What Classical Music Are You Listening To?

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[alankin]

Now playing, CD 27:
Manuel Ponce 
– Variations and Fugue on 'La Folia'
– Preludio, Balletto
– 3 Canciones populares mexicanas (The Bird Seller, For you my heart, La Valentina)
– Marchita el Alma (Faded the soul)
– Hace Ocho Meses (Eight Months Ago)
– Yo Adoro a Mi Madre (I love my mother)
— John Williams (guitar) (CBS Masterworks / Sony Classical)

 
 

[Peter Friedman]

Piano Sonata D.459

Beethoven -Triple Concerto - Oistrakh / Rostropovich / Richter

[Larry Kart]

Anneliese Rothenberger/Andre Previn, Strauss, Four Last Songs

Best I've ever heard, and I've heard many. Rothenberger is just "there" -- so much so, and without unneeded spin, that one hardly needs to look at the translations to grasp what the poems say. By comparison the supposedly classic  Schwarzkopf-Szell sounds coy and mewling, a whole lot of spin. And Betty fudges a good many top notes while Rothenberger just soars. Sound is a bit edgy, though.

[soulpope]

1 hour ago, Larry Kart said:

Anneliese Rothenberger/Andre Previn, Strauss, Four Last Songs

Best I've ever heard, and I've heard many. Rothenberger is just "there" -- so much so, and without unneeded spin, that one hardly needs to look at the translations to grasp what the poems say. By comparison the supposedly classic  Schwarzkopf-Szell sounds coy and mewling, a whole lot of spin. And Betty fudges a good many top notes while Rothenberger just soars. Sound is a bit edgy, though.

I`m partial to this one .... :

[soulpope]

[Peter Friedman]

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[Peter Friedman]

[T.D.]

"...den 24.xii. 1931" "Garbled news for baritone and instruments" is my favorite Kagel piece.

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[JSngry]

[Peter Friedman]

Op.33/4 and Op.33/5

[alankin]

Now playing, CD 10:
Franz Joseph Haydn 
– Symphony No.24 in D major Hob.I/24
– Symphony No.30 in C major Hob.I/30 "Alleluia"
– Symphony No.31 in D major Hob.I/31 "Hornsignal"
The first Symphonies written for Prince Esterhazy - CD 6
Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra – Dennis Russell Davies (Sony Classical)

Edited January 17, 2017 by alankin

[JSngry]

[T.D.]

[alankin]

Now playing, CD 8:
George Frideric Handel – Water Music HWV 348-350
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Le nozze di Figaro K 492: Overture
Robert Schumann – Genoveva Op.81: Overture
— Boston Symphony Orchestra – Charles Munch (RCA Victor Red Seal Records / Sony Classics)

 
 

[Peter Friedman]

Schubert - Piano Sonatas D.557 & D.625

Mendelssohn - String Quartet Op.44/1

[T.D.]

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[l p]

voumes 31-34, cantatas 120-139

[JSngry]

[Peter Friedman]

Schumann - Piano Quartet in C minor (1829)

Mendelssohn - String Quintet No.1 Op.18