What are you listening to now?

[HIPster]

RIP Christopher Hogwood

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[amw]

RIP Christopher Hogwood

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

No more music tonight - RIP Christopher Hogwood

With skilful hands that were never weary,
This Master of Music played strain on strain,
And between the bars of the miserere,
He drew up the strings of my heart again,
And I was filled with a vague, strange wonder,
To see that they did not snap in two.
'They are drawn so tight, they will break assunder, '
I thought, but instead, they grew...

Ella Wheeler Wilcox, "The Musicians"

[Brian]

My favorite Beethoven Fourth. I don't expect to ever hear a better one.

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The 4th.
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Pounds the table! A masterpiece! Great performance too from HvK/Berliners.

[Brian]

I'm going to watch a few innings of Dodgers vs. Giants, but after that, it's Hogwood conducting Martinu concertos.

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Listening to Symphonische Hymnen. Bloody fantastic! Love this work.

[TheGSMoeller]

I'm going to watch a few innings of Dodgers vs. Giants, but after that, it's Hogwood conducting Martinu concertos.

I hope Puig flips his bat and ruffles the Giants feathers again.

Thread duty...

[HIPster]

I hope Puig flips his bat and ruffles the Giants feathers again.

+1

Well that and a Dodgers win.   

[not edward]

The concerto for violin, piano and orchestra.

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A work I had never heard until the wonderful Matousek/Hogwood's series, and an instant favourite. It seems as good a way as any to celebrate his life and music-making.

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Listening to Symphony No. 6. Fantastic work.

[Wakefield]

While everybody is enjoying their new SEON, I broke out my various SEON discs to enjoy while I wait for the price to go down.  A couple of glorious war-horses.

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You need some fresh air, sir. Originally you said you will wait for the price to go down. Yesterday you said you had changed your mind about this. But today you say again you will wait and your post written yesterday has been edited. This is really breaking your nerves. 

[Mookalafalas]

You need some fresh air, sir. Originally you said you will wait for the price to go down. Yesterday you said you had changed your mind about this. But today you say again you will wait and your post written yesterday has been edited. This is really breaking your nerves. 

  You're right, this one's extra tantalizing
    I'm pretty sure, however, I haven't ever said I will buy it...although I most certainly find it very tempting. In the box blather thread i wrote:

OK. I saw it in my store. I picked it up. I held it. Perhaps caressed it a little.  Surreptitiously used my sleeve to wipe off a little of my own drool that had accidentally found its way onto the cellophane.  It is certainly a handsome box.  I'm still confident the price will fall drastically, but that could take months...

    I just ogled it ferverishly, but didn't buy it.

  Thread duty:
  Listening to the SEON Bach Cantatas disk (conducted by Franz Bruggen).

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Listening to Ravel's Piano Trio. Outstanding work and performance.

[Wakefield]

Mozart - Piano Sonatas
Gustav Leonhardt, fortepiano (carelessly described as "piano" in the notes, with no other indication)
2 CD-set [CD 73-74]



CD 73:
Sonata No. 13 in B-flat Major, K. 333 [315c]
Kleiner Trauermarsch in C minor, K. 453a
Sonata No. 4 in E-Flat Major K. 282 [189g]
Menuet in D Major, K. 355 [576b]

CD 74:
Sonata No. 10 in C major, K. 330 [300h]
Adagio in B minor, K. 540
Sonata No. 16 in B-Flat Major, K. 570

[Dancing Divertimentian]

Low-keyed for Handel. But the lyricism caresses the ear.




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[Wakefield]

  You're right, this one's extra tantalizing
    I'm pretty sure, however, I haven't ever said I will buy it...although I most certainly find it very tempting. In the box blather thread i wrote:

OK. I saw it in my store. I picked it up. I held it. Perhaps caressed it a little.  Surreptitiously used my sleeve to wipe off a little of my own drool that had accidentally found its way onto the cellophane.  It is certainly a handsome box.  I'm still confident the price will fall drastically, but that could take months...

    I just ogled it ferverishly, but didn't buy it.

  Thread duty:
  Listening to the SEON Bach Cantatas disk (conducted by Franz Bruggen).

Well, I maybe took some artistic license to describe more vividly the situation. 

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Listening to Bartok's The Miraculous Mandarin. Sizzling performance from Dohnanyi/VPO.

[Ken B]

  You're right, this one's extra tantalizing
    I'm pretty sure, however, I haven't ever said I will buy it...although I most certainly find it very tempting. In the box blather thread i wrote:

OK. I saw it in my store. I picked it up. I held it. Perhaps caressed it a little.  Surreptitiously used my sleeve to wipe off a little of my own drool that had accidentally found its way onto the cellophane.  It is certainly a handsome box.  I'm still confident the price will fall drastically, but that could take months...

    I just ogled it ferverishly, but didn't buy it.

  Thread duty:
  Listening to the SEON Bach Cantatas disk (conducted by Franz Bruggen).

Be strong! Go through the Vivarte box slowly ...

[Wanderer]

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Opp.28 & 53.

Also, last night, the non-Beethoven Diabelli Variations (with contributions by, among others, Czerny, Hummel, Pixis, Moscheles, Schubert and a very young Liszt), played with panache by Doris Adam on a Bösendorfer Imperial (amazon lists the recording as "unavailable", already OOP?).