What are you listening to now?

[Chris]

Thank you Chris, I tried to remove the 'S' too. But I don't know why you mean by don't get the shortened URL. I copied what the given url address was.

Maybe it works with the shortened URL too. By shortened URL, I mean the kind with the "youtu.be" in it.

[Megan]

Maybe it works with the shortened URL too. By shortened URL, I mean the kind with the "youtu.be" in it.

Ok thanks Chris, I've got the hang of it, I think.

[Sorrano]

This morning, Bruckner's Overture.

[Harvey]

Mahler symphony #7, Levine.

[Megan]

Ludwig van Beethoven
Cello Sonata No 4 in C, Op 102
Performer: Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich. Performer: Sviatoslav Richter.

[Sorrano]

MacDowell:
Woodland Sketches
The Sea

Anyone play his music at all? I find it easy on the ears but tough on the fingers.

[Peter]

The wonderful Arturo Michelangeli playing Scarlatti sonata in B minor K.27

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FiZc7kbrWw[/YOUTUBE]

[Harvey]

Beethoven. Fidelio with Jonas Kaufman.

[Michael]

Beethoven's Stephen King overture. Scary.

[Enrique]

Ist movement of Bruckner's 4th Symphony ("The Romantic").
What a glorious work! Here's a moving passage on YouTube (I have isolated the extract in the link that follows), a wonderful build up to a "chorale" that always knocks my socks off, a bit like struggling up a foggy mountain trail and then the sun bursts out...

https://youtu.be/LY7m119eOys?t=675

I know Bruckner has many detractors, I'm always puzzled by that.

One of the worst was Brahms. Perhaps there was some envy in his attitude towards him. The fourth is the most famous of his symphonies and I think there is a good reason: just that it is formidable (or at least I used to think so). Excuse me for not having replied to your post in this thread about the agnus Dei in the D major and C major masses ("You want austere?"). I began to write but then I found the (my) post extemporaneous. I consider 19th century sacred music rather theatrical, including Mozart's requiem. You can look for an archetypical mass only within the epoch during which liturgical works were mainstream music. And the rest are (is) love's labour's lost, in spite of musicologists' opinions. (Is this not lapidary?)

[Megan]

Composer birthday today.

Rather a lovely piece by an English composer we here little of today.


William Sterndale Bennett - Adagio for piano and orchestra




Sir William Sterndale Bennett (13 April 1816 – 1 February 1875) was an English composer, pianist, conductor and music educator.

Work: Adagio for piano and orchestra

Pianist: Malcom Binns

Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor: Nicholas Braithwaite


[YOUTUBE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqMcWwaqKdg[/YOUTUBE]



[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqMcWwaqKdg[/youtube]



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


Cant' get the video to load on.

[Peter]

Beethoven symphony no.4

[Michael]

Beethoven's "Christ on the Mount of Olives".
I probably should have listened last week.

[Peter]

Bruckner symphony no.9.