What Classical Music Are You Listening To?

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NP .... :

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Dance Rhapsody No. 2 * Summer Evening * On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring * Summer Night on the River * A Song before Sunrise * Gennimore and Gerda * Irmilin Prelude *Songs of Sunset

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Dance Rhapsodu No. 1 * Violin Concerto * Piano Concerto * Paa Vidderne * A Mass of life

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Hassan (excerpts) * Koanga (excerpts) * Appalachia *  Eventyr

Last portion for today.

Edited May 1, 2020 by Referentzhunter

[Peter Friedman]

Piano Trio No.1, Op.8 - Hess / Stern / Casals

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Did a long listening sessions with headphones this afternoon, all excellent music, fine performances. Expecially the first two Corrette discs are superb, beautiful music, perfectly played.

Edited May 2, 2020 by mikeweil

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Song of the High Hills * Paris * Songs *Sea Drift * In a Summer Garden

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Préludes , Books 1 & 2

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[Peter Friedman]

[HutchFan]

Disc 8 - Dvořák: Sym. No. 9 "From the New World"; Smetana: The Moldau and "The Bartered Bride" Overture

 

EDIT: Just read this quote about Stokowski by author & composer Eric Salzman: "There used to be an old idea about Music as Magic. Not just the 'weave-a-spell' bit but a really serious notion that a great musician could transform mere sounds into something more than the sum of their parts -- an illusion of tangibility, so to speak, a kind of shared revelation and no questions asked. Now there's only one of those wizards left and his name is Leopold Stokowski..."

 

Disagree with Salzman about Stoki being the last musical wizard. But otherwise... RIGHT ON!!!

Edited May 2, 2020 by HutchFan

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Images ( 1'st & 2'nd Series Pour le Piano) * Estampes

[Peter Friedman]

Dvorak - Piano Quintet Op.81

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Beethoven - Op.18/2

Elgar - Cello Concerto Op.85

[Chuck Nessa]

4 hours ago, HutchFan said:

Disc 8 - Dvořák: Sym. No. 9 "From the New World"; Smetana: The Moldau and "The Bartered Bride" Overture

 

EDIT: Just read this quote about Stokowski by author & composer Eric Salzman: "There used to be an old idea about Music as Magic. Not just the 'weave-a-spell' bit but a really serious notion that a great musician could transform mere sounds into something more than the sum of their parts -- an illusion of tangibility, so to speak, a kind of shared revelation and no questions asked. Now there's only one of those wizards left and his name is Leopold Stokowski..."

 

Disagree with Salzman about Stoki being the last musical wizard. But otherwise... RIGHT ON!!!

Had the Dvorak on lp - it came with a 2nd lp with a recording of the symphony from 78s. I listened to the Mahler 2 from this box today and was irritated.

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2 hours ago, Chuck Nessa said:

Had the Dvorak on lp - it came with a 2nd lp with a recording of the symphony from 78s. I listened to the Mahler 2 from this box today and was irritated.

I think Stoki's "Resurrection" is O.K. -- but I prefer recordings by Walter, Bernstein, and Scherchen.

What was it about Stokowski's performance that bugged you, Chuck?

Edited May 3, 2020 by HutchFan