What are you listening to? Part III

[LizKat]

The "killing November" program is off to a good start lol. Dueling performances of La Bohème today.

1. Freni, Pavarotti, von Karajan / Berlin Philharmonic
2. Caballé, Domingo, Solti / London Philarharmonic

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[Scepticalscribe]

I Only Have Eyes For You - The Flamingos.

 

[honestone33]

All Out Of Love, Air Supply, Live in Hong Kong:

 

[Apple fanboy]

Dire Straights. Specifically the album Money for Nothing.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Dire Straights. Specifically the album Money for Nothing.

Brilliant group, superb album, terrific track.

 

[redshifted]

Grateful Dead - Europe '72 (Live)

Still have the original vinyl lol

Medeski ...

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Sun Ra ...

Miles (I caught that tour) ...

shriekback ...

 

[S.B.G]

 

[LizKat]

The incomparable Martha Argerich this morning, playing Ravel's jazzy Piano Concerto in G. She's as amazing here in a 2016 live performance, in her 70s, as she was in her 20s. Performance was with L'Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg / Emmanuel Krivine conducting. (There are additional pieces in in the concert video, including Ravel's Bolero).

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[hawkeye_a]

Flight of the Conchords - Cheer Up Murray
😁

 

[LizKat]

Beethoven: Symphony No 8 in F major

Daniel Barenboim conducting West-Eastern Divan Orchestera, BBC Proms, 2012

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Beethoven: Symphony No 8 in F major

Daniel Barenboim conducting West-Eastern Divan Orchestera, BBC Proms, 2012

A brilliant (if underrated) symphony, finding itself - perhaps a little unfortunately - placed between the brio and sheer verve of the Seventh, and the magisterial power of the Ninth.

 

[LizKat]

Yes I do like the Eighth, for its glances back at Haydn and a kind of playfulness, perhaps surprising for being so late among his symphonies. That one and the Sixth are both underrated I think.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Yes I do like the Eighth, for its glances back at Haydn and a kind of playfulness, perhaps surprising for being so late among his symphonies. That one and the Sixth are both underrated I think.

Yes, there is a surprising what you term "playfulness", a sort of "lightness of touch" (especially when contrasted with the power and bombast and force of the Fifth, Seventh, and Ninth).

The Sixth used to be my mother's favourite; as a child, I had initially favoured the Seventh, and also the Fifth (children aren't subtle), then came to admire the Sixth as my mother played it for me.

But, the Ninth blew me away when my father introduced me to it - he had a wonderful double LP (Deutsche Grammophon) of the Eighth and Ninth combined.

 

[D.T.]

Cannot get enough of this, pure genius:

 

[S.B.G]

Cannot get enough of this, pure genius:

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As the page loaded to see your post, for a nanosecond, I saw your comment before the photo loaded and I thought you were talking about Tool. 😏

 

[LizKat]

As the page loaded to see your post, for a nanosecond, I saw your comment before the photo loaded and I thought you were talking about Tool. 😏

LOL and I, about Mozart.

Well they're winners all, no?

I'm sticking w/ Mozart for today....


At the moment, pianist Alfred Brendel, Mozart Piano Concerto No. 15 in B Flat, K 450

Academy of St.Martin-in-the-Fields conducted by Sir Neville Marriner

The video is audio of a digitized version of a Philips recording released around 1980-81. I believe the performance was recorded in London in 1979.

Mozart, himself a pianist, found the K.450 one of his more technically demanding piano concertos. Also notable in this work is more extensive scoring for wind instruments than in other of his earlier piano concertos.

The original vinyl recording also included the K.467 concerto, #21 in C Major (still occasionally referred to as the "Elvira Madigan", because music from the Andante of that work, as performed by Géza Anda, was featured in the 1967 Swedish film by that name).

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Some of the music of Alexandre Desplat: The soundtracks from Fantastic Mr Fox, and Grand Hotel Budapest.
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LOL and I, about Mozart.

Well they're winners all, no?

I'm sticking w/ Mozart for today....


At the moment, pianist Alfred Brendel, Mozart Piano Concerto No. 15 in B Flat, K 450

Academy of St.Martin-in-the-Fields conducted by Sir Neville Marriner

The video is audio of a digitized version of a Philips recording released around 1980-81. I believe the performance was recorded in London in 1979.

Mozart, himself a pianist, found the K.450 one of his more technically demanding piano concertos. Also notable in this work is more extensive scoring for wind instruments than in other of his earlier piano concertos.

The original vinyl recording also included the K.467 concerto, #21 in C Major (still occasionally referred to as the "Elvira Madigan", because music from the Andante of that work, as performed by Geza Anda, was featured in the 1967 Swedish film by that name).

Some of the recordings that I bought still referred to "the Elvira Madigan".

Actually, the movie was very popular in art house and cultural circles - in Europe; indeed, I saw it on one of the state TV channels over thirty years ago.

 

[D.T.]

