What Classical Music Are You Listening To?

[Peter Friedman]

[A Lark Ascending]

Sextet 1 off middle; disc 5 of Byrd. 

 

Edited May 24, 2016 by A Lark Ascending

[Peter Friedman]

[A Lark Ascending]

[Peter Friedman]

Borodin Quartet - Haydn Op.33/4

Zemlinsky Quartet - Beethoven Op.18/6

[A Lark Ascending]

Death and the Maiden off the middle one - can't for the life of me work out why this recording set my teeth on edge when it came out a couple of years back. Sounded great this morning.

"Music for 18 Musicians" from the Reich. 

Edited May 25, 2016 by A Lark Ascending

[Peter Friedman]

Beethoven - Romance for Violin & Orch. No.2, Op.40 & No.2, Op.50

Saint-Saen - Introduction and Rondo capriccioso Op.28

[A Lark Ascending]

No. 3

Act I

Only my second time through Parsifal - found it hard to warm to first time round but was totally absorbed this afternoon. You can hear where 'The Dream of Gerontius' came from! 

Moral of first act - Don't kill swans. 

[l p]

 

trios and duets with violin that i didn't have elsewhere

Disc: 14
  5. Piano Trio in B flat major ('Sonatensatz'), D. 28
  6. Piano Trio in E flat major ('Nocturne') (Adagio only), D. 897 (Op. posth. 148)

Disc: 15
  5. Sonata for violin & piano in A major ('Duo'), D. 574 (Op. posth. 162): 1. Allegro moderato
  6. Sonata for violin & piano in A major ('Duo'), D. 574 (Op. posth. 162): 2. Scherzo. Presto
  7. Sonata for violin & piano in A major ('Duo'), D. 574 (Op. posth. 162): 3. Andantino
  8. Sonata for violin & piano in A major ('Duo'), D. 574 (Op. posth. 162): 4. Allegro vivace

Disc: 16
  1. Fantasia for violin & piano in C major ('Sei mir gegrüsst!'), D. 934 (Op. posth. 159): 1. Andante molto
  2. Fantasia for violin & piano in C major ('Sei mir gegrüsst!'), D. 934 (Op. posth. 159): 2. Allegretto
  3. Fantasia for violin & piano in C major ('Sei mir gegrüsst!'), D. 934 (Op. posth. 159): 3. Andantino
  4. Fantasia for violin & piano in C major ('Sei mir gegrüsst!'), D. 934 (Op. posth. 159): 4. Allegro vivace
  5. Fantasia for violin & piano in C major ('Sei mir gegrüsst!'), D. 934 (Op. posth. 159): 5. Allegretto
  6. Fantasia for violin & piano in C major ('Sei mir gegrÃ1/4sst!'), D. 934 (Op. posth. 159): 6. Presto
  7. Rondo for violin & piano in B minor ('Rondeau Brillant'), D. 895 (Op. 70): Andante
  8. Rondo for violin & piano in B minor ('Rondeau Brillant'), D. 895 (Op. 70): Allegro
  9. Sonatina for violin & piano in D major, D. 384 (Op. posth. 137/1): 1. Allegro molto
  10. Sonatina for violin & piano in D major, D. 384 (Op. posth. 137/1): 2. Andante
  11. Sonatina for violin & piano in D major, D. 384 (Op. posth. 137/1): 3. Allegro vivace

Disc: 17
  1. Sonatina for violin & piano in A minor, D. 385 (Op. posth. 137/2): 1. Allegro moderato
  2. Sonatina for violin & piano in A minor, D. 385 (Op. posth. 137/2): 2. Andante
  3. Sonatina for violin & piano in A minor, D. 385 (Op. posth. 137/2): 3. Menuetto. Allegro
  4. Sonatina for violin & piano in A minor, D. 385 (Op. posth. 137/2): 4. Allegro
  5. Sonatina for violin & piano in G minor, D. 408 (Op. posth. 137/3): 1. Allegro giusto
  6. Sonatina for violin & piano in G minor, D. 408 (Op. posth. 137/3): 2. Andante
  7. Sonatina for violin & piano in G minor, D. 408 (Op. posth. 137/3): 3. Minuetto
  8. Sonatina for violin & piano in G minor, D. 408 (Op. posth. 137/3): 4. Moderato
  9. Adagio & Rondo Concertante, for piano quartet in F major, D. 487

Edited May 25, 2016 by l p

[A Lark Ascending]

Froissart and In the South. Never been a great fan of the first but I really like 'In the South' - reminds me of R. Strauss. Something of the 'Ein Heldenleben' about it,   

Just Falstaff off first, SQ off second.

Edited May 26, 2016 by A Lark Ascending

[Balladeer]

Roberto Szidon & London PO: Piano Music of the Americas,(Deutsche Grammophon)
Disc1: Piano Concertos Gershwin & MacDowell  

[king ubu]

[Peter Friedman]

Disc 1 - 5 Violin Sonatas

[A Lark Ascending]

Nights, Puppet Show, Psyche & Harpsichord Cto off first; Act II of last. 

[Peter Friedman]

Beethoven - String Trio Op.9/2

J.S. Bach - String Trio -  Sinfonia No.3, 4, & 9 - 

Schubert - String Trio D.581

[six string]

Ivan Moravec plays French Music (Supraphon)

I only discovered this wonderful pianist about a year ago so I'm still kind of in the infatuation stage with him.  He has a touch that produces a tone that really connects with me.  I have not listened to this music enough to say whether he is playing the right notes and in the right way as the composer intended but it's beautiful to my ears.

 

[A Lark Ascending]

7th of Dvorak.

Latter is harp music by: William Mathias, Gabriel Faure, Marcel Tournier, Paul Hindemith, Albert Roussel, Germaine Tailleferre, Malcolm Arnold, Benjamin Britten 

Edited May 27, 2016 by A Lark Ascending

[king ubu]

Debussy: "Pelléas et Mélisande", Covent Garden/Boulez - from here:

[l p]

 

[Peter Friedman]

Mozart - Piano Concerto No.15, K.450

[l p]

1958

[A Lark Ascending]

Fighting it out with 10 as my favourite Mahler symph. 

Act III - glorious ending. Don't have my head round the leitmotifs in this one unlike The Ring. Luckily there are internet sites that have sound clips that I'll have to put a little time into before listening again. 

Very static opera - not a great deal happens. A bit like Pelleas and Melisande in that respect. The interest is all in the music (unless you're into religious philosophy!). 

[Peter Friedman]

Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto No.2

[alankin]

Sergei Rachmaninov – Symphonic Dances Op.45 version for two pianos
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky – The Nutcracker — Suite From The Ballet Op.71a arrangement for two pianos: Economu
— Martha Argerich (piano), Nicolas Economou (piano) (Deutsche Grammophon)

 

[A Lark Ascending]

Serenades commissioned for a season of Mozart operas at the posh place back in 1991 - Jonathan Dove: "Figures in the Garden" (pairing, "The Marriage of Figaro"); Nigel Osborne: "Albanian Nights" (pairing, "Cosi Fan Tutte"); Jonathan Harvey: "Serenade in Homage to Mozart" (pairing, "The Magic Flute"); Stephen Oliver: "Character Pieces for wind octet derived from Metastasio's 'La clemenza di Tito'" (pairing, "La clemanza di Tito"); Robert Saxton: "Paraphrase on Mozart's 'Idomeneo'" (pairing, "Idomeneo")

Haffner. Nothing like a few serenades on a sunny summer morning. 

Edited May 28, 2016 by A Lark Ascending