What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[The new erato]

Leaving tomorrow to deliver a 4 hour lecture (very interactive) to a branch of GM. I am bring some music as always for airport and other idle time. But this time, some music will be used in the lecture, for opening, reflections, interacting with audience (audience reflecting some of their personal moments), etc. Some of those music may include:

O Fortuna (opening)

Andante Cantabile from Pathetique sonata
Meditation from Thais
A couple of Chopin nocturnes
Gu Qin music
Guitar music, Fernando Sor
Charlie Parker

I would have thought Verdi's Dies Irae was appropriate for GM?

[Lethevich]

Love it! When in the mood, I find Bax to be the finest 20th century tone poem writer after Strauss and Sibelius.

[Drasko]

[Brahmsian]

Shostakovich

Symphony No. 5 in D minor, op.47
Symphony No. 9 in E flat major, op.70

Vasily Petrenko
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Naxos

The performance of the 5th is OK, but a bit disappointing.  Tempo is too slow in some parts, and the coda to the finale is rather anti-climatic, which I didn't think was possible with this symphony.    Much prefer Barshai/WDR for the 5th.

On the other, I agree with Brian - the performance of the 9th is really great! 

[Conor71]

Chopin: Various Mazurkas - Michelangeli

[Brahmsian]

Tchaikovsky

Romeo & Juliet, Fantasy Overture

Muti
Phiharmonia Orchestra
Brilliant Classics

[karlhenning]

Still one of my all-time favorite pieces, Ray.

[Keemun]

Sibelius
Kuolema
Neeme Jarvi
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra

[Brahmsian]

Still one of my all-time favorite pieces, Ray.

Indeed! As I'm sure this is also, right Karl?

Strauss, R.

Salome, op.54 (Dance of the Seven Veils)
Schlagobers, op.70 Waltz
Josephslegende, Op. 63 symphonic fragment

Kempe
Staatskapelle Dresden
EMI

[Opus106]

And I'm listening to one of Ray's favourite pieces -- on period instruments, to boot!

Maurice Ravel
Boléro
Anima Eterna|Jos van Immerseel

Live|28 August, 2008
Festival Berlioz, La Côte-Saint-André (that's somewhere in SE France, according to the Wikipedia)

[karlhenning]

Festival Berlioz, La Côte-Saint-André (that's somewhere in SE France, according to the Wikipedia)

Yes, Berlioz was dauphinois.

[Brahmsian]

And I'm listening to one of Ray's favourite pieces -- on period instruments, to boot!

Maurice Ravel
Boléro
Anima Eterna|Jos van Immerseel

Live|c. August, 2008
Festival Berlioz, La Côte-Saint-André (that's somewhere in SE France, according to the Wikipedia)

Noooooooooooooo!!!! 

[karlhenning]

Well, Festival Berlioz . . . that band must restore Ravel's original scoring of the Boléro, with serpent and ophicleide . . . .

[Opus106]

Well, Festival Berlioz . . . that band must restore Ravel's original scoring of the Boléro, with serpent and ophicleide . . . .

Perhaps they did, but I don't have any more details of the performance right now. It would be interesting to find out, though.


Now: from the same concert, Pascal Amoyal Rian de Waal plays Liszt's Totentatz -- a work I've probably heard only once before, and that was quite some time ago. A mid-19th century Érard was used.

[Brahmsian]

Strauss, R.

Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme Suite, op.60

Kempe
Staatskapelle Dresden
EMI Classics

[Franco]

Debussy: Pelleas & Melisande [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED]
Roger Desormiere, Orchestre Symphonique, Yvonne Gouverne Symphony Orchestra



I enjoy this work, but I'm no fanatic.

[Brahmsian]

Debussy: Pelleas & Melisande [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED]
Roger Desormiere, Orchestre Symphonique, Yvonne Gouverne Symphony Orchestra



I enjoy this work, but I'm no fanatic.

I'm sure there is someone out there who is. 

[Franco]

We all know who he is.

[karlhenning]

I enjoy this work, but I'm no fanatic.

It is an enjoyable work, but one which does not normally excite fanatic devotion . . . .

[Henk]