around and I found this place called Cat's Music. Apperantly the only things they put any worth on were Pop, Rock, Rap, Metal and Electronic. Then they had the "Dollard cd" row, and I found a DG recording of Schubert's G minor mass/Schumann Mignon requiem with Claudio Abbado conducting, Mackerras and Mozart's 40th and 41st, a very strange girl playing Beethoven, Corgliano and Arvo Part (Helene Grimaud), Rachmaninov's Vesper's (which I had already, bought it at Hastings for 18 dollars! ), Erich Kunzel conducting the Strauss's, Tallis performed by King's College (stephen cleobury), and a disc by the masterfully idiotic PDQ Bach ( )....and the biggest prize of all I almost didn't see...
Mozart's Clarinet Concerto/Oboe Concerto, Christopher Hogwood conducting. Super nice disc.

Each for one dollar, eight dollars in all.
Sometimes it's a blessing when people don't know the worth of classical music.

[trolls' bane]

Originally Posted by hectorberlioz

Young man, what are you doing with an mp3? you ought to have an ipod! Like me!

What's an ipod?
No, really, why would I pay for that when I just barely got my first CD player.

Originally Posted by hectorberlioz

Sometimes it's a blessing when people don't know the worth of classical music.

Isn't it?

[Fat middle]

Originally Posted by hectorberlioz

Then I got curious as to what other music stores carried cd's...and we drove around and I found this place called Cat's Music. Apperantly the only things they put any worth on were Pop, Rock, Rap, Metal and Electronic. Then they had the "Dollard cd" row, and I found a DG recording of Schubert's G minor mass/Schumann Mignon requiem with Claudio Abbado conducting, Mackerras and Mozart's 40th and 41st, a very strange girl playing Beethoven, Corgliano and Arvo Part (Helene Grimaud), Rachmaninov's Vesper's (which I had already, bought it at Hastings for 18 dollars! ), Erich Kunzel conducting the Strauss's, Tallis performed by King's College (stephen cleobury), and a disc by the masterfully idiotic PDQ Bach ( )....and the biggest prize of all I almost didn't see...
Mozart's Clarinet Concerto/Oboe Concerto, Christopher Hogwood conducting. Super nice disc.

Each for one dollar, eight dollars in all.
Sometimes it's a blessing when people don't know the worth of classical music.

I wish I could find something similar around here

Very, very good pack for only 8 dolars.

[hectorberlioz]

I listened to all of La Boheme last night. I was crying by the end. It's so darn sad! I love it
Placido Domingo's son pulls a very strange line in the second act...

[Mercutio]

So HB - the Mozart. Is it an oboist or clarinetist?

[hectorberlioz]

Originally Posted by Mercutio

So HB - the Mozart. Is it an oboist or clarinetist?

both! two concertos.

Michael Pay...something like that, and I can't remember the other guy.
The Oboe Concerto is the really good one. Better that Strauss' (no offense Rikard).

correction! Anthony Pay Oboe, Michel Piguet Clarinet.

[hectorberlioz]

Ok.

Added:

Brahms: Piano Conc.No.2/SonNo2
Vivaldi: Four seasons and other wind concerti, and I have a little something for Merc here: the Oboe Concerto by Vivaldi is really really short, but very good.
The Flautina concerto is also very nice.
I know, I know, what on earth am I doing buying The Four Seasons of all music! Well, the fact is that I never owned it, except for on my Vivaldi's greatest, which is now messed up.

[trolls' bane]

Keep the music alive!

[hectorberlioz]

Added:

Vivaldi: concert for the Polish prince
Mozart: Violin Concertos 1-5/sinfonia concertante

I also rechecked Nielsen's first four symphonies, Sibelius' Kullervo, Strauss' Vier lietze lieder, and the Schumann, Lalo and Saint-saens cello concertos out of the library.

Nielsen's third is so...good...."A"!

[trolls' bane]

Excellent work!

[Janny]

On the bidding of a shouting composer, I'd like to list my recent aquistions.

I found it! I found Bach's "Musical Offering" (which in German could equally mean "Musical Victim"...) This is significant because it contains the Canon 5 a 2: Canon circularis per Tonos. The one I've been nattering on about.

I also bought "Classic Yo Yo" (heavily reduced price), primarily because it contained the prelude to Bach's Cello Suite, No.1... which is what he was playing when Josh hears sirens...

[Mercutio]

Ahhh thank you for the b-day wishes Janny, and clean out your pm box

Btw, of the two/three colleges I'm really down to, one of them has a freshmen honors program where I'd spend 14 weeks (spring-semester) in London studying Western Civ. It sounds very exciting, if I decide to enroll there.

Classical music...ah... Milhaud chamber music, woodwind...excellent. That and Nielsen.

[trolls' bane]

Been really into Vivaldi's Winter because of the KUSC membership drive. It's one of the songs they conveniently play only during the membership drive, and then talk over it. Luckily, I have it on CD.

[hectorberlioz]

Oo! Three people posting who arent me...I'm almost ashamed to post myself...
Merc, there's a Naxos disc called "scandinavian wind quintets" or the like, and one is by Nielsen. Is that one you have? Or have you played in a performance of?

Janny, I'm glad you found Bach's artillery.

TB, It sounds to me that KUSC is very like NPR during membership campaigns...subtly pretending that the thing they want is your noble personage listening to their unworthy program...but really they just want green grub. And all of it is so incredibly transparent

and by the way ladies and gentlmen, when we hit the landmoark thousand posts-this thread will have to be closed...please let me open the next one, I plan on doing a fancy speech etc...
I'm also going to try and have this thread saved in the archives.


EDIT!
Also ordered some things on amazon.
A box set of all of Dvorak's Symphonies (Istvan Kertesz), Mahler's First (james judd florida PO), and yet a ANOTHER disc of Berlioz's Overtures, this time because the other one missed out on including the Rob Roy overture...though its not wonder, that disc amanaged to be 75 odd mins long, and the Rob Roy is roughly 14 mins long.

[Mercutio]

Originally Posted by hectorberlioz

Oo! Three people posting who arent me...I'm almost ashamed to post myself...
Merc, there's a Naxos disc called "scandinavian wind quintets" or the like, and one is by Nielsen. Is that one you have? Or have you played in a performance of?

You are correct

[trolls' bane]

Originally Posted by hectorberlioz

TB, It sounds to me that KUSC is very like NPR during membership campaigns...subtly pretending that the thing they want is your noble personage listening to their unworthy program...but really they just want green grub. And all of it is so incredibly transparent

Hey! Be nice! *stands in front of KUSC doors defensively*
But they COULD be less obnoxious about it. They repeat so constantly it's no wonder they have to do so many membership drives.

[trolls' bane]

I'm currently in the process of recording all of Holst's Planets.

[hectorberlioz]

Originally Posted by trolls' bane

Hey! Be nice! *stands in front of KUSC doors defensively*
But they COULD be less obnoxious about it. They repeat so constantly it's no wonder they have to do so many membership drives.

That's what I mean!

*sighs...taps fingers waiting for music to arrive at the PO...*

[trolls' bane]

Keep the music alive, they say. Keep the music alive!

[hectorberlioz]

added:

Carl Davis: 1925 film score for Ben-Hur
Mozart: Syms.nos. 38&39/Marinner
Beggar's Opera
Scandinavian Wind Quintets
Stradella: Christmas Cantata
Brahms: Violin Sonatas/Aaron Rosand
Dvorak: The Symphonies/Kertesz (*a great box set!!)
Mahler: Sym.no.1/James Judd (needed a new one)
Shankar: Sitar Concertos