What Classical Music Are You Listening To?

[Peter Friedman]

Spohr - String Quartet No.12, Op.45/1

Schumann - Violin Sonata No.2, Op.121

[A Lark Ascending]

Beautiful record of music for a variety of small groups on the first. Disc 3 - Cello and Violin Concertos, Clocks and Clouds and With Pipes, Drums, Fiddles from middle. The two violin sonatas off the last.  

And a third listen to the Nancarrow SQ3. 

[alankin]

Antonín Dvorák – Symphony No.7 Op.70
César Franck – Symphony in D Minor
— New York Philharmonic – Leonard Bernstein (Sony Classics)

 
 

[A Lark Ascending]

Op 4 of the Beethoven. 

Edited May 20, 2016 by A Lark Ascending

[Balladeer]

  Ned Rorem: Piano Album 1/Six Friends (Naxos American Classics)

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[A Lark Ascending]

SQ1 and 2. Had this a while but was really taken by No. 2 this morning. 1 sounds like a pretty generic late-19thC thing but 2 seems of the world of Verklarte Nacht, Pelleas and Melisande.

Disc 8 - No. 5, 6, 7. 

The middle movement here is one of my favourite pieces of Mahler.

Off Spotify. Exploring. 

[Peter Friedman]

Beethoven - String Trio Op.9/1

 

Svendsen - Octet for Strings  Op.3

[l p]

1954

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[Peter Friedman]

[king ubu]

[alankin]

Sergei Rachmaninov – Concerto for Piano No.3 in D minor Op.30
— Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra – Riccardo Chailly
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky – Concerto for Piano No.1 in B flat minor Op.23
— Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra – Kirill Kondrashin
Martha Argerich (piano) [Philips / Deutsche Grammophon]

 
 

Edited May 21, 2016 by alankin

[A Lark Ascending]

More exploring in the outer regions. 

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Half a day later:

Cello Sonata, two Piano Trios and a couple of shorter things. 

Edited May 22, 2016 by A Lark Ascending

[Peter Friedman]

Haydn - String Quartet Op.33/3

Tchaikovsky - Piano Trio Op.50 (Arthur Rubinstein / Heifetz / Paitigorsky)

[A Lark Ascending]

Following up a live performance of SQ 1 I heard last week. Absolutely beautiful piece that will get a lot of attention in the next few days. SQ2 needs more listening; The earlier Andante and Allegro could have been mistaken for a couple of tracks on the John Ireland CD I was listening to previously. 

[Peter Friedman]

[A Lark Ascending]

At the more neoclassical end of mid 20thC British music - Rawsthorne territory. Enjoyable without knocking your socks off [edit: actually, it's more engaging than that lukewarm assessment suggests]. 

29 of the Ludwig. 

Edited May 23, 2016 by A Lark Ascending

[Peter Friedman]

Mozart - Concerto for 2 Pianos & Orch. K.365

Franck - Violin Sonata

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Disc 1 of the middle one. 

[Peter Friedman]

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Sextet 1 off middle; disc 5 of Byrd. 

 

Edited May 24, 2016 by A Lark Ascending

[Peter Friedman]

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[Peter Friedman]

Borodin Quartet - Haydn Op.33/4

Zemlinsky Quartet - Beethoven Op.18/6