What are you listening to now?

[Florestan]

A desert island pick for sure.

Indeed. Makes a cloudy day sunny and a sunny day yet sunnier. 

[Wanderer]

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The Symphonies.

[San Antone]

For Stephan Wolpe

Easily one of my best purchases so far this year.

[NikF]

Stravinsky: Le Sacre Du Printemps - Bernstein/NYP

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Another gift from my lovely ex. And in this performance Bernstein gets right to it in making the music fly. Wonderful.

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

Now:



Listening to Symphony No. 4 yet again. Incredibly moving work. Elegiac, yet uplifting in feeling and seems to me to be some kind of remembrance of the past. Goodness gracious, I love this symphony.

As you should! Glad there's some love for Diamond on this forum!

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

A favorite of mine I haven't listened to in a while :

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[San Antone]

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Nice one, as is the companion recording, Figure Humaine, although, this recording is the one I have heard most recently:

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TD



Beautiful.

[North Star]

Tchaikovsky
The Tempest, Op. 18 - Symphonic Fantasia after Shakespeare, in F minor
Pletnev & RNO

[Wanderer]

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[Florestan]

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

[North Star]

[Schumann VC, Zehetmair & Finnish RSO]

+1
Got to love the Finnish National Broadcasting Company. They ought to have a Youtube channel for storing the concerto recordings, or just store all them on their site (Yle Areena) permanently, though. And the orchestra's versatility is admirable too - from the Downland, Haydn. Mozart's String Quintet and Berlioz to Shostakovich, Bartók and Penderecki, and a hefty dose of contemporary music, both Finnish and not. (all the content linked should be internationally available, for the time being)

[Florestan]

I can´t imagine there was a time when I couldn´t stand the sound of the harpsichord... To hear the Gates of Heaven opening and to cover my ears in horror... Miserere mei, Deus, secundum magnam misericordiam tuam!. 

[North Star]

I can´t imagine there was a time when I couldn´t stand the sound of the harpsichord... To hear the Gates of Heaven opening and to cover my ears in horror... Miserere mei, Deus, secundum magnam misericordiam tuam!. 

You sound like the hero of Milton's Paradise Lost. 

[Karl Henning]

One of my favorite Ravel works.

The first Ravel chamber work I got to know well!

[North Star]

Corelli
Violin Sonatas, Op. 5
Manze & Egarr
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[Florestan]

Corelli
Violin Sonatas, Op. 5
Manze & Egarr
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(*kiloataulukko*)

(Is that even remotely right, I wonder...)

[North Star]

(*kiloataulukko*)

(Is that even remotely right, I wonder...)

No, not even remotely. First, it should be spelled 'kiloa taulukko' - and second, it means 'of a kilogram a chart (table)'

*Lyö (or hakkaa, mäiskäyttää, kopauttaa, kumauttaa, kopistaa, etc) pöytää*

[Karl Henning]

. . . it means 'of a kilogram a chart (table)'

So the error hinged on the dual meaning in English of pounds!  Oh, the shortcomings of automated translation 

[North Star]

So the error hinged on the dual meaning in English of pounds!  Oh, the shortcomings of automated translation 

And of the dual meaning of table in English. Not to mention the 'translation' of pound into kilogram. . .

[Karl Henning]

Higgledy-piggledy