What Classical Music Are You Listening To?

[soulpope]

[StarThrower]

[alankin]

Now playing:, CD 30:
John Williams (guitar, transcriptions) – Echoes of Spain — Albéniz (CBS Masterworks / Sony Classical)

Isaac Albéniz 
– Suite española Op.47/1 Granada (Serenade)
– Cantos de España Op.232/1 Preludio [Asturias Op.47/5 (Leyenda)]
– Suite española Op.47/3 Sevilla (Sevillanas) [Serenata española Op.181]
– Barcarola for Piano Op.202 "Mallorca"
– Cantos de España Op.232/4 Córdoba
– 12 Piezas características Op.92/12 Torre bermeja
– Suite española Op.47/4 Cádiz (Canción)
– 12 Piezas características Op.92/7 Zambra granadina
– Hojas de album (6) Op.165 "España": No.2 Tango

 

[Peter Friedman]

Schumann - String Quartet Op.41/1

Mozart - Symphonies No.31 & No.32

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[alankin]

Now playing, CD 40:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 
– Concerto for 2 Pianos in E flat major K 365 (316a)
– Concerto for 3 Pianos in F major K 242 "Lodron" (arr. for 2 pianos by W.A.Mozart)
– Fantasia for Mechanical Organ in F minor K 608 "Organ Piece for a Clock" (arr. for 2 pianos by Feruccio Busoni / Perahia / Lupu)
– Andante and Five Variations for Piano 4 hands in G major K 501
— Murray Perahia (piano), Radu Lupu (piano) – English Chamber Orchestra – Murray Perahia (Sony Classical / Sony Classics)

 
 

Edited January 22, 2017 by alankin

[T.D.]

On 1/22/2017 at 8:46 PM, T.D. said:

Discs 3 and 4 - mostly Dufay, Binchois and Ockeghem.

[Larry Kart]

VAGN HOLMBOE, SYM. NO. 8

A hard composer for me to get a grip on, nor can I quite get a grip on why he's a hard composer for me to get a grip on. In this work, in particular, there's an insistent, even hectoring quality in his taste for fierce, urgent massed brass and percussion that isn't that often (for me) backed up by a sense that fierce urgent things are being said. OTOH, his penchant for what he calls "metamorphic" structuring calls for a certain sort or level of close listening, typically amid much busyness, that often repays the effort, though finally one can wonder where all these steely shifting strands/all this "journeying" finally take you. By contrast, I have no such doubts about the music of Holmboe's less known fellow Dane, a contemporary and colleague, Herman Koppel, whose works I've recently discovered.

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[l p]

 

+misc
10.19.55 beethoven piano sonata #32, at home
12.4.59 art of fugue studio session, cbc studio
1955 goldberg variations outtakes (sony bonus tracks)
1970 scriabin piano sonata #5, sony

Edited January 23, 2017 by l p

[JSngry]

These dudes be trippin'!

[Peter Friedman]

Piano Quartet No.2, Op.26

[alankin]

Now playing, CD 23:
Gustav Mahler – Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth)
— Dame Janet Baker (mezzo soprano), James King (tenor) – Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra – Bernard Haitink (Philips)

 

[soulpope]

2 hours ago, alankin said:

Now playing, CD 23:
Gustav Mahler – Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth)
— Dame Janet Baker (mezzo soprano), James King (tenor) – Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra – Bernard Haitink (Philips)

 

Excellent performance ....

[alankin]

Now playing, CD 11:
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov – Scheherazade Op.35
— San Francisco Symphony Orchestra – Pierre Monteux (RCA Victor Red Seal Records / Sony Classical)

 
 

[l p]

studio 1957 

 

[StarThrower]

 

[alankin]

Now playing, CD 12:
Richard Strauss – Don Quixote Op.35
— Desmond Bradley (violin), Jacqueline Du Pré (cello), Herbert Downes (viola) – New Philharmonia Orchestra – Sir Adrian Boult 
Edouard Lalo – Concerto for Cello in D minor
— Jacqueline Du Pré (cello) – Cleveland Orchestra – Daniel Barenboim (EMI Classics)

 
 

Edited January 23, 2017 by alankin

[StarThrower]

[T.D.]

On 1/22/2017 at 8:46 PM, T.D. said:

 

Discs 5 (Ockeghem) and 6 (Josquin, Compere, Brumel, de la Rue).

[StarThrower]

[l p]

Schoenberg Piano Concerto Op 42 16 march 1958
Schoenberg Variations for Orchestra Op 31 21 August 1960

 

+
g. gould, vancouver, b.c.  8-2-60,  Schoenberg  with kerstin meyer
 

Edited January 25, 2017 by l p

[Peter Friedman]

Op.20/2 and Op.20/5

[alankin]

Now playing, CD 9:
Richard Strauss – Ein Heldenleben Op.40 (A Hero's Life) Tone Poem for Large Orchestra
Emmanuel Chabrier – Le Roi malgre lui: Fête Polonaise
— San Francisco Symphony Orchestra – Pierre Monteux (RCA Victor / Sony Classical)

 

Edited January 24, 2017 by alankin

[alankin]

Franz Schubert – Quintet for Piano and Strings in A major D.667 Op.114 "Trout"
— Evgeni Kissin (piano), Mikhail Milman (cello), Grigory Kovalenko (viola), Ivan Suluga (double bass), Vladimir Spivakov (violin)

Franz Liszt – Rhapsodie espagnole for Piano S.254
Johannes Brahms – 7 Fantasies for Piano Op.116/6 Intermezzo in E major
— Evgeni Kissin (piano) (Brilliant Classics – Legendary Russian Soloists)