What Are You Listening To (Classical Version)?

That's perfectly fine, and thank you for your contribution, Garan.

Cheezy: If you want to hear more of Sibelius, would you like some recommendations? I've listened to at least 10 different performances of all of his pieces, so I could get you some fairly obscure ones (which are worth listening to, needless to say)

Quite possibly the finest and most authoritative performance of Shostakovich's 1st Cello Concerto, by Mstislav Rostropovich.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h23WjKXDe4w
 
^^^ Nice Kullervo, I can see why you advertise as a Sibleuis Freak! Sissu!
Here's the only version of Shostakovich's Symphony #10 I have heard. Let me know if it compares.

Link to video.

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Aaah, Reindeer, you've opened a bit of a can of worms on this end.

I may be slightly biased against Dudamel as a conductor. He takes very extensive liberties with the score, to the point of exceeding what I would call artistic license. To some extent, it's less noticeable in the Shostakovich, but his Mahler interpretations... some of them I'd classify as really bad. I would personally take this rendition of the 10th anyday.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAVo6OHIpyw

The best one I know is Gergiev's performance, but I have yet to find a full recording of it on Youtube.

Living up to my self-awarded Sibelius/Mahler freak title, I'll post some Mahler: the 'Urlicht' movement of his magnificent second symphony.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKeiKNJefJQ
 
No worries, Kullervo -- I am a bit uncultured for my blue-blood background, and if I get a goid reference, I take ut.

Thanks for the links. I'm sure I can get a recording of Gergiev's.

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I have, for very good reasons, been absent from this thread for a while. In short, this has been a terrible summer and I have forced to deal with some very serious issues.
I don't know how often I will post herein the future, but since today is the birthday of the composer who in my opinion wrote the finest symphonies ever, I feel obliged to give a contribution.
So here is the greatest piece of music I know, Anton Bruckner's 8th symphony.

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I'm sorry to hear that you've not been having a good summer, Richard. In that, you and I are rather similar at least, ahah. It is, however, very nice to see you again in this thread, and very good choice of what Bruckner piece to upload. I have a soft spot for the 8th.

I present you with Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet, one of the finer performances by the always pleasant Claudio Abbado.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOeVamyHFM4
 
Kullervo said:
I'm sorry to hear that you've not been having a good summer, Richard. In that, you and I are rather similar at least, ahah. It is, however, very nice to see you again in this thread, and very good choice of what Bruckner piece to upload. I have a soft spot for the 8th.

I present you with Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet, one of the finer performances by the always pleasant Claudio Abbado.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOeVamyHFM4
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Thanks, my friend, and sorry to hear about your troubles. Ialso suppose we have more in common than hardship, actually...
Regarding Bruckner; his music has except for my lovely wife been what has been lifting my spirit the most. I have hardly listened to anything except for his symphonies for quite some time now and feel a special affinity to them.

ReindeerThistle said:
Welcome back, Richard. Let's hope you have a better Fall than Summer.

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Thanks my friend, but unfortunately that is not going to happen. I have some rather serious health conditions which are chronical and eventually going to develop for the worse. But my life so far has been quite good and I prefer to focus on all the positive in it, .

Kullervo said:
All of Bach's Brandenburg concertos are worthy of listening to, without question. However, no. 3 is a personal favourite of mine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmW92wOdRdI
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Indeed. It is difficult to go wrong with JS Bach. Quite nice version you posted, also.
And to stick with Baroque, here is a funny little piece by Jan Dismas Zelenka, a composer who, while not in Bach's league (very few is), was a master in his own right and worthy of attention.

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Perhaps I can provide some more good news: Although Goldie's excellent channel for relatively obscure Scandinavian works was shut down a while ago, another channel has done the exact same thing (perhaps run by the same person, even.) Therefore a few days ago I regained the ability to listen to Ludolf Nielsen's 3rd symphony and spent the day giggling quietly to myself.

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

This has been posted in the thread before, though, so duty calls: I will post another piece. This one from the Renaissance period: Josquin des Prez's Virgo Prudentissima.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOcj5Rg6x7k

The spellchecker had a stroke while I was typing all of that...
 
That was good news, Kullervo. I missed that channel, as can be seen from my posting on this very thread.
Inspired by my posting on the member photo thread, here is one of Joseph Haydn's late masterpieces.

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I am back more or less in one piece, and I don't want this thread to suffer an agonizing death. Lately I have been listening mostly to Boccherini, so I will post exclusively music of his for a while. First to go, the String Quintet G 300.

Link to video.
 
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