What are you listening to right now?

[Ahmad]

Some organ works by the great Bach..

Tocatta and fuge in D minor,
Prelude,largo and fuge in C,
Prelude and fuge in Eb.

[Gurn Blanston]

Quartet in Eb for Strings - K 428 by Mozart - Juilliard String Quartet - Sublimely beautiful music!

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[spaceray]

Beethoven's violin sonata No.5 in F major.
Opus 24.
Spring like conditions today on Vancouver
Island .Snowdrops blooming everywhere.

[Gurn Blanston]

Serenade in Bb for 12 Winds K 370a - Mozart - uniquely beautiful, in some things M simply has no competitors.


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[Peter]

Originally posted by Amalie:

Peter,
What would be your recommended recording of Mozart's Requiem. John Eliot Gardiner with the Monteverdi choir perhaps?

Thanks>>

Not sure I do have a recommendation Amalie, except avoid Karajan - lamest Rex tremendae I've ever heard! I have Carlo Giulini and the Philharmonia which I like. Of course there are different versions as well - Levin and Mauder (who rewrites Sussmayer's beautiful completion of the Lacrymosa) - stick with Sussmayer in my view!

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'Man know thyself'

[Pastorali]

Mozart's Piano Concerto #20
Schubert's Winterreise
Master's Missa Solemnis, Op. 123

[Andrea]

Beethoven's "German Dances,WoO 8, Contredances, WoO 14 and Menuettes, WoO 7".

[Joy]

Beethoven's The "Coriolan" Overture Op 60
with conductor Stephen Gunzenhauser and
Orchestra Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra

and

The Hungarian Fantasy for Piano & Orchestra
Franz Liszt with Orchestra Philadelphia Virtuosi and Solo Gabriela Imreh, piano. That really gets you going in the morning!

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[Ahmad]

Differnt pieces from differnt eras associated with the Cd name "Espangol"..
Including :
Cappricio Espangol by Rimsky-Korsakov
Rhapsoy Espangol by Ravel
Spanish Dance by Tchaikovsky

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[spaceray]

Beethoven ,Diabelli Variations,William Kinderman.

[spaceray]

About the Variations I read that they are akin to improvisations,does this mean that they were lightly tossed off by Beethoven?
did the composer himself feel that they were lesser works?Did he not write to Simrock regarding the "Waldstein Variations"...
"Otherwise I do not wish to have any variations published now,as I should like to wait untill more important works of mine are in the world"

[v russo]

Originally posted by spaceray:
About the Variations I read that they are akin to improvisations,does this mean that they were lightly tossed off by Beethoven?
did the composer himself feel that they were lesser works?Did he not write to Simrock regarding the "Waldstein Variations"...
"Otherwise I do not wish to have any variations published now,as I should like to wait untill more important works of mine are in the world"

Beethoven was a great improvisor and soloist in his younger days. His variations stem from these experiences. Variations appear in all types of his works (piano, symphonic, chamber music..etc)He was a master at variations, probably the greatest since J.S. Bach. So this concept of improvising and variations on a theme were very inter-linked in his mind set. He took variations to the ultimate climax in western music, to an almost etheral and divine realm. I find it hard to believe that Beethoven thought the greatest set of variations since Bachs 'Goldberg' were a trifle.

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[Peter]

Handel's wonderful Theodora.

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'Man know thyself'

[Joy]

Franz Schubert: Symphony #4 "Tragic"
Hanover Band
Roy Goodman, conductor

and following that

Beethoven's 7th Symphony!

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[Pastorali]

I'm a passionated second-hand store user. I love that old stuff! Sometimes, also classical CD's are to found there. Amazing, what the people just give away!
Today's piece is a CD named "Piano Sonatas" I do listen first time now.

Schubert: P.S. D 958
Mozart P.S. K 570
Schumann P.S. Op.22

For the first ear, all are very nice – a good investment for about 1$