What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Que]

CD III from this box. Andrea Coen managed it again, to deliver a top notch interpretation of the 36 Fantasias for Harpsichord. He is one of my favourite Harpsichord players, and has with this set again established a mile stone in musical history. Recommended

It's on the shopping list, Harry!

This morning I couldn't resist one more favourite recording of Christmas music.

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Q

[Sergeant Rock]

...Monday the 26th will be the 215th anniversary of the probable first performance of the Missa in tempore belli (26 Dec. 1796)

To celebrate the anniversary, listening to Bernstein's Bavarian performance. (In general I prefer Harnoncourt's version but he's too intense for a Zweiter Weinachtstag.)




Sarge

[Willoughby earl of Itacarius]

Die Singphoniker.
Singphonic Christmas.

Christmas Songs from Europe.
CPO 2005.

Really a nice assortment of fun Christmas songs.

[Willoughby earl of Itacarius]

Peter Schreier, sings Christmas Carols.
Thomaner Chor Leipzig.
Staatskapelle Dresden, Hans Joachim Rotzsch.
Berlin classic 1974.

No Christmas without this CD. However I miss the snow, well at least for the Christmas days.

[Sergeant Rock]

Martinů Symphony #4, Turnovsky conducting the Czech Phil




Sarge

[Jared]

Clarinet Trio & Quintet...

[Sergeant Rock]

Shore Lord of the Rings soundtrack




Sarge

[Lethevich]

So tired

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(Do you like Martinů, Kodaly, etc - try these.)

[not edward]

George Friedrich Haas' in vain seems to have been garnering a quite a cult following in the last year or two. It'd been quite a while since I listened to it--infuriatingly, I missed a live performance here in Toronto this month because I was out of town for work--and I'd forgotten how powerful a work it is. It's almost a European Music for 18 Instruments, but much darker in tone and with spectralism and a Ligetian clash between equal temperament and just intonation thrown in to the mix. I found the music becomes increasingly claustrophobic as the work progresses; I imagine this would only be intensified live with the lighting effects that are used in a live performance (including some passages to be played in complete darkness).

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[Sergeant Rock]

Finzi Eclogue for Piano and Strings




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[Todd]

Relistened to non-symphonic works on disc 3.  The Swan of Tuonela and the Karelia Suite are absolutely wonderful, but Finlandia is too long, slow, and heavy handed.  Sound is to die for.

[Christo]

Finzi Eclogue for Piano and Strings

Sarge

A straight hit by snyprrr on the Finzi thread, apparently. 

[Opus106]

Finzi Eclogue for Piano and Strings




Sarge

The cello concerto.

If you want the music to accompany black-and-white farmland photos of high quality, click here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kptZqyfE7Hc

[Conor71]

Beethoven: Symphony No. 2 In D Major, Op. 36

[Sergeant Rock]

A straight hit by snyprrr on the Finzi thread, apparently. 

Exactly. I'd actually forgotten I had that recording. When I clicked on snyprrr's link I was beguiled by the music. I checked my database to see what Finzi I had...and there it was   I think that's god's way of telling me I have too many CDs 

Sarge

[Conor71]

Bach: Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1


I have the day off today so I'm going to listen to the WTC in its entirety from Kirkpatrick's sets - these are unique in being performed on the Clavichord which has quite a nice tone in these recordings.
The Book 1 set suffers a bit from a poor recording but its still an excellent performance and will be an enjoyable listen.

[Lethevich]

Stealing peoples ideas.

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[Sergeant Rock]

The cello concerto.   If you want the music to accompany black-and-white farmland photos of high quality, click here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kptZqyfE7Hc

Listening to this



while I watch the youtube vid with the computer's sound turned off 

Sarge

[Christo]

Exactly. I'd actually forgotten I had that recording. When I clicked on snyprrr's link I was beguiled by the music. I checked my database to see what Finzi I had...and there it was   I think that's god's way of telling me I have too many CDs 

Sarge

God kept me poorer even, with less than 6000 cds on my shelves. But I see I have this one too. Will be playing it in a minute for the sake of this piece. I don't think I ever gave it its due attention, thnx for the tip. 

[Sergeant Rock]

Finzi's Cello Concerto....COWBELLS in the central climax of the slow movement! That so soothes my Mahlerian soul. 

Sarge