What are you listening to now?

[glindhot]

Brahms: Symphonies 3 & 4.
I found a beautiful but fitting comment regarding the slow movement of the 4th, that it "takes us into realms where material things exist no more."

[Sorrano]

Last night:
Dvorak: Symphony No. 9
This morning:
Ravel: "Introduction et allegro"
Bree: "Allegro" for four string quartets in d

[Michael]

Claudio Abbado conducting the Berlin Philharmonic in Beethoven's incidental music for "The Consecration of the House" and "Leonore Prohaska".

[Enrique]

Brahms: Symphonies 3 & 4.
I found a beautiful but fitting comment regarding the slow movement of the 4th, that it "takes us into realms where material things exist no more."

Intelligent remark! The second movement is anointing of the soul.

[Peter]

Perhaps multi-track recording?

I didn't mean at the same time!! Harold in Italy is only for viola and orchestra.
No, I mean the practicality of the different stretches involved with the two instruments - you'd think that might lead to being out of tune in one or both, but obviously not for Zucherman who is a master of both instruments.

[Peter]

Intelligent remark! The second movement is anointing of the soul.

It is a beautiful movement with that modal opening - Brahms though (much to the consternation of Dvorak) as an atheist wouldn't have believed in the soul!

[Peter]

Listening to Mozart's Great C minor mass with the wonderful Ferenc Fricsay recording.

[Enrique]

It is a beautiful movement with that modal opening - Brahms though (much to the consternation of Dvorak) as an atheist wouldn't have believed in the soul!

Perhaps Dvorak was a provincial character.

Today:
Brahms: Six Piano Pieces Op.118 (Backhaus)
Schubert: Six Moments Musical Op.94

Six and six, a mere coincidence. Beethoven should have met Schubert!

[Sorrano]

This morning:
Grieg: Violin Sonata #1 in F, Op 8

[Megan]

R. Strauss, Alpine Symphony, BBC Philharmonic

[Peter]

Handel: Solomon.

[Sorrano]

Haydn: String Quartet in B-Flat, Op 76/4, "Sunrise"
Sallinen: "Sunrise Serenade," Op 63

Is it morning,yet?

[AeolianHarp]

Piano Sonata No. 3 in C major, Op. 2, No. 3- Beethoven of course...
Adagio, 2/4 in E major

Played by Ronald Brautigam on a Paul Mc Nulty fortepiano, in a hybrid temperament somewhere between Valotti and Young.

It is totally sublime- gives me shivers all over.

Such a beautiful, haunting melancholy melody, yet it's in E major..always thought of the minors for that sort of mood.

[Peter]

Schubert's magnificent Grand duo in C and his sublime fantasy in F minor for 2 pianos.

[AeolianHarp]

Whatever is on Beethoven Only Radio station- often his stunning string quartets and Leonore!