What are you listening to now?

[Karl Henning]

No surprise:

“Papa”
Symphony № 8 in G (H.I/8)
Symphony № 9 in C (H.I/9)
AAM
Hogwood

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[Brian]

Hogwood conducts a Stravinsky work I've only heard in excerpts.

[Karl Henning]

Ah, the entire Pulcinella is a delight!

[Karl Henning]

Continuing the non-surprise:

“Papa”
Symphony № 10 in D (H.I/10)
Symphony № 11 in E^b (H.I/11)
AAM
Hogwood

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[Brian]

As am I, with the D major concerto:

[Harry]

Thread Duty:

Rossini piano music on Youtube; Les Péchés

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbMkeqovMQM

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I have the complete set of these works, and my listening notes tell me, that it is gorgeous music.

[EigenUser]

Webern's Quartet, Op. 22.
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[Brahmsian]

Ballet is the password....

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2014/09/ballet-master-pieces-worlds-favourite.html?spref=tw

Such a fantastic set, Harry! 

[North Star]

Dvořák
Symphonies nos. 6 & 7
Neumann & CzPO
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[Ken B]

Alban Berg, Violin Concerto, Stern, Bernstein on Sony via Spotify

[Brian]

Gade Symphonies 1 and 5. Trying to hit up all the Hogwood on Naxos Music Library.

[Sergeant Rock]

Daniel Jones Symphony No.6 (1964), Groves conducting the RPO




Sarge

[kishnevi]

Ligeti from the Warner box (Ligeti Project)
Melodien Chamber Concerto Piano Concerto Mysteries of the Macabre
Hamburg Concerto Double Concerto with  Ramifications and Requiem to come.

I am connecting with this music much better than I ever did, but not completely.  Hamburg Concerto, for instance, where I keep hearing flatulence in place of the natural horns.  And for those works also present in the DG set, I usually find the DG recording appeals to me more, with the exception of the Piano Concerto.

[Sergeant Rock]

Haydn, Hogwood, the "Miracle"




Sarge

[listener]

The wacko radio preacher Brother Stair has reminded us it's the Feast of Trumpets day (Rosh Hashanah)
so  some concertos:  HUMMEL in E  (Pierre Monteux cond.) MOLTER in D, ALBRECHTSBERGER  Concertino à cinque in E^b
Armando Ghitalla, trumpets (piccolo, C and E^b)     Boston Chamber Ensemble   Harold Farberman, cond.
and for a change  MOSCHELES Piano Concertos 4 in E op. 64, 5 in C op. 87 and Recollection of Ireland op. 69
Howard Shelley, piano and conductor  Tasmanian S.O.   

[kishnevi]

Not quite Trumpets, but ram's horns (shofar) The Torah does mention metallic trumpets in other connections.  A shofar is realistically a one note instrument, although with harmonics and breath control you can get a little variation.  Also, no two shofarim have exactly the same pitch because they are literally ram's horns, and thus unique, although they can be shaped and patched.
One of Elgar's oratorios has a cameo for shofar, although not every recording uses it, and I don't remember which oratorio it is.
TD
Finished my Ligetithon and off to dinner.

[listener]

I'll dig up COPLAND's Vitebsk which does emulate the sound of s shofar.

[Rinaldo]

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

I have the complete set of these works, and my listening notes tell me, that it is gorgeous music.

Agree wholeheartedly.  I've come to think - o'er the past coupla days - that Rossini is a greater composer than I (or many others for that matter) had given him credit for.  Am reading the lengthy entry about him in Grove and its author is explicit on that score :  "Thanks to an abundance of recordings and live productions throughout Europe and the USA, Rossini is no longer simply the composer of some delightful comic operas."  Thank goodness for that!  Also, not noted in the Grove article, he is one of the few composers ever to make me laugh aloud.  Reynaldo Hahn is another (Ciboulette). And Papa of course.

[André]

Donizetti: Roberto Devereux. Beverly Sills, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Charles Mackerras (DGG)