What Classical Music Are You Listening To?

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some excerpts from this excellent performance ....

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[Balladeer]

Brahms Clarinet Sonatas 1 & 2 (Harmonia Mundi)
Jon Manasse & Jon Nakamatsu

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thereof Janacek "Glagolitic Mass" .... 

[A Lark Ascending]

Isle of the Dead after hearing it by unfashionably alive musicians in Manchester the other night. Brought the whole thing into focus - previously it was the dances that made more of an impression. 

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[alankin]

Franz Liszt – Sonata for Piano in B minor S.178
Robert Schumann – Sonata for Piano No.2 in G minor Op.22
— Martha Argerich (piano) (Deutsche Grammophon), CD 6 from the DG box.

  

[alankin]

Jean Sibelius – Symphony No.7 in C major Op.105
— Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra – Eugene Ormandy (RCO Live), from:

Thought I'd play something from the North for this 10 degree F. morning

Edited February 14, 2016 by alankin

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[alankin]

Dmitri Shostakovich – Symphony No.4 in C minor Op.43
— Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra – Kiril Kondrashin (RCO Live), from:

[Peter Friedman]

Haydn - String Quartets - Op.33/6 and Op.42

Beethoven - Violin Sonata No.5, Op.24 "Spring" 

[A Lark Ascending]

Reminded of the latter by the recent thread. 

No. 2. As part of my near chronological journey that started 18 months back - now at 1957. This piece has become very popular in Britain - I think it became a Classic FM listener hit. The slow movement is very direct and beautiful - a bit like the soundtrack to a Cadbury's advert fior Valentine's Day! The book I'm using to get the structure of these symphonies and concertos clearer compares it with Ravel's concerto in G...which I can see, Followed it with some of his film music:

 

Very enjoyable if a bit like a non-stop parade of his scherzos and finales. 

Two different approaches to 19thC Romanticism - the first very sweet, the second somewhat earnest. 

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[alankin]

Edvard Grieg – Cello Sonata Op.36, Piano Sonata Op.7, Intermezzo in A minor for Cello and Piano
— Øystein Birkeland (cello), Håvard Gimse (piano) (Naxos)

 

Edited February 14, 2016 by alankin

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Boulez's second recording of this work in 1981.

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12 hours ago, alankin said:

Dmitri Shostakovich – Symphony No.4 in C minor Op.43
— Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra – Kiril Kondrashin (RCO Live), from:

very good indeed ....

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[A Lark Ascending]

Shosty off the latter. One of of my first CD purchases 30 odd years ago. How time flies.

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[alankin]

Igor Stravinsky – Le baiser de la fée: Divertimento for Orchestra
— Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra – Gennadi Rozhdestvensky

Morton Feldman – Coptic Light
— Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra – Peter Eötvös 

Luciano Berio – Sinfonia for Eight Voices and Orchestra
— Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra,  Swingle Singers – Luciano Berio (RCO Live)

 

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