What are you listening to now?

[North Star]

I'll leave the rest of the DSCH SQs for tomorrow.

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Berg
Lyric Suite
LaSalle Quartet
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Listening to Harrison's Seven Pastorales. Beautiful work.

[HIPster]

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Listening to Harrison's Seven Pastorales. Beautiful work.

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My favorite Harrison.  I like the Jarrett/Glanville-Hicks too, but June Buddhas is a downer to me. . . 

But Seven Pastorales, that's gold. . .

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My favorite Harrison.  I like the Jarrett/Glanville-Hicks too, but June Buddhas is a downer to me. . . 

But Seven Pastorales, that's gold. . .

I, too, like that Glanville-Hicks work and also agree that the Riley work is a letdown, but I've never been particularly fond of his music anyway. The Harrison is the main attraction here for me.

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Listening to the Organ Concerto. Great stuff!

[Madiel]

Chamber Symphony No.2, 'Elegy', op.100

No. 1 of 25 in a Holmboe symphonic works listening project.

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[Peter]

Moonlight Sonata

[Todd]

[kishnevi]

A re-issue of that (coupled with the Second PC) was one of the first CDs I ever got, and therefore my introduction both to Chopin and Rubinstein.

[listener]

radio via computer  Chicago Symphony Orch.
Semyon Bychkov conducts
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No 2 in G Minor, Op. 16 (Kirill Gerstein, piano)
Walton: Symphony No.1 in B-Flat Minor
Poulenc: Concerto for 2 Pianos (Katia and Marielle Lebeque, piano)

[Artem]

Very enjoyable CD.

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Listening to Kurtag's Stele. Excellent work and performance.

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I don't usually listen to film music that often, but I haven't heard The Village soundtrack in quite some time and it certainly is beautiful. Hahn's playing compliments the music incredibly well and, of course, her playing is impeccable.

[Mandryka]

A new discovery for me and I feel very enthusiastic. He really lets go and is unbuttoned at times. The muisc's  full of ideas and the performances are spontaneous sounding. It would be interesting to compare and contrast these Farnaby fantasias with North German toccatas written in stylus fantasticus.

I think Farnaby's fantasias are more fun than Byrd's fantasias.

[Que]

A new discovery for me and I feel very enthusiastic. He really lets go and is unbuttoned at times. The muisc's  full of ideas and the performances are spontaneous sounding. It would be interesting to compare and contrast these Farnaby fantasias with North German toccatas written in stylus fantasticus.

I think Farnaby's fantasias are more fun than Byrd's fantasias.

I hold Glen Wilson in high esteem, so it will go on the wish list - thanks for mentioning it.

Q

[Willow Pattern]

Some Tchaikovsky for this evening:
Piano Sonata No. 2, String Quartet No. 3, Symphony No. 6, Piano Concerto No. 1
I think its a shame Tchaikovsky's String Quartets arent talked about a bit more - I really do think they are wonderful. The 3rd is the best of the bunch imo.
Im not really sure who my favourite Composer would be but Tchaikovsky is certainly a contender

[mc ukrneal]

Yes, he has such a big, rounded tone and quicksilver technique. Great for Rachmaninov's many turns.

Pity Kocsis didn't record more.

Try his Debussy - also very good.

[milk]

I took a long break from Koechlin. What a joy to pick this music up again! I love this music.
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[otare]

Lots of forgotten romantic composers that wrote music that deserves to be played. I'm currently listening to Joachim Raff's "Tageszeiten - a concertante in 4 movements for choir, piano and orchestra".

[Harry]

This is actually very good.

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