What Are You Listening To (Classical Version)?

[Fifty]

Faure's Elegie for cello & piano

 

[Agent327]

Stravinsky - Petrouchka (Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra/Riccardo Chailly)

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=stravinsky+petrouchka&search_type=&aq=f (various movements/versions)

 

[SpiritWolf]

Chopin - Nocturne in C#- (Posthumous)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4JPHah7V5M

 

[Agent327]

Chopin's nocturnes are ofcourse brilliant; he knew the ones by John Field, Irish pioneer of the genre:

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=john+field&search_type=&aq=f

 

[Agent327]

Mahler - 4th symphony

 

[SpiritWolf]

Mahler - 4th symphony

Yay, it's Christmas time!

Puccini - Gianni Schicchi - O Mio Babbino Caro
Just saw Mr. Bean sing it.

 

[Japanrocks12]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBiPQKK1upk

Erik Satie - Gymnopedie No. 1

 

[Agent327]

I love the Gymnopodies almost as much as the Gnossiennes. I particular like Reibert De Leeuw's rendition: http://onayahuasca.blogspot.com/2008/11/saties-gnossiennes-by-reinbert-de-leeuw.html

Yay, it's Christmas time!

I don't much care for X-mas, but I appreciate religious music. I find Mahler's 4th more pastoral than

Van Beethoven - 6th symphony.

 

[SpiritWolf]

I love the Gymnopodies almost as much as the Gnossiennes. I particular like Reibert De Leeuw's rendition: http://onayahuasca.blogspot.com/2008/11/saties-gnossiennes-by-reinbert-de-leeuw.html



I don't much care for X-mas, but I appreciate religious music. I find Mahler's 4th more pastoral than

Van Beethoven - 6th symphony.

Haha, the use of sleigh bells is still over the top.

Mozart - Clarinet Concerto 2nd movement - Adagio

 

[Agent327]

Mahler - 4th symphony.

 

[Agent327]

Mahler - 3th symphony. ("bîmm-bâmm...bîmm-bâmm...")

 

[SpiritWolf]

Mahler - 3th symphony. ("bîmm-bâmm...bîmm-bâmm...")

Haha, that movement has the same theme as Das himmlische Leben from No.4.

Brahms - Ein Deutsches Requiem - IV Wie Lieblich Sind Deine Wohnungen

 

[Jan H]

Zoltan Kodaly - Hary Janos Suite

Claude Debussy - La Mer

 

[Agent327]

Zoltan Kodaly - Hary Janos Suite

Claude Debussy - La Mer

It's been a while since I heard La mer... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OFT...CED38FEF&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=27 (part 1, automatically links to parts 2 & 3, performed by the Orchestre du Paris with Seji Ozawa conducting, and to Clair de lune and L'après-midi d'un faune via Related Videos)

I know only one piece by Kodaly, probably the Hary Janos Suite (originally an opera); here's a link to the full version (with an rather odd introduction and commentary all througout...): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJIRimighS4&feature=PlayList&p=871F608AFA852270&index=0&playnext=1 (part 1, followed by pts. 2 & 3; also links to various performances, excerpts and some other pieces)

 

[Agent327]

Speaking of Debussy, here's a performance by himself of Golliwogg's Cakewalk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMrdhgWR9Zk plus a link to various performance of his piano music: http://www.youtube.com/results?sear...ke piano roll golliwog's&v=XMrdhgWR9Zk&page=2 (including more played by himself)

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

Dmitri Shostakovitch - Symphony No. 12, mvt 3: Aurora

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

Dmitri Shostakovitch - Symphony No. 13, "Babi Yar:" Adagio

Approporiately powerful for such a grim and tragic subject. Very moving.

 

[SpiritWolf]

JS Bach - Cantata BWV 208, 9th movement "Schafe können sicher weiden" ("Sheep may safely graze")

 

[Jan H]

I know only one piece by Kodaly, probably the Hary Janos Suite (originally an opera)

It's indeed his most well known piece. I visited his birthplace in Hungary last year (a small city called Kecskemet), so that's where I got to know him. The Hungarians consider him one of their greatest composers (together with Bela Bartok and Franz Liszt)

Dmitri Shostakovitch - Symphony No. 13, "Babi Yar:" Adagio
Approporiately powerful for such a grim and tragic subject. Very moving.

made me get out the CD again as well (recording by the St. Petersburg Philharmonic).

 

[Agent327]

Van Beethoven - the Violin Concerto in D major, with Itzhak Perlman