What Classical Music Are You Listening To?

[A Lark Ascending]

1 + 2 off the Kreneks. 6 off the Wellesz. 

Used this wiki guide to try to get my head round this piece better: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldberg_Variations

A wonderful 75 minutes but my did it show me how little I know. Trying to follow the multiple lines gave me brain ache - you pick up a top line and a bass line but, hold on, there's another line. But she's only got two hands! 

No. 2

Edited March 3, 2016 by A Lark Ascending

[Balladeer]

Veronica Cangemi, soprano, Una Stella Ensemble — Italia 1600/Argentina 1900 Naïve records

Arias and other solo selections by Porpora, Vivaldi, Monteverdi, Piazzolla, Handel, Caccini, Guastavino, Broschi, Paisiello, Villa-Lobos. 

[soulpope]

4 hours ago, Peter Friedman said:

 

 

excellent ....

[StarThrower]

[HutchFan]

Disc 5: Prokofiev - Sym. No. 1 "Classical" & Violin Cto. No. 2 (I. Stern); Scriabin - Poem of Ecstacy; Rimsky-Korsakov - Capriccio espagnol

[soulpope]

[A Lark Ascending]

Lovely,varied record by a little known Welsh composer. 

Started a history book on Venice during its period of power yesterday. Time to the dig out the Venetian records...though maybe not the Christmas one. 

  

No 23 of the Mozzy. 

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Some hours later:

Edited March 4, 2016 by A Lark Ascending

[Peter Friedman]

Goldmark Violin Concerto

[A Lark Ascending]

[soulpope]

[alankin]

John Duarte, Takemitsu, Gismonti, Tarrega, Granados, Shemer, Theodorakis, a.o – Dreams of a World – Folk-inspired music for guitar
— Sharon Isbin (guitar) (Teldec Classics)

Edited March 5, 2016 by alankin

[Peter Friedman]

Op.50/3 and Op.50/4

[A Lark Ascending]

No 5 off latter. Nothing says England like this piece. I'd take it to my desert island but I think I'd find listening to it unbearable amidst all that sand. 

[alankin]

Domenico Scarlatti – 22 Harpsichord Sonatas
— Pierre Hantaï (Italian harpsichord) (Naïve), CD 4 from:

[Peter Friedman]

[soulpope]

[A Lark Ascending]

[Balladeer]

Walter Rabl & Josef Labor: Clarinet quartet & quintet - Orion Ensenble (Cedille)

[soulpope]

[soulpope]

[HutchFan]

Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 9 / Bernard Haitink, LPO and Concertgebouw Orchestra (Decca)

[B. Goren.]

CD # 6.

[alankin]

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Symphony No.35 in D major K 385 "Haffner"
— Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra – Nikolaus Harnoncourt (RCO Live)

Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Dec 6, 1929 to Mar 5, 2016. RIP.

Edited March 6, 2016 by alankin

[Peter Friedman]

Schubert - Piano Sonata D.958

Mozart - Symphony No.28, K.200

[rostasi]

In honor of the late Nikolaus Harnoncourt...