What are you listening to now?

[Peter]

Listening to Bruckner symphony no.9 / Skrowaczewsk / Frankfurt Radio Symphony - great performance available on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Az-kHLRQhsk

[Sorrano]

There is a St.Luke's passion by Pendereki.

I think that is what Enrique is referring to. Sorry for the late response.

[Sorrano]

Penderecki: Stabat Mater, Selections from St. Luke's Passion.

[Megan]

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JYHk_D5A44&feature=youtube[/YOUTUBE]

[Megan]

Ludwig van Beethoven
Trio for Oboe, Clarinet and Bassoon in C Major, Op 87 (4th mvt)
Music Arranger: John P. Newhill. Ensemble

[Peter]

Travelling through the Surrey hills this week so it has to be Vaughan-Williams who lived for many years in the area.

Symphonies no.5 and No.3 'Pastoral'

[Sorrano]

Penderecki: Symphony No. 8

[Peter]

Prokofiev piano concertos 1 & 3 / Evgeny Kissin.

[Michael]

An absolutely riveting performance of Beethoven's Fifth by the Portsmouth Sinfonia.
I thought this work had already been done to death until I heard this recording.

It is a very daring performance and gives new life and meaning to this over-familiar piece.
The conductor was absolutely uncompromising in his approach and gives a very accurate rendition of how this symphony must have sounded at its first performance back in 1808.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JrkFh5ful8







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[Zevy]

Mozart Rd

I was driving on an obscure road in Eastern Pennsylvania while listen to the Mozart String Quintets played by the Budapest Quartet. Then I came across this sign and I just had to take a photo:

[Peter]

I was driving on an obscure road in Eastern Pennsylvania while listen to the Mozart String Quintets played by the Budapest Quartet. Then I came across this sign and I just had to take a photo:

Meant to be Zevy - next time try the Beethoven quintet and see what happens!

[Zevy]

Meant to be Zevy - next time try the Beethoven quintet and see what happens!

The chances are slim. There are six Mozart string quintets but only one Beethoven string quintet (I believe op. 29?). And besides, there are many more Mozart streets or roads than those named for Beethoven.

[Peter]

An absolutely riveting performance of Beethoven's Fifth by the Portsmouth Sinfonia.
I thought this work had already been done to death until I heard this recording.

It is a very daring performance and gives new life and meaning to this over-familiar piece.
The conductor was absolutely uncompromising in his approach and gives a very accurate rendition of how this symphony must have sounded at its first performance back in 1808.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JrkFh5ful8

Amazing Michael - a truly remarkable achievement!

[Michael]

Amazing Michael - a truly remarkable achievement!

Several biographies have mentioned Beethoven's delight in seriously bad performances (provided it wasn't his own music of course!)






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[Zevy]

Meant to be Zevy - next time try the Beethoven quintet and see what happens!

Peter - I listened to op. 29 - Amadeus Quartet w/Cecil Aronowitz - but alas, no Beethoven Street emerged....