What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Florestan]

Fine.  Well then...the next time my home goes up in flames I will simply call your wife again and ask her to send me some replacement Rangstrom CD's instead.  Now where did I put these matches?

 

Let's have a glass of wine and forget about it, ok? 

[mahler10th]

 

Let's have a glass of wine and forget about it, ok? 

***pours two glasses of cool and crisp Riesling***

[mc ukrneal]

Now listening to Disc 3 of Schubert symphony set on Decca: VPO/Kertesz. Very pleased as I listen to symphonies 6 and 8. Really wonerful stuff - effervescent and entirely pleasing!
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[Florestan]

***pours two glasses of cool and crisp Riesling***

*** sings   

O Flouer o Scotland,
When will we see
Yer like again,
That focht an dee'd for
Yere wee bit Hill an Glen,
An stuid agin him,
Prood Edward's Airmy,
An senet him hamewart,
Tae think again.

***

[Papy Oli]

Atterberg - Symphonies 1 & 4

[Mirror Image]

Ravel, Daphnis et Chloé, Boulez/BP



At my wife's behest. Not one of my favorite works; a bit languid and gauzy for my tastes. When I'm in the mood to enjoy it, it puts me to sleep. When I'm not in the mood, it makes me so antsy I'm tempted to go outside and fire up the lawn mower.

Don't like Impressionism do you, Dave?

[listener]

CAPLET: Songs
Claudette Leblanc, sop.,   Boaz Sharon, piano
very pretty, late-romantic, soporific
SPOHR: Six German songs, op. 72 and 4 more assorted ones
BURGMÜLLER: 13 Songs
all in German, texts supplied but no translation
Mitsuko Shirai, sop.,  Manfred Höll, piano

[TheGSMoeller]

Bruckner: Symphony No. 0 (WAB 100) Die Nullte
Eliahu Inbal/Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra

[North Star]

Bartók
Divertimento for string orchestra, Sz. 113
Táncszvit, Sz. 77
Boulez & CSO
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[classicalgeek]

Highlights of the day so far:

Beethoven: Piano Trio in B-flat, op. 11 (Eugene Istomin, Isaac Stern, and Leonard Rose on Sony)
Shostakovich: Suite from film score for 'Hamlet' (Riccardo Chailly and the Concertgebouw on Decca)
Bach: Cantata 'Sehet, welch eine Liebe hat uns der Vater erzeiget', BWV 64 (Karl Richter, Edith Mathis, and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau on Archiv)

Too lazy to put in CD covers... 

[TheGSMoeller]

Highlights of the day so far:

Beethoven: Piano Trio in B-flat, op. 11 (Eugene Istomin, Isaac Stern, and Leonard Rose on Sony)
Shostakovich: Suite from film score for 'Hamlet' (Riccardo Chailly and the Concertgebouw on Decca)
Bach: Cantata 'Sehet, welch eine Liebe hat uns der Vater erzeiget', BWV 64 (Karl Richter, Edith Mathis, and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau on Archiv)

Too lazy to put in CD covers... 

Interesting, I always thought of myself as lazy for only posting CD covers and not typing anything. 

[classicalgeek]

Interesting, I always thought of myself as lazy for only posting CD covers and not typing anything. 

I wasn't feeling like the extra work of finding the ASIN or image URL, copying, and pasting.  Makes me tired and out of breath just thinking about it... 

Well, OK, I'll do it this time.  I am not lazy, I tell you! 


Igor Stravinsky
L'Oiseau de Feu (complete ballet, 1910 version)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Sir Colin Davis, conductor




Such amazing music - and orchestration!

[Mirror Image]

Now:



Listening to Sonata in B Op. Posth. Absolutely gorgeous. These are such fantastic works.

[Conor71]

Rachmaninov: Preludes, Op. 32


I played some Sibelius this morning from Berglunds and Rattles Symphony cycles and now listening to the Rachmaninov preludes - really nice Disc this one. Next I will listen to the Paganini Rhapsody and Piano Sonata No. 2 from the trio box.

[Mirror Image]

About to listen to this performance of Britten's Sinfonia da Requiem:

[Gold Knight]

Piotr Tchaikovski--Symphony No.1 in G Minor, Op.13 {"Winter Dream"} and Symphony No.2 in C Minor, Op.17 {"Little Russia"}, both dynamically performed by the Leonard Bernstein led New York Philharmonic.
Gustav Mahler--Symphony No.6 in A Minor {Tragic"}, featuring the London Symphony Orchestra under James Levine's baton.

[Todd]

Best overall cycle of Mozart's piano concertos?  I can't really say no.  Anyway, 15 is superb.

[Sadko]

Rachmaninov

24 Préludes

Eldar Nebolsin

[TheGSMoeller]

I wasn't feeling like the extra work of finding the ASIN or image URL, copying, and pasting.  Makes me tired and out of breath just thinking about it... 

Well, OK, I'll do it this time.  I am not lazy, I tell you! 

Ha! Just joking with ya  anyway, pics are pretty and more colorful than boring ole words.


For evening time...

 


Scnittke: Requiem
Polyansky/Russion State Symphonic Orchestra

Strauss: Josephslegende, Op. 63 - Symphonic Fragment
Kempw/Dresden Staatskappelle

[TheGSMoeller]

Bruckner: Quintet in F Major
Fine Arts Quartet