What Classical Music Are You Listening To?

[A Lark Ascending]

Disc 7 + 8 of latter - Lully's 'Armide'. No Libretto so I had to make up my own story (one about invading other countries on spurious legal grounds, an eternal theme). 

Wakes you up first thing in the morning. Melencolia, Meridian, Ritual Fragment....though not necessarily in that order. 

[soulpope]

Earlier today .... :

Exceptional reading ....

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[Peter Friedman]

Mozart - Piano Concerto No.5, K.175

Beethoven - Piano Trio Op.1, No.3

[alankin]

Now playing, CD 4:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Sinfonia Concertina for violin, viola and orchestra K365/320d; Concerto for violin, piano and orchestra, K App. 56//315f; Sinfonia concertante K App. 104/320e
— Iona Brown, violin, Nobuko Imai, viola, Stephen Orton, cello, Howard Shelley, piano – Academy of St Martin in the Fields – Iona Brown (Decca)

 

[StarThrower]

Webern konzert, op. 24, cello, violin sonatas
Berg piano sonata
Schoenberg wind quintet

[Larry Kart]

On 12/13/2016 at 2:03 AM, mikeweil said:

Beautiful music from one of my favourite French composers.

Excellent -- and unlike any other music I know.

[alankin]

Now playing, CD 13:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
– Quartet for Strings No.20 in D major K499 "Hoffmeister"
– Quartet for Strings No.21 in D major K575 ('Prussian' Quartet No.1)
Paolo Borciani (violin), Elisa Pegreffi (violin), Piero Farulli (viola), Franco Rossi (cello) – Quartetto Italiano (Philips / Decca Music)

 
 

Edited December 14, 2016 by alankin

[jazzbo]

Not playing, but just wrapped a copy of the German edition of Mozart 225 for my Dad, his Xmas gift. He's going to be very happy!

[soulpope]

8 hours ago, Peter Friedman said:

Beethoven - Piano Trio Op.1, No.3

!!

[six string]

A recent purchase....

 

Ivan Moravec - Live In Brussels (Supraphone) cd remastered in 2009 by Stanislav Sÿkora.

He has a touch on the piano unlike anyone I've ever heard.  

[A Lark Ascending]

Disc 1 - Mass for Five Voices, Mass for Four Voices, Mass for Three Voices, Ave Verum Corpus, Infelix Ego. Really need to listen to these one at a time rather than in one rush.

Probably my classical recording of the year. Contemporary music that is tough, very much in the personal voice of the composer yet accessible to the general listener.

 

Just the symph. One of my favourite Prokofiev pieces. Seems to lie hidden in the shadow of the popular (and equally marvellous) Fifth. 

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[StarThrower]

[alankin]

Now playing, CD 6, The Early Recordings 1945 - Part IV:
Johannes Brahms – Symphony No.2 in D major Op.73
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov – Le Coq d'Or: Introduction & Cortège de noces
— San Francisco Symphony Orchestra – Pierre Monteux (RCA Victor Red Seal Records / Sony Classical) 

 

[Peter Friedman]

D.959

[StarThrower]

Symphonies 7 & 8

[alankin]

Now playing, CD 17:
Giuseppe Verdi – Requiem Mass
— Luba Orgonasova (soprano), Alastair Miles (bass), Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo soprano), Luca Canonici (tenor)
— Monteverdi Choir, Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique – John Eliot Gardiner (Philips)

  
 

[Peter Friedman]

[JSngry]

Neat record!

[jeffcrom]

  

Husa - Elegie et Rondeau; Lawrence Gwozdz, alto saxophone; Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic/Kirk Trevor

Husa - Music for Prague 1968; Eastman Wind Ensemble/Donald Hunsberger

Saddened to learn of the death of Karel Husa, whose music has always affected me strongly. He was good to the saxophone and good to the concert band. I had four or five pieces picked out to listen to, but stopped after Music for Prague 1968, which is just overwhelming.

[A Lark Ascending]

Disc 2 of the Telemann; Disc 2 of the Byrd - 'The Great Service' and some of his 45s.

The symph. Completing a two year trip through the symphonies and concertos in chronological order with the aid of a Baedeker guide to get into them a bit further. Deliberately delayed the 15th as I saw a spellbinding live performance back in February - listening on record so soon afterwards would have deadened the impact.

Needless to say, this sounded glorious yesterday. Special mention for the last four minutes where he returns to the opening theme of the movement (a spin-off from the first couple of bars of the Tristan Prelude) and slowly winds it down until you just have this ghostly percussive clicking and faint strings. According to the programme notes back in February this was partly inspired by one of his late hospitalisations, lying awake at night hearing all the electric medical equipment in the ward ticking and whirring. Gives the piece an even stranger dimension.    

A second volume from these forces of contemporary Christmas songs.

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