What are you listening to now?

[Peter]

Tomás Luis de Victoria - Requiem mass and other pieces.

[hal9000]

Brahms - Handel Variations

[Rocco]

Handel's Messiah - Trevor Pinnock

[Michael]

Something in the attic.

[Harvey]

Something in the attic.

A mouse? A ghost playing a weepy violin solo? The wind whistling through the cracks like an aeolian harp?

[Enrique]

Brahms - Handel Variations

I see you are in the true path.

[Michael]

A mouse? A ghost playing a weepy violin solo? The wind whistling through the cracks like an aeolian harp?

I'd settle for any of the last two!

[Harvey]

Fidelio conducted by Bernstein 1978, but not the recording, the DVD ripped to tracks and playing on my MP3. I have both. I find the recorded actual opera has more life to it than the audio recording. Watching the DVD I see Gundula Janowitz acting the part of Leonora so beautifully that she looks as though it is really happening to her. She must have immersed herself into the story, just became part of the story.

[AeolianHarp]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Harvey
A mouse? A ghost playing a weepy violin solo? The wind whistling through the cracks like an aeolian harp?

Michael:

I'd settle for any of the last two!

Someone mention me? There is actually a mouse in my house- perhaps one of his friends has decided to say hello to Michael!

[Michael]

Fidelio conducted by Bernstein 1978, but not the recording, the DVD ripped to tracks and playing on my MP3. I have both. I find the recorded actual opera has more life to it than the audio recording. Watching the DVD I see Gundula Janowitz acting the part of Leonora so beautifully that she looks as though it is really happening to her. She must have immersed herself into the story, just became part of the story.

Bernstein's version is also interesting for his linking of the Leonore 3 overture (without a break) with the opening music of Florestan's aria in the dungeon scene. It caused some controversy at the time.

[Symphony7]

The soundtrack to Star Wars: A New Hope, John Williams.

Very good, but it's a shame he didn't think of The Imperial March until The Empire Strikes Back!

[Harvey]

Bernstein's version is also interesting for his linking of the Leonore 3 overture (without a break) with the opening music of Florestan's aria in the dungeon scene. It caused some controversy at the time.

What I read was that he linked it to the end of Florestan and Leonora's duet, and dropped the opening note to get it to smoothly join the end of the duet. While I appreciate the use of the overture to occupy the audience during the scene change. I routinely delete it from all my music playback and skip over it when watching the video. In fact, I read that Beethoven wanted a short pause, but not more than 7 seconds, between the end of the duet and the finale. To me, the inserted overture horribly disrupts the flow.

[Chris]

The soundtrack to Star Wars: A New Hope, John Williams.

Very good, but it's a shame he didn't think of The Imperial March until The Empire Strikes Back!

It's just as well. It made the sequel even better!

[AeolianHarp]

Clara Schumann: Nocturne in F major, No.2.

[Enrique]

Ehemm ... This is a serious music forum, youngmen!


Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole (that's sheer magic).
Tomás Luis de Victoria - Misa de Requiem a seis partes.
Shostakovich: Synphony no.1 (Gergiev)