What are you listening to now?

[Enrique]

Mozart's Symphony No. 39.
This beautiful work deserves to be remembered by more than a mere number. It was the first of his last three symphonies written in the summer in 1788 and each one is perfect in its own way.

What if he had written more symphonies in the few years left to him..........
What if he had even more years left to him ............
What I I had gone to bed an hour ago instead of going online ..........

The last three symphonies are one of the things that make human existence non trivial.

[Schenkerian]

You speak absolute truth!! This analysis of the final movement of Symphony 41 provides a clue as to why this is the case:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTxYykhQZbI

[Sorrano]

Berlin Philharmonic/Petrenko version of Tchaikovksy's Symphony No. 6. Really this old warhorse had tired me years ago but I recently heard it reinvigorated with the phenomenal playing of the Berliners and conducting of Petrenko. It is thrilling, drama-packed and tremendously moving; can't believe it is the same symphony!! Just a taste:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yqKIawD0q4

WHAT AN ORCHESTRA!!!!!!!!!!

I did like what I heard and saw there. Here is another stunning version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLRfRsEBTpM

That is with Abaddo and the Simon Bolivar Youth orchestra.

[Sorrano]

Check out this wonderful Bach Canon a [sic] 2 Cancrizans (BWV 1079-4). Love it for its lack of obstrusive vibrato. Also a simple but beautiful subject (rising B minor triad, falling diminished 7th from G to A#, back up to F# followed by a descending chromatic line to a perfect cadence) that would be great for an elementary dictation exercise.
https://www.bachvereniging.nl/en/bwv/bwv-1079-4/

Not to mention being played with such warmth!

[Harvey]

[lungingidi445]

This thread is for posting about serious music that you are listening to. Thanks. - Chris

[Harvey]

Rachmaninoff. Prince Rostislav (Symphonic poem after A.K. Tolstoy)

[Schenkerian]

Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 4 in E Flat, Op 7. The earliest great sonata, IMO, and one I absolutely cherish. We're so spoilt for choice, really, aren't we!!! Particularly in this repertoire.

[Peter]

Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 4 in E Flat, Op 7. The earliest great sonata, IMO, and one I absolutely cherish. We're so spoilt for choice, really, aren't we!!! Particularly in this repertoire.

Yes a very fine early Sonata, which I personally prefer to the Pathetique and Op.22, one of my favourites before Op.26.

[Peter]

Another neglected masterpiece, Mendelssohn's quartet no.6 - a fine performance of 1st movement by the Emerson quartet.

[Schenkerian]

Another neglected masterpiece, Mendelssohn's quartet no.6 - a fine performance of 1st movement by the Emerson quartet.

Did you know that this fine Quartet is disbanding after 45 years? I have quite a few recordings of theirs, fortunately.

[Peter]

Did you know that this fine Quartet is disbanding after 45 years? I have quite a few recordings of theirs, fortunately.

Yes I see they are disbanding after the 21/22 season - a real shame. Listening to another great Mendelssohn piece, the piano trio no.1 played by the Beaux Arts trio.

[Schenkerian]

The Mendelssohn Trio you've posted is one of my favourite pieces. Also, the "Lieder ohne Worte" is a special love and one which inhabits a Schumann sound world:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LG7mdOy4D8

[Quijote]

I've been listening to a selection of the Diabelli Variations recently, in particular to variations XX and XXXII.
These are the only variations in cut common time (the C symbol in the time signature with a vertical slash through it).
In the score I have (Kalmus), variation XX has a double time signature of 6/4 and cut common time. Is that a printing error?

[Schenkerian]

Poulenc "Dialogues des Carmelites" - excerpt. This is an absolute gem from this wonderful opera:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__sJ...rv=eSFBU9kn1ds

I'm having to listen to my own CD collection in any form I can via the internet as we're moving house and everything - books, CDs, DVDs and scores - are all packed away in plastic tubs. The new build won't be finished until late January but our existing home went on the market today; the agent said, "remove ALL CLUTTER". So, my precious cultural artifacts are 'clutter' which may deter a buyer. (People style homes now for sale!). Thank god for the internet so I can still stay in touch with my music, at least. Anyway, my pictures of composers remain on the walls of my music room; some things just are NON-NEGOTIABLE.