What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[fridden]

Now listening to Yevgeny Sudbin playing Beethovens 4th and 5th Piano concerto with Osmo Vanska conducting the Minnesota Orchestra.

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[madaboutmahler]

Sure!

I really love this work, it's very beautiful.....absolutely thrilling music!

Certainly! And it has one of my favourite melodies too.

So, yes:
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Lady Godiva

[ibanezmonster]

Enjoying this:
http://www.youtube.com/v/IpFBKtqppvU&feature=plcp&context=C4d2d24fVDvjVQa1PpcFOdMK_LKBDhW3P6qn4TfEQRUms9tmoiW7w=

[Papy Oli]

Good evening all 

First Listen to Tomas Luis De Victoria...and McCreesh/Gabrieli Consort for that matter.



A few tracks in...  very special indeed 

[madaboutmahler]

Couldn't resist, so continuing:
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Toman and the Wood Nymph

 

[Sergeant Rock]

Mahler Symphony #3, Honeck conducting the Pittsburgh




Sarge

[Karl Henning]

Returning to this, now that Edward is aboard:

Schnittke
Symphony № 4 (1983)
USSR Ministry of Culture Chamber Choir (dir. V. Polyansky)
Nikolai Dumtsev, tenor/second base
Erik Kurmanaliev, countertenor/catcher
Victoria Postnikova, piano/shortstop
USSR Ministry of Culture Symphony Orchestra
Rozhdestvensky

[Lisztianwagner]

Now:

Gustav Holst
A Somerset Rhapsody
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[The new erato]

You could try this one, I have it too, and its certainly different.

You're in the wrong Bush Harry......

[Papy Oli]

Villa Lobos - Bachianas Brasilieras No.4 / 5 / 6 / 7 (CD No.2)

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[Conor71]

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 In Eb Major, Op. 73, "Emperor"


Listening to the final Disc of this set again

[TheGSMoeller]

Superb playing from the President's Own United States Marine Band. Very successful arrangements of some of Ives' most well known works such as the fugue from String Quartet #1 and The Alcotts from Piano Sonata #2.

[classicalgeek]

Afternoon highlights:
Haydn Keyboard Concerto in D, Hob. XVIII:2
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Delightful performance - makes me want to delve into Brautigam's Haydn sonata set!

Boris Lyatoshinsky, Fifth Symphony:
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Interesting work - not sure what I think...

Bach/Busoni, Chaconne from the Partita, BWV 1004
Michelangeli in recital:

Incredible!  Some very impressive piano playing here.

Haydn Wood, Paris Suite
From the highly enjoyable British Light Music series:

[Antoine Marchand]

Some of the most exciting and intense performances of these Mendelssohn's quartets (Nos. 6& 3) that I have heard:



Félix Mendelssohn
Quatuors op. 80 et 44, N°1
Quatuor Psophos

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Published on 03-2006

[jlaurson]

Some of the most exciting and intense performances of these Mendelssohn's quartets (Nos. 6& 3) that I have heard:

Félix Mendelssohn
Quatuors op. 80 et 44, N°1
Quatuor Psophos

I think the recording is even older than 2006... maybe 2003? (Publishing date aside.)
Loved that quartet -- on the strength of their Schoenberg-Webern-Berg album -- even before I ever saw a picture of them.

Although Sarge et al might be fairly warned that the quartet only features 50% of those ladies, in its current set-up.

[kishnevi]

You're in the wrong Bush Harry......

I was wondering about that.   The BSC box lists the composer as Alan Bush, but without liner notes it was easy to imagine alternative names or something. 

Thread duty:
My Amazon package arrived today, so first on the CD player

  Schnittke: Concerto Grosso 1, Quasi una Sonata, Moz-Art a la Haydn, A Paganini--Gidon Kremer with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and various other participants. 

Interesting and challenging, but sometimes interesting only in a "Chinese" sort of way.   Schnittke is obviously the sort of modern composer with whose music I have a hard time;  this will need replaying several times to decide if I want to further explore him.

But after the Schnittke I needed something calming and restorative, like a cup of herbal tea.  So:
Haydn: Piano Sonatas in A Major, E major, b minor (Hob XVI:30-32) on square piano, Piano Sonatas in C Major and c sharp minor (Hob:XVI 35 and 36) on fortepiano.  Tom Beghin (CD 8 of the Virtual Haydn set)

And now that finishes as I type so on to the second CD of the Amazon package
Mahler: Symphony No. 9 BBC Symphony Orchestra, Bruno Maderna conducting.

[Brian]

At least your brian got a seat. Mine is often in the trunk.

I don't like it in there.

[Mirror Image]

Now:



Listening to Act I right now. Absolutely wonderful.

[Mirror Image]

Now:



Taking a break from Tippett's beautiful The Midsummer Marriage to listen to this furious, bombast-a-plenty performance of The Planets. One of my favorite performances of the work.

[Que]

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Llibre Vermell de Montserrat: A Fourteenth Century-Pilgrimage

The major drawback of this set (besides its ridicoulous size.. ) is the lack of texts and linernotes with each individual disc.

Could anyone please tell me if the situation on the liner notes is any better with recent reissue?



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