What Classical Music Are You Listening To?

[Chuck Nessa]

Morton Feldman - Crippled Symmetry: at June in Buffalo.

[soulpope]

[Peter Friedman]

[Ron S]

Shostakovich - Symphony No. 7 "Leningrad" - Vasily Petrenko and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra (Naxos)

Seems appropriate right now.  Something tells me that if he were around today, Dmitry might rededicate this to Ukraine.

 

[Peter Friedman]

Martucci - Piano Trio Op.59      and       Schumann - Symphony No.1, Op.38 "Spring"

[Peter Friedman]

[Peter Friedman]

Mendelssohn - Piano Concerto No.2, Op.40      and      Mozart - Symphony No.38, K.504 "Prague"

[soulpope]

Beloved treasure trove ....

[Peter Friedman]

[Chuck Nessa]

I became familiar with the music of Webern via the Robert Craft set recorded in the '50s. The old box is long gone and I was delighted to discover this reissue now available.

[Larry Kart]

 The Craft-Webern set has never left my shelves. Likewise the Craft-Berg 2-LP set with the Chamber Concerto, and the LP with the Craft-Beardslee recording of Berg's Altenberg Lieder. Those were the days.

 P.S. Many years later I reviewed Marni Nixon's cabaret act. She was excellent. No Webern though, just the songs, and others like them, she had dubbed for the movies.

I also did an interview with the redoubtable pianist Pearl Kaufman, who played the piano part on the Berg Chamber Concerto recording with Craft and dubbed the piano part for Jack Nicholson on "Five Easy Pieces." She was a good friend of the Stravinskys and had some great stories about them and Craft.

[JSngry]

54 minutes ago, Chuck Nessa said:

I became familiar with the music of Webern via the Robert Craft set recorded in the '50s. The old box is long gone and I was delighted to discover this reissue now available.

Ok, it's time.

[Peter Friedman]

Haydn - String Quartet Op.50/5      and      Brahms - Symphony No.3, Op.90

[Peter Friedman]

[Peter Friedman]

Schumann - String Quartet No.2, Op.41/2      and      Glazunov - Violin Concerto Op.82

[JSngry]

On ‎5‎/‎1‎/‎2022 at 4:48 PM, Chuck Nessa said:

I became familiar with the music of Webern via the Robert Craft set recorded in the '50s. The old box is long gone and I was delighted to discover this reissue now available.

Arrived yesterday, Playing now until further notice.

[Chuck Nessa]

19 minutes ago, JSngry said:

Arrived yesterday, Playing now until further notice.

If you haven't already, please read the Amazon review of this set by "jonsj".

[JSngry]

1 hour ago, Chuck Nessa said:

If you haven't already, please read the Amazon review of this set by "jonsj".

That was a good read, especially this:

I preface this review with an excerpt from a book of conversations with the conductor Otto Klemperer, conducted by his biographer Peter Heyworth:

HEYWORTH: What about Webern's music?
KLEMPERER: I don't understand it. I know it, of course. I conducted his symphony in Berlin, as well as in Vienna. But I couldn't find my way into it. I found it terribly boring. So I asked Webern - I was staying in Vienna - to come and play it to me on the piano. Then perhaps I would understand it better. He came and played every note with enormous intensity and fanaticism.
HEYWORTH: Not cooly?
KLEMPERER: No, passionately! When he had finished, I said, "You know, I cannot conduct it in that way. I'm simply not able to bring that enormous intensity to your music. I must do as well as I can." I did so, and it went quite well. I think that Webern was happy when anyone played his music at that time - that was in 1936...

[Peter Friedman]

Schubert - String Quintet D.956

[JSngry]

9 hours ago, JSngry said:

Arrived yesterday, Playing now until further notice.

How is Marni Nixon's German? I don't know enough to tell.

[HutchFan]

55 minutes ago, JSngry said:

How is Marni Nixon's German? I don't know enough to tell.

I can't comment on Nixon's German . . . but I think her recordings of Charles Ives' songs are terrific. 

 

As heard on this CD:

 

[JSngry]

Why did she sing Ives in German?

[HutchFan]

43 minutes ago, JSngry said:

Why did she sing Ives in German?

Nixon sings Ives' songs in English.

I was just commenting on her singing abilities.  Not her German pronunciation abilities.

 

[JSngry]

Oh ..so who could answer that one, then?

[Rooster_Ties]

1 hour ago, HutchFan said:

Nixon sings Ives' songs in English.

I knew he played piano, but had no idea he could sing too…