What are you listening to now?

[KenL]

I'm amazed at the quality of sound of this recording.  Kempff's performances are excellent.

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[EigenUser]

We've discussed this! You are too young for memory loss 
I like some of Feldman, Rothko, Madame Press for example. I have liked some of the other pieces too.
Even when I don't like it I do find his music interesting. I will probably buy some at some point, piano music I expect to start.

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(We discussed it, but I couldn't quite understand the NYC accent)

His chamber works are his best work, I think. Piano and String Quartet is up there with the Mendelssohn Octet and the Ravel SQ as far as my favorite pieces are concerned. I have not heard the six-hour SQ2 yet, but I don't really intend to anytime soon. I'd rather spend six hours listening to a variety of Feldman rather than one massive work of his.

Of course he's a minimalist, in the good pieces at least. 
Compare him to Webern? Did he run over your pet cat or something?

I think it's an apt comparison. Feldman is like a minimalist Webern as far as musical economy.

[HIPster]

Palladian Ensemble - Trios For 4
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Inspired by SonicDave earlier today!   

[TheGSMoeller]

No. 22, K.482 from Perahia and the English C.O.

[Moonfish]

Elgar: Symphony No 1      London Philharmonic O/Boult (rec 1976)
Elgar: In the South     London Philharmonic O/Boult

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[Mookalafalas]

Of course I'm going to get tired of this after a while...but it hasn't happened yet
(Also have Abbado's Haydn and Colin Davis' Mozart in the disc carousel--and am sipping Johnny Walker Blue Label from a bottle a friend gave me)

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[king ubu]

VERDI: La forza del destino

Renata Tebaldi (Donna Leonora di Vargas), Mario Del Monaco (Don Alvaro), Aldo Protti (Don Carlo di Vargas), Silvio Maionica (Il Marchese di Calatrava), Fedora Barbieri (Preziosilla), Renato Capecchi (Fra Melitone), Angela Vercelli (Curra), Cesare Siepi (Padre Guardiano), Piero De Palma (Mastro Trabuco), Walter Finessi (Un Chirurgo), Giorgio Giorgetti (Un Alcalde)
Coro del Teatro Comunale di Firenze (Andrea Morosini)
Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
Dimitri Mitropoulos

Teatro Comunale, 14 Juni 1953

[Harry]

Good afternoon all and everyone.
Music by a composer that gives great comfort....

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2014/08/arnell-richard-1917-2009-orchestral.html?spref=tw

[Drasko]

Beethoven - String Quartet op.95 - Smetana Quartet

[Karl Henning]

Again, Feldman's Coptic Light.
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Ken, what are your thoughts on Feldman? I suspect you think it is boring . He is a minimalist, though. I have difficulty calling him a minimalist because his music sounds so different compared to, say, Reich. I think he has as much in common with Webern as he does with any minimalist (another reason why I bet you don't like him ).

You didn't ask me, but there are maybe 12 pieces by Feldman which I like a great deal (and Coptic Light is among them).  Although "minimalism" has come to mean something rather specific, Feldman's approach is genuinely minimalist.

[Karl Henning]

Of course I'm going to get tired of this after a while...but it hasn't happened yet

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Pace yourself, is the key

[Karl Henning]

Belated observance of the anniversary:

Liszt
Fantasie und Fuge über das Thema B-A-C-H, S.529
Brendel

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[North Star]

Good day, Karl!

Haydn
Piano Sonatas, Hob. XVI/20, 35-39, 48-52
Staier

[Harry]

A CD that has entered high in my charts. Recommended to all lovers of olde musicke.

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2014/08/luzzaschi-luzzasco-c1545-1607-complete.html?spref=tw

[Harry]

Good day, Karl!

Haydn
Piano Sonatas, Hob. XVI/20, 35-39, 48-52
Staier

A box I enjoyed very much. I played every cd 4 times, in a few months, and that means something in my book!

[Todd]

[North Star]

A box I enjoyed very much. I played every cd 4 times, in a few months, and that means something in my book!

Aye, an excellent box. G'day, Harry!

[Karl Henning]

G'day, gents!  And continued best wishes, Harry!

[Karl Henning]

Thread Duty:

Liszt
Csárdás macabre, S.224
Brendel

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[North Star]

Bach
Fantaisie in a minor, BWV 922
Fantasie und Fuge in a minor, BWV 904
Staier