What Classical Music Are You Listening To?

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[A Lark Ascending]

Berlioz - King Lear; Colin Matthews - Berceuse for Dresden; Mahler - Das Lied von der Erde.  Mark Elder and the Halle (BBC iPlayer)

 

A Prom I went to three weeks back that is on the iPlayer currently. Fascinating to watch it on screen with the key instruments spotlighted at the right moments. In the Royal Albert Hall (or where I was sitting) the tenor was almost overwhelmed by the orchestra - here the balance was perfect. They obviously do some patching too - Das Lied opened with a really sour fluff from one of the horns; totally vanished here (along with the clapping after the first couple of movements by some of the audience who had not read their concert decorum instructions). Das Lied was, as ever, overwhelming.

 

 

 

 

Edited September 6, 2016 by A Lark Ascending

[StarThrower]

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2 hours ago, StarThrower said:

Magnificent ....

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Lyric Symphony off the second. 

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Actually disc 1 from the DG Henze box that has Symphonies 1, 5, 6 but that cover on the mini-sleeve.

From the dark and sardonic (well, maybe not the Korngold) to the roots of contemporary film/TV music:

[Balladeer]

Sergio Monteiro plays  Henrique Oswald (Grand Piano)

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Earlier today .... :

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2, 3, 4 of the Henze

[alankin]

William Lawes – Suite for 2 Lutes in D major
Ferdinando Carulli – Duo for 2 Guitars in G major Op.34
Fernando Sor – Duet for 2 Guitars Op.34 "L'encouragement"
Isaac Albéniz – Cantos de España Op.232/4 Córdoba
Enrique Granados – Goyescas: Intermezzo
Manuel de Falla – La vida breve: Spanish Dance No.1
Maurice Ravel – Pavane pour une infante défunte
— Julian Bream (guitar), John Williams (guitar) (RCA Red Seal / Sony Classical)

   
 

Edited September 8, 2016 by alankin

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Edited September 8, 2016 by A Lark Ascending

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Earlier today ....:

Magnificent ....

[alankin]

Frédéric Chopin – Piano Concerto No.1 in E minor, Op.11
— Arthur Rubinstein – New Symphony Orchestra of London – Stanislaw Skrowaczewski (RCA Victor Red Seal / Living Stereo – Sony Music)

 
 

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Just the Symphony of Psalms

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[JSngry]

Need to rewatch after the sun goes down. Daylight seems to divert from my ability to really focus on most of these pieces, as tbe demarcations between beginning, middle, and end are kinda oblique sometimes.

Not talking about Threnody either, that one is a warhouse by now, or at least how I came to know it, which was most every comp student and other "new mudic" person pimping it to anybody who would listen (and I would, and still wiill, when the occasion calls for it). Talking about the later works, strong melodic cells, strong developments of the, but without a deeper focus than I was able to muster today with all the sunlight outside, disengagingly disorienting in that evrrything starts to sound like a transition to and end that never arrives, or like an ending that had no beginning, something like that.

But that's me, I know. Other times have had quite different outcomes.

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Can't quite work out if I've heard these pieces in the past; or just on the previous track. 

Edited September 9, 2016 by A Lark Ascending

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Just beautiful ....

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IMO one of the top choices from the Hyperion Schubert Lied series ....