Current Listening Projects

Todd · October 20, 2014, 12:28:38 PM

Quote from: Brian on October 20, 2014, 12:12:53 PM...and the piano recordings of Ragna Schirmer.

Just make sure it's the piano recordings, and not the god awful Hammond Handel.

Todd · October 20, 2014, 12:35:18 PM

Quote from: Philo on October 20, 2014, 12:29:26 PMI also recently completed a listen to over 70 versions of Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 30.

Now that's something I could get into.

Pat B · December 07, 2014, 10:01:48 AM

re: Bach: Sacred Cantatas.

So far I have kept up. I think this is 9 weeks in.

Today is the Second Sunday in Advent. According to wikipedia it is a bit unique in the cycle. The only cantata for today was expanded for a different occasion (BWV 70), and the original is apparently lost. So instead, since it is two Sundays after the twenty-third Sunday after Trinity, I listened to the two cantatas for the twenty-fifth Sunday after Trinity (which doesn't exist this year).

In a some years, Advent II aligns with Trinity XXVI, which is the occasion for BWV 70.

Daverz · December 07, 2014, 05:22:42 PM

Quote from: Brian on October 20, 2014, 12:12:53 PM
I hope to focus on the symphonies of Lyatoshynsky

Was just listening to Lyatoshinsky's Symphony No. 3 on Russian Disc. Very good music.

Henk · December 08, 2014, 05:58:28 AM

On repeat Pécou's latest recording Tremendum. All works by Schubert. Different Beethoven symphonies cycles.

Peter Power Pop · December 08, 2014, 03:37:28 PM

Quote from: Todd on October 20, 2014, 12:28:38 PM

Just make sure it's the piano recordings, and not the god awful Hammond Handel.

"Hammond Handel", eh?

I don't think he's that bad...

Hammond Handel

https://www.youtube.com/v/Pei-2ljoFRk

Jay F · December 08, 2014, 05:45:52 PM

"Listening project" sounds like work, not fun.

Pat B · December 08, 2014, 08:11:08 PM

Quote from: Jay F on December 08, 2014, 05:45:52 PM
"Listening project" sounds like work, not fun.

I wish I could find work that was like listening to Bach Cantatas on Sundays.

Daverz · December 09, 2014, 09:45:56 PM

Quote from: Jay F on December 08, 2014, 05:45:52 PM
"Listening project" sounds like work, not fun.

Fun is a serious business.

Philo · December 09, 2014, 09:51:02 PM

Heard a violin sonata on the radio a while back and can't recall who composed it. Only thing that I can recall about it was that it was by a "name" composer from the Romantic or Late-Romantic era. Solution? Listen to all the violin sonatas I can come across from those two eras.

Greatest solution ever.

Philo · December 11, 2014, 08:54:14 PM

Quote from: Philo on December 09, 2014, 09:51:02 PM
Heard a violin sonata on the radio a while back and can't recall who composed it. Only thing that I can recall about it was that it was by a "name" composer from the Romantic or Late-Romantic era. Solution? Listen to all the violin sonatas I can come across from those two eras.

Greatest solution ever.

It was Grieg's Violin Sonata No. 2.