What Classical Music Are You Listening To?

[Referentzhunter]

Sonatas 7,8,9

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[Peter Friedman]

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[Peter Friedman]

K.279  &  K.280

[Referentzhunter]

Chopin - Three Nocturnes * Scherzo No. 2

Beethoven - 'Emperor' (Sawallisch / Philharmonia Orchestra)

[HutchFan]

I know some listeners have described Paul Jacobs' playing as "not French enough for Debussy." 

Not me.  I think his Debussy recordings are marvelous.

 

[Peter Friedman]

Dvorak Piano Quintet Op.81

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12 hours ago, Peter Friedman said:

K.279  &  K.280

Treasure trove ....

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[Peter Friedman]

Op.20/3   and   Op.20/4

[mikeweil]

Yesterday:

Mostly for the Paul Bowles pieces. This video broadcast on Bavarian TV was my initial inspiration to get me this CD. The Bowles part starts at 6:50.

 

This afternoon:

[Peter Friedman]

Symphony No.4 in E minor

[mikeweil]

Nice, sounds like Domenico Scarlatti picking up ideas from Haydn and Mozart.

12 hours ago, soulpope said:

Wilson is a great player of pre-1700 harpsichord music.

If you like Cabezón, get Claudio Astronio's complete recording as long as it is available, it is not expensive:

[Peter Friedman]

Franck - String Quartet

[soulpope]

11 hours ago, mikeweil said:

Wilson is a great player of pre-1700 harpsichord music.

If you like Cabezón, get Claudio Astronio's complete recording as long as it is available, it is not expensive:

Thnx for the hint  ....

[Peter Friedman]

[porcy62]

Mahler Symphony 5 & 6 , Kubelik,  Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, DG vinyl set.

[Peter Friedman]

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4 hours ago, porcy62 said:

Mahler Symphony 5 & 6 , Kubelik,  Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, DG vinyl set.

Treasurous performances ....

[Peter Friedman]

[porcy62]

3 hours ago, soulpope said:

Treasurous performances ....

Though there are lots of outstandig Mahler performances out there, my real first understanding of Mahler passed through Kubelik.

[Larry Kart]

Kent Nagano's recording of Schoenberg's incomplete but still fairly massive (about 45 minutes) oratorio Die Jakobsleiter (Harmonia Mundi) coupled with the original a cappella version of Friede aid Erden op. 13  and an arrangement of that work (by an unknown hand) for chorus and orchestra. Nagono's recording  of the quite difficult to realize  Die Jakobsleiter is luminous and precise, with baritone Dietrich Henschel in the crucial part of Gabriel a standout. The closing pages, with a soprano soaring above are stunning.

Schoenberg broke off work on Die Jakobsleiter when he was called up. to serve in the the German Army in World War I and never returned to it; the part that he left virtually complete was scrupulously filled in by his pupil Winifred Zillig. Known for working at white heat, Schoenbeg may never have regained the requisite fire to continue with part two -- the total work, libretto by Schoenberg, would have been at least twice as long -- though some speculate that what S had written so far was so prophetic of future developments in his music that he may have felt that what he had had in mind musically for Part Two either would no longer match up with the libretto of Part Two or that he felt that he didn't yet have the musical means at hand to realize those prophetic ideas. In any case, Die Jakobsleiter is brilliant and doesn't feel like a torso.

P.S. Just listened to it again. Brilliant doesn't begin to describe this work. And as Zillig said, torso though it may be in one sense, the ending of the part we have is one of the moar remarkable "endings" in music. The sense it creates of entering previously unknown spheres!