What classical music did you listen to today?

ses

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Another 30km cycling (in fantastic springtime sun near summertime heath), getting resources to listen to difficult music.

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GEORGE CRUMB (b. 1929)
Songs, Drones, and Refrains of Death
Refrain One; I The Guitar / Death-Drone I; Refrain Two; Il Casida of the Dark Doves; Refrain Three; Death-Drone II; III Song of the Rider, 1860; Cadenza appassionata for two drummers; Refrain Four; IV Casida of the Boy Wounded by the Water; Death-Drone III
 

rojo

(Ret)
Beethoven: Symphony No 4. London Symphony Orchestra, Bernard Haitink.

I really should know this symphony better than I do; at least I knew it was Beethoven when it came on the radio...
 

ses

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Beethoven: Symphony No 4. London Symphony Orchestra, Bernard Haitink.

I really should know this symphony better than I do; at least I knew it was Beethoven when it came on the radio...

My Favorite (if I have one) normally it is the last one I heard. And it was no 7 with Carlos Kleiber, hair rising ang big goosebumps.

This evening: Bernstein explaing and conducting Shostakovich's 6th and 9th symfoni. Great stuff.
 

ses

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Yevgeni Sudbin plays Rachi sonate no 2. The sound of the recording is so good that I think he use my piano in my living room.
 

pooch6267

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Chopin

I haven't listened to any music today:cry: but will do so this evening. My favourite composer is Chopin; I could listen to his works over and over again and never get tired. I also like Tchaikovsky, Schubert and Liszt.
I think I'll listen to :confused:.......don't know. Will decide later.
Cheers.
 

rojo

(Ret)
You`ll have to get back to us on that, pooch. :up:

CELLO SONATA

COMPOSER: SERGEI RACHMANINOV
PRODUCER: ANNA BARRY
CELLO: ALEXANDER KNIAZEV
PIANO: NIKOLAI LUGANSKY

Piano sure is prominent in this 'cello' sonata...
 

ses

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Too little until now. Schubert D959 with Leif Ove Andnes, and now because of Art Rock's question about Roussell, his 3. symphony with Charles Munch.
 

rojo

(Ret)
Printemps, symphonic suite for chorus, piano & orchestra, L. 61
Composed by Claude Debussy
Performed by Montreal Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Charles Dutoit

Lovely early work by Debussy. There are hints of the masterpiece La Mer that followed later on...
 

Krummhorn

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Today, at my home desk, listening to live streaming recordings of Virgil Fox playing at Girard College, Philadelphia
 

ses

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This is my yearly Carl Nielsen week.
Today/yesterday is was his pianomusic, string quartets and just now the violon concerto with Tellefsen/Blomstedt.

A friend send me ten new Harmonia Mundi CD's. So I will be "busy" listening to Couperin, Beethoven, Brahms, Jolivet, Martin, Monteverdi etc...
 

ses

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Hi ses. - Nielsen wrote a fine Wind Quintet, have you heard that one?

oh yes! But I only have 4 versions;). This is a masterpiece.
After many years I began to understand his most difficult piano pieces, they burn me now:smirk: . Mighty handfulls!!!
I live 1 km from his birthplace and "can hear" his music everywhere in the nature - when I listen.
 

Art Rock

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A Percussion in concert CD we picked up during the holiday. Includes concertos by Milhaud, Creston and Fink, as well as isolated works by e.g. Xenakis and Hummel. Great stuff.
 

ses

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Reading a fine book ”The Creative Lie” about Glenn Gould by a Danish music professor Karl Aage Rasmussen, I end this day by listening to his second Goldberg. Slowly he finds everything in that unique masterpiece.
I enjoy it very must, my normal favourite is Murray Perahia. In Goulds hands it is only music, and that what it surely is.
 

rojo

(Ret)
oh yes! But I only have 4 versions;). This is a masterpiece.
After many years I began to understand his most difficult piano pieces, they burn me now:smirk: . Mighty handfulls!!!
I live 1 km from his birthplace and "can hear" his music everywhere in the nature - when I listen.
Agreed.
I don`t think I`ve ever played anything on the piano by Nielsen! :eek:
Is there some sort of shrine for Nielsen in his home town?

Btw, I think it`s hard to beat Gould`s interpretation of the Goldberg Var. :up:
 

ses

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Agreed.
I don`t think I`ve ever played anything on the piano by Nielsen! :eek:
Is there some sort of shrine for Nielsen in his home town?

Btw, I think it`s hard to beat Gould`s interpretation of the Goldberg Var. :up:


In this little house Nielsen lived in his childhood. Today it is a little museum filled with atmosphere. Nearby in Odense, there is a bigger and very fine museum too.
http://www.museum.odense.dk/upload/informationer/cnb/8066a_500x331.jpg
The people who works with the museum is very seldom with pure love for Carl Nielsen as a person and as an artist.

Very good news! Nielsen’s violin sonata and theme with variations is newly recorded by Christina Aastrand and her husband Per Salo. (Decca 0602517304307).
These pieces should be in every international violinist’s repertoire, but they still aren’t. There is no scandal to hype this music, and you will not be famous for playing them, but you will be richer in life hearing them.
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