What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Sergeant Rock]

Gubaidulina's violin concerto:





Sarge

[karlhenning]

Sibelius: Symphony No. 6 (Blomstedt/San Francisco Symphony)

At the mere mention of which, I feel a bracing breeze!

[bhodges]

Highlights from 3 concerts this weekend:

Baritone Andrew Garland singing an entire program of songs by living American composers.  His website is here.

A young cellist, Victoria Bass, in possibly the most passionate performance I've heard of Elliott Carter's Cello Sonata.  (website)

Daniel Barenboim and James Levine at two pianos in Schubert's Sonata in C Major for Piano Four Hands, "Grand Duo."

--Bruce

[Père Malfait]

[ragman1970]

outstanding

[bhodges]

A disc with Jonathan Cohler on clarinet, with Judith Gordon and Randall Hodgkinson on piano:

Brahms: Sonatas 1 and 2 for Clarinet and Piano
Vaughan Williams: Six Studies in English Folksong
Milhaud: Duo concertant

--Bruce

[karlhenning]

outstanding

I like Schepkin in that recording a great deal!

[Mozart]

Mozart Clarinet Concerto
Anthony Pay
Hogwood

Someone tell me this isn't the most beautiful thing they've ever heard

http://www.youtube.com/watch/v/2fHMjjNrKeQ

I slap liars

[Kullervo]

First listen to this:

[Dundonnell]

First listen to this:

A poignant choice!

[Keemun]

First listen to this:

How do you like it?  Delius hasn't made it into my collection yet, but he is getting close. 

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Now listening to Schmidt: Symphony No. 3 (Neeme Jarvi, Detroit Symphony Orchestra).

[Kullervo]

A poignant choice!

It was a sad coincidence — it was sitting on my desk when I read the news.

[lisa needs braces]

Listened to Schubert's sonatas D. 845 and 850 this morning.

[Drasko]

[Bogey]

Beethoven
Symphony No. 9
Philharmonia Orchestra/Furtwängler
Lucerne, August 22, 1954
Tahra-Furt 1003

[Lilas Pastia]

I usually listen on the spur of the moment, but this afternoon I was writing two papers and it suited my needs to set up a playlist before hand. I tried to make it a bit "concert-style" - a symphony, then a late lunch, then the usual overture-concerto-symphony form. 

Lilas Pastia ~ I suppose that is a legitimate complaint on architectural terms, but I love the music, and getting those repeats is like a wonderful bonus to these (not very picky) ears. 

You're right, mine is very much an aural architecture concern. FWIW I'm quite obsessed with symmetry and neatness. Maybe that's why I think there are basically two kinds of repeats: those that enhance a movement's structure, and those that disrupt it. In the former category I would place first movements that start with a driving allegro, such as Mozart 25, 40, 41 or Beethoven 5 and 8. In the second, many (but not all) that start with a big slow introduction, such as Mozart 38, 39, Beethoven 7, Schubert 9 or Mendelssohn 3. Very often these movements are already quite 'big' and making them bigger causes the structure to figuratively topple. Nowhere is this more egregious than in the Prague symphony, because of the work's peculiar layout.

[Fëanor]

John Cage, The Perilous Night ...

[Mozart]

A different Beethoven than I'm used to

http://www.youtube.com/watch/v/JV7HeLOgKy4

[Florestan]

Good morning all!

Liszt

Heroide funebre
Hungaria
Hamlet

London PO, Bernard Haitink

[Harry]

Good morning Andrei and all!

Telemann.
Six Trios 1718.
Camerata Koln.

I cannot imagine Telemann better played or recorded. Its a bloody marvel, it is!
Its a mixed bunch of concertos for Oboe, Recorder, Transverse Flute, Violins, Cello, Viola da Gamba.