What are you listening to now?

[Quijote]

Yes, Rage over a Lost Penny ! That's the message I always send to my dear ex-wife (long may she prosper ... not) when I'm late with the alimony. Hah!

[Roehre]

Today:

Victoria part 3 (R3: CotW)

Kruger:
Suite picturale (1948)

Mertzig:
Rapsodie chorégraphique (1947)

Anonymus (Spanish, c1300):
4 Planctus (Huelgas Ms)

[Peter]

In light of the above posts, I did check out the first movement of Bruckner's 5th with Solti and the Chicago Mobsters (just a little joke of mine), DECCA records (1980?).
Rather a lacklustre performance, far too stolid.

Do you know the Bruckner recordings I referred to? I think they are superb performances. For the 8th I have karajan which again is a fine recording.

[Roehre]

Today:

Victoria part 4 (R3: CotW)

Sibelius:
String quartet in E-flat (1885)
String quartet in a-minor (1889)

Schnittke:
Concerto for oboe, harp and strings (1971)
Concerto for piano and strings (1979)

[Preston]

not trying to get off topic, but just wanted to mention this music.

listening to music from the lord of the rings. as of now and the past years, i really like this music. i listen to it a lot.

if anyone would like me to send them some mp3's i would be glad to. just pm me.

[Roehre]

Today:

Respighi
Ouverture Carnevalesca (1913) (R3:CC)

Victoria part 5 (R3: CotW)

Schnittke:
String Quartet no.1 (1966)
Violin sonata no.1 (1963)
Concerto gross no.4/Symphony no.5 (1988)

Feldman:
Coptic Light (1985)

[Roehre]

Today:

Schnittke:
String Quartet no.2 (1980)

Hildegard of Bingen:
Symphonia armoniae celestium revelationum – selection (R3: Proms matinee)

Britten:
Sacred and Profane op.91 (1975) (R3: Proms matinee)

Birtwistle:
Narration: A Description of the Passing of a Year (1963) (R3: Proms matinee)

Wishart:
Out of This World (2010/11) (R3: Proms matinee)

[Sorrano]

This evening I am taking a shot at the TIntner recording of Bruckner's 3rd (1st movement only). Now, if you ask me which version I prefer, the Nowak (1877, 1888/89) that Jochum conducts or this one, the original (1873) I would answer, "That depends on how much time I have." Both are very listenable and will look forwards to the rest of this as I get time. I find myself more profoundly moved at the conclusion of the original version than the revision.

[Roehre]

Today:

Frederick II “the Great” of Prussia:
Sonata in C minor for flute & basso continuo (R3:TtN)
One of the 8 in c-minor, of in total some 120 sonatas. The 2nd mvt of this particular sonata contains a two bar descending chromatic motive very reminiscent of the royal theme of Bach’s Musical Offering (on a theme suggested by Frederick the Great)

Schnittke:
Violin Sonata no.2 “Quasi una sonata” (1968)
Suite im alten Stil (1972)

[Sorrano]

This morning was Tchaikowsky's Marche Slave

[Peter]

Beethoven's 'cello sonata no.3 Op.69 - my favourite of these works. A rarity surely in that there is no slow movement (the intro to the finale hardly counts as such).

[Roehre]

Today:

Fitkin:
L (for cello/piano; 2005) (R3: Proms matinee)
The shortest name for a composition?

Opportunity KnocksClassic commissions [for a short orchestral piece not longer than 5 minutes]
For the 1950s CBC radio programme Opportunity Knocks, i.a.
Freedman: March for small types
Weinzweig: Round Dance
Gratton: Fantasia
Ridout: Caprice
Jessel: Overture for small orchestra

Schnittke:
String Quartet no.3 (1983)

Glossa CD
Poissance d’Amours
Mystiques, Moines et Ménestrels en Brabant au XIIIe Siècle

[Sorrano]

Today: Othello overtures by Dvorak and Rossini.

[Chris]

Beethoven - "Waldstein" piano sonata (Pletnev)

I enjoyed this interpretation a lot, but I think he cheated on those octave glissandi in the third movement...

[Roehre]

Today:

Haydn:
String Quartet in B-fat op.76/4 Hob.III:78 “Sunrise”

Liszt:
St.Francis of Assisi’s sermon to the Birds S.354/1
Totentanz S.126ii
Mazeppa S.100
Hunnenschlacht S.105
(The latest BBCMM CD which arrived this morning.)

Shostakovich;
String Quartet no.8 in c op.110 (1960)

Barraqué:
Concerto (1962-’68)