What classical music did you listen to today?

[some guy]

It's not "aka," though, that's the point. Katerina Izmailova is a revised (cut, softened) version of Lady Macbeth that Shostakovich made after Stalin slammed the original opera.

So I guess my question now is, which version were you listening to, and which version did you see in St. Petersburg (one of my favorite towns)?

[Mat]

Vincenzo Bellini - Oboe Concerto in E flat major

[oisfetz]

Borodin's first SQ
Goldmark v.c.
Alkan The 4 ages piano sonata

[Corno Dolce]

Hello Some Guy,

The version I was listening to was the DVD from EMI Classics conducted by Alexander Anissimov with Nadine Secunde as Katerina and Christopher Ventris as Sergey. I saw the original and unsoftened one in St. Petersburg.

[some guy]

Corno,

Was that performance with Gergiev and the Kirov, or...?

Some

(Oh, yeah. And today I listened to Nørgård's Percussion concerto, Beat Furrer's "still" and "Poemas" and "Chiaroscuro," Ellen Fullman's "Staggered Stasis," Elliott Carter's "Three Occasions," Hans Zender's "Kalligraphie," Wolfgang Rihm's "In-Schrift," Karl Amadeus Hartmann's "Adagio (Sinfonie nr. 2)," György Kurtág's "...quasi una fantasia...," Bruno Maderna's Oboe concerto nr. 3, and Klaus Huber's "Lamentationes de fine vicesimi saeculi" and "Die Seele muss vom Reittier steigen...."

Because this IS the "What classical music did you listen to today?" thread.)

[Corno Dolce]

Hi Some Guy,

None other than Gergiev - man, he has whipped the Kirov *pit band* into fantastic shape. I like it as much as the Vienna Phil.

Cheers,

Corno Dolce


Today I listened to Shostakovich's 24 Preludes and Fugues Op.87 played by Vladimir Ashkenazy.

[Rachmaninoff]

Sergei Rachmaninoff
Piano Concerto No. 1

[Corno Dolce]

Shostakovich: Beethoven of the Twentieth Century.

His 7th Symphony "Leningrad".

[janny108]

Hi Some Guy,

None other than Gergiev - man, he has whipped the Kirov *pit band* into fantastic shape. I like it as much as the Vienna Phil.

Cheers,

Corno Dolce


Today I listened to Shostakovich's 24 Preludes and Fugues Op.87 played by Vladimir Ashkenazy.

Gergiev used to be guest conductor for the Vienna PO I believe.
Now I guess his main post is in London?
Jan

[Corno Dolce]

Hello janny108,

Gergiev's main post is in London? If my memory serves me correctly, I think that he guest conducts on a very regular basis the London and New York Phil. He is as *hot* as they come but the Mariinsky Theatre and the Kirov are his *roots*.

Seriously, guys like Gergiev are such hot property and so in demand that any Board of Directors for any Orchestra of note will most likely offer some REALLY sweet guest conductorship for at least six figures before the decimal point - we're talking major league bucks here. Corporate donors and private philanthropists associated with a very select number of Orchestras compete with each other to see who can best the others offer - Its about *visibility* - being heads above the rest of the *hoipolloi* - and the game is deadly serious - no doubt about it!!!

Cheers,

Corno Dolce

[janny108]

Any other favorite conductors?
Jan

[janny108]

Hello janny108,

Gergiev's main post is in London? If my memory serves me correctly, I think that he guest conducts on a very regular basis the London and New York Phil. He is as *hot* as they come but the Mariinsky Theatre and the Kirov are his *roots*.

Seriously, guys like Gergiev are such hot property and so in demand that any Board of Directors for any Orchestra of note will most likely offer some REALLY sweet guest conductorship for at least six figures before the decimal point - we're talking major league bucks here. Corporate donors and private philanthropists associated with a very select number of Orchestras compete with each other to see who can best the others offer - Its about *visibility* - being heads above the rest of the *hoipolloi* - and the game is deadly serious - no doubt about it!!!

Cheers,

Corno Dolce

6 figures is a lot of money!
I listen to some Russian conductors, they are probably older recordings but there you go.
Jan

[Sybarite]

Not quite today, but yesterday I was at the Barbican in London to hear Beethoven's fifth piano concerto and the ninth symphony, played by the Royal Philharmonic, under the baton of Christopher Warren-Green.

The soloists were Alwyn Mellor (soprano), Louise Poole (alto), Andrew Kennedy (tenor) and Eddie Wade (bass), with members of the Royal Choral Society and the London Philharmonic Choir.

Daniel de Borah was the pianist for the concerto.

Enjoyable (the fifth has been a favourite for more than a couple of decades), but there were small things to criticise. In my opinion (how subjective these things often are), the soprano was too shrill and I wasn't particularly delighted with the extent to which Warren-Green insisted on a very pronounced demarcation between parts of the ninth (not just between the movements themselves, but within the movements). De Borah is a good pianist, but I felt that it lacked a little passion (the second movement was best – it was the slowest I've heard it, but worked well).

[Corno Dolce]

"Russian Christmas" by the St. Petersburg Chamber Choir under Nikolai Korniev.

[NEB]

Crickey - I listen to claassical music as much as I have time for. Right now I'm half-way through Covent Garden's latest version of Carmen which I video'd over christmas.