What Are You Listening To (Classical Version)?

[Kullervo]

Happy New Years, gentlemen and ladies and goats. I hope it is better than the previous one, whatever that may have been like.

My current online handle in several places is 'Felix Weingartner' so... I may as well post something by him. The interesting symphonies no. 5 and 7.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0speEpoKbY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u22csgYDJuo

 

[Richard Cribb]

I can just second mr. Kullervo in the hope that this year will be better than the previous one. It will not take much.
On an optimistic note I will start my posting this year with an uplifting symphony by Joseph Haydn; No. 60 "The Distracted"

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[ReindeerThistle]

Nightly, my roommate turns on the radio and we race... he tries to guess the composer and piece in less time than it takes "TrackID" on my mobile.

This was last night's: Brahms' Horn Trio
-- Roomate: 5 seconds
-- "Track ID:" 35 seconds

My roommate's the John Henry of musicology!


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Edit: Dammit wrong thread

 

[Richard Cribb]

Here is 6 serenades by that fine Austrian Baroque composer Benedikt Anton Aufschnaiter from his Concors discordia. I think I posted a couple of those before, but here is the whole disc. A remarkable man as well, who wasn't afraid of standing up to his employer. Enjoy.

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[Kullervo]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42V3CsvMNhc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4D-f6O1LMAU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_PSqb9ajME

Shostakovich's sadly overlooked second violin concerto. Although I love the first violin concerto, there is something very appealing about the somewhat simple and yet subtly violent and nuanced shifts in key and tempo. If there was any violin concerto I would love to have composed, it would be this one.

 

[Richard Cribb]

In memoriam one of the greatest musicians in our time, Claudio Abbado. RIP maestro

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[Kullervo]

RIP Claudio Abbado. There are some performances of yours which have gotten me through pretty tough times, as angsty as that sounds. Here's one of them, and I hope this one gets remembered for centuries. Your rendition of Mahler's 9th was endlessly delicate, infinitely touching, and boundlessly sad and content.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNNOZT0GC2k

 

[Kullervo]

Joachim Raff's very fun Symphony no. 3. Also his 11th. Because, you know, two for one and all that. Yeah.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ze2F2WBb0w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkmTKZIwM-w

 

[Richard Cribb]

Can't avoid to remember W A Mozart today. I just dug up my Hogwood box, and got carried away with this one:

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[Richard Cribb]

Remembering Franz Schubert on his birthday, the song cycle "Die Winterreise".

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[Kullervo]

Good choice. I've actually sang 'Leihermann' a few times, I have a rather strong attachment (and associations) with that song.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

A selection of what I've been listening to recently.


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[Richard Cribb]

First of all, I don't know what happenedm but suddenly I was able to log in again. I will never understand how computers work...
Wagner? Not bad. Not bad at all.
As for me, I am exploring Baroque composers who deserve to be better known, starting with Fux:
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[Kullervo]

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you... the Holy Grail. If you have any regard for Mahler at all, your personal second coming has occurred. The entirety of the legendary 1959 Royal Albert Hall performance has been uploaded.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rZeLxB8FYo

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

Been on an American kick lately. Enjoy some Copland, Ives, Ticheli, and Bennett.


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[Richard Cribb]

Is it really possible to compose a Sinfonia Concertante for trumpet, piano, mandoline and double bass? Yes it is, and it is awesome.

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[cybrxkhan]

Listening right now to versions of Tarrega's Recuerdos de la Alhambra, my favorite classical guitar piece, and a sentimental one for me as well.


Anyhow, for anybody who cares, do you guys have some preferred versions of this song?

 

[Jan H]

was looking for another Halvorsen piece (Entry March of the Boyars), when I stumbled upon this:

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[Richard Cribb]

Since my wife and I are having our 12th anniversary today, I want to post a musical hommage to my lovely lady. And what is more fitting than one of the most beautiful compositions by the composer who to my mind was the greatest of all symphonists.

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