What are you listening to now?

[Sergeant Rock]

Good evening all

Haydn - 101...Bernstein / NYPO

Hey, Papy...good choice

Sarge

[Mirror Image]

Now:



Listening to Cinderella. My first listen to this Previn performance. Sounds quite good so far.

[Karl Henning]

At our favorite Italian restaurant tonight, Mrs. Rock and I shared a bottle of superb Barbera, a glass each of Ramazzoti, and then the waiter offered us a grappa on the house....  I'm ready to tackle the Cello Concerto 

Sarge

I thought he meant the composer in that cover photo . . . looks an angry drunk, too . . . .

[Brian]

I don't know much about the Faure Requiem, but this "reconstruction of the first liturgical performance" just popped up on NML.

[Que]

Q

[Todd]

[Sergeant Rock]

Berg Three Pieces for Orchestra op.6, Dorati conducting the LSO




Sarge

[Papy Oli]

Hey, Papy...good choice

Sarge

Hi Sarge.

Really good one, that Edition... Haydn is really catching up fast on my top 3 favourite composers as well...and I have hardly touched the Hogwood set as yet !!

Now :

Beethoven - SQ No.13 + Grosse Fugue
Vegh Quartet

[Sergeant Rock]

I thought he meant the composer in that cover photo . . . looks an angry drunk, too . . . .

  ...Karl, you need to drink something stronger than Earl Grey! All the best composers were lushes 

Sarge

[Lisztianwagner]

Very nice, Ilaria. I take it you've become a fan of Schnittke's music?

Yes, of course; but I've been a Schnittke fan since I listened to his symphonies, Labyrinths and the Concerto for piano and strings. I have to thank you for having introduced me to this music.

Now:
Leóš Janáček
Taras Bulba

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[Pat B]

Well, if everybody else is listening to the Eroica today... I had been meaning to re-listen to Monteux's Concertgebouw recording anyway.

[Sergeant Rock]

2) HAMMER!

I confess, sheepishly, that I didn't know there was a hammer in the Berg Pieces. I found a YouTube video that shows it (2:54)

http://www.youtube.com/v/0wyaaZjLKo8


Sarge

[Brian]

Well, if everybody else is listening to the Eroica today... I had been meaning to re-listen to Monteux's Concertgebouw recording anyway.

"Probe"?

[Papy Oli]

"Probe"?

Probe is the German for rehearsal.

[Sergeant Rock]

Haydn is really catching up fast on my top 3 favourite composers as well...

As I've said before, Haydn is the only composer who has increased (exponentially) in my admiration these last ten years. Definitely in the Top 6...and he's knocking at the door of my Top 3 too.

Sarge

[Papy Oli]

As I've said before, Haydn is the only composer who has increased (exponentially) in my admiration these last ten years. Definitely in the Top 6...and he's knocking at the door of my Top 3 too.

Sarge

He has even earned its own special section in my CD towers... nearly 2 cubes needed... not many can boast of that  ....but Gustav can sleep easy.... 

[Sergeant Rock]

....but Gustav can sleep easy.... 

Indeed, Mahler will not be pushed out of his exalted position 

Sarge

[North Star]

Good evening, Oli & Sarge!

Fresh from the mailbox

Messiaen
Réveil des oiseaux (The Awakening of the Birds) (1953) *
Oiseaux exotiques (1956)
Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum (1964)
La Transfiguration de Notre-Seigneur Jésus-Christ (1969)
Roger Muraro (pf)*
SWR Baden-Baden und Freiburg
Cambreling
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[Mirror Image]

Berg Three Pieces for Orchestra op.6, Dorati conducting the LSO




Sarge

Pounds the table! Yes!

[Mirror Image]

Yes, of course; but I've been a Schnittke fan since I listened to his symphonies, Labyrinths and the Concerto for piano and strings. I have to thank you for having introduced me to this music.

Now:
Leóš Janáček
Taras Bulba

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Cheers, Ilaria! Glad I could be the one who introduced a composer to you. BTW, I just love Janáček so much. That's a great piece.

Thread duty:

Continuing on with Prokofiev's Romeo & Juliet with Previn conducting the LSO.