What are you listening to now?

[North Star]

First-listen Tuesday

Alban Berg
Chamber Concerto
Four Pieces for Clarinet & Piano
Adagio from the Chamber Concerto (transcr. for vln., clt, & pno)
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[Karl Henning]

LvB
Piano Sonata № 32 in c minor, Op.111
Fritz spielt auf!

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[listener]

SCHOENBERG:  The Book of the Hanging Garden
WEBERN: 5 Songs on Poems by Stefan George
Carla Henius, sop., Aribert Reimann, piano
CAVALLIERI: La Rappresentatione di Amina e di corpo
CESTI:  Serenata for the anniversary of the birth of Prince Cosme of Tuscany
Société de Musique d'Autrefois     Pierre Chaillé, cond.
and Carnival music by BERLIOZ (Roman), SVENDSEN (Paris), SCHMIDT (Notre Dame) and DVORAK
Slovak Philharmonic Orch.,   Ludovit Rajter, cond.

[12tone.]

Just got this

Wish there was more music with mandolin!

[TheGSMoeller]

Been enjoying a few Prokofiev Days, will more than likely continue tomorrow. Today consisted of orchestral works performed by Leinsdorf/BSO, Muti/Ph.O and Dutoit/Mont.

 

[Mirror Image]

Now:



Listening to Mangrove. Powerful work and performance.

[Todd]

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Meh.

[Beorn]

Ravel string quartet - quatuor ebene

[Que]

From the Anthology of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Vol. 5 (1980-1990), disc 13:

Rossini: Overture to La Siège de Corinthe (Riccardo Chailly, cond., recorded 10/19/1986)
Stravinsky: Le Chant du Rossignol (Chailly, 11/10/1988)
Martinů: Symphony No. 6, "Fantaisies symphoniques" (Sawallisch, 1/5/1986)
R. Strauss (arr. Leinsdorf): Suite from Die Frau ohne Schatten (Leinsdorf, 11/2/1989)

All most enjoyable. Why I don't listen to the Stravinsky more often is a mystery.

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--Bruce

Those Concertgebouw Orchestra boxsets look always so enticing! And considering their scarcity they turn immediately into collector's items....


Listening this morning:

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Q

[Opus106]

Those Concertgebouw Orchestra boxsets look always so enticing! And considering their scarcity they turn immediately into collector's items....

Q

I came *this* close to ordering a few them for a Dollar each, during the i-Deals debacle.

[mc ukrneal]

Those Concertgebouw Orchestra boxsets look always so enticing! And considering their scarcity they turn immediately into collector's items....

My exact thought. Every time Brewski posts a listening list from that set, I wonder why I didn't buy it when the programs are so interesting and performances probably at such a high level. 

[Que]

I came *this* close to ordering a few them for a Dollar each, during the i-Deals debacle.

You have had gold in your hands!

My exact thought. Every time Brewski posts a listening list from that set, I wonder why I didn't buy it when the programs are so interesting and performances probably at such a high level. 

Quite so!

And I am wondering what will happen with these recordings in the future, since Radio Netherlands Worldbroadcast has been taken to the dry cleaner due to severe budget cuts by the government. Their archive of recordings must be huge and contain many yet unheard riches. When I was a teenager visiting the Concertgebouw, their big truck with recording equipement would be outside in the alley next to the building on a regular basis - especially when a famous conductor or solist was visiting, and many concerts with Haitink and Chailly of course...

It is sad that public spending on culture suddenly seems to have become considered elitist and a waste of money...

Q

[Karl Henning]

Ravel string quartet - quatuor ebene

Mm-mm, good, Dave!

[jlaurson]

Now:


   Various
Cortot
Piano Arrangements
He Yue
Grand Piano
German link - UK link

Charming. Light music, but not with that Hotel-Lobby whiff, like other recent classical fluff piano discs. (I'm looking at you, Jenny Lin!)

Earlier:

Schübler Chorales from:

  J.S. Bach
Ton Koopman (+ Amsterdam Baroque Choir)
Complete Organ Works
Warner
German link - UK link

[AnthonyAthletic]

A nice way to spend a pound.  A new composer to my ears, very interesting/charming/thoughtful piano works.  Who was this guy?  The onset of madness by the age of twenty, many works destroyed and sadly passed over by the age of twenty six, in 1914.

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Stanchinsky Piano Works

Sonata mvt : Moderato; Sonata No.1 & No.2 ; Three sketches & Twelve sketches

[Lisztianwagner]

Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Concerto No.5

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[Karl Henning]

CHOR-SPIRALE (CHOIR SPIRAL)
for 12 choir singers (3 S, 3 A, 6 B) /
electronic music / sound projectionist

12 transmitters
8 loudspeakers
8-channel tape of electronic music
mixing console
sound projectionist

Choir of the Leipzig Opera
Anton Tremmel, director

total playing time: 7 minutes 36 seconds

Who's the composer, James?

[The new erato]

Who's the composer, James?

[Karl Henning]

;^)

[Sergeant Rock]

Honegger Pastorale d'été, Lopez-Cobos conducting. Then the Fourth Symphony.




Sarge