What are you listening 2 now?

[Karl Henning]

Indeed. What we call "nature" is usually a carefully managed and controlled environment ....

I smile because the Boston Symphony summer home is "Tanglewood" (giving Nathaniel Hawthorne a chuckle, too, perhaps) but it's one of the most meticulously manicured spots in Massachusetts.

[Spotted Horses]

I smile because the Boston Symphony summer home is "Tanglewood" (giving Nathaniel Hawthorne a chuckle, too, perhaps) but it's one of the most meticulously manicured spots in Massachusetts.

California has some manicured beaches, but with a very long, sparsely populated coastline there is lots of raw beach. The thing is to drive along the Pacific Coast Highway, pull over by the side of the road and climb down over the dunes to a beach you think only you know about. Near where I live there is a state beach which is known for its estuary and popular with bird watchers. You stand there with the ocean in front of you, the river on one side, the freeway overpass above you and the railroad tracks behind you. It has it's charm.

[Karl Henning]

California has some manicured beaches, but with a very long, sparsely populated coastline there is lots of raw beach. The thing is to drive along the Pacific Coast Highway, pull over by the side of the road and climb down over the dunes to a beach you think only you know about. Near where I live there is a state beach which is known for its estuary and popular with bird watchers. You stand there with the ocean in front of you, the river on one side, the freeway overpass above you and the railroad tracks behind you. It has it's charm.

There are still rougher woodlands in the Berkshires, too, mind.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Well, our technological society has rendered nature benign. A few hundred years ago nature was dangerous and frightening. I remember reading that for people traveling between cities in Europe being set upon and mauled to death by packs of wolfs was a real concern. People in rural Texas are still being killed by feral hogs. In 1900, before weather forecasting, a hurricane hit Galveston TX with almost no warning and killed close to 1/3 of the population.

I was referring to the original poster's comments about escaping in/through/and finding peace through nature--as in plants and maybe gardens and also walks/hikes, etc., not about calamities of weather, animal attacks, etc.--that's what I took from it anyway.

And as far as nature goes, you really aren't totally safe anywhere.  The best that one can do is to learn various things--particularly if you're going off the road or even on trails.  In terms of weather...God knows:  listen carefully and often to news if you're in certain weather prone areas or if an upcoming storm, evacuate when needed, and keep radios and batteries and food on hand.  And have alerts on your cell phone if you have one.  I'm sure that there are more and better info out there re emergencies; I am certainly not an expert.

PD

[Mapman]

Maiden-Listen Monday
Reinecke: Introduzione ed Allegro Appassionato, Op. 256
Collins, McHale

[Iota]

All this talk upthread of Galuppi prompted me to spin this nicely played selection of the keyboard sonatas.

I distinctly remember the first time I heard his music, it was Michelangeli playing on a car cassette about 1980, the very same C major sonata as quoted below, which I thought was very attractive. I ended up getting the Decca LP soon after, which also had him doing LVB's Op.111 and some Scarlatti.
 
I've never heard any of his music other than keyboard pieces, though having written this may now dip into an opera to see what I've been missing. 

 

[Karl Henning]

I think that it's the greatest of Hanson's symphonies, although you have to hear the Koussevitsky recording which is very special.

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Hanson
Symphony № 3 (1941)
Eastman-Rochester Orchestra
The Composer conducting

LvB
String Quartet № 2 in G, Op. 18 № 2
The Vermeer Quartet

[Florestan]

All this talk upthread of Galuppi prompted me to spin this nicely played selection of the keyboard sonatas.

I distinctly remember the first time I heard his music, it was Michelangeli playing on a car cassette about 1980, the very same C major sonata as quoted below, which I thought was very attractive. I ended up getting the Decca LP soon after, which also had him doing LVB's Op.111 and some Scarlatti.
 
I've never heard any of his music other than keyboard pieces, though having written this may now dip into an opera to see what I've been missing. 

 

That Napoli series is excellent.

[Lisztianwagner]

Dmitri Shostakovich
String Quartet No.2

Fitzwilliam Quartet

[classicalgeek]

Over the weekend:

Haydn
Symphony no. 6 'Le Matin'
Symphony no. 7 'Le Midi'
Symphony no. 8 'Le Soir'

Symphony no. 45
Symphony no. 101

Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Sir Neville Marriner
(on CD)




Lutoslawski
Concerto for Orchestra
Trois Poemes d'Henri Michaux
Mi-Parti
Overture for Strings
Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Antoni Wit
(on CD)

Hanson: Symphony #3
Schwarz: Seattle

My first listen to this; I'm impressed. I especially enjoyed the 2nd movement. (And @classicalgeek, this is a great disc that you bought recently!)

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Hanson
Symphony № 3 (1941)
Eastman-Rochester Orchestra
The Composer conducting

I'd join you, but I'm at work, away from my CD collection! I suppose I can find it on Spotify...

[Karl Henning]

Dmitri Shostakovich
String Quartet No.2

Fitzwilliam Quartet

Shostakovich
String Quartet № 2 in A, Op. 68 (1944)
The Pacifica Quartet

[Symphonic Addict]

A great assortment of his works which have a strong late-Romantic flavour and exquisite orchestration. What these works can lack in melodies, they have in sensuality and atmosphere.

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony No. 7 in E Major, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Lahav Shani

[BWV 1080]

[vandermolen]

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Hanson
Symphony № 3 (1941)
Eastman-Rochester Orchestra
The Composer conducting

LvB
String Quartet № 2 in G, Op. 18 № 2
The Vermeer Quartet

Also a very fine performance.

[Karl Henning]

I think that it's the greatest of Hanson's symphonies, although you have to hear the Koussevitsky recording which is very special.

[Karl Henning]

Papa String Quartet in E^b, Op. 9 № 2
Festetics Quartet
Mieczyslaw Weinberg
String Quartet № 2, Op. 3 (1940)
Quatuor Danel

[JBS]

Bruckner Symphony No. 7 in E Major, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Lahav Shani

I'm listening to this for the first time, and rather like it.

[Symphonic Addict]

Ginastera: Glosses sobre temes de Pau Casals, for string quintet and string orchestra
Bridge: Mid of the Night

[Linz]

Beethoven Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125, Karl Böhm, The SWR Recordings