What Are You Listening To (Classical Version)?

[Richard Cribb]

Thank you, friend. Perhaps I will have a lok at OT later, but for the moment I will mostly remain here.
Here is Cello Concerto, No. 5 G 478

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[Richard Cribb]

String Quartet in G major, Op. 44/4, G. 223 "La Tiranna"

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[Richard Cribb]

String Quintet in D major, Op.39/3, G. 339

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[Richard Cribb]

Continuing with Boccherini, there is really only one composition of his that is suitable for Halloween. I think I posted it already with another ensemble, but see no harm in that.So here is La Casa del Diavolo.

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[Cheezy the Wiz]

You know, for the season.


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[Richard Cribb]

Back to Bruckner, and one of my favourite renditions of his 2nd symphony. Indeed I think that the whole cycle with Skrowaczewski is excellent; it contains all the 11 symphonies and there are no duds.

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[Cheezy the Wiz]

Mendelssohn's Hebrides Overture


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[ReindeerThistle]

I am not a Bach fan, but this was the piece my recently dear-departed Comrade and friend was listening to when his heart rate stabilized on the eve of his death... so, this is for him.


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[Cheezy the Wiz]

I'm on a Wagner trip as of right now, and probably will be for the foreseeable future. Here is the infamous "able to make grown-ass men cry like babies" Prelude to Tristan and Isolde. And it is nothing short of remarkable.



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[Richard Cribb]

Sorry to hear about your comrade, RT. It is always so hard when such thing happens, our only consolation is that our dear departed ones continues to live in our memories.
It is a tough act to follow the few last presented works ,but it seems to me that I haven't posted yet what was to be Anton Bruckner's last and indeed unfinished masterpiece; his 9th symphony, which is really some omission on my part. Now most of the finale is preserved, and reconstruction attempts has been made - I myself own 4 different recordings with a final - but I find it fitting that the last movement should be exactly one of those great adagios. And while there has been a lot of great Bruckner conductors, for just this symphony there is for me one who towers over all, and that is Günter Wand.

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[ReindeerThistle]

Very nice, Richard Cribb. And thanks for your kind words.

I posted some memorial pics on the Members Photo thread.

 

[Takhisis]

Fantasía in Fa Minor
Live player, (not download link): http://organ.monespace.net/mp3/332 Klaas Fantasia in F minor wet v013 (Pekela).mp3

 

[Jan H]

not so much for the music, but for the experiment by the audience:

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[Richard Cribb]

For me the ultimate Christmas composition.

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[Richard Cribb]

Merry Christmas!

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[Kullervo]

I apologize for being absent from this thread for a while. Life has not been kind. Thank you all for the wonderful music.

Christmas always brings out Mahler's 4th symphony for me. There's a certain festive air about the first movement.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VpwwEI8Yj0

 

[Agent327]

If Christianity brought anything to the world (besides Bach) it might be this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpSjN9WmcvI

(Kyrie from the Missa Luba)

Without choir, but hauntingly sung:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqFJe_XtaA8

(Not sure why the vid mentions "anonymous', as it was arranged by Belgian Franciscan Guido Haazen - although the original composer ofcourse would be anonymous.)

The Kyrie eleison was of such popularity, that even in the Western Latin mass it remained untranslated. (Actually, a Latin version did exist, but it never caught on.) While traditionally it conforms to the solemnity associated with a mass, I've never heard it performed with such joy as in the Missa Luba. One might call it a hymn, as is common, but except in the Missa Luba version it is usually sung (as most church music) as an elegy: Lord, have mercy generally doesn't equate a feeling of joy. Unlike here.

 

[Takhisis]

More organ for all!

http://organ.monespace.net/mp3/055 Praeludium Ut v013 reverb.mp3

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[Richard Cribb]

Sorry to hear about your continued worries, Kullervo, I can bear witness myself that life can be very unkind. One can only hope that 2014 will bring some improvement.
It might have escaped most people's attention, but since I live in Poland news have reached me that Wojciech Kilar died a couple of days ago. While he was best known as a film composer, he also had a decent production of more so-called serious music. Here is a sample of both.
First Polonez from the Polish movie "Pan Tadeusz".

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And so the second movement of his Piano Concerto

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[Richard Cribb]

Happy New Year!

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