What Classical Music Are You Listening To?

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No 24. 

No 3 off first; Rhapsody for Piano off third

Then went all olden days:

Harpsichord Concerto 1 off first.

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André Caplet – L'epiphanie, musical fresco for cello and orchestra
— Jean Decroos (cello) – Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra – Jean Fournet (RCO Live)

Felix Mendelssohn – Symphony No.4 in A major Op.90 "Italian"
— Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra – Kirill Kondrashin (RCO Live)

[Peter Friedman]

Beethoven - Symphony No.4

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Igor Stravinsky – Les Noces (The Wedding) - Russian choreographic scenes with song and music
— Roger Sessions (piano), Aaron Copland (piano), Lukas Foss (piano), Samuel Barber (piano)
— Loren Driscoll (tenor), Mildred Allen (soprano), Regina Sarfaty (mezzo soprano), Robert Oliver (bass) 
— American Concert Choir,  Columbia Percussion Ensemble – Igor Stravinsky (Sony Classical)

       

You may have heard the pianists before in a somewhat different setting.

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Some more:

Igor Stravinsky, composer & conductor, with the Columbia Chamber Ensemble  (Sony Classical)
– Renard the Fox – William Murphy (baritone), Loren Driscoll (tenor), Donald Gramm (bass baritone), George Shirley (tenor) 
– L'histoire du soldat (The Soldiers Tale): Suite for Chamber Ensemble – William Kraft (percussion), Robert Marsteller (trombone), Don Christlieb (bassoon), Richard Kelly (double bass), Roy D'Antonio (clarinet), Israel Baker (violin), Charles Brady (trumpet) 

 

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Harpsichord Concerto No. 2 + 3 off the Bach.

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thereof Opus 131 ....

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[Peter Friedman]

Beethoven - String Quartet in F Major after the Piano Sonata in E Major Op.14, No.1

Rachmanonoff - Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op.43 & Prelude Op.3, N0.2

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Clelia Iruzun (pn) - Latin American Dances (IntimMusik)

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Dmitri Shostakovich – Quartet for Strings No.15 in E flat minor Op.144
— The Soviet Experience – Vol. IV, CD 2a – Pacifica Quartet (Cedille Records)

 

[Peter Friedman]

Op.50/5 "The Dream" and Op.50/6 "The Frog"

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Kossuth...Bartok's 1812 Overture (including national anthems). Lots of Wagner in there but there was a section in the middle that sounded like one of those horseback chases in Hollywood westerns. Another case of central/eastern Europeans crossing to the States in inter-war period, perhaps? 

No. 25 of latter.

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[Peter Friedman]

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5 + 6 off the first; 131 off latter. 

Have just started reading:

 

A book by an English violinist in the Takács Quartet. Really interesting mixture of thoughts on playing the quartets, the human relationships of the players and the historical background to their original composition and performance. Some nice asides about the audience too! Not a great deal of help in following the individual quartets, but each chapter is based round one of them so another way in. Good to read about this music from the perspective of someone living with it on a daily basis. 

 

No 6 of the Ludwig. 

Edited March 8, 2016 by A Lark Ascending

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Janina Baechle /Mezzo) & Markus Hadulla (pn) - Brahms Selected Songs (Capriccio)

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[Peter Friedman]

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Henryk Górecki – Symphony No.3 (Symphony of Sorrowful Songs), 3 Olden Style Pieces
— Zofia Kilanowicz (soparno) – Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra – Antoni Wit (Naxos)

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[Peter Friedman]

Bach - English Suite No.5

Weingartner - Symphony No.4

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Albinoni made very nice driving music to and from Nottingham (one disc each way) even though it was dark, miserable and wet, singularly devoid of sunshine and olive groves. 

Concerto off first. Sounds like lovely comfort music today (regularly crops up as background music in TV programmes) but I wonder how it sounded in the late 18thC when the clarinet (or basset clarinet here) was a new instrument? 

Greatest hits single disc from the second. I love the strings on "Soave Sia Il Vento" - almost Steve Reich! 

Edited March 9, 2016 by A Lark Ascending

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[Peter Friedman]

Vol.1 - Piano Sonata D.566

Vol.2 - Piano Sonata D.664  (One of my very favorite Schubert piano sonatas)

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59 No.3 of the first.