Topic: OL' LUDVIG VAN (Read 7601 times)

bk · « **on:** July 23, 2022, 12:06:42 AM »

Well, you've read the notes, the notes spoke of ol' Ludvig Van, and now it is time for you to post until the ol' cows come home.

bk · « **Reply #1 on:** July 23, 2022, 12:07:34 AM »

And the word of the day is: CONSCIENTIOUS!

TCB · « **Reply #2 on:** July 23, 2022, 12:10:48 AM »

Quote from: bk on July 22, 2022, 04:15:04 PM

Then I'll go back to writing.

Oh great! Another snippy post from BK!

George · « **Reply #3 on:** July 23, 2022, 03:56:57 AM »

~~~Excellent Vibes and Xylophones for an Early and Safe Arrival of the Indiegogo Funds!!~~~

elmore3003 · « **Reply #4 on:** July 23, 2022, 04:26:18 AM »

Good morning, all!

elmore3003 · « **Reply #5 on:** July 23, 2022, 04:28:42 AM »

This new television is working my last nerve. I don't know if it;s the telly, the cable box, the cable, or my incompetence, but I turned the TV on at 6:09a.m., and finally got service at 7:20a.m. Jeez!

elmore3003 · « **Reply #6 on:** July 23, 2022, 04:30:17 AM »

Nw that I am awake and crabby, I hope to spend the day being neither. I'gve got some research to do as well as vacuum. Then I hope to doze.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #7 on:** July 23, 2022, 04:32:03 AM »

I also have a new mystery that I am eager to dive into.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #8 on:** July 23, 2022, 04:32:50 AM »

DR George, I am very curious about The Frozen Lozenge. Thank you,

elmore3003 · « **Reply #9 on:** July 23, 2022, 04:45:25 AM »

BK, I cannot find Frank Konwitschny or his Beethoven cycle on Amazon. I'm not sure I'd buy the set - who am I kidding? I can't afford it at the moment - but I'm curious to hear it.

I actually love Beethoven's opera Fidelio as well as its horrifying supernatural offspring, Weber's Der Freischutz. My first recording, maybe not my favorite but I still love it, is Bernstein's. It's a singspiel with spoken dialogue, making it one of the the darkest musicals of the early 19th century.

Between 1801 and 1850, there were several German fairy tale operas (Lortzing's Undine, e.g.) and gothic horror attempts. Marschner's Der Vampyr gets occasional hearings, even a BBC telecast, but it's more silly than frightening.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #10 on:** July 23, 2022, 04:46:25 AM »

Safe travels, DR singdaw!

ChasSmith · « **Reply #11 on:** July 23, 2022, 05:28:00 AM »

Good morning, all.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #12 on:** July 23, 2022, 05:30:15 AM »

I have never heard of this conductor, and judging by his short wiki page, I think we’re not alone. This seems to be the most correct spelling of his name:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Konwitschny

ChasSmith · « **Reply #13 on:** July 23, 2022, 05:32:56 AM »

The page says that in addition to the Beethoven, there are three recordings of Wagner operas. I don’t know if they’re commercial releases, live performance bootlegs, or what.

John G. · « **Reply #14 on:** July 23, 2022, 05:40:19 AM »

Good morning, all.

John G. · « **Reply #15 on:** July 23, 2022, 05:41:10 AM »

Weird night of dreams, mostly work related.

John G. · « **Reply #16 on:** July 23, 2022, 05:42:45 AM »

Wordle in 5. I did not know the word.

John G. · « **Reply #17 on:** July 23, 2022, 05:43:11 AM »

Long, hot day ahead.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #18 on:** July 23, 2022, 05:43:24 AM »

We did Fidelio in Cleveland and I think I most listened to the Toscanini recording along with a couple of others. I’m thinking Klemperer, and maybe I had a Furtwängler. I don’t remember if the Bernstein was one. I’m so vague on this that I’m also embarrassed to say I don’t remember who our singers were. Eleanor Steber had really wanted it, and I sure wish that could have happened. I have our live recording and should dig it out.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #19 on:** July 23, 2022, 05:45:20 AM »

This is our Hot as Hell weekend. Mid 90s today, high 90s tomorrow, and then it falls back into the mid 80s on Monday.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #20 on:** July 23, 2022, 05:46:47 AM »

I did have that Bernstein. It was a casualty of one of my record purges.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #21 on:** July 23, 2022, 05:53:30 AM »

Fidelio in Cleveland is Betty White's new series I think.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #22 on:** July 23, 2022, 05:54:28 AM »

TOD:

I take The Fifth!

Although the man who ran Titanic Records was surprised to hear the Ludwig Von did not write TEN symphonies. Ella set him straight.

John G. · « **Reply #23 on:** July 23, 2022, 05:58:38 AM »

I have been enjoying the recent recording of Beethoven’s second and fifth symphonies stripped down to Emanuel Ax, Yo-Yo Ma and Leonidas Kavakos.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #24 on:** July 23, 2022, 06:04:09 AM »

Most interesting, this early stereo Beethoven.

When BK first mentioned it a while back, I said I thought I had an idea which recording it might be. And I was wrong. The one I'd remembered hearing about in the same vein was a Rene Liebowitz cycle issued by Readers Digest. Those were all pressed by RCA then, and as such, were popular with collectors.

I found a pristine copy at a library sale, and I guess the recorded sound was very nice, but for my tastes, his conducting, while not junked up with annoying idiosyncrasies, also didn't set the world on fire. So I figured I'd probably never take it out again and I let that one go, too. The only two Beethoven sets I still have now are Szell and Toscanini.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #25 on:** July 23, 2022, 06:22:13 AM »

Quote from: ChasSmith on July 23, 2022, 05:30:15 AM

I have never heard of this conductor, and judging by his short wiki page, I think we’re not alone. This seems to be the most correct spelling of his name:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Konwitschny

Thank you! I foujnd the Amazon link. All of the Beethoven symphonies, plus Brahms and Bruckerner, are on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYV_rTYkNO8&list=RDEMH_URfil53xGZd9fSHk5woQ&start_radio=1

John G. · « **Reply #26 on:** July 23, 2022, 06:29:19 AM »

Quote from: ChasSmith on July 23, 2022, 06:04:09 AM

Most interesting, this early stereo Beethoven.

When BK first mentioned it a while back, I said I thought I had an idea which recording it might be. And I was wrong. The one I'd remembered hearing about in the same vein was a Rene Liebowitz cycle issued by Readers Digest. Those were all pressed by RCA then, and as such, were popular with collectors.

I found a pristine copy at a library sale, and I guess the recorded sound was very nice, but for my tastes, his conducting, while not junked up with annoying idiosyncrasies, also didn't set the world on fire. So I figured I'd probably never take it out again and I let that one go, too. The only two Beethoven sets I still have now are Szell and Toscanini.

Dad found a copy of the Toscanini set of Beethoven at a library sale. It was in good condition. He never listened to it, but I did.

John G. · « **Reply #27 on:** July 23, 2022, 06:30:42 AM »

The phone is recharging. This old phone needs recharging sometimes twice a day, depending on how much I use it.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #28 on:** July 23, 2022, 06:32:06 AM »

TOD
I'm not a great lover of Beethoven's symphonies. The last moveent of No. 9 is glorious, and I suppose I like the 6th(?) because it's been part of my life since I saw Fantasia over sixty years ago.

I think I prefer the piano concertos more, along with the Missa Solemnis. I think his British fok song arrangements are interesting.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #29 on:** July 23, 2022, 06:32:41 AM »

Saturday. It is a good day to be snippy.

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