What are you listening to now?

[North Star]

Video blocked on copyright grounds   

Ditto, but this one works

https://www.youtube.com/v/tIEWvkPwnw8

[bhodges]

Ditto, but this one works

https://www.youtube.com/v/tIEWvkPwnw8

Thanks much. File under "Mysteries of YouTube"...

--Bruce

[aligreto]

Shostakovich: String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2 [Pacifica Quartet]....

[aligreto]

Well, dang. 

(Just curious: are you able to view YouTube videos in general?)

--Bruce

In general, yes, but this seems to be a growing issue.

Ditto, but this one works

https://www.youtube.com/v/tIEWvkPwnw8

Thank you for that; I did enjoy it 

[Papy Oli]

Evening all,

John Adams - Hallelujah Junction (for two pianos)

[San Antone]

[SurprisedByBeauty]

#morninglistening to @LeraAuerbach on @ECMrecords for @CrescendoDE. Also: #Shostakovich Pr... http://ift.tt/2dG0oU2

[SurprisedByBeauty]

What sound on this baby from 1949!!!


#morninglistening to #ClaudioArrau on @sony_classical in #Debussy

#Images pour piano & #E... http://ift.tt/2fgu4aX

[aligreto]

Larsson: God in Disguise [Sundkvist]....





A pleasant and interesting if somewhat forlorn work.

[Ghost Sonata]

I could so easily have become an "Early Music guy."  Plus, I'm given to understand that Early Music aficionados have their own cool, secret handshake.  And they pledge their troth, a lot.   

[North Star]

I could so easily have become an "Early Music guy."  Plus, I'm given to understand that Early Music aficionados have their own cool, secret handshake.  And they pledge their troth, a lot.   

My good sir, the hour is not yet too late for it!

Thread duty - Fresh from the mail
Dvořák
String Quintet No. 2 in G major, B. 49 (Op. 77, 1875 rev. 1888)
Pavel Nejtek (db), Panocha Quartet
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[listener]

"The Four Seasons"
and 4 Psalms
by M.A. CHARPENTIER  (not what you feared)

VIVALDI /MALGOIRE    MONTEZUMA
a pastiche opera

[ritter]

Earlier today, revisiting Mirror Image's favourite opera  , in this pioneering and IMHO very succesful recording:



I got this CD in a bout of nosatlgia, as I remember seeing this recording (originally on Peter Bartók's label) listed in old Schwann catalogues when I was a teenager. Well, it's quite an achievement, and this wonderful score sounds just right in this performance. Judith Hellwig (who had such trouble with the coloratura of Euridice in Haydn's L'Anima del Filosofo) is splendid here: a very touching and vulnerable character, sung with a firm and rather beautiful voice. I look forward to listening to the other works included in the set (The Wooden Pronce and Cantata Profana) soon.

But now, spurred by arpeggio's post in the composer's thread, revisiting Elliott Carter's Oboe Concerto, from the CD that introduced me to Carter more than 25 years ago (and since then, I've always thought him a great composer  ):

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[Wakefield]

Schubert has always been a composer I love, but curiously I had never given a proper listen to his masses. Big mistake.



These two composed when Schubert was a teenager are any thing, except immature works.

Superbly sung and played on modern instruments, but with a HIP élan. 

[aligreto]

Fantasia Villageoise Op. 52
Morceau de Concert Op. 54
Fantasia "Souvenirs d'une Soiree a Berlin" Op. 56

[Ghost Sonata]

My good sir, the hour is not yet too late for it!...

I say unto thee, I best remain a dilettante, my true calling...cup of tea hoisted, pinky extending and wondering where my wife hid the cookies... And I am waaaay too old for those Grail Quests and lively dances.  Plus the Green Knight scares the heck outta me (and I'm a ghost!).

[North Star]

I say unto thee, I best remain a dilettante, my true calling...cup of tea hoisted, pinky extending and wondering where my wife hid the cookies... And I am waaaay too old for those Grail Quests and lively dances.  Plus the Green Knight scares the heck outta me (and I'm a ghost!).

(sips tea) Yes, the life (or afterlife) of a dilettante can be fine, too. 

Out in the sun by Karl Henning

https://youtu.be/n-95rYkIbmE

Woah! This one is sublime!!! 

Yes, it is.

[Ken B]

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I say unto thee, I best remain a dilettante, my true calling...cup of tea hoisted, pinky extending and wondering where my wife hid the cookies... And I am waaaay too old for those Grail Quests and lively dances.  Plus the Green Knight scares the heck outta me (and I'm a ghost!).
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Pfffft. It's St. George who scares you.

 

[Ghost Sonata]

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I say unto thee, I best remain a dilettante, my true calling...cup of tea hoisted, pinky extending and wondering where my wife hid the cookies... And I am waaaay too old for those Grail Quests and lively dances.  Plus the Green Knight scares the heck outta me (and I'm a ghost!).


Pfffft. It's St. George who scares you.

 

He's one mean Mofo, that's fer sure.  Sharp ( ) dresser, though!

[Kontrapunctus]