What Classical Music Are You Listening To?

[mikeweil]

[A Lark Ascending]

Absolute beauty of a disc. The piano quintet especially - some lovely 'orientalisms' like in Debussy and Ravel.  

130 and the Grosse Fuge

Edited May 6, 2016 by A Lark Ascending

[Peter Friedman]

Quartet in e minor (1877) 

Quartet in D major, Op.63 (1888)

[king ubu]

[A Lark Ascending]

Just the Gurney off the first. 

 

[soulpope]

18 hours ago, A Lark Ascending said:

 

130 and the Grosse Fuge

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[Peter Friedman]

Beethoven - String Trio Op.3

[A Lark Ascending]

Disc 4. Absolutely cracking box, is this. A very different Byrd to the devotional choral music you usually hear. Almost folky in places.  

[jeffcrom]

James Dawson - Soprano Saxophone (Crystal LP). I'm not sure why I haven't played this mint-condition 1982 LP for a while. Dawson has a beautiful sound and is a very sensitive player, as are all his accompanists. The music is all from between 1957 and 1980; I particularly like Walter Hartley's off-center "Diversions" for soprano sax and piano and Warren Benson's conservative, but gorgeous Quintet for saxophone and string quartet.

[A Lark Ascending]

No 5 off first; 6 off second. 

Edited May 8, 2016 by A Lark Ascending

[soulpope]

[soulpope]

[alankin]

John Coltrane – Like Sonny (Roulette Jazz / Capitol Records)
— With John Coltrane (tenor sax) McCoy Tyner (piano) Steve Davis (bass) Billy Higgins (drums)
— Coltrane's first recording with McCoy Tyner; nice version of Coltrane's "Like Sonny" 
— Originally issued in 1962 by Roulette as half of The Best of Birdland, Vol.1 (but it was recorded in an LA Studio in 1960)

Ray Draper – A Tuba Jazz [on Coltrane's Like Sonny] (Jubilee Records — Roulette Jazz / Capitol Records)
— With Ray Draper (tuba) John Coltrane (tenor sax) Jon Mayer as John Maher (piano) Spanky DeBrest (bass) Larry Richie (drums)
—  Includes covers of two Sonny Rollins tunes; 1958

 

Edited May 8, 2016 by alankin

[Peter Friedman]

Bruckner - Symphony No.3

[A Lark Ascending]

Disc 2 of the fourth - pick'n mix symphonic poems and overtures; just the Dvorak on the latter.

All on headphones on a brilliant summer's day whilst pottering in the garden. They say it's warmer here than Ibiza. Music's better here, too. 

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And the following morning....

Edited May 9, 2016 by A Lark Ascending

[Peter Friedman]

Spohr - String Quartet No.11, Op.43

Svendsen - String Quintet

[jeffcrom]

Nono - Polifonica/Monodia/Ritmica
Maderna - Serenata #2
Berio - Diffences

1961 Time LP.

 

[A Lark Ascending]

Whilst wandering in the hills above Sheffield yesterday on a rare, perfect summer day. Just the violin sonata off the first. 

This morning:

Beethoven Octet and Septet. 

Edited May 10, 2016 by A Lark Ascending

[Peter Friedman]

Arensky - Piano Trio No.1, Op.32

Martinu - Duo for Violin and Cello No.1

[A Lark Ascending]

Rained and rained and rained today. So instead of garden sorting had my own little festival:

Symph 1 off first,

131 of the Luddy. 

[HutchFan]

Sibelius - Complete Symphonies; Orchestra Works / Sir John Barbirolli, Hallé Orchestra
Disc 1 - Symphonies Nos. 1 & 4

[A Lark Ascending]

Last one is 83 + 82

I'm sorely tempted by the new box collecting up Decca's period instrument recordings of the lot (with the gaps filled with new recordings).  

Disc 1 second half from Mendelssohn - Octet In E Flat, Op.20 - Arr. For Orchestra By The Composer - 3. Scherzo; Overture "A Midsummer Night's Dream", Op.21 - Overture (Allegro Di Molto); The Hebrides, Op.26 (Fingal's Cave) - Allegro Moderato; Meeresstille Und Glückliche Fahrt, Op.27

Disc 5 of Beethoven - 1, 2 & 3

Edited May 11, 2016 by A Lark Ascending

[mikeweil]

Rondeau is a great talent. As on his debut disc with a Bach selection, he has something new and personal to contribute, but not just for novelty's sake. 

Edited May 11, 2016 by mikeweil

[alankin]

Edvard Grieg – Concerto for Piano in A minor Op.16
Robert Schumann – Concerto for Piano in A minor Op.54
— Sviatoslav Richter (piano) – Monte Carlo Opera Orchestra – Lovro von Matačić (EMI Classics)

   
 

Edited May 11, 2016 by alankin

[Peter Friedman]

Brahms - String Quintet No.2, Op.111

Huber - Piano Quartet Op.117