What are you listening to now?

[EigenUser]

+1

I wouldn't want to see an eye piercing all the time.

+1. I wouldn't mind hiding the disparaging comments about Debussy and Ravel, either.

But ... Ockham's razor is a sound instrument!

What about Ockeghem's razor?

[king ubu]

What about Ockeghem's razor?

I offer the Requiem (by Ensemble Organum) - one of the very few classical CDs I've owned all the way, decades before I started really digging into classical (and renaissance and baroque and romantic etc).

[EigenUser]

I offer the Requiem (by Ensemble Organum) - one of the very few classical CDs I've owned all the way, decades before I started really digging into classical (and renaissance and baroque and romantic etc).

An offertorium?

I have really been into Ockeghem recently. I can see him being in my top 10 list at some point further down the road. Not only because of his music (which is sublime), but even more so because it seems like his music is "teaching" me (for lack of a better word, I guess) how to better listen to polyphonic music. It's cool to listen to some Ockeghem and then to put on Ligeti's "Lux Aeterna" (a piece for 16-voice chorus -- famous from "2001: A Space Odyssey"). It's like I'm hearing it for the first time. I commented earlier that it was like Ockeghem played in an echo chamber. Or, like playing a melody on piano while the sustain pedal is being held down.

EDIT: Here's the clip from the BBC interview on the Ligeti PC and its relationship to the Marx Brothers that I said I'd post. It's also on the Ligeti page in the composer section.
[audio]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/2swva15fqlysvji/LigetiPC_4thMov.mp3[/audio]

The lady being interviewed is Ligeti's assistant, Louise Duchesneau.

[Sadko]

Carlos Seixas

Sonatas, vol. IV

José Carlos Araújo (harpsichord)

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

Esquisses Symphoniques.  Esquisses Exquises.

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

Danke. No, I mean never. I chose that over kaum on purpose. Contrasting the case where he is often a conductor. A small joke.

I have a planed avatar of an eye with a needle through it .... Patience mon ami!

Ach, das haben Sie also gemeint.  Don't do the eye thingie, please, that's so been done.  Maybe the ear, wouldn't GMGers find that more disturbing?:  LvB's (and our) "noblest faculty."  Talk about getting your ears pierced!

[jlaurson]

Listen to what the Cat Dragged In:


A. Bruckner,  Symphony 2 (1877)
C.M.Giulini / VSO
WS 004
German link - UK link

#morninglistening #classicalmusic @viennasymphony #Giulini #Bruckner

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

Here's the clip from the BBC interview on the Ligeti PC and its relationship to the Marx Brothers that I said I'd post. It's also on the Ligeti page in the composer section.
[audio]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/2swva15fqlysvji/LigetiPC_4thMov.mp3[/audio]

The lady being interviewed is Ligeti's assistant, Louise Duchesneau.

Very cool, thanks!

[North Star]

Chopin
Etudes, Barcarolle, Berceuse
Pollini, pf
    
Prokofiev
Violin Concertos
Chung & Previn

Shostakovich
Violin Concertos Khachatryan & Masur
 

[listener]

GINASTERA:  3 String  Quartets opp. 20, 26 and 40
Cuarteto latinoamericano, with Claudia Montiel, soprano in op.40
BRAHMS: Quintets
Piano Quartet op.34   String Quintets opp.88 & 111,  Clarinet Quintet op.113
Members of the Vienna Philharmonic Octet + Werner Haas, piano
And some music for guitar by COSTE played by Jeffrey McFadden

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

Karl Henning's Plotting : 60 is the new 50 (yippee!) Had it on my list of to-hears for sometime - Karl - this is a wonderful work; glad to hear it before I got into any of the older coordinates.  Thank you!

[Karl Henning]

Many thanks!

[Karl Henning]

Thread Duty:

Carter
Clarinet Concerto (1996)

[Sergeant Rock]

A Night at the Opera, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano




Sarge

[EigenUser]

A Night at the Opera, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano




Sarge

+ \infinity

Currently, Haydn's "Hen" (87). Cover art??

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

Richter and Munch attack LvB's first piano concerto.  What a successful invasion it is. 

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On vinyl, so thin I can just about fold it in two.  I remember listening to an all-night jazz show hosted by Harry Abraham in Rochester, NY - one night he complained about his postman who delivered a package folded nearly in two, with a record inside!  He claimed to have opened it up, flattened it out and played fine.  I used to think he was exaggerating, now I know he was not. 

[Harry]

My travel through the complete Orchestral work of the British composer Richard Arnell.

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2014/06/arnell-richard-1917-2009-symphony-no-2.html?spref=tw

[Sergeant Rock]

Currently, Haydn's "Hen" (87). Cover art??

The Hen is 83 in G minor. 87 is a nameless A major. Which are you listening to?

Sarge

[Brian]

Kinderszenen, Abegg, Fantasie; Lise de la Salle



So far, so good. I wonder if she'd date an American guy... guess I won't tell her the finale of the Fantasie is a little too fast...

[Karl Henning]

Maybe she would respect and like you for it, if you did!

(Thanks, BTW, for your warm reception of Le tombeau.)