For the past couple hours I've had Idagio randomly streaming Romantic Era violin concertos my way that, not only have I never heard, I've never heard of the composers, either. In any case, no matter who Gernsheim and Frohlich were, they came up some engagingly pretty, tuneful stuff. Well-played by soloists and orchestras I've never heard of, either. Fine fidelity. Just call me a contented couch potato.
Classical music thread welcoming your suggestions and why...
My best for Schumann 4 th
Incredible haunting surreal out of this world Furtwangler whose interpretation had never even be rivaled save by Klemperer mastery second, but really only second... Furtwangler here surpass all maestros and taught a lesson ...Perhaps the greatest musical recording among all his recordings, if not, i dont even know which one is over this one....
i stop listening anything after these two, which give their musical direction the power to reveal Schumann obsessiveness near madness and his way to control it with music healing power over tempest...
is it music? It is more a desesperate victorious act to keep control over oneself by music writing ... It is the way Furt, directed it... A glimpse of hope amidst terrors and in spite of it , as a boat lost on sea between sunrising and sun down and directed as such by these two maestros... Sometimes a whirlwind capture us desesperate and is replaced by a false calm and the sun illuminate the darkness to be replaced by fate returning in the turmoil again and again ...
The suggestive power of this music put Schumann beside Beethoven with his evocative power and Furtwangler and Klemperer knows it , it is not another musical piece, but the radiography of a soul...
Sometimes music is more than just music... Here it is the case...
it is not a leisure nor a mere pleasure more a deep vision, crisis, meditation, a trance ...
Any other maestro direct it only as a beautiful musical piece... It is not...It is a mystery dancing in some living soul and here for us to see not just listen ...
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If the world spiritual had a meaning in music it is now...
Furtwangler:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbyEiplksn0
Klemperer :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkU8ULGs4aE
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I’ve been listening to a big box set of Musica Antiqua Koln. There are a lot of the Baroque “usual suspects” here but what is really grabbing me is the Telemann. That composer, who published a veritable ton, is frequently dismissed as being formulaic. Oh, but what a practioner of formulas! The invention seems inexhaustible. He wrote for every instrument of his time but his Violin and recorder pieces seem particularly daring. I need to explore more Renaissance Music. I can’t comment meaningfully on Gesualdo at present. I’ve been meaning to turn my focus there for some time. Marriner and the ASMF are frequently overlooked because they were non HIPP practitioners, but they did pioneering work in terms of popularizing Mozart and others for smaller ensembles. I cherish their records |
Very interesting post ... Thanks very much... No one can disparage Telemann...I know some piece of him that put him at Bach level...( His sonatas for oboe by Holliger ) The problem of Telemann is the same as with Vivaldi and Mozart... They dont need to work as others , musical inspiration comes too easyly , they seat and wrote or play... ... Telemann if i remember published many thousands opus ( in addition to composing more than 1000 cantatas and 600 suites, he also created operas, passions, oratorios, and concertos for a variety of instruments. He also penned numerous passions, ten oratorios, and more than a dozen masses, making him easily the most prolific composer of church music in history. Telemann’s instrumental works include about 125 orchestral suites, 125 concertos, 40 quartets, 130 trios, around 90 solo sonatas, and 145 keyboard pieces. It has been suggested that he may have written more than 3000 pieces).... He never work hard and only wrote tirelessly ... Then disparaging Telemann after listening 100 hundred opus means not much... 😊 Almost nobody know really the music of Telemann... how many hours to listen only half of it ? would it be the best half ? the only problem of Telemann is Bach continuous perfection with way more less works ... 😊 I will go for him too ... Excellent suggestion... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NmRrrfaJB4
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I've got my share of Musica Antiqua Koln LPs & box sets. Whether the stuff they perform is obscure or Greatest Hits, they do it with soul and panache. A particular favorite of mine is the three LP set Deutsche Kammermusik vor Bach, stuff J.S. listened to when he was a sprite. I've come close to wearing out Side One, the side that features the works of Johann Adam Reincken, an under-rated, under-heard composer if there ever was one. A kaleidoscope of moods. Great tunes. Me and the wife saw the ensemble live when they did a concert in Pasadena. After the performance, they joined the concertgoers in the lobby to share drinks & snacks. My wife considered it an imposition to ask the band to mingle with us but I was in seventh heaven. I mumbled a few words in German to 'em and shook a couple hands. |
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