What are you listening to now?

[Enrique]

Death and Transfiguration is wonderful. About Zarathustra, I was once in the theater listening to it. When the composition was over I applauded but nobody else did. So I applauded again. And this time the rest followed suit clapping hands. So Spoke Zarathustra has a subtle ending.

[Chris]

Some things I have been singing with different choirs lately. Last night it was Sir Edward Bairstow's "I sat down under his shadow":

[Peter]

Listening to Dvorak's 2nd piano quartet in Eb, great recording with Emmanuel Ax, Isaac Stern, Jaime Laredo and Yo-Yo Ma.

[Megan]

Two lovely pieces heard this morning.







Alessandro Scarlatti


Concerto Grosso No 1 in F minor

Orchestra: Tafelmusik. Conductor: Jeanne Lamon.

• Franz Schubert
  
  
  Piano Trio in E flat, 'Notturno'
  
  Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes. Performer: Vadim Repin. Performer: Jan-Erik Gustafsson.

[Sorrano]

Death and Transfiguration is wonderful. About Zarathustra, I was once in the theater listening to it. When the composition was over I applauded but nobody else did. So I applauded again. And this time the rest followed suit clapping hands. So Spoke Zarathustra has a subtle ending.

After such a dramatic beginning people probably expected something much bigger at the ending. It's been a long time since I've listened to that; maybe I should dig that out and do some listening.

[Enrique]

It doesn't even end in the tonic!

[Peter]

Bruckner Symphony no.5 Ormandy/Philadelphia

[Chris]

Another piece I sang recently, Mozart - Ave verum corpus, K. 618:

[Sorrano]

Exploring Music has presented the music of Delius in the last couple of days (playing a smorgasbord of his music, including "On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring"). The local radio station plays a few of his pieces fairly frequently, as well. So far I haven't heard anything that really stands out to me. It often reminds me of the background music I heard while watching biology films.

[Peter]

Exploring Music has presented the music of Delius in the last couple of days (playing a smorgasbord of his music, including "On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring"). The local radio station plays a few of his pieces fairly frequently, as well. So far I haven't heard anything that really stands out to me. It often reminds me of the background music I heard while watching biology films.

Try 'Summer Evening'

[Megan]

Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936) Poema autunnale for violin & orchestra Viktor Simicisko (violin), Bratislava Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ondrej Lenard (conductor)

[Megan]

Francesco Piemontesi - Franz Liszt, Au lac de Wallenstadt



https://youtu.be/cXCeVJPdBQ8

[Enrique]

Schoenberg: Violin concerto.

[Peter]

Bruckner symphony no.6 / Klemperer.

[Chris]

Another thing I am singing at the moment: Sir Charles Villiers Stanford - Justorum Animae