What Are You Listening To Now?

[Quijote]

I can't tell you how many times I've heard it just over the local radio station. Sometimes I think Delius is their favorite composer.

Helloooo, Sorrano, have you been hibernating, or what? Add the smiling icon!

[Quijote]

Beethoven string quartet Op.95
Bruckner 9th symphony

I think you need to be quite cuckoo to combine these two works in one listening session. Please add smiling icon, dear Headperson.

[Quijote]

Xenakis : Kottos, for solo 'cello. A sort of Berio-like-sequenza-for-solo-instrument-meets-Stravinskian-Rite-of-Spring-in-about-8-minutes. Fiendish, fiendishly aggressive, fiendishly difficult ("Difficult is good" said Beethoven. True?) with moments of great beauty (tender harmonics, glissandi ...). Takes "idiomatic" 'cello writing to an extreme. Well worth a listen.

[Quijote]

[...] Bruckner 9th symphony

Is our Headperson slowly falling under the Brucknerian spell? Agreed, it takes time ...

[Quijote]

I also listened to something by chance today on the radio (France Musique), and I would like to share a comment or two with you all.
Anyway, as often happens , one tunes in (switches the radio on) midway through some work or other. For a moment (about 4.33") I was confused : was it Elgar's 'cello concerto? Nah, it was Schumann. I continued listening, and thought : this is a 'cellist who plays the Schumann as if it were the Elgar (or indeed, vice versa). Well, I wasn't far wrong : the performer was none other than Jacqueline du Pré, who plays as if every work for the 'cello was composed in the High Romantic style. That said, I rather admire her recordings of the Beethoven 'cello sonatas, and trios. One often reads how her recording of "the Elgar" is the version to hear. I can barely stand it. Is it the performer, or is it the work? Perhaps a combination of both.

[Megan]

Is our Headperson slowly falling under the Brucknerian spell? Agreed, it takes time ...

Yes, It's a new awakening

[Megan]

Haydn Symphony no.96

Brahms, Waltz, op.49.

[Roehre]

Today:

Bruch:
Octet in E-flat op.posth. (1920) (R3: CotW)

D’Indy:
Tableaux de Voyage op.36 (1891)

Schönberg:
Variations for orchestra op.31

Stravinsky:
violin concerto

Troubadours
[Clemencic Consort (Harmonia Mundi)]

Feldman:
The Viola in my Life
The Viola in my Life II
The Viola in my Life III
The Viola in my Life IV

[Peter]

I think you need to be quite cuckoo to combine these two works in one listening session. Please add smiling icon, dear Headperson.

Who said they were in one session? Early afternoon was the Bruckner, the Beethoven at night when I most prefer to listen to chamber music - last night, Op.127

[Sorrano]

Helloooo, Sorrano, have you been hibernating, or what? Add the smiling icon!

Sometimes I am silent for a bit.

I do have to listen to more Xenakis, though.

[Roehre]

Today:

Stravinsky:
Symphony of Psalms

Lully:
Pièces de symphonie
(from Amadis, Atys, Thésée, Persée, Acis et Galathée, Phaéton and Belléphoron, 1675/’86)

Milhaud:
Suite provençale op.152c (1936)

Maurice:
Tableaux de Provençe (1954)

Poulenc:
Matelote provençale (1954)
Sinfonietta (1947)

De Ventadorn (12th C):
Ab joi mou lo vers e'l momens
Pois preyatz me, senhor

[Peter]

Just to be clear to a certain member not listened to at the same time!!
Mahler symphony no.8
Bartok Piano concerto no.3

[Roehre]

Today:

Saint Saens;
Violin concerto no.3 op.61 (1880)

Petrassi:
Nonsense

Pizzetti:
Due Composizioni corali
Cade la sera
Ululate, quia prope est dies Domini
Recordare Domini

Castiglioni:
Gyro

Dallapiccola:
Il coro delle Malmaritate
Il coro dei Mal ammogliati

Wagner:
Piano sonata no.1 in B-flat opus 1 WWV 21 (1831)
Fantasia (Sonata) in f-sharp minor opus 2 WWV 22 (1831)
Piano sonata no.2 in A opus 4 WWV 26 (1832)

[Roehre]

Today:

Fauré:
Pelléas et Mélisande: suite op.80 (1901)

Sibelius:
Pelléas et Mélisande: suite op.46 (1905)

Mahler:
Symphony no.8 (the latest BBC-MM CD)

Orient-Occident 1200-1700
(Hesperion XXI – Savall)

[Preston]

Today:

Orient-Occident 1200-1700
(Hesperion XXI – Savall)

Listening to this, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1wY8Idr1gU. I have liked this music for sometime.