theunderstudy Posted March 11, 2012 Share Posted March 11, 2012 Something from the under appreciated Johann Nepomuk Hummel. The pianist is Stephen Hough, one of our best. Aye, I've heard a lot of Hough's performances and he's quite the talent. Only 50-something isn't he? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theunderstudy Posted March 11, 2012 Share Posted March 11, 2012 Rachmaninov - Cliche, maybe. But its still a fantastic piece. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theunderstudy Posted March 11, 2012 Share Posted March 11, 2012 Ralph Vaughan Williams - Oh, and this yin. RVW's best work for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted March 12, 2012 Share Posted March 12, 2012 Only 50-something isn't he? Born '61, he should be ok for a few more years. :winkold: Wouldn't mind seeing him sometime, though Sokolov or maybe Hamelin would be my priorities. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted March 14, 2012 Share Posted March 14, 2012 Los Angeles Guitar Quartet - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted March 25, 2012 Share Posted March 25, 2012 Mahler - This is a good one, conducted by Klaus Tennstedt. It's making me think it should be picked up for the right price. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarethRDR Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 A Winged Victory For The Sullen - We Played Some Open Chords And Rejoiced For Earth The Had Circled The Sun Yet Another Year Picked this up the other week, one of the best neoclassical albums I've heard in a long while and a terrific debut. Most things that come out of Erased Tapes tend to be well worth a listen, but this is a belter. A Winged Victory For The Sullen is the first installment of the new collaboration between Stars Of The Lid founder Adam Wiltzie and L.A. composer Dustin O’Halloran. On May 24th 2007, in Bologna, Italy, Adam was on tour and playing with the late Mark Linkous & his beloved Sparklehorse, on what would be their final European tour. That night Adam invited friend and colleague Francesco Donadello to see the concert, and Francesco's guest this evening was composer Dustin O'Halloran (Sofia Coppola’s ‘Marie Antoinette’ O.S.T.). Through a strange twist of backstage conversations surrounding passport cache conundrums, and love of Italian gastronomy, a curious friendship began that now has brought forth an offspring of truly curative compositions for the world to savour. The duo agreed to leave the comfort zone of their home studios and develop the recordings with the help of large acoustic spaces, hunting down a selection of 9ft grand pianos that had the ability to deliver extreme sonic low end. Other traditional instrumentation was used including string quartet, French horn, and bassoon, but always juxtaposed is the sound of drifting guitar washed melodies. The recordings began with one late night session in the famed Grunewald Church in Berlin on a 1950s imperial Bösendorfer piano and strings were added in the historic East Berlin DDR radio studios along the River Spree. One last session on a handmade Fazioli piano in a private studio on the Northern cusp of Italy, before the final mixes took place in a 17th century villa near Ferrara with the assistance of Francesco Donadello. All songs were then processed completely analogue straight to magnetic tape. Their secret to harvesting new melodic structures from the thin air of existence was for the duo to push themselves to dangerous territory, realising that clear thinking at the wrong moment could stifle the compositions. The final result is seven landscapes of harmonic ingemination. In ‘Requiem For The Static King Part One’ – created in memory of the untimely passing of Mark Linkous – they have taken the age-old idea of a string quartet and then shot it out of a cannon to reveal exquisite new levels of sonic bliss. Of the 13 minute track ‘Symphony Pathétique’, Wiltzie says ‘after almost 20 years of struggling to create interesting ambient drone music, I feel like I have finally figured out what I am doing’. Notable guest musicians include Icelandic cellist Hildur Gudnadottir, as well as Erased Tapes label comrade Peter Broderick on violin. A Winged Victory For The Sullen is not a side project – it is the future of the late night record you have always dreamed of. The band are currently touring their highly acclaimed, self-titled debut album with great applause. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 2nd movement - Klemperer & Philharmonia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted July 9, 2012 Share Posted July 9, 2012 Alla Pavlova - - Fedoseyev & MTSO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted July 9, 2012 Author VT Supporter Share Posted July 9, 2012 2nd movement - Klemperer & PhilharmoniaYep, that's the one I have. Superb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted July 27, 2012 Author VT Supporter Share Posted July 27, 2012 This Barenboim Beethoven cycle on the Proms is pretty good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted August 28, 2012 Share Posted August 28, 2012 Verdi - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCGbNVbJr-Q, Sinopoli & Staatskapelle Dresden Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted December 3, 2012 Share Posted December 3, 2012 Tarrega - - Julian Bream on guitar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 Unusual instrument fronts this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted February 25, 2013 Share Posted February 25, 2013 Watched the first episode of 'The Sound & The Fury' on catch up last night. BBC4's introduction to the dissonant world of contemporary classical music. Pretty good too. Was quite glad about that because Howard Goodall's 'Story Of Music' on BBC2 a couple of weeks back was (spectacularly) shite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted February 25, 2013 Author VT Supporter Share Posted February 25, 2013 Watched the first episode of 'The Sound & The Fury' on catch up last night. BBC4's introduction to the dissonant world of contemporary classical music. Pretty good too. Was quite glad about that because Howard Goodall's 'Story Of Music' on BBC2 a couple of weeks back was (spectacularly) shite. Have you read this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted February 25, 2013 Share Posted February 25, 2013 No, familiar with it. Don't rate Penguin, Gramophone or Stephen Fry either. Writing about music = dancing about architecture - and all that. CBSO FTW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted May 24, 2013 Share Posted May 24, 2013 Howard Skempton - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tarjei Posted May 24, 2013 Share Posted May 24, 2013 (edited) A Winged Victory For The Sullen - We Played Some Open Chords And Rejoiced For Earth The Had Circled The Sun Yet Another Year Picked this up the other week, one of the best neoclassical albums I've heard in a long while and a terrific debut. Most things that come out of Erased Tapes tend to be well worth a listen, but this is a belter. Can feel myself drifting away.. nice. I don't know much about classical music.. I tend to listen to post-rock if I'm in that mood, but I have listened to Goldmund a lot and it gives that same feeling of just being centered and completely relaxed. Edited May 24, 2013 by tarjei Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StefanAVFC Posted May 24, 2013 Share Posted May 24, 2013 (edited) Just finished a Music degree. When you've analysed classical music to a crazy extent, it makes it hurt to listen to. However I did write my dissertation on Stravinsky and I still love him. However, these 2 remain my favourite pieces of music ever. (I know one is a small movement, but bite me) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVPNJGHY3hE Edited May 24, 2013 by StefanAVFC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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