As the page loaded to see your post, for a nanosecond, I saw your comment before the photo loaded and I thought you were talking about Tool. 😏

Hahaha, well, that goes without saying

 

[S.B.G]

LOL and I, about Mozart.

Well they're winners all, no?

I'm sticking w/ Mozart for today....

I could say the same about Mozart, too. My favorite classical composer.

Hahaha, well, that goes without saying

Hahaha, yeah, there are lots of talented genius artists out there.

If I can find a way to work Tool in, I do!

 

[LizKat]

Some of the music of Alexandre Desplat: The soundtracks from Fantastic Mr Fox, and Grand Hotel Budapest.

I really, really like the music Alexandres Desplat writes for films, I must have nearly a dozen by now.

Some of the recordings that I bought still referred to "the Elvira Madigan".

Actually, the movie was very popular in art house and cultural circles - in Europe; indeed, I saw it on one of the state TV channels over thirty years ago.

I have a DVD of that movie, I saw it first in an art house in NYC when it first came out and was quite taken by it. In the USA it was widely admired for its cinematography and selections of music (it also had some of Vivalid's Four Seasons in it).

But, and not surprisingly at least for the times here in the States, the film also got panned by some critics for being too slow moving, and by some commentators for "celebrating" the male character's desertion of family and military (usually making reference to Americans who fled to Canada rather than serve during the Vietnam War). The story --adapted from a true one in the 1850s-- is really more about Elvira than about her companion the lieutenant Sixten Sparre, but some viewers don't pick up on the deep changes that Elvira undergoes in leaving her circus performer identity behind to claim a woman's life for herself in the brief time she spends with Sparre.

That music, the Andante of Mozart's K.467, was also used by Marvin Hamlisch in part of the soundtrack of a James Bond film, The Spy Who Loved Me (1977).

 

[honestone33]

Regarding "concert hall" settings for songs, here is one of the best: Lionel Ritchie, "Say You, Say Me", sung at the Symphonica in Rosso in 2008:

Definitely wished I was there! I especially appreciate it when the artist lets the audience sing some of the lyrics also. Totally awesome!

 

[Scepticalscribe]

I really, really like the music Alexandres Desplat writes for films, I must have nearly a dozen by now.




I have a DVD of that movie, I saw it first in an art house in NYC when it first came out and was quite taken by it. In the USA it was widely admired for its cinematography and selections of music (it also had some of Vivalid's Four Seasons in it).

But, and not surprisingly at least for the times here in the States, the film also got panned by some critics for being too slow moving, and by some commentators for "celebrating" the male character's desertion of family and military (usually making reference to Americans who fled to Canada rather than serve during the Vietnam War). The story --adapted from a true one in the 1850s-- is really more about Elvira than about her companion the lieutenant Sixten Sparre, but some viewers don't pick up on the deep changes that Elvira undergoes in leaving her circus performer identity behind to claim a woman's life for herself in the brief time she spends with Sparre.

That music, the Andante of Mozart's K.467, was also used by Marvin Hamlisch in part of the soundtrack of a James Bond film, The Spy Who Loved Me (1977).

Not only were his family and military career abandoned, or deserted, but, if memory serves, his social position, - for he was a nobleman - was, as well. (And in social class obsessed Europe at that time, this was at least as shocking as anything else; I'd wager that his peers in the nobility and military colleagues couldn't understand why he simply didn't take Elvira Madigan as his mistress, keeping his marriage, military rank, and social position, and abandoning or jettisoning her once his desire for her had faded, which would have been deemed perfectly normal and acceptable conduct for someone from his class and background at that time).

Agree that the development - and growth - of her character is extraordinary.

Actually, at university, I knew a few guys - who, on learning of my love for classical music, - earnestly swore that Elvira Madigan was their very favourite piece of music, and that the (true) story and powerful movie adaptation offered valuable lessons for life.

I'm not sure that the lessons that they took from it were the lessons that I might have.

Nevertheless, it is a superb and haunting piece of music, and, if this haunting (and beautifully adapted) movie introduces some young people to the wonders of Mozart's music, I am more than content.

 

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[honestone33]

This is such an inspirational song that REALLY needs to be an American classic: Don't Stop Believing, by Journey. Here are 2 live versions, one with Steve Perry as the lead, and the other with Arnel Pineda:

Steve Perry Version:

Arnel Pineda Version:

The "journey" made by Arnel Pineda from rags to riches is phenomenal. Here is a link that contains it:

Arnel Pineda - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

My wife and I went and saw Journey in September 2008 at a concert which was one of the first ones done with Arnel. and it was clear how great a performer he was! He was definitely energetic. At the end of "Don't Stop Believing", there was a huge montage on the screen with Journey written, but the "J" was in the shape of a gun. That was, of course, in reference to that song being played in the last episode, and last scene, of the excellent TV series "The Sopranos".

 

[LizKat]

Brooklyn folk band Big Thief is my choice tonight: Two Hands, their second impressive album released in five months this year.

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