What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Brahmsian]

Listening to this marvelous, beautiful music!

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What a marvelous Requiem, the Faure Requiem is.  Gorgeous.  Very uplifting.  Not nearly as dark as some of the other famous Requiems.  Which takes nothing away from it.  It is a 100% masterpiece, and of inexpressible beauty! 

[Papy Oli]

Continuing the discovery of Ture Rangstrom's symphonies with symphony No.2 in D Minor "Mitt Land" then "Intermezzo drammatico" (Jurowski / Norrkopping SO). Really enjoying this so far !! 

So good I have to finish the cycle straight away :

Ture Rangstrom - Symphony No. 3 in D flat major and Symphony No.4 "Invocatio"

[Sergeant Rock]

Mozart Piano Concerto #16 D major K.451, Bilson, fortepiano, Gardiner conducting the English Baroque Soloists




Sarge

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Listening to Florida Suite with Richard Hickox conducting the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Beautiful work.

[TheGSMoeller]

Haydn: Symphony No.22, "The Philosopher" - Fischer/Austro-Hungarian-Haydn-Orchestra
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No.4; Flos Campi - Daniel/Bournemouth S. Chorus and Orchestra

[Que]

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[Papy Oli]

Jean Sibelius - Symphony No.4
Bernstein / NYPO

[The new erato]

Stokowski in de Falla and Wagner for this box - seriously good!

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Listening to Requiem with Meredith Davies conducting the Royal Philharmonic and Royal Choral Society. Great performance.

[Karl Henning]

What a marvelous Requiem, the Faure Requiem is.  Gorgeous.  Very uplifting.  Not nearly as dark as some of the other famous Requiems.  Which takes nothing away from it.  It is a 100% masterpiece, and of inexpressible beauty! 

An exquisite piece, Ray, with very warm memories for me.  When I first went to Wooster, for introductory interviews, my friend brought me in to McGaw Chapel, and off in a corner was the Wooster Chorus rehearsing the Fauré Requiem, a geniunely magical experience.

[KeithW]

For those European GMG members, do any of you know of the radio station, which is listed as

    1.FM: Otto's Baroque Music

I have been listening to a number of classical radio stations over the internet via my new internet tuner.  While the technology is not super new, it is pretty fascinating.

Another internet radio station identified as Swissradio Classical is no doubt a Switzerland based classical station.  Does BPO or RCO have any regular radio broadcast over the internet?

http://grace.reciva.com/reorderservices

Although I have an Internet radio (which sort of looks like an old fashioned radio from Roberts), these days most of my listening is on my iPad or iPhone using the TuneIn radio app - without doubt the best $1 or so I have spent.  I have listened to Otto's Baroque - it is part of the 1.FM online station which broadcasts many channels offering different types of music.  That said, I spend most of my listening time with the more obvious channels - BBC Radio 3, WQXR, Classic FM from Australia, radio 4 from the Netherlands and so on. 

I'm not sure about a BPO radio channel - they have staying via their own tv station.

[stingo]

BACH Works for Solo Violin
Marc Lubotsky, violin
CD 11 from

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[North Star]

Tchaikovsky
Romeo & Juliet
Pletnev & RNO
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Earlier:
Second-listen Saturday

Mussorgksy
Pictures at an Exhibition
Tchaikovsky
Symphony no. 4
Sokhiev & Toulouse

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Prokofiev
Cello Sonata in C major, Op. 119
Shostakovich
Cello Sonata in D minor, Op. 40
Sonia Wieder-Atherton (vc) & Laurent Cabasso (pf)

[Coopmv]

Although I have an Internet radio (which sort of looks like an old fashioned radio from Roberts), these days most of my listening is on my iPad or iPhone using the TuneIn radio app - without doubt the best $1 or so I have spent.  I have listened to Otto's Baroque - it is part of the 1.FM online station which broadcasts many channels offering different types of music.  That said, I spend most of my listening time with the more obvious channels - BBC Radio 3, WQXR, Classic FM from Australia, radio 4 from the Netherlands and so on. 

I'm not sure about a BPO radio channel - they have staying via their own tv station.

Interesting.  Thanks for sharing your insight.  My internet radio listening has thus far been via my headphones since I am still in the process of connecting that internet tuner to my stereo system in my computer room/study.  The system is in need of a proper amp (perhaps a tube amp) as I had a 240 watts/ch CJ amp connected that nearly blew out my bookshelf speakers due to a remote malfunction a few years ago.

[SonicMan46]

Some new BRO bargains:

Caldara, Antonio (1670-1736) - Sinfonie a Quattro w/ Sampedro & Orqeusta Barroca - mostly noted for operas, cantatas, and oratorios, I have just a few CDs of Caldara's vocal music - this recording pique my interest, i.e. early 18th century 'symphonies', but I did not know the group from the University of Salamanca; however, a review by Mr. Bruno HERE prompted my purchase, and indeed the music is delightful and performed well!

Bach, JS (1685-1750) - Rummel Transcriptions w/ Jonathan Plowright (2-CD set) - now, I'm not usually into 'transcriptions' but probably have a dozen or so recordings of different composers - this set was of interest because nearly all of the pieces are from Bach's vocal works; also, a brief but positive 10/10 review from Jed Distler HERE - just finished a second listen and am quite pleased -

 

[Opus106]

From Counterstream Radio

Thanks for the link.

Currently: Vincent Persichetti - Masquerade, Op.102 ...a Maiden Listen Monday for this composer.

I actually prefer listening to radio (as opposed to playing my CDs), where the job of preparing a playlist (and surprising me) is left to someone else.

[stingo]

French Harp Music
Isabelle Moretti, harp

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[Fafner]

Shostakovich Symphony January

No. 12

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[Sergeant Rock]

Shostakovich Symphony January

I need to catch up. I've only listened to 1 and 6 so far. And now, Caetani's Fifth, a first listen to this version, actually.





Sarge

[Lisztianwagner]

Pyotr Il'ych Tchaikovsky
Eugene Onegin - Polonaise & Valse

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