What Classical Music Are You Listening To?

[Peter Friedman]

[A Lark Ascending]

Disc 52: 61/62/36 for the First Sunday of Advent. Bang on the day.

This morning:

 

The world is a-wash with choral Christmas discs - I particularly like this one which steers away from the standard carols. Somewhat Brexity in choice of composers - but those floating voices sound amazing early in the morning when it's still dark.  

[soulpope]

[Peter Friedman]

[StarThrower]

No.13 "Babi Yar"

Love those manly Russian choruses!

[A Lark Ascending]

12 hours ago, StarThrower said:

No.13 "Babi Yar"

Love those manly Russian choruses!

Wonderful piece. Would love to hear it live! Can't imagine it gets out much in these parts.

Just the Cooke.

No. 2 of the latter. One of Arnie's greatest hits. I'm not totally sure what he was getting at using the line "I feel the air of another planet" in the fourth movement (it's usually explained as referring to his move out of tonality) but it's a perfect description of how you feel when you come across a style or genre of music you are quite unfamiliar with and find yourself simultaneously enthralled and utterly mystified. Beautiful piece. 

This morning:

(still a bit early for Bing). 

[soulpope]

[alankin]

George Enescu – Piano Quartet No.1 Op.16, No.2 Op.30
— Oliver Triendl (piano) – Tammuz Piano Quartet (CPO / BR)

 

[Peter Friedman]

Mendelssohn - Piano Trio No.1 - Istomin / Stern / Rose

Mozart - Piano Concerto No.24, K.491 - Casadesus

[JSngry]

 

The pieces with electric guitar I do not care for all that much, just because I do not like the this timbre of the this guitar inside this string quartet. That's just me, and it's less than half of the music presented here. It's strictly a sonics thing, the writing itself is fine.

The other music is unqualifiedly splendid. I am finding myself being quite attracted by and drawn into Mackey's compositional world, and find in it a somewhat parallel kinship to the less..."overt" works of Henry Threadgill, Wayne Shorter, Joe Zawinul, etc. Motifs stated, orbited around, pulled back into, shot back out, that type of thing. It's the type of thing I have no trouble grasping the logic and progression of, feels like "I've been here before" or at least part of me has been to a part of here...love it when that happens.

 

[OliverM]

Mahler Symphony no. 4 - NY Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein

Lately have been playing one of Mahler per evening. The remastering to this is excellent, while some masterings of the Bernstein symphony box could be refreshened.

[alankin]

Mieczysław Horszowski plays Bach, Mozart, Szymanowski and Chopin (BBC Magazine)
Johann Sebastian Bach – Partita No.2 BWV826
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Sonata K570
Karol Szymanowski – Mazurkas Op/50 Nos.13-16
Frederic Chopin – Nocturnes Op.27/1, Op.27/2, Op.24/2

 

[StarThrower]

[l p]

 

[soulpope]

To calm things down .... :

[A Lark Ascending]

Symph 5, Norfolk Rhapsody No 1, The Lark Ascending. If I could only keep one piece of music for listening (perish the thought) it would be RVW 5. 

[soulpope]

[alankin]

Now playing, CD 12:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 
– Quartet for Strings No.18 in A major K464 (Haydn Quartet No.5)
– Quartet for Strings No.19 in C major K465 "Dissonance" (Haydn Quartet No.6)
Paolo Borciani (violin), Elisa Pegreffi (violin), Piero Farulli (viola), Franco Rossi (cello) – Quartetto Italiano (Philips / Decca Music)

 

 

[Peter Friedman]

[StarThrower]

[Balladeer]

Maria Lettberg plays Erkki Melartin Solo Piano Works (Crystal Classics)

Disc 2

[soulpope]

[Peter Friedman]

Beethoven - Violin Sonata No.7, Op.30/2

Brahms - Horn Trio Op.40 

[alankin]

Now playing, CD 2:
Franz Schubert 
– Trio for Piano and Strings No.2 in E flat major D.929 Op.100
– Trio for Piano and Strings in B flat major D.28
– Notturno for Piano and Strings in E flat major D.897 Op.148
Menahem Pressler (piano), Daniel Guilet (violin), Bernard Greenhouse (cello) – Beaux Arts Trio (Philips)

 

[soulpope]

7 hours ago, alankin said:

Now playing, CD 2:
Franz Schubert 
– Trio for Piano and Strings No.2 in E flat major D.929 Op.100
– Trio for Piano and Strings in B flat major D.28
– Notturno for Piano and Strings in E flat major D.897 Op.148
Menahem Pressler (piano), Daniel Guilet (violin), Bernard Greenhouse (cello) – Beaux Arts Trio (Philips)

 

Very good ....