What are you listening to now?

[Quijote]

really love this set played on a series of seven instruments of the period.

I'll have to check that out, thanks for posting, Harvey.

I have this set (various players, various period instruments [copies] that Beethoven would have played):

https://www.claves.ch/products/cd-9707-10

[Quijote]

Listening to some great solo piano music by Ligeti, his "suite" Musica Ricercata.

Played here by pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard, a renowned contemporary music performer.

First up from my selection is piece III - Allegro con spirito.

From the 6:32 mark:

https://youtu.be/NkKV0Ze1Z6M?t=392

[Quijote]

No. VI, Allegro molto capriccioso:

From the 13:07 mark:

https://youtu.be/NkKV0Ze1Z6M

[Quijote]

And this wonderful No. VII, Cantabile, molto legato.

From the 13:55 mark:

https://youtu.be/NkKV0Ze1Z6M?t=836

[Chris]

I don't find these pieces unpleasant, Quijote, but it does feel like they are meant to be the score of a movie or something that I am not watching. As if they are meant to accompany some kind of action.

[Quijote]

I don't find these pieces unpleasant, Quijote, but it does feel like they are meant to be the score of a movie or something that I am not watching. As if they are meant to accompany some kind of action.

Fair enough.
I found the pianist's analysis interesting:

[Peter]

Wonderful performance of Mahler symphony no.5 from 1986/ Haitink.

[Chris]

What else today, but a rendition of Horowitz's arrangement of our national march, Sousa's Stars and Stripes Forever?

A nice performance of it here, too!

[Sorrano]

I've been listening to some YouTube videos of excerpts from Bruckner and Mahler Symphonies, usually the last several minutes of given symphony. (I did, finally, go to my own CD set of the Jochum collection and listen to Bruckner's 4th in its entirety.) I like to look at the comments and one in particularly stood out: "Too bad Bruckner didn't use more brass."

[gprengel]

One of the most moving pieces of music I know is this song which formerly was attributed to Handel, but actually was written about only 100 years ago. Here sung by one of my favourite singers Aafje Heynis and with the moving pictures of the liberation of the Netherlands which we so much wish also for the Ukraine: https://youtu.be/YWc3li358v0

[Peter]

One of the most moving pieces of music I know is this song which formerly was attributed to Handel, but actually was written about only 100 years ago. Here sung by one of my favourite singers Aafje Heynis and with the moving pictures of the liberation of the Netherlands which we so much wish also for the Ukraine: https://youtu.be/YWc3li358v0

Quite lovely, thank you - didn't know this piece, yet you can understand the Handel attribution and I see it is still attributed to him by many!

[Quijote]

During a long drive home from Italy I put on the radio and heard something mid-piece that I was convinced was by Stravinsky:

https://youtu.be/z-lGbo4bXQw?t=471

How wrong I was!

Gyorgy Ligeti - Concert Romanesc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-lGbo4bXQw

[Peter]

During a long drive home from Italy I put on the radio and heard something mid-piece that I was convinced was by Stravinsky:

https://youtu.be/z-lGbo4bXQw?t=471

How wrong I was!

Gyorgy Ligeti - Concert Romanesc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-lGbo4bXQw

Definitely hear the Hungarian gypsy dances in that and the Bartok influence - I'm off to Italy as well soon!

[Quijote]

Definitely hear the Hungarian gypsy dances in that and the Bartok influence - I'm off to Italy as well soon!

Yep, you're right. Hope you have a good time in Italy, take care in the heat.

[Quijote]

This is a weird and wonderful one, Beethoven's own transcription of his violin concerto for piano.
For a so-called "piano concerto", it's an oddity. What's your take on it?