What are you listening to now?

[Peter]

Sibelius, the beautiful Andante Festivo - a good tempo here, generally it is taken too fast, but this is more in keeping with the composer's own 1939 recording.

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CH0yKx_tKPQ[/YOUTUBE]

[Harvey]

Mahler, symphony 7, Levine

[Sorrano]

Thanks for sharing that, Peter! I don't think I've heard this before and the tempo does sound good to me, as well.

[Humoresque]

I've just been watching this recital from the 2014 Verbier Festival. "The Triff" with Kavakos playing Schumann et. al. A wonderful performance from two superlative musicians: I hadn't heard the Busoni before!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lhy2m6x_qeA

An American friend I met up with in Vienna last year emailed me this July that she was back in Vienna and was about to see Daniil Trifonov at the Musikverein. A couple of hours before the performance she wandered into Cafe Schwarzenberg (across the road from the Imperial Hotel, right near the Musikverein) and who should be in there drinking coffee and eating chocolate cake but Trifonov!! She went up and spoke to him and found him relaxed and friendly - right before a major recital.

http://www.cafe-schwarzenberg.at/en/index.html

[Michael]

Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits.

[Zevy]

Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits.

[Humoresque]

Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits.

Dylan has just been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature!! I love many of his songs and "The Hurricane" stands out in my memory as the one time I was able to have the lowest Year 9 English class succeed in Poetry!! This song spoke to them in their own language - and musically it's absolutely compelling, with its rhythmic and harmonic ostinato and the appearance of riff-like embellishments:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGMSfiH850o

And its still-contemporary subject matter continues to ensure Dylan's music remains 'relevant'.

[Harvey]

Mahler sympony 1, Muti.

[Humoresque]

Watching "Der Rosenkavalier" - the 1979 version with the great man Kleiber conducting. I can cast it to my (Loewe) television with Google Chrome Cast and then I get to see the glorious visage of Kleiber on an even bigger screen and get far better sound quality!! It's a tremendous production and Brigitte Fassbaender is in fine form. How I love this opera:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXsT...=RDTWKqAALQztw

[dahc]

Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits.

Don't need to put on a recording. Dylan is embedded in my soul.

[Chris]

The Haydn Trumpet Concerto, played by Wynton Marsalis, in celebration of his 55th birthday.

[Michael]

The Haydn Trumpet Concerto, played by Wynton Marsalis, in celebration of his 55th birthday.

I thought Haydn was much older than that!
Anyway, I'm listening to Beethoven's variations on Righini's "Venni Amore".

[Peter]

Sibelius Pohjola's daughter

[Joy]

Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits.

Seems they awarded him the Nobel prize for literature recently but he has yet to respond.

[Humoresque]

Watching Kleiber in action again!! This time the Wiener Philharmoniker Neujahrskonzert 1992 and the "Gypsy Baron Overture". He's in fine form and with loads of energy - but looking very much his 61 years. This concert is poignant for a couple of reasons; firstly, because Carlos is gone and, secondly, because the Concertmaster, Gerhart Hetzel, immediately to the left of Carlos, was killed just a few short months after this in a hiking accident in Salzburg. This shook the orchestra to its core!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIv2Ltf2cD4