What are you listening to now?

[anothername]

Javier Perianes playing Mendelssohn :Songs without words .

[SimonNZ]

Stravinsky's Duo Concertant - Lydia Mordkovitch, violin, Julian Milford, piano

[GioCar]

My EML

John Adams: Sheherazade.2

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My comments are in the composer's thread

[Wanderer]

I was woken up really early today, but was recompensed by the mesmerizing view of Canis Major, Canis Minor and Orion high up in the pre-dawn sky.


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Grainger: The Warriors
Holst: The Planets

[SurprisedByBeauty]

My favorite recording of Strauss' Four Last Songs.

I rarely use the word, but I must with this.....essential.

Absolutely the bee's knees! Double cream and luxury lather. Not the only way to do these four last songs, but very probably the most seductive way.

One of the inclusions in the "Building A Classical Music Library with $100" post on Forbes:

Richard Strauss wrote his aptly named Four Last Songs a year before his death in 1949. They are wistful, absolutely heartrending (or lachrymose, to the few who can't stand them) utterances of a composer who had the seen the world he knew destroyed before his eyes, by his own country. Jessye Norman along with Kurt Masur and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra do not provide the most nuanced or text-sensitive reading. But by golly, the American soprano's big, creamy voice in the song "Beim Schlafengehen" is just the most gorgeous thing ever to have come from a human throat. And no matter how slow Masur gets, she seems to take all four songs in one breath. If you want to hear where Howard Shore got most of his ideas for the Lord of the Rings soundtrack (compare "Gollum" to "Spring"), go no further. (The rest of Shore's opus was apparently supplied by Carl Orff, Hans Pfitzner, Richard Wagner, and Enya - but I digress.)

I just noticed that a discography of his best recordings that I wrote to go along with my (rather critical) obit in Listen Magazine, wasn't published after all... I might just make it a one-year-deathaversary post on Forbes, in stead. In any case, this, and the Mutter Brahms VC is right atop that list.

TD:


#morninglistening to a French #cello melange w/@CamilleThomas29 & @julienLibeer on @laDolceVolta... http://ift.tt/2cVww0H

[SimonNZ]

Stravinsky's Duo Concertant - Ivry Gitlis, violin, Charlotte Zelka, piano

[amw]

Rachmaninov - Symphonic Dances.

This piece is kind of addictive. In particular, I keep wanting to listen to the first movement repeatedly.

[SimonNZ]

Stravinsky's Duo Concertant - Wolfgang Schneiderhan, violin, Carl Seemann, piano



Adams' Harmonielehre - michael Tilson Thomas, cond.

[Wanderer]

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Walton: Symphony No. 1 & Belshazzar's Feast

[San Antone]

Not for everyone, maybe, but I like it: the Goldberg Variations. The surprise here is the instrumentation for 3 marimbas and 2 vibraphones, conducted by Raphael Aggery, and performed by Jean Geoffroy and the Ensemble Tactus.

[anothername]

Paul Paray conducts: Chausson / Lalo/ Barraud

[Florestan]

Earlier today



Op. 11 & Op. 15

Now playing

[Mahlerian]

Mozart: Early Symphonies (Discs 1 and 2)
Prague Chamber Orchestra, cond. Mackerras


Going through these in conjunction with a book I'm reading on the works.  A lot of these early works are very mundane and generic, but the author makes the case that that's nothing more than would have been expected from a composer of the time in a symphony, which was still thought of as a curtain-raiser genre kind of like the overtures or fanfares that make up so many forgettable Neoromantic commissions today.

Chopin: Sonata No. 3 in B minor
Maurizio Pollini

[Drasko]

Mass

[Karl Henning]

Giving this another spin



I am liking it more and more. 

Very good.

[Karl Henning]

My favorite recording of Strauss' Four Last Songs.

Forgive the copy-editorial geekdom, Jens . . . do you mean instead, A Listener's Guide to the Recovery of Modern Music?

[North Star]

Today's maiden-listen menu so far

Regnart
Missa Super Oeniades Nymphae
Sacred works and state motets
Cinquecento
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Haydn
String Quartet in B flat major, Op. 50/I
The London Haydn Quartet
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Liszt
Harmonies poétiques et religieuses
Steven Osborne
The second half.
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[San Antone]

Arrangement for violin/clarinet/piano version of the Adagio from the Chamber Concerto.

[Karl Henning]

Arrangement for clarinet/piano version of the Adagio from the Chamber Concerto.

New arrangement?  I knew of the cl/vn/pf trio arrangement.

[San Antone]

New arrangement?  I knew of the cl/vn/pf trio arrangement.

Sorry, I forgot to include the violin when I first posted.