What Classical Music Are You Listening To?

[soulpope]

To calm things down .... :

[A Lark Ascending]

Symph 5, Norfolk Rhapsody No 1, The Lark Ascending. If I could only keep one piece of music for listening (perish the thought) it would be RVW 5. 

[soulpope]

[alankin]

Now playing, CD 12:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 
– Quartet for Strings No.18 in A major K464 (Haydn Quartet No.5)
– Quartet for Strings No.19 in C major K465 "Dissonance" (Haydn Quartet No.6)
Paolo Borciani (violin), Elisa Pegreffi (violin), Piero Farulli (viola), Franco Rossi (cello) – Quartetto Italiano (Philips / Decca Music)

 

 

[Peter Friedman]

[StarThrower]

[Balladeer]

Maria Lettberg plays Erkki Melartin Solo Piano Works (Crystal Classics)

Disc 2

[soulpope]

[Peter Friedman]

Beethoven - Violin Sonata No.7, Op.30/2

Brahms - Horn Trio Op.40 

[alankin]

Now playing, CD 2:
Franz Schubert 
– Trio for Piano and Strings No.2 in E flat major D.929 Op.100
– Trio for Piano and Strings in B flat major D.28
– Notturno for Piano and Strings in E flat major D.897 Op.148
Menahem Pressler (piano), Daniel Guilet (violin), Bernard Greenhouse (cello) – Beaux Arts Trio (Philips)

 

[soulpope]

7 hours ago, alankin said:

Now playing, CD 2:
Franz Schubert 
– Trio for Piano and Strings No.2 in E flat major D.929 Op.100
– Trio for Piano and Strings in B flat major D.28
– Notturno for Piano and Strings in E flat major D.897 Op.148
Menahem Pressler (piano), Daniel Guilet (violin), Bernard Greenhouse (cello) – Beaux Arts Trio (Philips)

 

Very good ....

[A Lark Ascending]

Attractive, slightly brittle neo-Romantic from the 1930s/40s. A bit Waltonish.   

[soulpope]

Treasurable ....

[alankin]

On 11/30/2016 at 9:21 AM, Peter Friedman said:

Me too!

Frédéric Chopin – Piano Sonata No.2 Op.35, 12 Etudes, op.10, Barcarolle, op.60
— Nelson Freire, piano (Decca / MHS)

 

[Peter Friedman]

K.174 and K.406

Grumiaux  Trio plus 2

[alankin]

Gustav Mahler – Symphony No.5 in C shapr minor
— Kölner Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester – Gary Bertini (EMI Classics)

 

[soulpope]

1 hour ago, alankin said:

Gustav Mahler – Symphony No.5 in C shapr minor
— Kölner Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester – Gary Bertini (EMI Classics)

 

Exquisite Mahler cycle - and the Mahler 5 is one of its crown jewels ....

[Peter Friedman]

No.9, Op.14/1 & No.10, Op.14/2

[StarThrower]

[A Lark Ascending]

This morning:

Edited December 2, 2016 by A Lark Ascending

[soulpope]

[Peter Friedman]

Schubert  - String Quartet D.887

[Peter Friedman]

The music on this CD is clearly not my cup of tea. Rather dull and lacking in interest in my view.I suspect there are those who would have a quite different opinion. It goes into my disposal box.

[A Lark Ascending]

No. 3 off latter. A tough listen. With the help of a guide the overall structure of each movement seems quite conventional. But keeping the themes in mind in order to hear where they go is not easy. A few details emerged from the fog in the third and fourth movements but I think this is going to need a lot more listening to make sense of. 

Disc 10 of the latter - choral music. A mixture of Brahms-like German-ness (though I imagine the lyrics are about the need of the workers to own the means of production rather than nightingales, forests and indifferent rural maidens) and agit-prop. 'The Internationale' creeps out at a couple of points. 

This morning:

Edited December 3, 2016 by A Lark Ascending

[soulpope]

Earlier today .... :