What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Brian]

SCHUBERT | Four Impromptus, D899
Javier Perianes

[zorzynek]

[CD]

Having a little listening party with a friend of mine who isn't really versed in classical music but is nice enough to show an interest

Playlist:

Shostakovich - String Quartet No. 7
Stravinsky - Octet for Winds
Varèse - Ionisation
Webern - Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 10
Feldman - The Rothko Chapel

[zorzynek]

Having a little listening party with a friend of mine who isn't really versed in classical music but is nice enough to show an interest

Playlist:

Shostakovich - String Quartet No. 7
Stravinsky - Octet for Winds
Varèse - Ionisation
Webern - Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 10
Feldman - The Rothko Chapel

sounds like a nice evening
cool

[karlhenning]

Having a little listening party with a friend of mine who isn't really versed in classical music but is nice enough to show an interest

Playlist:

Shostakovich - String Quartet No. 7
Stravinsky - Octet for Winds
Varèse - Ionisation
Webern - Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 10
Feldman - The Rothko Chapel

How did the friend respond?

[CD]

How did the friend respond?

He said he enjoyed all of them but had the most to say about the Feldman, possibly because he had him pegged as a sort of uncompromising modernist prior to hearing the piece.

[haydnguy]

Just wonderful. 

[MN Dave]

Disc 3

Schubert 8
Brahms 4
BPO/Furtwangler
10/24/48

[greg]

Bronfman playing the Prokofiev sonatas (just the first two for now).

The 1st is a very, very good performance. Now that I think about it, if I didn't know who was the composer of this sonata, my first guess would be Chopin.
The performance of the 2nd is precise, but lacks soul and charm...

[Coopmv]

Tried-&-True Tuesdays:

Сергей Сергеевич [Sergei Sergeyevich]
Symphony № 1 in D, Classical Opus 25
Berliner Philharmoniker
Ozawa

Prokofiev – 7 Symphonies; Lieutenant Kijé [Box set]

Because it's more musical & just plain better.

How do you like the set?  I bought mine a few years ago.  I thought the performance was decent overall.

[Coopmv]

Just wonderful. 

Absolutely.  Non-HIP performance can be beautiful.  I enjoyed this CD as well.

[Coopmv]

Back to early music.  Now playing this CD, which arrived from MDT yesterday.

[MN Dave]

This recording is becoming a favorite.

[Conor71]

Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 30 In E Major, Op. 109

[MN Dave]

More Prokofiev piano. No. 3 from this set.

[listener]

Leo SOWERBY piano works played by Gail Quillman
Sonata (1948)  Passacaglia (1942)    Suite  (1949)
Sowerby is best known for his organ works, but he did compose five symphonies, these piano pieces, and some jazz pieces for the Paul Whiteman Orchestra.  The idiom here is 20th century tonal with jazz flavouring, with clear classical structures.

BUSONI  disc 2 from the Capriccio set   orchestral music
Lustspielovertüre op.38      Symphonic Suite  op.25     Berceuse Elégiaque op.42 Song of the Spirits: Indian Diary II op.47

[listener]

setting up the morning for his birthday
W.A. MOZART  Piano Sonatas K282-3-4   (in E-flat, G and D respectively)  Alexeï Lubimov on a Kelecom copy of a Stein fortepiano
and the Serenade in B-flat (Gran Partita) K361     Collegium Aureum, period instruments

[Maciek]

He said he enjoyed all of them but had the most to say about the Feldman, possibly because he had him pegged as a sort of uncompromising modernist

It's a pretty accurate description of earlier Feldman, I think.

[Wanderer]

[Florestan]

Do you like Toscanini here?

(in Eroica, that is)

Yes I do.