What are you listening to now :)

[Roehre]

Today:

Watkins:
Violin Concerto (R3 proms repeat)

Hartmann:
Symphony no.4 (1947)

Stravinsky:
Elegy (1944)

Britten:
Lachrymae op.48 (1951)

Louis Andriessen:
Tuin van Zink (1998)

[Preston]

Listening to the Halleluah from Handel's Messiah, conducted by Trevor Pinnock.

GLORIOUS MUSIC!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usfiAsWR4qU

[Sorrano]

Listening to Vaughn Williams Wasp Suite.

[Roehre]

Today:

Messiaen:
Couleurs de la Cité céleste

Poulenc:
Mass (1937)
La Figure humaine (1943)

[Peter]

Bruckner symphony no.9 and Horowitz playing Scarlatti (not at the same time!!)

[Megan]

Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata . Lovely!

[Sorrano]

Bruckner symphony no.9 and Horowitz playing Scarlatti (not at the same time!!)

Which conductor? (Not the Scarlatti.)

[Roehre]

Today:

Mahler:
Symphony no.4
Mengelberg/Vincent/CGO 1939

Pärt:
Symphony no.4 (R3 Proms repeat)
I am afraid I still think this works outstays its welcome thematically by far

Turnage:
Hammered out (R3 proms)
A funny and hilarious piece. Not a masterwork, but I like it (with exception of the drum kit rather at the beginning)

Pfitzner:
Palestrina: 3 preludes (1917)

[Sorrano]

This morning:

Cecil Burleigh:
Characteristic Pieces
Indian Snake Dance

This was very enjoyable!

[Roehre]

Today:

Leighton:
Symphony no.1 op.42 (1963/’64)

Music of the Crusades
(1971 Munrow on Decca)

[Peter]

Which conductor? (Not the Scarlatti.)

Giulini with the VPO. I'm slowly getting into Bruckner - I have found him one of the most difficult of 19th century symphonists, more so than Mahler.

[Michael]

Giulini with the VPO. I'm slowly getting into Bruckner - I have found him one of the most difficult of 19th century symphonists, more so than Mahler.

I find that with Bruckner, too. I have only one or two symphonies, and I always enjoy the openings but my mind inevitably wanders before the end of the first movement. I quite like Mahler when he isn't in two-hour mode.

[Roehre]

Today:

Van der Stucken:
Symphonic prologue (1883) (R3: TtN)

Leighton:
Symphony no.2 “Sinfonia Mistica” op.69 (1974)
Symphony no.3 “Laudes Musicae” op.90 (1984)

Krenek:
7 Easy pieces for strings opus 146 (1954)

Shostakovich:
String quartet no.8 opus 108 (chamber symphony version Barshai)

[Roehre]

Today:

JSBach:
Cantatas BWV 33, 77 and 164, the works for Trinity 13 (Today that is)

[Sorrano]

This afternoon:

Bruckner's 9th conducted by Guntar Wand.