What are you listening 2 now?

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Prokofiev
The Tale of the Stone Flower, Op. 118
Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra
Rozhdestvensky

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The Year 1905

[Karl Henning]

Prokofiev
The Tale of the Stone Flower, Op. 118
Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra
Rozhdestvensky

Love this ballet.

[Karl Henning]

The Year 1905

I've very much liked all that I've heard Polyansky conduct!

[Karl Henning]

Schoenberg
Quartet in D (1897)
The LaSalle Quartet
From some time before "classical music went all wrong!"

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Love this ballet.

I'm certainly beginning to enjoy it. For the longest time, the music just didn't resonate too deeply with me, but it seems that there has been enough time elapsed since my last hearing of it that I can appreciate more this time around. I doubt I'll listen to the complete ballet today, though.

[steve ridgway]

Scelsi: Pranam I & II, Khoom etc.. I love the singing on this album and there's plenty of it in Khoom .

[Traverso]

This music - in what basically is French Huguenot style - might be esoteric and too austere for some, but I love it! 

I guess some of the best Hugeonot music was written by a (Protestant) Dutchman.... 

Q

I agree with you  that it is austere,I love it . One has to adjust a little to become  part of it.After a few minutes following the melodies the division between music and listener disappears.(hopefully)It is sometimes difficult after a long tome of listening to modern music to return to it.When you feel in harmony again there is nothing esoteric.,just the witnessing of beauty.

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Bernstein
Halil
Jean-Pierre Rampal (flute)
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
Leonard Bernstein



A gorgeous piece. Bernstein in full-on exotic mode with hints of Stravinsky's Greek ballets and Debussy's Impressionism.

[Traverso]

Darn keyboard.

Corrected.

(He's my fav poet.)

I vaguely remember a beautiful poem by him looking at his wife unexpectedly and feeling a deep connection with her. I should and will purchase a book with his poems.

[Florestan]

I have a few discs of Ughi (Bach, Beethoven, Brahms) and I've always liked his tone. Both warm and expressive.

Yes, precisely.

[bhodges]

Browsing the livestream archive from the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra:

https://www.br-so.com/brso-media-center/videos/?plist=concerts

--Bruce

[Kontrapunctus]

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Bernstein
Clarinet Sonata
Violin Sonata
Piano Trio
Andy Miles, Wayne Marshall, Benyamin Nuss, Fernando Nina, Lisa Schumann

[Karl Henning]

Webern
Five Movements, Op. 5
Six Bagatelles, Op. 9
String Quartet, Op. 28
Quartet (1905)

Berg
Lyric Suite
String Quartet, Op. 3
The LaSalle Quartet

[Marc]

I vaguely remember a beautiful poem by him looking at his wife unexpectedly and feeling a deep connection with her. I should and will purchase a book with his poems.

Might have been ´Onder de appelboom´.

(Translation by James Brockway (1916-2000).)

ONDER DE APPELBOOM

Ik kwam thuis, het was
een uur of acht en zeldzaam
zacht voor de tijd van het jaar,
de tuinbank stond klaar
onder de appelboom

ik ging zitten en ik zat
te kijken hoe de buurman
in zijn tuin nog aan het spitten
was, de nacht kwam uit de aarde
een blauwer wordend licht hing
in de appelboom

toen werd het langzaam weer te mooi
om waar te zijn, de dingen
van de dag verdwenen voor de geur
van hooi, er lag weer speelgoed
in het gras en verweg in het huis
lachten de kinderen in het bad
tot waar ik zat, tot
onder de appelboom

en later hoorde ik de vleugels
van ganzen in de hemel
hoorde ik hoe stil en leeg
het aan het worden was

gelukkig kwam er iemand naast mij
zitten, om precies te zijn jij
was het die naast mij kwam
onder de appelboom, zeldzaam
zacht en dichtbij
voor onze leeftijd.

UNDER THE APPLE TREE

I came home, it was about
eight and remarkably
close for the time of the year,
the garden seat stood waiting
under the apple tree

I took my place and sat
watching how my neighbour
was still digging in his garden,
the night came out of the soil
a light growing bluer hung
in the apple tree

then slowly it once again became
too beautiful to be true, the day's
alarms disappeared in the scent
of hay, toys again lay
in the grass and from far away in the house
came the laughter of children in the bath
to where I sat, to
under the apple tree

and later I heard the wings
of wild geese in the sky
heard how still and empty
it was becoming

luckily someone came and sat
beside me, to be precise it was
you who came to my side
under the apple tree,
remarkably close
for our time of life.

(Apologies for being off-topic.)

[Daverz]

Webern
Five Movements, Op. 5
Six Bagatelles, Op. 9
String Quartet, Op. 28
Quartet (1905)

Berg
Lyric Suite
String Quartet, Op. 3
The LaSalle Quartet

Going for comfort music, I see.

Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 - Chailly/Leipzig Gewandhaus

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I believe this is some kind of original edition of the Mendelssohn 3rd, but I'd have to look up what the differences actually are.

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Bernstein
Mass
Alan Titus (baritone)
Mass Cast Studio Orchestra, The Berkshire Boy Choir, Norman Scribner Choir
Bernstein



I'm actually really enjoying this...I think a lot of it stems from Bernstein's infectious way with melody, but also the way he constructs musical phrases --- it's quite ear-fetching.

[Karl Henning]

Going for comfort music, I see.

[Karl Henning]

Zemlinsky
Quartets Opp. 4 & 15
LaSalle
Quartet