What are you listening to now ?

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Haydn's Sunrise string quartet.

[Hofrat]

Joachim Raff
Symphonies 8, 9, 10, and 11
(often refered to as his "Four Seasons")

Hofrat

[Amalie]

Beethoven Symphonie No.7.

Egmont Overture 0p. 84

Berlin Philarmoniker / Joseph Keiberth



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~ Courage, so it be righteous, will gain all things ~

[Sorrano]

Klemperer's Beethoven 7th aired this morning (just the last movement) but it didn't stir me as much as other renditions. I would say that it is ok.

[spaceray]

Brahms Clarinet Sonatas in F minor and in E flat Major.Recomended to be by His Royal Highness King Stephen.
Thanks Steve ,these are wonderful.

[King Stephen]

Originally posted by spaceray:
Brahms Clarinet Sonatas in F minor and in E flat Major.Recomended to be by His Royal Highness King Stephen.
Thanks Steve ,these are wonderful.

You are welcomed. Johannes certainly had a way with the clarinet, he has a tender and warm relationship with the instrument.Why some people are not turned on to Brahms is beyond me, but then again I tend to stop with the last great composer, Dvorak. After D. I tend to nitpick my way through the 20th century music. It's not that I haven't heard enough of it, it's that I just don't like most of it. Before I get bombarded, this is not a condemnation of 20th century music,it is my own likes and dislikes of music.



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[Chaszz]

I have been in love for the past several weeks with the Concerto for Clarinet and Viola by Max Bruch. This is not one of the two or three works which Bruch is remembered for, is off the beaten path for him. And it is an extraordinarily beautiful work.

[Joy]

Very good Chaszz! Good to hear from you agin. How's your art going? For me today it will be Beethoven's Symphony #6 his Pastoral, Liszt's transcriptions. Wonderful stuff!

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[Chaszz]

Originally posted by Joy:
Very good Chaszz! Good to hear from you agin. How's your art going? For me today it will be Beethoven's Symphony #6 his Pastoral, Liszt's transcriptions. Wonderful stuff!

Thanks for asking, Joy. It is going well. I will be posting some new works on my website soon and will let you know here.

[Chaszz]

Originally posted by King Stephen:
You are welcomed. Johannes certainly had a way with the clarinet, he has a tender and warm relationship with the instrument.Why some people are not turned on to Brahms is beyond me, but then again I tend to stop with the last great composer, Dvorak. After D. I tend to nitpick my way through the 20th century music. It's not that I haven't heard enough of it, it's that I just don't like most of it. Before I get bombarded, this is not a condemnation of 20th century music,it is my own likes and dislikes of music.

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I seem to be making a little specialty of listening to late Romantic composers who either flourished in the 20th C. or survived into it from the 19th. I think it's quite a little list, almost enough for a movement of its own, surviving valiantly against the metal gunship background of atonal music: Sibelius, Richard Strauss, Barber, my newfound Max Bruch, Elgar, Vaughan Williams, etc. There are a number of other English ones whose names I forget, who I've heard on Naxos web radio.

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Chaszz,
I've been enjoying Max Bruch also the opus 83,8 pieces for clarinet, viola, and piano.
Now this is music well worth breaking the silence for.
I've borrowed a Bruch biography from the library ,do you know much about him?
Space

[JA Gardiner]

Horowitz playing Schumann's Kinderszenen and a various other pieces by Scarlatti, Schubert and Scriabin! What a sibillant line up..... Its the "Sound of Horovitz album from the amazing 10 CD Original Jacket box set which cost me £20 pounds. Less than £2 a CD for classic Horowitz recordings, it may be a bargain but it feels like a crime.....

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[King Stephen]

Today I am listening to two of Haydn's Masses. The first is the Missa in angustiis ("Nelsonmesse") and then the Mass No.12 in B flat called the "Theresienmesse"
The last six masses of Haydn constiute his finist works in the genre. With his symphonic compostions at an end, Haydn again takes up the art of orchestration in these wonderful works.

[Amalie]

listening to:

Andre Campra (1660-1744).
Grand Motets - 1. Notus in Judea Deus.
2. De profundis
3. Exaudiat te Dominus
4. Requiem: Intriot

by, Les Arts Florrisants / William Christie.

A wonderful recording of baroque by the leading ensemble.


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~ Courage, so it be righteous, will gain all things ~

[Hofrat]

W.A.Mozart
Concerto for piano and violin
K.315f (Anhang 56)
Reconstructed (or re-created) by Phillip Wilby