What are you listening to now?

[Michael]

Indeed, that would be much better, but which date............???

You mean 16th or 17th December? All bets are covered for the anniversary celebrations as they start on the 16th of this year and continue until Dec 17th of next year.
I'm all for the 16th as it's also my granddaughter's birthday!

[Fidelio]

Nice one Michael.

Beethoven: Symphonies 1-9, Skrowaczewski, Saarbrücken Radio Symphony Orchestra

[Megan]

Charles Villiers Stanford
Symphony no. 6 in E flat major Op.94 (in memoriam G.F. Watts) 2nd mvmt
Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
CHANDOS.


Johann Sebastian Bach
St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 2: Part II: Aria: Erbarme dich (Alto)
Conductor: Peter Dijkstra. Orchestra: Concerto Köln.
BACH: SOLI DEO GLORIA. BR-KLASSIK. 415.

[Enrique]

Do you know the meaning of the words soli Deo gloria, Megan? Perhaps, the glory only for God?

Mozart: concerto no.27, Vladimir Azkenazy piano.
Ravel: Tzigane, Maxim Vengerov violin.

I was coming back to home and in the way there is a small shop selling CDs (music). When I can see the owner I use to say good bye to him and this time I added: next time when I pass by I want Abbey Road to be playing. We engaged in a small conversation, the usual vynil records subject came to the front and he showed an RCA Red Label LP. In the cover I could read: Ravel Tzigane and my memory told me I had already heard or read that name. That is the reason I am just now listening to it, a bit dissapointed because I expected it to be a long composition and instead it only lasts less than 10 minutes.

[Megan]

Do you know the meaning of the words soli Deo gloria, Megan? Perhaps, the glory only for God?

Mozart: concerto no.27, Vladimir Azkenazy piano.
Ravel: Tzigane, Maxim Vengerov violin.

I was coming back to home and in the way there is a small shop selling CDs (music). When I can see the owner I use to say good bye to him and this time I added: next time when I pass by I want Abbey Road to be playing. We engaged in a small conversation, the usual vynil records subject came to the front and he showed an RCA Red Label LP. In the cover I could read: Ravel Tzigane and my memory told me I had already heard or read that name. That is the reason I am just now listening to it, a bit dissapointed because I expected it to be a long composition and instead it only lasts less than 10 minutes.

I would translate soli Deo Gloria =

To the Glory of God alone.

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[Enrique]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP42C-4zL3w&t=395s[/youtube]

[Megan]

Franz Liszt, Battle of the Huns


[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDGcybCs5Ro[/YOUTUBE]

[gprengel]

Dear Megan, thank you for this Liszt symphonic poem! I never heard it before - a great discovery!

[Megan]

Dear Megan, thank you for this Liszt symphonic poem! I never heard it before - a great discovery!

He gprengel. Yes, isn't it a wonderful work I recently came across, not realising that the genius Liszt invented the symphonic poem. I never knew he was also immensely active int he orchestral field also. Of course when I first listened I was expecting to hear piano , but this is me being naive. There is a piano arrangement but I like the orchestral better.
Can you help me here, I am assuming the piece is first composed on piano then transcribed for orchestra?

[gprengel]

No, from what I read he first composed the Orchestra version in 1856/57 and then the piano arrangement till 1860.
You don't know other orchestra works by liszt? Also not the famous Les Preludes? You got to listen to that!!!

[Megan]

No, from what I read he first composed the Orchestra version in 1856/57 and then the piano arrangement till 1860.
You don't know other orchestra works by liszt? Also not the famous Les Preludes? You got to listen to that!!!

Thank you gprengel, I shall listen to his Les Preludes a bit later on, plus explore his other works. .

[Zevy]

Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92
Bavarian State Orchestra, Carlos Kleiber

Super performance and super sound! I can't stand the wide vibrato of the oboe soloist in the intro of the first movement. Otherwise, it's really great!

[Enrique]

Also not the famous Les Preludes? You got to listen to that!!!

You mean listen to Les Preludes? It's electrifying!

R.Strauss, Also sprach Zarathustra.

I.Stravinsky, The rite of spring (again).
It's a pity, but it is one of the "music as you read the score" videos and so there is no way of getting neither the orchestra nor the conductor. But the performance is superb (it the clip of some 3-4 posts ago; more precisely http://gyrix.com/forums/showpost.php...&postcount=186).

Beethoven, 1st piano concerto, Daniel Boremboin piano and conduction. Is this Mozart? Is this Beethoven? Who knows! This is a link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zns6-njnqB8
I do not get it. Shouldn't the celli be on the conductors right?

[Chris]

Saint-Saens, Violin Sonata No. 1 (Zimmermann/Pace)

This is a lovely work, and that last movement really has some fireworks! Amazing playing to stay so in sync in fast passages like that...