What Classical Music Are You Listening To?

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[T.D.]

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arias

[paul secor]

2 hours ago, T.D. said:

 Intense and great

[soulpope]

3 hours ago, T.D. said:

!

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[alankin]

Now playing, CD 28:
Julian Bream & John Williams Live
John Johnson – Pavan and Galliard (transc. Bream)
Georg Philipp Telemann – Polish Partita (transc. Bream & Williams)
Fernando Sor – Fantasy for 2 Guitars Op.54a
Johannes Brahms – Theme and variations for piano in D minor (after sextet for strings Op.18) (transc. Williams)
Gabriel Fauré – Dolly Op.56 (transc. Bream)
Claude Debussy – Rêverie (transc. Peter Batchelor)
Claude Debussy – Children's Corner: No.6 Golliwogg's Cake-walk (transc. Bream)
Claude Debussy – Suite bergamasque: 3rd movement Clair de Lune (transc. Bream & Williams)
Isaac Albéniz – Suite española Op.47/3 Sevilla (transc. Miguel Llobet)
Enrique Granados – 12 Danzas españolas for Piano Op.37/2 Oriental (transc. Bream & Williams)
Julian Bream & John Williams (guitars) (Columbia / Sony Classical)

 

Recorded in Symphony Hall, Boston & Avery Fisher Hall, NYC in Oct. 1978 and issued as a 2-LP set in 1979.
 

Edited January 19, 2017 by alankin

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Mastersound DFCDI-024 1993
Berg Sonata Op 1 3 November 1953
Prokofiev The Winter Fairy from "Cinderella" Op 87 4&6 November 1953
Shostakovich Three Fantastic Dances Op 5 4&6 November 1953
Taneyev The Birth of the Harp 4&6 November 1953

 

[alankin]

Now playing:
Joseph Haydn – Divertimenti – Baryton Trios Nos.50, 52, 57, 59, 67, 107
— John Hsu, baryton, David Miller, viola, Loretta O'Sullivan, 'cello – The Haydn Baryton Trio (Dorian Recordings)

 

[Peter Friedman]

[alankin]

Ludwig van Beethoven – Quartet for Strings No.14 in C sharp minor Op.131
— Sandy Wilson (cello), Paul Yarbrough (viola), Frederick Lifsitz (violin), Ge-Fang Yang (violin) – Alexander String Quartet (Arte Nova—Sony Music GmbH)

 

[alankin]

Now playing, CD 18:
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky 
– Symphony No.5 in E minor Op.64
Modest Mussorgsky 
– Khovanshchina: Act 1 Prelude "Dawn on the Moscow River" (orch. Shostakovich)
– A Night on the Bare Mountain (arr. Rimsky-Korsakov)
– Sorochintsy fair: Gopak (orch. Anatoly Lyadov)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra – Valery Gergiev (Philips)

   

Edited January 19, 2017 by alankin

[Peter Friedman]

Symphony No.29 and No.30

[soulpope]

Earlier today .... :

Thereof Symphony 4 ....

[alankin]

Antonín Dvorák 
– Quartet for Strings No.1 in A major Op.2 B.8
– Andante appasionato for String Quartet in A minor
Bretislav Novotny (violin), Karel Pribyl (violin), Lubomir Maly (viola), Jan Sirc (cello) – Prager Streichquartett (Prague String Quartet) (Deutsche Grammophon)

I found Volume One (of three) with three CDs in a thrift shop for $2 last weekend.

Edited January 20, 2017 by alankin

[Peter Friedman]

Mendelssohn - Piano Sextet Op.110

Dvorak - String Quartet No.6, Op.12

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arias

 

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[StarThrower]

[soulpope]

Indispensable ....

[T.D.]

13 hours ago, StarThrower said:

 

This very set happens to be next in my listening queue!

[soulpope]

[Peter Friedman]

Mozart - Symphony No.27 & No.28

Bruckner - String Quartet in C Minor

[alankin]

Now playing, Vol.4, CD 5:
Hector Berlioz – Roméo et Juliette Op.17: Excerpt(s) — Carlo Maria Giulini
Tadeusz Baird – Variations without a Theme — Hans Vonk
Witold Lutoslawski – Paroles tissées — Peter Pears (tenor) – Witold Lutoslawski 
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (RCO Live)

 

[T.D.]

Discs 1 and 2 (of 8). Dufay is the main composer featured on these 2.