What Are You Listening To (Classical Version)?

[Richard Cribb]

Very nice.
And to continue with something thematically similar, here is Dance of the Seven Veils from Richard Strauss' Salome, with the composer himself conducting.

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[Kullervo]

I'm rather ashamed to be just discovering this, but Jan Van Glise writes quite amazing symphonies. Here is the lovely no. 3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAdtPID5gTg

 

[Richard Cribb]

The slow movement of Bruckner's 7th symphony transcribed for piano.

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[Cheezy the Wiz]

Another of my favorite composers, Gustav Mahler. His 3rd symphony has the. best. opening. ever. A soli fanfare of eight French Horns. The rest of the symphony is epic and haunting, and probably a good indicator of where another composer named Gustav got his inspiration for musically representing some of the outer planets.

I'm only going to post the first part of the first movement here, because to hunt down all of the parts and link to them would be a real pain, and would drasically increase load time for this wonderful thread, and I trust y'all to click on things on the link.


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[Richard Cribb]

Yes, I have just listened through the whole catalog of Mahler's symphonies following the excellent advice of Kullervo and while I still favour Bruckner I agree that Mahler is great too.
Now I am doing a small nostalgia trip, reminiscing on my bitter-sweet time in Romania (I lived for a couple of years in Bucuresti some 15 years ago. First a symphony from George Enescu, then an almost too beautiful violin romance by Ciprian Porumbescu.

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[Kullervo]

One of the last pieces I was ever able to play for piano... Saent Saens Danse Macabre. I do love the piano transcription, but nothing will ever beat the orchestra.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyknBTm_YyM

 

[Richard Cribb]

Dvořák's The Watergoblin spendidly performed by RCO conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt.

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[Kullervo]

I always preferred Kuchar's version of this piece.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XlTun5nJeg

 

[Richard Cribb]

À chacun son goût! I still prefer Harnoncourt, but then I usually do.
I continue the aquatic theme with The Naiads by William Sterndale Bennett.

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[Richard Cribb]

Three romances for oboe and piano by Robert Schumann

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[Kullervo]

One of the better versions of Mahler's 10th symphony. There are no less than 7 versions, but the best tend to be the Deryck Cooke transcriptions. Inbal's rendition is almost an equal of Eugene Ormandy's in this particular instance.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzGVhxEYjY4

 

[Richard Cribb]

Mmm....Very good. Haven't heard the Ormandy version.
Sometimes I really enjoy the music of Alfred Schnittke. Today was one of those days.

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[Richard Cribb]

Two of Bruckner's vocal compositions; Abendzauber and Helgoland.

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[Kullervo]

Erkki Melartin's incredible violin concerto, a piece which I fell in love with at the tender age of 15 and 4 years later still cannot even hope to tackle.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5QkzfYDlDY&list=FLRUkpnDsh2M5rVkCWd9BxRw

 

[Richard Cribb]

Karol Szymanowski's 3rd symphony; Song of Night. I am very fond of Szymanowski's music.

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[Richard Cribb]

Joachims Raff's very fine 5th symphony.

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[Kullervo]

Hm. It's odd, but I never was overly fond of Raff's 5th in particular. It seemed to me to be too abstract, somehow... wishy-washy, if that admittedly coarse adjective makes any sense. It's good music, but to me not overly moving.

Alberic Magnard's superb Symphony no. 4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiFKIZE9neI

 

[Richard Cribb]

I see what you mean, and I guess it is impossible for anybody to like everything no matter how well-crafted it might be. Now I might be prejudiced in this particular case, since I associate this very symphony with a very pleasant personal experience many years ago. That said, I also like it for it musical and programmatical merit.
The next few days I am going to be a proud Norwegian and presenting music from my country of origin. I start with Thomas Tellefsen's 1st piano concerto.

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[Richard Cribb]

Otto Winter-Hjelm's 2nd symphony. It is not wxactly a masterpiece, but it has something about it anyway. And besides, Winter-Hjelm was an important figure in Norwegian musical life not only as a composer.

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[Kullervo]

Richard Wetz amazing 2nd symphony. Though the rest of his works seem to me to be no more than passably pleasant Romantic pieces, this one is quite astonishingly beautiful.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YMM-u0lrxI