What are you listening to now?

[Enrique]

Beethoven: 4th piano concerto, 2nd movement (Yevgeny Kissin, Collin Davis).

Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem Op. 45

[Symphony7]

Just listened to Michael Nyman's Prospero's Books soundtrack. It's interesting, but I can see why Miranda is the tune they play on the radio. Also, Ute Lemper has a lovely voice.

[PDG]

Paul McCartney's new album - NEW - released today (out tomorrow in the US). Played it twice and it's growing on me already. Definitely the best album ever by a 71-year-old!

Where's Michael?...

[Enrique]

Once, when getting out of a concert with some friends who were students
of composition --I was very young then, I heard one of them say something
about being left exhausted after having to hear two works like in the
concert in a row. I couldn't understand. For me, she was only showing off.
I could listen to the Mass in B Minor practically uninterruptedly, and
that was sheer nonsense.

At this moment, that is precisely what I am listening to, and I think
about those words under a totally different light. For instance,
after the Credo, a thirty minutes pause is mandatory.

John Lewis
Fontessa (1956, Atlantic 1231)

[Sorrano]

This morning:

Scharwenka: String Quartet in D, Op 120

[Peter]

Tavener: The protecting veil
Brahms: String quintets - the G major is the finer of the two in my view!

[Peter]

Shostakovich: Symphony no. 10, in E minor, op.93.[list]
Concertgebouw Orchestra, Mariss Jansons.

Because I have just learned it was a few years ago the no.1 orchestra in a poll conducted by Gramophone (that is, the poll reflected the opinion of only the magazine itself), and this discovery, for reasons not to be told here made me feel happy, I'll celebrate it by taking the liberty of inserting the video clip. By the way, I was a bit disappointed, as I was expecting to enjoy this symphony, a work I have been told was one of Shostakivich great achievements. But I really don't think it can be put by the side of his 5th, with his awesome first movement and so lyric a slow one. I was looking forward to come back to my work while those sounds filled my living-room leaving me perfectly cold.

Yes I've always preferred the 5th - the movement I enjoy most in the 10th is the exciting scherzo - brilliant!

[Sorrano]

This morning:

Stravinsky:
Suite italienne
Le Baiser de la fée

[Symphony7]

Symphonie Fantastique

[Sorrano]

Symphonie Fantastique

Which conductor? This is a work I need to revisit; it's been an awful while.

[Enrique]

Stravinsky: Petrushka (1911) (New York Philarmonic, Pierre Boulez).

[Symphony7]

Which conductor? This is a work I need to revisit; it's been an awful while.

It was Sir Colin Davis, Concertgebouw Orchestra.

[thesunlover]

Beethoven: Cantata on the Accession of Emperor Leopold II, WoO 88

[Sorrano]

This morning:

Elgar: "From the Bavarian Highlands" (Three Bavarian Dances), Op 27

[Sorrano]

It was Sir Colin Davis, Concertgebouw Orchestra.

Sounds like a good match. Thank you!