What are you listening to now?

[Karl Henning]

Дмитрий Дмитриевич [ Dmitri Dmitriyevich (Shostakovich) ]
Струнный квартет № 14 Фа-диез мажор, соч. 142 [ String Quartet № 14 in F#, Opus 142 (1973) ]
The Emerson String Quartet

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[SonicMan46]

Hoffmeister, Franz Anton (1754-1812) - Flute Chamber Works from the recordings below; a musical publisher & prolific composer (and also the dedicate of Mozart's eponymous String Quartet) - Dave

 

[Brian]

Ewa Wolak and Janet Baker. Seems like a good morning for contraltos and mezzos.

[Harry]

Some Gouvy.........

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2014/08/gouvy-theodore-1819-1898-symphonies-no.html?spref=tw

[Karl Henning]

No surprise:

Дмитрий Дмитриевич [ Dmitri Dmitriyevich (Shostakovich) ]
Струнный квартет № 13 си-бемоль минор, соч. 138 [ String Quartet № 13 in b^b minor, Opus 138 (1972) ]
The Emerson String Quartet

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[Karl Henning]

Дмитрий Дмитриевич [ Dmitri Dmitriyevich (Shostakovich) ]
Струнный квартет № 12 ре-бемоль мажор, соч. 133 [ String Quartet № 14 in D^b, Opus 133 (1968) ]
Pacifica Quartet

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[Karl Henning]

Дмитрий Дмитриевич [ Dmitri Dmitriyevich (Shostakovich) ]
Струнный квартет № 11 Фа минор, соч. 122 [ String Quartet № 11 in f minor, Opus 122 ] (1966)
The Emerson String Quartet

[asin]B000F3T7RE[/asin]

[Sergeant Rock]

Shostakovich String Quartet No.12 D flat op.133 played by the Pacifica Quartet




Sarge

[Sergeant Rock]

Дмитрий Дмитриевич [ Dmitri Dmitriyevich (Shostakovich) ]
Струнный квартет № 12 ре-бемоль мажор, соч. 133 [ String Quartet № 14 in D^b, Opus 133 (1968) ]
Pacifica Quartet

Not following your lead...it's pure coincidence 

Sarge

[listener]

organ music of the BACH FAMILY  - 11 other than J.S.
short pieces played on the 1986 Reil organ in Melk Abbey. 2 manua;s and pedal producing a nice variety of sounds
Sergio Militello, organist,  (also gets credit for recording, mixing and mastering)
B.  HERRMANN: Echoes   - Texas Festival Quartet
David SHIRE:  Sonata for Cocktail Piano     - Shire, piano
Ernest GOLD: String Quartet 1 - Picasso Quartet

[kishnevi]

New London Consort led by Philip Pickett playing music by Biber, including the Requiem and the Battaglia a 10.  Plus two other pieces that at points can be called daft...a serenade called "The Nightwatchman" and a sonata a 6 called "The Peasant's Churchgoing".

[TheGSMoeller]

Schnittke's Choir Concerto performed by the Hymnia Chamber Choir. It's interesting to compare this one to the larger forces of other recordings, which also take their tempos slower. Great piece, one of Schnittke's best

[Sergeant Rock]

Ligeti Clocks and Clouds

https://www.youtube.com/v/SyO7c6U5dEw


Sarge

[Papy Oli]

Good evening.

A first listen to Bernstein's "Jeremiah" Symphony No.1.

[EigenUser]

Ligeti Clocks and Clouds

https://www.youtube.com/v/SyO7c6U5dEw


Sarge

Trying to determine if it is a masterpiece or not ? A beautiful work, nevertheless. It doesn't get enough attention compared to his stuff from the 1960s. Maybe because it is so much more tonal-oriented? Who knows.

(BTW, it's on disc 3 of the Teldec).

[Sergeant Rock]

Trying to determine if it is a masterpiece or not ? A beautiful work, nevertheless. It doesn't get enough attention compared to his stuff from the 1960s. Maybe because it is so much more tonal-oriented? Who knows.

(BTW, it's on disc 3 of the Teldec).

Yeah, I have the CD...I was just too lazy to take it off the shelf and fire up the player 

Still trying to determine its status: masterpiece or no...

Sarge

[Sergeant Rock]

Ligeti Hungarian Rock (for harpsichord)

https://www.youtube.com/v/0abSzGuTFH8


Sarge

[Papy Oli]

and onto Symphony No.2 "age of Anxiety", another 1st listen.

[Karl Henning]

Not following your lead...it's pure coincidence 

Sarge

Powerful synergies

[kishnevi]

Barber Louisville Summer of 1915
Eleanor Steber Dumbarton Oaks Chamber Orchestra William Strickland cond.
First listen to this work as well as this recording.
I have the nagging feeling that I would enjoy this much more if it was not in my native tongue.  The text (by James Agee) often sounds banal and pedestrian, below the level of the musical expression.  Do German speakers have this problem with some German lieder?
Moving on now to better quality texts:  Hermit Songs, Barber as composer and pianist, Leontyne Price soprano.