What are you listening to now?

[Moonfish]

Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 2             
USSR State Symphony Orchestra
Svetlanov

Excellent!!!!

[Mirror Image]

Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 2             
USSR State Symphony Orchestra
Svetlanov

Excellent!!!!

Oh yes, Svetlanov is an outstanding conductor of Rachmaninov's music.

[Moonfish]

Oh yes, Svetlanov is an outstanding conductor of Rachmaninov's music.

It kind of took me by surprise. Svetlanov and the USSR orchestra really turned the symphony into a powerful performance (especially the first movement!).

[Ken B]

Oh yes, Svetlanov is an outstanding conductor of Rachmaninov's music.

John, I worry you spend too much time listening to music and not enough watching YouTube explanations of how hair styles in Lithuania highlight the systemic problems of American prisons.


TD Richter,  a track or two from Sleep

[Mirror Image]

It kind of took me by surprise. Svetlanov and the USSR orchestra really turned the symphony into a powerful performance (especially the first movement!).

Indeed. Another favorite Rachmaninov 2nd is Rozhdestvensky's with the LSO. Not sure if you've heard this one, but it's surprisingly good.

[Mirror Image]

John, I worry you spend too much time listening to music and not enough watching YouTube explanations of how hair styles in Lithuania highlight the systemic problems of American prisons.

I know! My priorities are all screwed up!

[Moonfish]

Came across this performance by serendipity - quite enjoyable immersion during the late hours of the night!

Scriabin: Poem of Ecstasy             
Orchestra: unknown
Conductor: Alexander Lazarev

Edinburgh Festival 1987 (live)

https://www.youtube.com/v/7OEzPSPjbyk

[Que]

Morning listening is a return to this:

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The 2nd disc "From Bach to Haydn: the last generation of lutenists" from this 4CD set by Italian lutenist Alberto Crugnola with music by Johann Michael Kühnel, Johann Friedrich Daube and Rudolph Straube was originally issued on Symphonia.

I don't have this set, but Alberto Crugnola is today probably my favorite Bach lutenist.

IMO, it's hard to get a better combination of attention for details, deepness and "organic*" playing. 

*I mean "characterized by the systematic arrangement of parts; organized; systematic"; but also "alive."

"Organic" sound right to me...

I guess this set has your name on it!!  (cheap at jpc)

Q

[SurprisedByBeauty]

#morninglistening to #CharlesIves #symphonies on @sony_classical w/@rcoamsterdam & @mtilsonthomas

: http://a-fwd.to/4OUvZkv


&



#morninglistening to #Bach #cantatas for #Ascension: #BWV11, 37, 43 & 128

: https://a-fwd.to/6YzAZ3H

w/@mco_london & #JohnEliotGardiner

#bachpilgrimage

[Judith]

Today

Spohr
Symphonies 3 and 6
Alfred Walter
Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra

Not familiar with this composer but found him very easy on ear.

Schumann Symphony no 2
ASMF
Sir Neville Marriner

Liszt Piano Concerto no 1
Stephen Hough
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Conducted by Andrew Litton

Lovely performance

[San Antone]

Lute music by John Johnson and Anthony Holborne
Yavor Genov, lute



New recording from Brilliant.  About what you'd expect; decent acoustic, nice instrument.

[Madiel]

Reminds me of the ad Amazon was running about Alexa supposedly loosing her voice.

Disheveled looking, millennial type young man in his messy apartment ask Alexa,

"Can you find a recipe for a grilled cheese sandwich?"

Celebrity chef answers for Alexa

"God, you're a grown man and can't make a grilled cheese sandwich? Really? The recipe is in the name!"

Sigh. Given that I explicitly recognised what the word "Memorial" meant, this is nonsense. The word does not tell you WHAT is being memorialised, which is what I asked.

If it was called something like Veterans' Memorial Day, you would have a point. But as it's simply called Memorial Day, you don't.  Instead, what you are saying is effectively "how could you not know that a Grilled Sandwich was cheese?"

Perhaps you just don't think there is anyone else in the world worth a memorial.

[Madiel]

Meaningful thread duty.

Schumann, Phantasiestücke for piano trio, op.88

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[San Antone]

What's Memorial Day for, anyway? What are you remembering?

Far too many websites and apps I deal with seem to assume the entire internet is American. I know when you're having a holiday because so many things reference it. I've just got no idea what the holiday is for.

In less time it took for you to type this post you could have Googled it.

TD



CD5

[Madiel]

In less time it took for you to type this post you could have Googled it.

No kidding. I chose not to be efficient. I chose to seek an explanation from real-live people. One of whom was gracious enough to answer the question.

[André]

Sigh. Given that I explicitly recognised what the word "Memorial" meant, this is nonsense. The word does not tell you WHAT is being memorialised, which is what I asked.

If it was called something like Veterans' Memorial Day, you would have a point. But as it's simply called Memorial Day, you don't.  Instead, what you are saying is effectively "how could you not know that a Grilled Sandwich was cheese?"

Perhaps you just don't think there is anyone else in the world worth a memorial.

Take heart. I live in North America and have no clue what it is that Americans are memorializing on Memorial Day 

[TheGSMoeller]

A beautiful morning, accompanied by beautiful music. Schubert's Little C major Symphony from Harnoncourt and the Berliners....

[Karl Henning]

No kidding. I chose not to be efficient. I chose to seek an explanation from real-live people.

One of the reasons we visit in here, I think.

[Karl Henning]

A beautiful morning, accompanied by beautiful music. Schubert's Little C major Symphony from Harnoncourt and the Berliners....

Cheers, Greg!  (And YHM)

[North Star]

G'day, Karl!

Thread-duty - first listen
Saint-Saëns
Cello Concerto no. 1 in a minor, Op. 33
Lynn Harrell
Cleveland Orchestra
Marriner
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