What are you listening to now?

[James]

https://www.youtube.com/v/ePBB-NO8vKg

[mc ukrneal]

Museum of Fine Arts Boston, yes a visiting exhibit.

Cool! I love Goya. Sounds like it must have been an interesting exhibition.

[Karl Henning]

Cool! I love Goya. Sounds like it must have been an interesting exhibition.

It was a beauty!

http://www.mfa.org/exhibitions/goya

[Karl Henning]

No surprise:

Дмитрий Дмитриевич [ Dmitri Dmitriyevich (Shostakovich) ]
Симфония № 8 до минор, соч. 65 [ Symphony № 8 in c minor, Opus 65 ] (1943)
Gürzenich Orchester Köln
Дмитрий Георгиевич  [ Dmitri Georgiyevich (Kitayenko) ]

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[Lisztianwagner]

Dmitri Shostakovich
Symphony No.10

[king ubu]

first spin:

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[ritter]

I believe I saw the Goya original at the MFA last year . . . .

This is El Pelele, a "carton" by Goya for a tapestry by the Royal Factory of Spain, destined for the study room of King Charles IV. Yep, the original is in the Prado. It's amazing how in these cartons, Goya depicts scenes of the leisure of the popular classes of Madrid in his time, in what at first sight seems a cerafree approach, but if you look closely alos has something sardonic (or even sinister). Soooo modern for his time, such a great painter (national pride aside  )....

[SonicMan46]

Graupner, Christoph (1683-1760) - Concerti e Musica di Tavola w/ Shalev Ad-El & Accademia Daniel - recommended earlier in this thread, I believe - nice mixture of mainly string & wind concerti.

Frederick the Great (1712-1786) - Flute Sonatas w/ Mary Oleskiewicz on a Baroque flute - this Prussian ruler (1740-1786) was a patron on the arts and an excellent flutist who also composed - some brief information quoted below (Wiki) - Quantz & CPE Bach were several of his court composers.  MP3 download burned to CD-R - Dave

Frederick was a patron of music as well as a gifted musician who played the transverse flute. He composed 100 sonatas for the flute as well as four symphonies. The Hohenfriedberger Marsch, a military march, was supposedly written by Frederick to commemorate his victory in the Battle of Hohenfriedberg during the Second Silesian War. His court musicians included C. P. E. Bach, Johann Joachim Quantz, Carl Heinrich Graun and Franz Benda. A meeting with Johann Sebastian Bach in 1747 in Potsdam led to Bach's writing The Musical Offering.

 

[aligreto]

Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 from this set....

[Karl Henning]

Keepin' on:

Дмитрий Дмитриевич [ Dmitri Dmitriyevich (Shostakovich) ]
Симфония № 7 до мажор « Ленинградская », соч. 60 [ Symphony № 7 in C, Opus 60 "Leningrad" ] (1941)
Gürzenich Orchester Köln
Дмитрий Георгиевич  [ Dmitri Georgiyevich (Kitayenko) ]

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[listener]

I would at one time have described this as a self-scourging, but I think it will not be all that bad.
A Vox Box of SCRIABIN piano music, played by Michael Ponti, containing the Preludes, Allegro Appassionato, Egoroff Variations, Allegro de Concert in B^b, Polonaise in b^b and Fantasy in b

[San Antone]

Machaut

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

Sure do enjoy Saint-Saëns; ought to listen to him more than I do.  The second VC is esp. compelling (not on this disk)

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[aligreto]

Shostakovich: String Quartets Nos. 3 & 4....

[Todd]

Vanessa Benelli Mosell's Liszt recital.  Lesser Liszt played with technical polish and surface sheen, but not much else.  The Grand galop chromatique is the best thing on the disc, achieving what France Clidat tried to do.  Sound is sub-par for a modern recording, with myriad overloads.

[TheGSMoeller]

One of the best No.9 performances I've heard...


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[Todd]

Op 22.  It improves with each hearing.  One of the greats.

[Que]

Graupner, Christoph (1683-1760) - Concerti e Musica di Tavola w/ Shalev Ad-El & Accademia Daniel - recommended earlier in this thread, I believe - nice mixture of mainly string & wind concerti.

That one is on my wishlist! Harry likes it as well.

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[Que]

Thread duty - morning listening:

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[Que]

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Antonio Lotti (1667-1740): Missa Sapientiae

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