What are you listening to now?

[TheGSMoeller]

Dvorak: Piano Trio No. 4 "Dumky" / The Busch Trio

Welcome, Reckoner! Love the Philip Glass avatar.

Yes! Welcome, Reckoner. And yes, love the avatar as well.
And the "Dumky" Trio.

[André]

Bruckner: symphony no 9. Chicago Symphony, Bernard Haitink. 2009 vintage.

Form the get go, this is typical Chicago sound: deep, concentrated yet straining to expand its sonority beyond the score's indications or the listener's capabilities. One's attention is clearly and unequivocally solicited, a very unusual Haitink gesture. At 3:15 into the 1st mouvement: the first big paragraph comes  mightily and goes reluctantly. Atypical Haitink: he never budges from his basic tempo in the music's unfolding, but here he heaves and pulls: IOW he breathes heavily.

Haitink being Haitink (one of the most stable elements of a musical equation, regardless of what I wrote before), I know I'll love this performance until the dying horn chords have sounded.  I'll let you know if that's not the case.

For those in the know, tempi (timings) are identical to his 1981 Concertgebouw Philips recording.

[San Antone]

Dates for the 3 works are 1990, 2001 and 2005. Challenging music, but nothing to be really afraid of. This music communicates to the listener.

One of my favorite composers, and his string quartets are the works of his I enjoy the most.

[Autumn Leaves]

This morning's listening:



English Suites




All of these recordings.

[Johnnie Burgess]

Haydn: Symphony #85 In B Flat Major "Le Reine"


Bruno Weil, Tafelmusik

[Ken B]

Mozart
Gran Partita
Amadeus Winds, Hogwood

And splendid it is too. From the L'O-L Classical box, which to my surprise I like even more than the Baroque box.

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

Omg how do you guys find the time to listen to so much music?

[Johnnie Burgess]

Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony # 5 In D Minor, op. 47


Yoel Levi, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

[Kontrapunctus]

Omg how do you guys find the time to listen to so much music?

I retired a few months ago! 

[Autumn Leaves]

Omg how do you guys find the time to listen to so much music?

My Mrs works weekends so I usually have quite a bit of free time - get lots of listening done

[Johnnie Burgess]

Beethoven: Symphony # 9 In D Minor Op.125 "Choral"




Wilhelm Furtwangler, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

[listener]

Pablo SOROZÁBAL (1897-1988)   from the Basque Music Collection on Claves
Euskalerria (strings and chorus), Suite Vasca op. 5 (chorus and orch.),  Maite, Eguzi Eder, Gernika, Dos apuntes vascos, 6 Lieder, Symphonic Variations
Maite Arruabarrena, msop. Bilbao Choral Society, Cristian Mandeal, cond.

[Johnnie Burgess]

Jean Sibelius: Symphony # 3 in C Major, Op. 52




Osmo Vänskä,  Lahti Symphony Orchestra

[SimonNZ]

Martinu's Piano Trio No.3 - Schubert Ensemble



Martinu's Five Bergerettes - Puella Trio

[Artem]

Listened to Fragmente - stille, an diotima for the first time in a long while. I wish there were more recordings of it.

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[GioCar]

Back to baroque for a while

Now listening to Weiss
Sonata No.22 in F "Le fameux corsaire" WeissSW28 from this wonderful set

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[GioCar]

Omg how do you guys find the time to listen to so much music?

I use to wake up early in the morning and give myself 2 hours of perfect bliss, far from everyday's duties 

[GioCar]

I absolutely LOVE Nono!!! 

I believe we all need much moro Nono today than ever...
I'll put in my listening queue Intolleranza 1960

[Autumn Leaves]

Afternoon listening:



Partitas #1, 2, 3 & 5



Only a second or third listen to this work by Bach - it's good and I like the recording too

[Johnnie Burgess]

Carl Nielsen: Symphony # 4, Op. 29 "The Inextinguishable"




Theodore Kuchar, Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra