What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[greg]

Carter- String Quartets 1 and 5 (Pacifica Quartet)

yummy!

[MN Dave]

I think the interpretations are particularly fine, especially op 109 and 111. Solomon may underplay the drama in these pieces a bit much for some, but his contrapuntal clarity and superb legato playing make the slow movements (at least for me) a profoundly moving experience.

Thank you. I think I'll put it on my want list.

[karlhenning]

Yesterday: Milhaud - L'homme et son desir, six little symphonies, etc. (Milhaud, Orch. Radio Lux., et. al.)

Delightful, non è vero?

[MN Dave]

There was no music on my iPod this morning. 

[Kullervo]

Delightful, non è vero?

Definitely. I love the colors he manages to create with so few instruments.

[Henk]

Next:

[Harry]

Domenico Scarlatti.

Complete Harpsichord Sonatas, Volume XIII, Disc 1-3.

Pieter Jan Belder, Harpsichord.

For me personally this is the best set I ever heard, and they are so easy to listen too, in this interpretation. Well recorded, and sensible tempi, flourish in abundance, but he never oversteps the line.

[George]

Haydn

Op. 20

Tatrai QT

[MN Dave]

I'm listening to FM classical radio. 

[Mark]

I'm listening to FM classical radio. 

Wow. That's desperate.

[MN Dave]

Wow. That's desperate.

iPod came up empty today.

[karlhenning]

OTOH, odds are good their playlist will serve up Beethoven early and often 

[MN Dave]

OTOH, odds are good their playlist will serve up Beethoven early and often 

They haven't that I've detected.

[MN Dave]

11 - Noon
11:36George Frideric Handel - Semele: Where E'er You Walk
John Rutter, conductor
City of London Sinfonia
Nicholas Daniel, oboe
AmerGram 590 - BUY

11:32Jean Sibelius - Andante festivo
William Boughton, conductor
English String Orchestra
Nimbus 5169 - BUY

11:20Henry Purcell - Distressed Innocence
Chatham Baroque
Dorian 90309 - BUY

11:06Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Horn Concerto No. 2
Barry Tuckwell, conductor
English Chamber Orchestra
Barry Tuckwell, horn
London 410284 - BUY

11:01John Rutter - Advent Anthem for choir & organ
Timothy Brown, conductor
Choir of Clare College, Cambridge
Nicholas Collon, organ
Naxos 557130 - BUY

[karlhenning]

Hmm . . . they even snuck in some of the more somnolent Sibelius while you're champing at the Beethoven bit . . . .

Listening to:

Saint-Saëns
Cello Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, Opus 33
Laszlo Varga

[MN Dave]

Hmm . . . they even snuck in some of the more somnolent Sibelius while you're champing at the Beethoven bit . . . .

Listening to:

Saint-Saëns
Cello Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, Opus 33
Laszlo Varga

All the male DJs on this station have this annoying tenor voice, like they were all cloned. I'd like to hear a nice baritone once in a while. In fact, there was a baritone not too far back, but he didn't last long. Probably done away with by the tenor-clones.

[PaulR]

Macdowell: Hamelt and Ophelia Yuasa/Ulster orchestra

[karlhenning]

Attack of the Tenor-Clones

[PaulR]

Attack of the Tenor-Clones

is that more frightening then the killer tomatoes?

[karlhenning]

is that more frightening then the killer tomatoes?

Ask a chap with a pleasant baritone voice . . . .