What are you listening 2 now?

[Linz]

Haydn Symphonies 70 - 72 Roy Goodman

[Traverso]

Bach

[Mirror Image]

Pleased to hear that. I enjoy Yoshimatsu's music.

Yes, I've enjoyed much of what I've heard so far. There's an open-air quality to much of his sonorities that I find particularly beautiful.

[Florestan]

Transcriptions of Schumann, Schubert, Strauss, Gershwin, Grainger et al.

As far removed from the contemporary world as the sun from the moon. Superb.

[Traverso]

Boulez

[Todd]

7.  The musical elements are there, but it doesn't really work for me.  Curious.

[Tsaraslondon]

It's often said that Rutter's Requiem owes a lot to Fauré, and I suppose it does have a certain affinity, but it sounds quintessentially English to me, as does the rest of the music on this excellent disc frm the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge.

[Linz]

Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner with Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 'Pathetique'

[Traverso]

Boulez: Structures, Book 1
Alfons, Aloys Kontarsky (pianos)


Music that seeks to strip itself of any vestige of musical history, to attain a kind of pure contemporaneity. Something it does fairly successfully, almost brutally at times, seemingly stripping itself of emotion in the process. The uncompromising and austere results make for fascinating listening.
A world away from the beautiful and brief twelve-tone world of Boulez' 12 Notations pour piano which I had listened to just previously.

The wonder is that you can be fascinated without a recognizable motive and only be absorbed in structured sounds that do not indicate directions so that you are constantly in the moment.   

[Florestan]

Quite possibly my favorite piece of music ever.

[DavidW]

Haydn's 21st-24th symphonies

[Florestan]

Quite possibly my favorite piece of music ever.

In whatever incarnation I have heard it (cello / viola/ volin / flute), it never failed to give me goosebumps, especially the Adagio and the Allegretto.

[VonStupp]

Sergei Prokofiev
Symphony 1 in D major 'Classical', op. 25

Chicago SO - James Levine

VS

[Karl Henning]

Martinu: Toccata e Due canzoni

It shares a similar soundworld with his Les Frescoes de Piero della Francesca/The Parables/Estampes triptych. Just what doctor suggested.

(* pounds the table *)

[Florestan]

No. 2 in E minor Op. 24

Generic Late Romantic music, nothing memorable or earth-shattering but:

When music sounds, out of the water rise
Naiads whose beauty dims my waking eyes,
Rapt in strange dreams burns each enchanted face,
With solemn echoing stirs their dwelling-place.

When music sounds, all that I was I am
Ere to this haunt of brooding dust I came;
And from Time's woods break into distant song
The swift-winged hours, as I hasten along.

and

You are the music while the music lasts.

(Truly I am: I detected an echo of the Schubert's Arpeggione Sonata in the Scherzo).

[VonStupp]

Sergei Prokofiev
Symphony 2 in d minor, op. 40
Symphony 3 in c minor, op. 44

Scottish National Orchestra
Neeme Järvi

For this afternoon:

VS

[Florestan]

No. 2 in E minor Op. 24

Generic Late Romantic music, nothing memorable or earth-shattering but:

When music sounds, out of the water rise
Naiads whose beauty dims my waking eyes,
Rapt in strange dreams burns each enchanted face,
With solemn echoing stirs their dwelling-place.

When music sounds, all that I was I am
Ere to this haunt of brooding dust I came;
And from Time's woods break into distant song
The swift-winged hours, as I hasten along.

and

You are the music while the music lasts.

(Truly I am: I detected an echo of the Schubert's Arpeggione Sonata in the Scherzo).

Actually, this is excellent music. I loved it. Kyle, Cesar, Greg, even John(MI) give it a try --- it' on Spotify and I'm very glad I stumbled upon it.

[Mirror Image]

Actually, this is excellent music. I loved it. Kyle, Cesar, Greg, even John(MI) give it a try --- it' on Spotify and I'm very glad I stumbled upon it.

I don't do Spotify and I have a backlog of CDs that I haven't even listened to yet, so perhaps sometime down the road.

[Florestan]

Actually, this is excellent music. I loved it. Kyle, Cesar, Greg, even John(MI) give it a try --- it' on Spotify and I'm very glad I stumbled upon it.

Am listening to the Andante sostenuto for the third time in a row. Superb.

[Florestan]

I don't do Spotify

Too bad, John, too bad.