What Classical Music Are You Listening To?

[A Lark Ascending]

No 5 of the latter

(7 being what generally gets called the 8th...confusing!)

Edited August 10, 2016 by A Lark Ascending

[alankin]

Henri Herz – Piano Concerto No.3 Op.87, No.4 Op.131, No.5 Op.180
— Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra – Howard Shelley (piano, conductor) (Hyperion Records)

Edited August 10, 2016 by alankin

[soulpope]

7 hours ago, A Lark Ascending said:

No 5 of the latter

Excellent performances by Segerstam and the DNRSO ....

[alankin]

Franz Liszt 
– Waldesrauschen – Concert Etude for Piano S.145/1
– La leggierezza – Concert Etude for Piano S.144/2 in F minor
– Liebesträume for Piano S.541/3 O Lieb so lang
– Hungarian Rhapsody for Piano S.244/12 in C sharp minor
– Transcendental Etude for Piano S.139/10 in F minor "Appassionata"
Robert Schumann 
– Symphonic Etudes for Piano Op.13
– Theme and Variations for Piano on the name ABEGG Op.1
– Widmung for Piano S.566 (transc. Franz Liszt)
Evgeni Kissin (piano) (Brilliant Classics – Legendary Russian Soloists)

 

[JSngry]

Olly Wilson's song cycle Of Visions and Truth is a seriously badass work. Music which once heard is not forgotten.

Mary D. Watkins writes very affecting music, but Olly Wilson draws blood.

[Balladeer]

Again spinning:

Nina Proll & Trio Salon - Eisler, Hollaender, Weill: Lieder eines armen Mädchens/Songs of a poor Girl (Gramola)

love it

[soulpope]

Earlier today .... :

 

 

 

 

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[Peter Friedman]

Mendelssohn - String Quartet in E flat major (1823)

Kiel - Piano Quintet No.1

[A Lark Ascending]

And the following morning:

Symphony 2 - much more 'American' sounding (in the Coplandy sense) than the first...or the third or fourth come to that.  

Edited August 11, 2016 by A Lark Ascending

[soulpope]

Bruckner 6 ....

[l p]

mostly bel canto arias recorded in the first 3rd of the 20th century.
 

[alankin]

Johannes Brahms – Piano Concerto No.2 in B flat, Op.83
— Arthur Rubinstein – Boston Symphony Orchestra – Charles Munch (RCA Victor Red Seal Records – Sony Music)

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[soulpope]

[Peter Friedman]

Haydn String Quartet  Op.50/3

Mendelssohn - String Quintet No.1, Op.18

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No. 7 of first

Edited August 12, 2016 by A Lark Ascending

[soulpope]

Earlier today .... :

Bruckner 8 ....

[StarThrower]

Choral Works

Features Copland's early Motets, Feldman's Rothko Chapel, the late a capella work, Missa Brevis by Bernstein, Five by Cage, Proverb by Reich.

[six string]

I played something I just purchased by a composer I wasn't familiar with.

In A Monastery Garden, the immortal works of Ketelbey - New Symphony Orchestra of London/Robert Sharples (London/Decca)

Stereo Ffss blue lablel.

 

[A Lark Ascending]

Disc 5

[alankin]

Sergei Rachmaninov – Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op.43
— Philharmonia Orchestra – Walter Süsskind
Karol Szymanowski – Symphonie Concertante, Op.60
– Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra – Alfred Wallenstein (RCA Victor Red Seal Records / Sony Music)
Arthur Rubinstei (piano), CD 41 from:

 
 

[JSngry]

Not sure that I am qualified to do much more than ponder this music, which is its own kind of kick, the joy of pondering. But I'll be dammed to make any claims to a deep, actual understanding. Too many contexts are purposely fucked with, it's a context unto itself, maybe, but then Olly Wilson and...world's are existing that give the appearance of being created, but nobody discovered America, if you know what I mean, it was already there, so not going to make that mistaken as assumption of presumption again, no

[JSngry]

 

 

[A Lark Ascending]

Including his two greatest hits. 

Edited August 13, 2016 by A Lark Ascending

[soulpope]

Earlier today .... :