The adagio in the 1931 recording of the Op.78 in G, played by Adolf
Busch & Rudolf Serkin, if you can find it, is one of the most
heartbreaking recordings ever made, up there with Kipnis singing "O Tod,
wie bitter bist du". I prefer symphonies 2 or 3, too, depending on the
weather.
mj
Joanna Boulter wrote:
> Yes yes, the Regenlied violin sonata (G maj) particularly (which I
> always have to control myself severely not to sing on those lovely
> marble staircases in public buildings), and the ones for cello which
> remained beyond my technique to play though I did hear Pierre Fournier
> perform them in the early '60's. But do you know the sonatas for
> clarinet or viola? still trying to make up my mind which incarnation I
> prefer. As for orchestral stuff, prefer symphonies 2 and 3. And do you
> know the two Serenades for small orchestra? Earlyish works, and scored
> without violins -- lovely tone and texture, and there's a good
> performance by the LSO under Istvan Kertesz, on Decca.
>
> My heart's with chamber-music, really, except for the odd choral work
> that I've sung in, particularly Bach.
>
> best joanna
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Douglas Clark"
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> Brahms: You have just got to love the Fourth Symphony and the Academic
> Festival overture. The other symphonies arent bad.
>
> But what I have replayed for forty years now have been the Violin Sonatas
> with Joseph Suk and Julius Katchen. (I heard Joseph Suk play one live on
> one of his vists to the Bath Festival which starts tomorrow with
> Vivaldi's
> Gloria). And then there are the Cello Sonatas and we must not forget the
> magnificent German Requiem. Brahms was one of the good guys, he even
> fell in
> love.
>
> Douglas Clark, Bath, Somerset, England ....
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Douglas Barbour"
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> Hey Joanna
>
> I like Brahms, too, but mostly his work for small groups (as we say in
> jazz).
>
> I am always happy to hear comments on choral music as it's not my major
> interest, & I tend to listen to instrumental most of the time....
>
> Doug
> On 19-May-05, at 1:47 PM, Joanna Boulter wrote:
>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "MJ Walker" <[log in to unmask]>
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>>> .Actually, Ken, Fauré was not so religious as all that; I quote
>>> from a convenient website
>>> (http://members.macconnect.com/users/j/jimbob/classical/
>>> Faure_Requiem.html):
>>> Fauré spent much of his life in the service of the church, but his
>>> personal views on religion were unconventional at best, downright
>>> cynical or agnostic at worst. These are his thoughts on
>>> spirituality in the /Requiem/:"Everything I managed to entertain in
>>> the way of religious illusion I put into my Requiem, which moreover
>>> is dominated from beginning to end by a very human feeling of faith
>>> in eternal rest."< Nox est perpetua una dormienda. And Verdi was an
>>> atheist, I believe. Berlioz wasn't too croyant, either, so that
>>> more or less wraps up 19th C requiems of genius...(Well, OK,
>>> Cherubini, Dvorak...)
>>> mj
>>
>>
>> Will no one speak up for Brahms? He wasn't much of a believer in a
>> regular church, and wrote his Requiem to texts from the German bible,
>> hence its name, 'A German Requiem'. I happen to think it's a
>> magnificent work, both in the music and in his choice of texts; but
>> then, I like and admire Brahms.
>>
>> best joanna
>>
> Douglas Barbour
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> Words cling to other words
> As we have seen, although even these are
> Migratory and the forgotten shows through as correction.
> This noun has been defunct for centuries.
>
> Ann Lauterbach
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