Jeg vil supplere med 3 klassikere, og satser på at en anden har et par Neil Young plader med.
MOZART Concerto for 2 pianos KV365, Concerto for flute & harp KV299, Concerto for horn No. 3. Anima Eterna, Jos van Immerseel. Zig Zag Territoires
GUSTAV MAHLER Symphony No.6
Berliner Philharmoniker/ Claudio Abbado
The great Italian maestro’s return to his former Berlin orchestra in June of last year was obviously a momentous occasion — I wonder if the choice of Mahler’s Sixth was influenced by the fact that it is a Rattle speciality? — and this superlative account of the most tragic of the composer’s symphonies makes it clear that the Berliners were overjoyed to have him back. The conductor’s grave illness during the final years of his Berlin regime make this an apt choice, however: Abbado, like Mahler in this symphony, has stared into the jaws of death. There is defiant anger in the whiplash gait of the allegro energico opening march and mordant sardonic humour in the dance-of-death scherzo. These movements are separated by the serene and beautiful andante. Abbado brings a chamber music-like intimacy to the symphony’s great moments of repose, while the thrillingly sustained finale finds Abbado and the Berlin orchestra at the peak of their powers, devastating in the three “blows of fate” that punctuate this music of tragic conflict. No serious Mahlerian will want to miss this outstanding live performance.
Five stars, Times
Leoš Janáček: Intimate Letters
Pavel Haas: String Quartet No. 2
Pavel Haas Quartet
The Pavel Haas Quartet, a young ensemble named after a significant 20th century Czech composer, has very quickly attained a place among the top quartets. The ensemble won the Prague Spring International Music Competition in May, 2005, and took first place at the prestigious Premio Paolo Borciani competition in Reggio Emilia, Italy one month later.
For their recording debut, the ensemble has chosen Leoš Janáček’s greatest work, the famous and often-recorded “Intimate Letters”, as well as Pavel Haas’ second string quartet.
Pavel Haas was one of the most promising voices in Czech muisc, and would surely have established an international, were it not for his untimely death in Auschwitz in 1944.
Haas wrote the second string quartet, titled “From the Monkey Mountains”, at the age of 26 as a reminiscence of his summer holiday in the Czech-Moravian Highlands, which went by this nickname in Brno at the time. The individual movements are more or less genre images. The quartet joins forces here with the 30 year old internationally renowned percussionist from Edinburgh, Colin Currie, to present the version with percussion instruments.
The programme nature of the work is fully consistent with Janáček. The substance and orientation of the music, however, are entirely Haas, underscored by the prescribed ad libitum use of the jazz band.
lorx skrev:Årets Hiphop albums (Udenlandske)
- The Game: Doctors Advocate
- Nas: Hiphop is Dead
- Vakill: Worst Fears Confirmed
- Ghostface: Fishscale & More Fish
- Ice Cube: Laugh Now, Cry later
- Tha Dogg Pound: Cali Iz Active
- Obie Trice: 2nd Rounds On Me
- Snoop Dogg: Tha Blue Carpet Treatment
- Xzibit: Full Circle
- Dilated Peoples: 20/20
Har været et fornuftigt år, med et par ganske fornuftige udgivelser de sidste par måneder, specielt fra vestkysten.
Årets Hiphop mixtapes (Udenlandske)
- Chino XL: Poisen Pen
- Chino Xl: Warning Mixtape
- Crooked I: Young Boss V.2
- Papoose: The 1.5 Million Dollar Man
- Black Wall Street: journal vol. 1
Årets Tråd (Udenlandske & danske)
- Illdisposed: Burn Me Wicked
- Rammstein: Völkerball
- Papa Roach: The Paramour Sessions
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