What are you listening to now?

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Listening to Pulcinella. A great performance and lovely work of course.

Hear, hear!  Fully agree as to the work and Craft's recording...

The Tempo di minuetto, followed attacca by the Finale, allegro assai, is one of my real all-time favourite passages in music...

[Willow Pattern]

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 In B Minor, Op. 74, "Pathetique"

Some more PIT this morning - Romeo & Juliet Overture and Symphony No. 6 from the box. Symphony No. 5 from the Mravinsky and some songs:

[ritter]

Jumpin' on the Stravinsky bandwagon  :



Agon & Concerto in E-flat, "Dumbarton Oaks" - Robert Craft conducting The Orchestra of St. Luke's......

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Jumpin' on the Stravinsky bandwagon  :



Agon & Concerto in E-flat, "Dumbarton Oaks" - Robert Craft conducting The Orchestra of St. Luke's......

Great recording and works!

[ritter]

As a complement to the above:

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Concerto in E-flat, "Dumbarton Oaks", arranged for two pianos by the composer...

Stripped to the bones, just as interesting as in the orchestral version...

P.S.: And as a nightcap, before going to bed, Debussy's Trois chansons de Charles d'Orléans (Gardiner / Monteverdi Choir, from the "Debussy Edition" on DG). The first chanson, "Dieu! qu'il la fait bon regarder", is of a very rare beauty...

Good night to all from Madrid..

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Just finished the gorgeous Mass. Now listening to Cantata. Another beautiful work.

[not edward]

There's something about late Poulenc for me: at first it sounds trivial and superficial, then suddenly it doesn't.

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Listening to Bartok's The Miraculous Mandarin. Still one of the most radical works I've ever heard.

Next:

[Todd]

[Pat B]

Ligeti on a barrel organ.

http://www.youtube.com/v/MSA8MYn8aKA

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Listening to Histoire du Soldat Suite. Very cool work.

[listener]

BEETHOVEN    Sextet in Eb for 2 horns and string quartet op. 81b
BARSANTI   Concerto Grosso in D op. 3/2
HANDEL  Concerto in  D MOZART  Divertimento in D  K.522
Zdenék and Bedřich Tylšar  horns    Dvořák Chamber Orch.     Libor Pešek, cond.
WARLOCK  Capriol Suite  POULENC  Suite   ARNOLD  Quintet
F. COUPERIN Suite    BARTOK  Hungarian Pictures
Equale Brass      entertaining arrangements

[kishnevi]

My order from Prestoclassical landed today, so first listen to this
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Would have been surprised if it was anything less than first rate.

I was not surprised.


However,  the fact that it's only 51 minutes long is cause for complaint.

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Listening to The Nightingale. A seldom discussed opera, but this is great Stravinsky through and through.

[Philo]

Gould playing and explaining Bach's Art of Fugue

and

Bunlatishvlll playing Schumann's Piano Concerto

[Mookalafalas]

Been working on an academic paper that I have been putting off...for several years.  To give myself the necessary oomph I put on all four Brahms symphonies in order from

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   The only way to write

[Harry]

First listen, and a amazing journey.

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2014/02/foerster-josef-bohuslav-1859-1951.html?spref=tw

[wintersway]

[Harry]

First listen. Aaron Avshalomoff, Orchestral Works, Volume III.

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2014/02/avshalomoff-aaron-1895-1964-orchestral_13.html?spref=tw

[Sergeant Rock]

Mendelssohn Octet E flat op.20 played the Cleveland and Meliora Quartets




Sarge