What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Que]

Good morning Que! It is 12:42 am here, and Atterberg's Eighth Symphony just finished, but I was so caught up in it and how wonderfully I was enjoying it that it kept playing in my head and ... well ... I put it on again. A late night then! 

ATTERBERG | Symphony No 8
Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart
Ari Rasilainen

A good night listening then, Brian!

When I have finished my breakfast it's my first workday of the new year...

Q

[listener]

Guitar music by Sor (2 Études, Grand Sonata op.25)  and Georg Lawall 3 Asian Pictures:: Boogie-Woogie Raga, Von Industrial Japan, Nai Horn Ripoff,  uniting folk instruments and music  with Afro-American pop music.    Quite different and enjoyable.   
Recorder and string quartet music (mainly) featuring John  Turner and th Camerata Ensemble.   Mainly "sort of tonal" works, including Leonard Bernstein's Variations on an Octatonic Theme for recorder and cello. and Arnell's The Gambler Quintet introducing a competing entry in a competition for the national anthem of Gambia.   Beth Wiseman's Dances on My Grave is said to be about "becoming non-corporeal".  It sounds like one of those 12-tone pieces that usually have an oboe or clarinet honking on landing after a difficult passage of high notes

[val]

ERNST PEPPING:         Passionsbericht des Matthäus       

/ Rundfunkchor Berlin, Stefan Parkman


This work, composed in 1950, uses only two choirs "a cappella", with no soloists.
It seems to me that the reputation of Pepping as one of the greatest German religious composers of the 20th century is very excessive.
I respect this work, severe, sometimes almost abstract, but to be honnest I find it a bit boring.

[Harry]

Muzio Clementi.
The Complete Sonatas Volume III.
The London Sonatas, CD II, Opus 12 & 14.
Constantino Mastroprimiano, Fortepiano. ( Kirckman 1798.

As in the other volumes, the quality is ever increasing, fine playing, easy on the ear music, and a wonderfully tuned instrument.

[mahler10th]

 

Hovhaness.  Spiritual Mountain Climbing.

[jlaurson]

The End is Near!

Bach Organ Works (Mono recordings) Walcha Archiv

Disc 8 of the 10 disc Walcha mono traversal.

Assorted Chorales & Orgelbuechlein BWV 599-644

(These are a little boring, quite frankly)

[hildegard]

Muzio Clementi.
The Complete Sonatas Volume III.
The London Sonatas, CD II, Opus 12 & 14.
Constantino Mastroprimiano, Fortepiano. ( Kirckman 1798.

As in the other volumes, the quality is ever increasing, fine playing, easy on the ear music, and a wonderfully tuned instrument.

Happy New Year, Harry!

This sounds like a real treat.

Love your partying Pink Panther, too.   

[Harry]

Joseph Joachim Raff.

Symphony No. 4.
Overtures, Benedetto Marcello/Dame Kobold/Die Parole/Concert overture.
Bamberger Symphoniker, Hans Stadlmair.

Five works of great beauty well played, and excellently recorded.

http://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/art/Joachim-Raff-Symphonie-Nr-4/hnum/1502897

[Harry]

Happy New Year, Harry!

This sounds like a real treat.

Love your partying Pink Panther, too.   

And to you too Hildegard!
The PP was a gift from a very good friend.

[Todd]

Revisited Lawrence Foster's superb recording of Enescu's 3rd and was reminded anew of how fine the work is.  Good stuff.

[Conor71]

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.4 In F Minor, Op. 36

[Keemun]

Brahms
Trio for Piano, Violin & Horn
Borodin Trio

[karlhenning]

Berg
Chamber Concerto for piano & violin with 13 wind instruments (1923-25)
Barenboim
Zukerman
Ensemble InterContemporain
Boulez

Happy new year, all!

[jlaurson]

The End is Near!

Bach Organ Works (Mono recordings) Walcha Archiv

Disc 9 of the 10 disc Walcha mono traversal.

Orgelbuechlein BWV 610-644

I like BWV 639 (Ich ruf' zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ),
but all in all, I'd say that after the first few excellent discs, this set was more disappointment than delight

[karlhenning]

Brahms
Trio for Piano, Violin & Horn
Borodin Trio

Beauty!

. . . all in all, I'd say that after the first few excellent discs, this set was more disappointment than delight

Pity.

[CD]

Wasn't overly impressed by the disc of chamber works, but will see how this composer fares in symphonic form.

[jlaurson]

The End is Near!

Bach Organ Works (Mono recordings) Walcha Archiv

Disc 9 of the 10 disc Walcha mono traversal.

Orgelbuechlein BWV 610-644

I like BWV 639 (Ich ruf' zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ),
but all in all, I'd say that after the first few excellent discs, this set was more disappointment than delight

Pity.

Well, at least disappointment at a high level. It's still Bach, you know. 

[Keemun]

Beauty!

It certainly is.

~~~~~

Rochberg
Symphony No. 5
Solti
CSO

[George]

Chopin
Etudes
Koczalski

Superb! 

Happy New Day!! 

[CD]

Wasn't overly impressed by the disc of chamber works, but will see how this composer fares in symphonic form.

Too soundtracky for my taste. :S