Music Mockney's Classical Music Thread

Waltraute said:
Cheers for your kind words, but -- Oh, no! Sadly not. It was like every minute of every day was filled with (wonderful) stuff, and we sadly didn't have time. :(
We were so down about it, and soon we'll be back to show our true respect to the incomparable Liszt, I just know it.

So happy to hear from you, super-bass-nani, though! :lol: <3
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Thanks, yeah it's been a while. Glad to see you still refresh this thread every now and then though.
 
I don't know if this is the right place to mention it, but did anyone see Nigel Kennedy perform 'A Lark Ascending' at the Last Night of the Proms on Saturday?Absolutely unbelievably wonderful.
 
yeah, it's not a piece i would have said i liked that much but it was still great. the only other thing i caught from the proms was his four seasons thing, which i just remember having really annoying drums.


any views on what to buy for a young child (4)? i wanted to get something for my cousin's daughter, but wasn't sure what. peter & the wolf and the planets currently seem like the best bets to me. i've never liked carnival of the animals (as it is, it usually seems to be twinned with peter & the wolf on cd) and i'm not sure that the young person's guide to the orchestra is something i would have wanted to listen to. karajan's albinoni/corelli/vivaldi/pachelbel/manfredini collection was the first cd i loved (and it's still my favourite) but i know adagio in g minor's often considered wrist-slitting music as is (for different reasons) baroque music in general - no idea if it's still a staple of school assemblies round the country. probably best to go with something lighter, anyway.

 


Wenn der uralte,
Heilige Vater
Mit gelassener Hand
Aus rollenden Wolken
Segnende Blitze
über die Erde sät
Küss ich den letzten
Saum seines Kleides,
Kindliche Schauer
Treu in der Brust.

Denn mit Göttern
Soll sich nicht messen
Irgend ein Mensch.
Hebt er sich aufwärts
Und berührt
Mit dem Scheitel die Sterne,
Nirgends haften dann
Die unsichern Sohlen,
Und mit ihm spielen
Wolken und Winde.

Steht er mit festen,
Markigen Knochen
Auf der wohlgegründeten
Dauernden Erde,
Reicht er nicht auf,
Nur mit der Eiche
Oder der Rebe
Sich zu vergleichen.

Was underscheidet
Götter von Menschen?
Daß viele Wellen
Vor jenen wandeln,
Ein ewiger Strom:
Uns hebt die Welle,
Verschlingt die Welle,
Und wir versinken.

Ein kleiner Ring
Begrenzt unser Leben,
Und viele Geschlechter
Reihen sie dauernd,
An ihres Daseins
Unendliche Kette.
 
Ha, I was just going to bump this lamenting your absence, Waltraute. Cheers for all you share in this thread.

Have been listening to Silvestrov's Requiem a lot recently. 32.50 to 42.04 lifts the whole piece and is the only bit that doesn't sound like United's season so far.

 
I've still got the second episode to watch, but the recent 'In their own words', on 20th century composers, was pretty cool. They're not exactly great or groundbreaking as documentaries, but it's exactly the kind of old beeb footage that you wish they'd put out so much more of (I know a lot is meant to have been lost forever). Copied from its blurb, there's footage of Stravinsky, Schoenberg, Copland, Walton & Shostakovich.

The first episode's on iplayer for another 5 days: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03y63kv/episodes/player
 
Finally set up foobar as I like, and currently listening to this...

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Concerto No 7 was awesome.
 
So happy to see new posters in here! :D

Here's a great Moonlight Sonata, Barenboim '84 --



Mezzo is such a fantastic fach, Ramschock. Here's some prime Ortrud (Christa Ludwig). Perfect for the new season too - '...dass glücklich meine Rache sei! --

 
I've posted it before, but I don't care...

Mozart, Great Mass in C minor, KV 427, John Eliot Gardiner, Nobel concert 2008



ETA: If you listen to nothing else, at least listen to 37:00 Et incarnatus est.
 
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Just finished listening to the last of Kempff's Schubert piano Sonatas, it's pretty dench stuff. Any pianists/renditions of Schubert you are particularly fond of Waltraute?
 
dumbo said:
Just finished listening to the last of Kempff's Schubert piano Sonatas, it's pretty dench stuff. Any pianists/renditions of Schubert you are particularly fond of Waltraute?
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I'm very fond of Richter, especially like in the D 894 sonata, where he's just the most minimalist of minimalists and so, so relaxed. Like the Pirlo of playing Schubert. ;)



Love Kempff too of course, you post your fave(s)!
 
Here's a couple I really liked



With the 50 Shades of Fisting film coming, it might be the last chance to hear Tallis unsoiled:



Came across this too which I thought was a pretty great performance.

 
Cheers for a great post, dumbo!
With the 50 Shades of Fisting film coming, it might be the last chance to hear Tallis unsoiled
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What? :nervous: & :lol:
They're going to use Tallis' music in that 'RAWK gone wild!'-fanfic-porn abomination? To Google I go!
And now I've seen it. I've seen it all. I'm absolutely speechless. And I can't stop laughing. Good way to take the edge off the nerves before the game.

Here's Arrau playing D 894 to calm us down --

 
Brutally wonderful Xerxes by Ernman today. King Eric! (Best rating from 1-10. LOL (added that just to annoy))
An old Ombra mai fu recording



ETA: Ernman singing the Hammarby song Bajen, bärs och rakade brudar (Bajen (Hammarby), beer and shaved birds), also Henke Larsson suger [...] i Helsingborg (Henke Larsson sucks [...] in Helsingborg) at 2:42 here. Brilliant!

 
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