What are you listening to now?

[Michael]

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

Ferenc Fricsay's recording of Beethoven's 7th is probably my number one version. I only wish I knew how to pronounce his name.

[Peter]

Ferenc Fricsay's recording of Beethoven's 7th is probably my number one version. I only wish I knew how to pronounce his name.

I still have his wonderful version of the 9th - as to pronunciation, I say ferenck fricksay - may well be wrong!

[Sorrano]

This morning:

Mozart: String Quintet #4 in c, K 406

[Sorrano]

Beethoven: Piano Sonata #23 in f, Op 57, "Appassionata"
(Brendel playing)

Some of the most sublime music, to me, comes from the second movement.

[Chris]

Beethoven: Piano Sonata #23 in f, Op 57, "Appassionata"
(Brendel playing)

Some of the most sublime music, to me, comes from the second movement.

Yes, it's one of my favorite slow movements in all of music.

[Enrique]

That makes three of us! All seems so simple, and yet so powerful.

[Sorrano]

When I listen to this or play through the movement I end up with the impression that I've been listening to the master, himself, improvising.

[Sorrano]

This morning:
Saint-Saëns: "Le Déluge," Op 45, Prelude
Massenet: "La vierge", "Le dernier sommeil de la Vierge"
Gounod: "Mors et Vita" (Cantata)

[Sorrano]

This morning:
Grieg: "Holberg" Suite, Op 40

[AeolianHarp]

When I listen to this or play through the movement I end up with the impression that I've been listening to the master, himself, improvising.

How wonderful! It's beautiful music.

[AeolianHarp]

The Fifth Symphony! Oh the famous four note motif, the horns and the glorious theme in the last movement- so uplifting and triumphant! Nobody can beat Beethoven for symphonies.

[Sorrano]

This morning:

Dvorák: Violin Concerto in a, Op 53

The theme of the last movement becomes a delightful earworm to me.

[AeolianHarp]

This evening:

Missa Solemnis.

It is on his radio station...I have heard it a few times, but tonight it has hit me..OMG it's transcendent.

[Sorrano]

This evening:

Missa Solemnis.

It is on his radio station...I have heard it a few times, but tonight it has hit me..OMG it's transcendent.

On another thread, with the popularity contest, I voted for this work as the number one classical work.

Do you know which conductor?

[Peter]

This evening:

Missa Solemnis.

It is on his radio station...I have heard it a few times, but tonight it has hit me..OMG it's transcendent.

Yes it is just incredible how Beethoven managed to continually surpass himself!
The late works take time to assimilate and appreciate - as a teenager it was always the middle period works that attracted me most and I did struggle with the late quartets and sonatas - strange how we change.