What are you listening to now?

[Sorrano]

This morning:

Finzi: Grand Fantasia and Toccata, Op. 38

[Enrique]

Bach:
Branderburg concerti ##1 to 3
Suite for orchestra #2

[Sorrano]

This morning:

Walton: String Quartet (1922)

Handel: Concerto Grosso Op 3/2

[Sorrano]

This morning:

Brahms: Tragic Overture

Dvorak: Scherzo capriccioso

Beethoven: March for Winds WOO 29

Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream: Overture

[Peter]

I'm in slow mode, so Adagios from Bruckner Symphony no.8, Mahler nos 4 & 6.

[Sorrano]

This morning:

Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio espagnole

Saint-Saens: "Le carnaval des animaux": The Elephant

Vaughn Williams: Two Romances (1914, 1951)

So, what's with the double names, here?

[Quijote]

Only extracts I'm afraid (to illustrate uses of the N6):
Beethoven :Piano Sonata N° 17 / III;
Schubert : Der Müller und der Bach:
Schubert : Die Krähe;
Haydn : Symphony N° 78/I;
Haydn : Symphony N° 75/I.

[Sorrano]

Only extracts I'm afraid (to illustrate uses of the N6):
Beethoven :Piano Sonata N° 17 / III;
Schubert : Der Müller und der Bach:
Schubert : Die Krähe;
Haydn : Symphony N° 78/I;
Haydn : Symphony N° 75/I.

This may sound weird but I miss those theory classes I took years ago.

[Quijote]

This may sound weird but I miss those theory classes I took years ago.

There's a nice new little exercise waiting for you Sorrano on the Contrapuntal thread to see how much you miss all that !!

[Sorrano]

There's a nice new little exercise waiting for you Sorrano on the Contrapuntal thread to see how much you miss all that !!

I saw that and will be getting to it as I get the opportunity. It will be fun doing these, again.

[Sorrano]

This morning:

Bach: French Suite No. 2 played by Gustav Leonhardt on the clavichord

Tchaikovsky: Marche Slave

[Enrique]

Messiaen
Turangalila symphonie (1947).

Any known reason why this traditional thread is a mere list of compositions? Why do we not see some remarks regarding the impression the performance or the work itself caused the poster, or a hundred more things? With some sense of measure, of course. Perhaps it was a different way there in 2000, in the beginnings of BRS and latter you guys saw it was better this way.

[Sorrano]

I do recall the first time that I heard the Turangalila Symphony. It really blew me away and I had to run out and buy a recording the first chance I got. Ever since, I've been a big fan of Messiaen.

[Enrique]

He had studied the songs of the birds from a scientific point of view, and I have a record, a recording under the artistic direction of Messiaen, with Oiseaux exotiques, La bouscarle and La reveil des oiseaux, rather unknown compositions. Bouscarle must be some bird. I like that expression of you, guys, "blow away". He seems to have been an innovator.

You Sorrano seem to have been part of your life running out to buy records. I'd like to tell the story of one of my records but I realize this is the What are you listening now thread. Some other time, perhaps.

[Sorrano]

It was his use of the Ondes Martenot that really caught my attention in that work, but since I've come to appreciate the other things he has written, particularly the organ works.