What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Brian]

Where I live it's Too-Late-for-that Tuesday.

You could have Twelfth Listen Tuesday. Or Taneyev Tuesday.

[Coopmv]

Now playing this CD of early music ...

[Coopmv]

You could have Twelfth Listen Tuesday. Or Taneyev Tuesday.

  This Taneyev ...

[bhodges]

Qigang Chen: Extase, San Xiao, Yuan and L'Eloignement (Yves Prin, Leonard Slatkin/Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Ensemble Hua Xia) - Utterly fascinating music, sort of a mix of spectralism, minimalism, tone clusters, Chinese folk tunes, and Western motifs.  San Xiao (Three Bursts of Laughter) is for four traditional Chinese instruments, which evoke various types of laughing, fantastically played by the Ensemble Hua Xia.  For me, definitely the "discovery of the month."

--Bruce

[Opus106]

You could have Twelfth Listen Tuesday. Or Taneyev Tuesday.

I don't keep count of listening sessions so that rules out the first. Perhaps I'll listen to Taneyev (the SQs) later in the day.

[Brian]

Notes to self: ideas for rest-of-afternoon playlist: Taneyev quartets, Argerich's Ravel Concerto, Beethoven's Ninth, Richter recital from Prague (Supraphon).

Okay. I'm sick of happy, light-hearted music. First listen to this:

As much as I love Suk's Serenade and piano music, this is so darned Mahlerian! And by Mahlerian, what I mean is it just keeps going on and on and on and on. I have been fighting the urge to turn it off for quite a while. The trio section of the Scherzo was fantastic, though...

[Papy Oli]

just discovering those works :

[Henk]

 This Taneyev ...

Do you always enjoy your listening, Stuart? How much do you listen to music? All your spare time? Are you a susceptible soul?

[Coopmv]

Do you always enjoy your listening, Stuart? How much do you listen to music? All your spare time? Are you a susceptible soul?

Quick a bit of my spare time.  Mainly over the weekend since my weeknights are short. 

[Henk]

 

Quick a bit of my spare time.  Mainly over the weekend since my weeknights are short. 

EDIT:

I would really like to know if you are a susceptible soul, Stuart 0:). Harry is obviously. But you probably "surpass" him in the largeness of cd-collection .

[Coopmv]

I would really like you if you are a susceptible soul, Stuart 0:). Harry is obviously. But you probably "surpass" him in the largeness of cd-collection .

I doubt my total collection (all media) is close to Harry's.  My interest in classical music also does not go beyond early 20th century.

[MN Dave]

[MN Dave]

just discovering those works :

It's about time. 

[PaulR]

Symphony #3

Glazunov might not be my favorite composer, but I am really enjoying this set.  Favorites so far, #5 and #6

[Papy Oli]

It's about time. 

one step at a time... 

[MN Dave]

one step at a time... 

You like 'em, right? 

[Papy Oli]

You like 'em, right? 

yes indeed. that's one more solo piano work on my very limited "I like piano" list 

[Fëanor]

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 - Barenboim / Berlin Staatskapella

I don't do a lot of multi-channel listening because my HT set is generally in use by other family members and because its basic quality is a good deal less good than my stereo set up.  However ths m/c recording is perhaps the best I've heard in terms of simulating concert hall experience without phoney multi-channel artifactes.  M/c can definitely do what stereo cannot.

Most of my m/c collection is SACD and, very sadly, my Oppo DV-980H is now refusing to play SACDs, so I still won't be doing a lot of m/c listening for the next little while.

[DavidW]

I doubt my total collection (all media) is close to Harry's.  My interest in classical music also does not go beyond early 20th century.

I think Henk is warning not to let the music seduce you.   If I only remembered the name of that thread to pull it back up.

[Coopmv]

I think Henk is warning not to let the music seduce you.   If I only remembered the name of that thread to pull it back up.

I don't think classical music has become an all-consuming passion for me yet ...