What Classical Music Are You Listening To?

[Balladeer]

Gloria Fabuel (soprano) & Bartomeu Jaume (piano) - Tiempo de Amor (GFM)

[Peter Friedman]

Dvorak - Piano Quartet No.2, Op.87

[StarThrower]

[A Lark Ascending]

Harrison Birtwistle (another of NMC's no composer series). 'The Triumph of Time' is like listening to rocks form in real time. There's a famous phrase somewhere about feeling something long before you understand it. Fits this music perfectly - I can't follow the narrative (if it has a narrative) but it has a mighty impact.   

More Madchester:

Edited March 22, 2016 by A Lark Ascending

[Peter Friedman]

String Quartet No.7, Op.107

[A Lark Ascending]

Have had this a few years and don't get on with the PC - very much in the 19thC 'come and watch me strive and suffer' tradition. The other pieces are much more attractive.

 

Op. 127. Really like this one - a gorgeous slow movement and a tremendous whirlwind of a trio in the scherzo. 

Odd to be listening to liturgical music whilst painting the bathroom but I really enjoyed this. Maxwell Davies at his most approachable, clearly writing for accessibility and utility. 

Wonderfully dramatic and colourful contemporary music. A composer it's not too hard to get your head round.  

[Peter Friedman]

Symphony No.3

[A Lark Ascending]

127 off latter again. On exercise bike (in dinner jacket and wearing pinz-nez, of course)

Breakfast music:

 

Edited March 23, 2016 by A Lark Ascending

[Peter Friedman]

Beethoven - Op.18/5

Mozart - Symphony No.25, K.183

[soulpope]

[A Lark Ascending]

Disc 4: Hamburger Concerto; Double Concerto; Ramifications; Requiem

The 'Karelia Suite' and 'Overture' were some of the first classical pieces to attract me - here you get the whole score. Never previously realised the overt Wagnerisms in the music - the Overture has a pretty breezy passage for several minutes before shifting into the minor, reminiscent of the transition from "Siegfried's Rhine Journey" to the court of the Gibichungs in "Gotterdammerung". "Kuomela" has both "Valse Triste" and the incredibly haunting "Scene with Cranes" within their original setting. This is a record I return to frequently.  

Edited March 24, 2016 by A Lark Ascending

[Peter Friedman]

Yo Yo Ma - Haydn  - Cello Concerto No.1

Szeryng & Haebler - Mozart - Violin Sonata K.526

[alankin]

Ludwig van Beethoven – The String Trios - CD 1 - String Trio in E flat major Op.3, Serenade for violin, viola and violincello Op.8
— Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin, Bruno Giuranna, viola, Mstislav Rostropovich, cello (Deutsche Grammophon)

[Peter Friedman]

Piano Concerto No.3, Op.30

[A Lark Ascending]

CD 2 off Spotify. A CD collection of things from the old L'Oiseau-Lyre label. I have the first pictured LP from the 70s but this compilation only takes The Hymn to St Magnus from there. Largely from his wild man years. 

[alankin]

Igor Stravinsky – Agon Ballet for 12 dancers
— Boston Symphony Orchestra – Erich Leinsdorf  

Gunther Schuller – 7 Studies on Themes of Paul Klee for Orchestra
— James Pappoutsakis (flute) – Boston Symphony Orchestra – Erich Leinsdorf (Sony Classical)

   
 

[soulpope]

12 hours ago, A Lark Ascending said:

Disc 4: Hamburger Concerto; Double Concerto; Ramifications; Requiem

IMO these are highlights of the "Ligeti Project" recordings....

[Peter Friedman]

[soulpope]

Good Friday Music .... obviously ....

[A Lark Ascending]

[Balladeer]

La Banda - Musica Sacra della Settimana Santa (Enja)

[A Lark Ascending]

No 2 of latter.

[Peter Friedman]

Op.76/3 "Emperor" and Op.76/4 "Sunrise"

[alankin]

Isaac Albeniz 
– 6 Hojas de album Op.165 "España": No.3 Malagueña
– Cantos de España Op.232/5 Seguidillas
Frédéric Chopin 
– Sonata for Piano No.3 in B minor B.155 Op.58
– Tarantella for Piano in A flat major B.139 Op.43
– Waltzes for Piano No.9 Op.69/1 in A flat major B.95 "L'adieu"
Franz Liszt 
– 3 Concert Etudes for Piano S.144/2 in F minor - La leggierezza
– Hungarian Rhapsodies (19) for Piano S.244/11 in A minor
Camille Saint-Saëns 
– Etudes en forme de Valse Op.52/6

Alfred Cortot (piano) (EMI Classics), CD 9 from:

 

Edited March 25, 2016 by alankin

[Chuck Nessa]

4 hours ago, Peter Friedman said:

Op.76/3 "Emperor" and Op.76/4 "Sunrise"

A huge favorite in this household as well.

Edited March 26, 2016 by Chuck Nessa