What Classical Music Are You Listening To?

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Alarm Will Sound performs Aphex

Edited April 21, 2016 by 7/4

[Stefan Wood]

[A Lark Ascending]

Disc 1 of latter...16, 17, 18.

[king ubu]

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[7/4]

John Luther Adams - the Wind in High Places

 

a favorite since it came out 15 months ago.

[Stefan Wood]

[alankin]

Ludwig van Beethoven  (EMI Classics)
— Concerto for Piano Violin and Cello in C major Op.56 "Triple Concerto"
 Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), David Oistrakh (violin), Sviatoslav Richter (piano) – Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra – Herbert von Karajan
 
— Sonata for Violin and Piano No.4 in A minor Op.23
Oleg Kagan (violin), Sviatoslav Richter (piano)

Edited April 22, 2016 by alankin

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Disc 2 - 8, 11, 28

Disc 2 of the tweeting Byrd. 

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The following morning: 

Edited April 23, 2016 by A Lark Ascending

[HutchFan]

Franz Schubert - Complete Songs, Vol. 21 / Edith Mathis (sop), Graham Johnson (p) (Hyperion)
Lieder composed by Schubert during the years 1817 and 1818

[A Lark Ascending]

Off Spotify - lots of vocal and consort music but hard to find a record with just the dance music (as heard in the Henry VIII and Elizabeth I BBC series 45 years or so back...the David Munrow recording for the former seems in limbo). Think this must be one of those discs aimed for sale in English Heritage sites. A mix of vocal, instrumental and a bit of the dance stuff.

 

I don't follow celebrity performers except those with a habit of wandering off the beaten path. Barbara Hannigan is consistently interesting in her choices (and her voice sounds pretty good to my untutored ears). Can't judge the piece on one listen but the last movement sounded very beautiful. 

[alankin]

Ludwig van Beethoven – Complete Sonatas for Pianoforte and Violoncello — part 2: Op.102 Nos.1 & 2, Op.66: 12 Variation on "Ein Madchen oder Weibchen" from Mozart's Die Zauberflote
— Jos van Immerseel (fortepiano), Anner Bylsma (violoncello) (Vivarte / Sony Classical)

 

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[soulpope]

16 hours ago, HutchFan said:

Franz Schubert - Complete Songs, Vol. 21 / Edith Mathis (sop), Graham Johnson (p) (Hyperion)
Lieder composed by Schubert during the years 1817 and 1818

this very good indeed .... one of the highlights from this Hyperion "Schubert Lieder Project" ....

[soulpope]

[Balladeer]

Ludmila Berlinskaya - Scriabin (Melodiya)

[7/4]

The Harmonic Series: musical works in Just Intonation

Ellen Fullman & Theresa Wong
Greg Davis
Michael Harrison
R Keenan Lawler
Pauline Oliveros
Duane Pitre
Zachary James Watkins
Charles Curtis

Edited April 24, 2016 by 7/4

[king ubu]

Hob. XVI:40-42 and 48-52

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Disc 1 of Satie; Disc 1 of Byrd

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[alankin]

Dmitri Shostakovich 
— Concerto for Piano & Trumpet No.1 in C minor Op.35, Concerto for Piano No.2 in F major Op.102
— Yefin Bronfman (piano), Thomas Stevens (trumpet) – Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra – Esa-Pekka Salonen
— Quintet for Piano and Strings in G minor Op.57
— Yefin Bronfman (piano) – Julliard String Quartet (Sony Classical)

 

Edited April 25, 2016 by alankin

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[Larry Kart]

Toscanini's live "Tristan" Prelude and Liebestod, from 1952 I think. Surprisingly decent sound and the performance belies any notion of Toscanini as someone who cared only about orchestral precision (as he saw it) and sucked the blood out of the music. Precise he is here, but the sweep of the performance is overwhelming.

BTW, spurred by an encounter with some Stokowski Wagner discs, I've been getting into "bleeding chunks" Wagner lately -- Reiner and Szell in addition to Arturo and Leopold. Very interesting journey so far. Szell, whom I would not have figured as a Wagnerian, delivered a superb "Siegfried's Funeral March," but his  Prelude and Liebestod was a musical ingrown toenail. Anything else I should try to track down in the "bleeding chunks" area? Furtwangler's Wagner I already know. Klemperer?

[Peter Friedman]

Haydn - String Quartet Op.64/2

Mozart - Symphony No.38 "Linz"

[A Lark Ascending]

Disc 2 of latter - marvellous set. Benefits from using different keyboards, varying the listening.