What Classical Music Are You Listening To?

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No. 18

No 1 of the Matthews. 

The Wooden Prince - played this last week but was reading about it today and decided to give it more attention. It's a piece I've usually played in the background without it making much of an impression (it doesn't have those 'big tunes' that allows ballets like The Firebird or Petrushka to jump out when half-listening). Lots of fingerprints of the mature Bartok but it still seems in a Straussian world - huge orchestra, thick orchestrations. What really did catch my attention were the two dances by the princess with the wooden doll that frame the centre of the piece - the influence of his folk music collecting really jumps out there with strange harmonies and off-centre rhythms.  

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Martin Fröst (cl) & Roland Pöntinen (pn) - Schumann (BIS)

[alankin]

Frédéric Chopin 
– Sonata for Cello and Piano in G minor B.160/ Op.65
– Introduction and Polonaise for Cello and Piano in C major Op.3
Robert Schumann – Adagio and Allegro for Horn/Cello and Piano in A flat major Op.70 (arr: Friedrich Grutzmacher)
— Martha Argerich (piano), Mstislav Rostropovich (cello) (Deutsche Grammophon)

 
 

Edited February 24, 2016 by alankin

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Now playing:
Ludwig van Beethoven – Trio for Piano and Strings No.9 in E flat major WoO 38
— Daniel Barenboim (piano), Jacqueline Du Pré (cello), Pinchas Zukerman (violin) (EMI Classics)

Ludwig van Beethoven – Trio for Piano Clarinet/Violin and Cello No.4 in B flat major Op.11
— Jacqueline Du Pré (cello), Daniel Barenboim (piano), Gervase de Peyer (clarinet)

François Couperin – Les goûts réunis ou Nouveaux concerts: No.13 in G major
— William Pleeth (cello), Jacqueline Du Pré (cello)

 

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Disc 2. Beautiful double disc. 

No 19. Especially like the last movement - the way the motto theme invades the episodes all over the orchestra and fugal effects. 

One of the first non-20th C 'classical' pieces I bought on LP back in the late-70s. I was a long way from engaging with 18th/19thC music then though for some reason this clicked. Still love the piece.  

Edited February 25, 2016 by A Lark Ascending

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[Peter Friedman]

Bach - English Suite No.4

Spohr - Symphony No.6, Op.116 & Overture Op.12

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[Peter Friedman]

Piano Quintet Op.83 & Piano Quartet Op.272

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No 5 of the Bartok string driven things. No 14 of V-L. 

Edited February 25, 2016 by A Lark Ascending

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Dmitri Shostakovich – Quartet for Strings No.13 in B flat minor Op.138
— From The Soviet Experience – Vol. IV, CD 1 – Pacifica Quartet (Cedille Records)

 

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Ludwig van Beethoven 
– Sonata for Violin and Piano No.9 in A major Op.47 "Kreutzer"
– Sonata for Violin and Piano No.5 in F major Op.24 "Spring"
Henryk Szeryng (violin), Arthur Rubinstein (piano) (RCA Victor Red Seal Living Stereo – Sony Classical), CD 70 from:

       

Edited February 25, 2016 by alankin

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Disc 1 off latter: Melodien, Chamber Concerto, Piano Concerto, Mysteries of the Macabre

Edited February 26, 2016 by A Lark Ascending

[Balladeer]

The Art of Christa Ludwig (EMI),
Disc 2 Mahler Lieder

 

 

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31 minutes ago, Balladeer said:

The Art of Christa Ludwig (EMI),
Disc 2 Mahler Lieder

 

 

sehr schön .....

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[Peter Friedman]

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5 hours ago, soulpope said:

sehr schön .....

The Art of Christa Ludwig (EMI),
Disc 2 Mahler Lieder

Absolut! Großartig auch die Mahler-Orchstereinspielungen "Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen" mit Christa Ludwig  und
dem Philharmonia Orchestra und Otto Klemperer (EMI Red Line)

 

[soulpope]

3 hours ago, Balladeer said:

The Art of Christa Ludwig (EMI),
Disc 2 Mahler Lieder

Absolut! Großartig auch die Mahler-Orchstereinspielungen "Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen" mit Christa Ludwig  und
dem Philharmonia Orchestra und Otto Klemperer (EMI Red Line)

 

Stimmt - Liedkunst auf höchstem Niveau ....

[Peter Friedman]

Haydn - Piano Trios  Hob. XV:11 and Hob. XV:12

Schubert - Piano Sonata D. 575

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thereof Quartet 2 ....

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thereof Quartet 2 ....