MUSIC - What are ASF members listening to?

[tinhat]

Timeless. The variations of the main piano melody always gets me.

Interesting performance. How do you compare that Horowitz performance to Ashkenazy's? Another great performer of Rackmaninoff was Rackmaninoff himself.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tec6swI4IJU

 

[Ves]

Not massively well known... but supposedly his most famous composition.

 

[Ves]

Interesting performance. How do you compare that Horowitz performance to Ashkenazy's? Another great performer of Rackmaninoff was Rackmaninoff himself.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tec6swI4IJU

I've never heard the Ashkenazy version. I'm really a beginner at classical music, so probably not the best person to ask.

Thank you for the recommendation - also liked your link.

 

[Ves]

Off and away into the unknown.

 

[Ves]

 

[Tink]

Enrique Iglesias

Ricky Martin


As we get ready for 2014

 

[Tink]

Simon & Garfunkel

 

[MrBurns]

 

[CanOz]

I'm listening to KKAJ on my iPad, a country music station from Texas/Oklahoma...love a good bit of country now and then!:cowboy:

CanOz

 

[tinhat]

I've never heard the Ashkenazy version. I'm really a beginner at classical music, so probably not the best person to ask.

Thank you for the recommendation - also liked your link.

I'm not much of an expert either but I use to listen to symphonic music a bit more than I do these days - going through a choral phase at the moment (especially madrigals) - but still love a good symphony or concerto - especially the "romantic" composers - thus my love of Rachmaninoff.

Obviously the conductor, band and soloist makes a big difference to any piece and that can be interesting of itself. For example, I love Mahler's 5th Symphony and I've not heard a better recording than Karajan's 1973 recording with the Berliner Philharmoniker. It's hard not to compare any other performance I hear with that one and yet, how do we know that Mahler himself would have been satisfied with Karajan's interpretation? Bernstein and de Waart are other good conductors of Mahler but again - what in the conductor's interpretation is the composer's intention and what is the fashion of the day or the individual virtuosity of the conductor? (Does it matter?) Personally, I find that Bernstein imposed too much onto Mahler's already quite manic and indulgent style.



PS: Bernstein famously performed the adagietto from Mahler's 5th symphony at John Kennedy's funeral.

 

[Julia]

One of my favourites is the Nimrod from Elgar's Enigma Variations. Recently I heard a very old recording where Elgar himself conducted it. It was barely recognisable from what most modern versions offer, and quite awful.

Rachmaninov was always top of my list until I fell in love with Max Bruch's Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor.
So beautiful.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n90Xkpp62jk

 

[pixel]

One of my favourites is the Nimrod from Elgar's Enigma Variations. Recently I heard a very old recording where Elgar himself conducted it. It was barely recognisable from what most modern versions offer, and quite awful.

Rachmaninov was always top of my list until I fell in love with Max Bruch's Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor.
So beautiful.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n90Xkpp62jk

If you love Bruch, you will equally adore Mendelssohn.
Listen to Isaac Stern's rendition: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4iR-2o_pKk
Especially the dreamy 2nd movement (starts at 13:10) is superb.

 

[DocK]

If you love Bruch, you will equally adore Mendelssohn.
Listen to Isaac Stern's rendition: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4iR-2o_pKk
Especially the dreamy 2nd movement (starts at 13:10) is superb.

And if you are partial to Mendelssohn, and have an ounce of Scottish blood in your ancestry, you'd have to love The Hebrides Overture as much as I do, och aye.

 

[robz7777]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ht5-Kk0kKoU

From the recent Great Gatsby film..

 

[Julia]

If you love Bruch, you will equally adore Mendelssohn.
Listen to Isaac Stern's rendition: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4iR-2o_pKk
Especially the dreamy 2nd movement (starts at 13:10) is superb.

I'm pretty sure we've had this discussion before, pixel. I absolutely prefer Bruch, lovely though Mendelssohn is.
When buying the Bruch CD, I've found it's usually with the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in EMinor so you get both anyway.

 

[tinhat]

Rachmaninov was always top of my list until I fell in love with Max Bruch's Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor.
So beautiful.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n90Xkpp62jk

That's a lovely piece of music, but I had to find another recording to listen too. The one you linked to has someone humming into one of the michrophones. I couldn't take it.

 

[Julia]

That's a lovely piece of music, but I had to find another recording to listen too. The one you linked to has someone humming into one of the michrophones. I couldn't take it.

I only listened to the first few bars to make sure it wasn't played ultra slowly which destroys it imo.
The humming would be awful.
My copy is from EMI with Itzhak Perlman as soloist, Bernard Haitink as conductor. 1991.
No humming on this.
The CD before that, now worn out, had a young Korean soloist who was wonderful.

 

[tigerboi]

DRAPHT - SING IT



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[Julia]

As a diversion, and I hope no one minds, it might be interesting to know what music ASF members dislike.

For me it's Klezma, brass or pipe bands, and country.
No interest in most pop but mostly it doesn't irritate me as do the above.

 

[bellenuit]

As a diversion, and I hope no one minds, it might be interesting to know what music ASF members dislike.

For me it's Klezma, brass or pipe bands, and country.
No interest in most pop but mostly it doesn't irritate me as do the above.

Rap and pretty much all kinds of modern ghetto music. Pipe bands and in particular when they are playing Amazing Grace (I have promised to rise up if that gets played at my funeral: I'm even thinking of putting in my will that it is not to be played). Modern style jazz, for instance as played by James Morrisson, I much prefer traditional or Dixieland. Unapproachable opera usually of the German variety (Wagner, except for some pieces). I'm OK with country, some pieces I like, some I don't.

Never heard of Klezma until you mentioned it. I did a Goole search and it offered this piece. If this is representative, I am with you in hating it.