What are you listening to now?

[Que]

I have thoroughly enjoyed listening to this recent purchase....





Such a pity that they have not recorded the second half of the set. However I suppose that I am lucky that two of my favourite movements are included in this CD namely Op. 9 No. 2 Adagio and Op. 9 No. 3 Allegro.

Good! 

Q

[prémont]

Måske. Let's just say reading is still a lot easier than writing! Jeg kan læse det, men kan jeg skrive det?

And I have to learn how to get the extra letters on my keyboard (instead of copying them from you)... the practice might be good for me, though!

EDIT: And I just found out how, which meant I could go back and fix læse. æ Æ ø Ø Å å

I love my mother tongue, and I think it is a most expressive language, and as it is only talked by very few people on this planet, I am always touched, when foreigners do an effort to learn it, in order - I suppose - to read our litterature in the original language.

On my own part I wish I could express as much in English as in Danish. This would e.g. make it considerably easier to post in this forum.

[North Star]

I love my mothers tongue, and I think it is a most expressive language, and as it is only talked by very few people on this planet, I am always touched, when foreigners do an effort to learn it, in order - I suppose - to read our litterature in the original language.

On my own part I wish I could express as much in English as in Danish. This would e.g. make it considerably easier to post in this forum.

Uh.. I think you mean your mother tongue, not your mother's tongue.  0:)
But yes, people have a special relationship to their mother tongue. It has been shown that in studies that when people use their native tongue, their decisions are based on emotion more than if they use a second language.


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Debussy
Violin Sonata
Frank Peter Zimmermann
Alexander Lonquich
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[Brian]

This afternoon I'm reorganizing my closet and revisiting Hakon Austbo's Brahms recordings (Ballades Op. 10, Rhapsodies Op. 79, all the late pieces). Austbo may be the most underrated living pianist??*

*or maybe Muza Rubackyte, or really there are a lot of contenders

[prémont]

Uh.. I think you mean your mother tongue, not your mother's tongue.  0:)

Right 
In Danish it is :Modersmål. Therefore my wrong "s".

But yes, people have a special relationship to their mother tongue. It has been shown that in studies that when people use their native tongue, their decisions are based on emotion more than if they use a second language.

Seems natural, as you have to keep your brain clear, if you use a second language.

[North Star]

Right 
In Danish it is :Modersmål. Therefore my wrong "s".

Seems natural, as you have to keep your brain clear, if you use a second language.

I know (well, I know it's the same in Swedish), and the possessive form is also in the Finnish word 'äidinkieli'.

It's not just about having to keep one's brain clear - I really don't have to think about my words any more when I write in English than I do when I write in Finnish, for example - but about how the words in the mother tongue have far more emotional resonance. There is at least one study that showed that answers to a version of the trolley problem are much more utilitarian if people answer to it in a foreign language - twice as many would push a fat man to his death to save five lives if asked whether they would do it, compared to their answers in their mother tongues.


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Debussy
Sonata for Flute, Viola & Harp, L. 137*
Danse sacrée et danse profane, L. 103^
James Galway, Graham Oppenheimer* & Marisa Robles
Chamber Orchestra of Europe^

[Sergeant Rock]

Tubin Symphony No.7




Sarge

[Mirror Image]

Now:



Cello Sonata
Violin Sonata
Sonata for Flute, Viola, & Harp
Syrinx for Flute Solo

An absolute marvelous quartet of chamber works from Debussy. This Nash Ensemble set has been a mainstay in my collection for many years and, hopefully, for many more to come.

[Mirror Image]

Now:



La Mer
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
Première rhapsodie
Danse sacrée et danse profane

Haitink's renditions of these Debussy orchestral works are quite simply in a class of their own and the warm analogue sound quality only enhances the experience. Just gorgeous.

[Tsaraslondon]

Now:



La Mer
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
Première rhapsodie
Danse sacrée et danse profane

Haitink's renditions of these Debussy orchestral works are quite simply in a class of their own and the warm analogue sound quality only enhances the experience. Just gorgeous.

I can't but agree, though I also have a soft spot for Karajan's first DG recording of La Mer.

[Mirror Image]

I can't but agree, though I also have a soft spot for Karajan's first DG recording of La Mer.

I like HvK's remake of La Mer more than his earlier account, but both are far from favorite performances of mine.

[SimonNZ]

on the radio:

Scriabin's Piano Sonata No 1 - Anatol Ugorski, piano

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on the radio:

Scriabin's Piano Sonata No 1 - Anatol Ugorski, piano

Lol...what a bizzarre cover.

[Tsaraslondon]

I like HvK's remake of La Mer more than his earlier account, but both are far from favorite performances of mine.

Ah, well we'd probably differ on his recording of Pelleas et Melisande too then. It's one of my favourites.

[Mirror Image]

Ah, well we'd probably differ on his recording of Pelleas et Melisande too then. It's one of my favourites.

I haven't actually heard that HvK performance, but I don't listen to opera too often (not one of my favorite genres). If I do listen to Pelleas, it's usually Abbado or Boulez.

[Papy Oli]

Good evening all,

More Oistrakh tonight.

Another version of Beethoven's Triple Concerto.
To be followed by the Brahms' double concerto

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[aligreto]

Good! 

Q

Hat tip Sir 

[aligreto]

Hofmann: 2 Symphonies, both in F major....

[Tsaraslondon]

I haven't actually heard that HvK performance, but I don't listen to opera too often (not one of my favorite genres). If I do listen to Pelleas, it's usually Abbado or Boulez.

I have the Boulez and I always found it a bit lacking in atmosphere. As a contrast to Karajan, I'd probably go for Ansermet, or, even better, Desormiere (though in ancient sound of course).

[Sergeant Rock]

Tubin Symphony No.11 (unfinished), Volmer conducting the Estonian National SO




Sarge