What are you listening to now?

[Sorrano]

This morning:
Bach: Cello Suite #2 in d, BWV 1008,
"Prelude", Yuli Turovsky, vc
"Allemande", Simon Rowland-Jones, vi
"Courante", Marion Verbruggen, r
"Sarabande", Richard Hartshorne, db
"Menuet", Arthur Weinberg, bn
Finale, "Gigue", Thomas Labé, p

Anyone else have room for cello?

[Sorrano]

On a more somber note this mourning:
Kraus: Mortuary Music

[Decrepit Poster]

I've been on an Op.2 No.3 kick lately. Listened to a number of performances of it at YouTube: Lang Lang, Arrau, Schnabel, Brendel, one or two more. Heard my favorite of the several Valentina Lisitsa renditions of the Moonlight. Listened to a couple of the Brautigam Beethoven disks.

[Zevy]

Schubert "Unfinished" ...

[Sorrano]

This morning:
Liszt: Variations on Bach's Cantata "Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen"
Bach: Cantata #12, "Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen"
Gillis: Symphony #5, "Symphony for Fun"

[AeolianHarp]

Anyone else have room for cello?

Oh me! I've been listening to Beethoven's Cello Sonatas on my mp3 player today.

[AeolianHarp]

From the Heart

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9d4sz8f_mI[/YOUTUBE]

[hal9000]

I've been listening to this cycle of Beethoven's piano concertos. I think you might like it, Aeolian.

[AeolianHarp]

I've been listening to this cycle of Beethoven's piano concertos. I think you might like it, Aeolian.

I was rather hoping they are HIP- and you didn't disappoint there Hal! Thanks for that.

Right now I am listening to:

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KL5aiUKPt3Q[/YOUTUBE]

Vintage recordings are so lush and emotive!!! This is the great Rach himself in the 1930s.

[Decrepit Poster]

During lunch yesterday I listened to a CD of Alfred Brendel performing the Hammerklavier live in concert. During supper I heard disk seven of Brautigam's sonata set, containing Les Adieux, , Op.90, and again the Hammerklavier. Of the two Hammerklaviers, Brautigam is easily my preference. His Les Adieux is for me a highpoint of the set.

Later in the evening I watched / heard HJ Lim play the opening movement of the Moonlight at YouTube. Ms Lim's interpretation is willful and faster than one normally hears it. I quite enjoy it. But then I've never much cared for traditional slow, staid performances of this movement.

ADDENDUM: How in the world did I almost forget I watched / listened to Maurizio Pollini performing the third movement of Les Adieux, recorded in concert? Stunning rendition, in my opinion.

[Sorrano]

This morning:
Hindemith: "Kleine Kammermusik," Op 24/2
Atterberg: Suite #1, "Orientale"
Balakirev: "Islamey," Oriental Fantasy

I think I got up on the East side of the bed.

[hal9000]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJXXS9ZawgA[/youtube]

Spaghetti Beethoven.

[Sorrano]

Ce matin:
Françaix: "Le Gay Paris" (1974)
Svendsen: "Carnival in Paris," Op 9

[AeolianHarp]

I just love the way all hell breaks loose with those descending notes!!

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9THdcplVQU[/YOUTUBE]

Oh I should have voted for it in the Classic FM Hall of Fame! I will do- next year!

[Zevy]

Mozart: "Hoffmeister" Quartet
3 "Prussian" Quartets
Haydn "Emperor" Quartet
Mozart "Hunt" Quartet
Beethoven Op. 18 1-3.
Amadeus Quartet.

It was a long trip, but the music made it much more bearable...