What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[bhodges]

Very nice, Bruce!  Whenever I hear Messiaen's music live, he is my favorite composer.

I can well identify.  A good Messiaen performance can leave you breathless.  (Although as a PS, this past weekend I watched the 4-1/2-hour DVD of Saint François d'Assise, and although I absolutely loved maybe,  85% of it, to my ears it needed to be cut some.)

But on the whole, such a stunning body of work!

--Bruce

[George]

BOTH for me George.  You are no longer my twin brother!  0:)

The cord had to be cut sooner or later. 

[Opus106]

Thinking out aloud: Hm, there might be something to this after all. No mosquitoes or bees, this actually does sound like music, while sampling Bartok's 6th quartet. I'll need to check if this from his early part of his career.

Afterthought: Sampling just the first half a minute or so of each track, they sound awfully alike.

[ChamberNut]

Thinking out aloud: Hm, there might be something to this after all. No mosquitoes or bees, this actually does sound like music, while sampling Bartok's 6th quartet. I'll need to check if this from his early part of his career.

The more you listen to Bartok's quartets, the more it does sound like music!    Keep listening, I can almost guarantee they will grow on you.  0:)

[ChamberNut]

Shostakovich

Symphony No. 7 in C major, Op. 60 Leningrad

WDR Sinfonieorchester
Barshai

Brilliant Classics

[Opus106]

I guess I'm just desperate to try something new. Right now I don't feel like listening to anything, unless it's downright new AND sorrowful. 

[ChamberNut]

I guess I'm just desperate to try something new. Right now I don't feel like listening to anything, unless it's downright new AND sorrowful. 

*pounds the table*  0:)

[karlhenning]

The more you listen to Bartok's quartets, the more it does sound like music!    Keep listening, I can almost guarantee they will grow on you.  0:)

Ray is giving you pearls here, Соч. 67!

Thread duty, in solidarity with the table-pounder:

Дмитри Дмитриевич
Symphony № 7 in C Major (Ленинград), Соч. 60
Prague Symphony
Максим Дмитриевич

[DavidRoss]

Thinking out aloud: Hm, there might be something to this after all. No mosquitoes or bees, this actually does sound like music, while sampling Bartok's 6th quartet. I'll need to check if this from his early part of his career.

1939, late in his career.

[Opus106]

1939, late in his career.

Thanks.

I just learnt that Mesto means sad. No wonder.

[Opus106]

Grosse Fuge
Alban Berg Quartet

[ChamberNut]

Shostakovich

Symphony No. 7 in C major, Op. 60 Leningrad

WDR Sinfonieorchester
Barshai

Brilliant Classics

Hmmmmmm, I need to add the 3rd mvt. of this to my pantry......on the shelf right below the green lemon. 0:)

[karlhenning]

  0:)

[jochanaan]

George Crumb: Ancient Voices of Children.

[Valentino]

DSCH SQ4. Hagen Quartett. I do prefer them to Emerson where I have the choice.

[Brian]

SHOSTAKOVICH | Symphony No 9
WDR Symphony Orchestra
Rudolf Barshai

This set is a winner, isn't it, Ray?! 

[Brian]

MOAR!


SHOSTAKOVICH | Symphony No 10
WDR Symphony Orchestra
Rudolf Barshai

[The new erato]

Very well done and most enjoyable.

[jlaurson]

Very well done and most enjoyable.

...and the classiest way yet of the French giving us the finger. 

[Coopmv]

Now playing CD2 from this set.  CD1 is excellent ...