What classical music did you listen to today?

[Kromme]

Beethoven-Symphony No.3&9 by Sergiu Celibidache and his Munich Philharmonic.Eroica is mighty, truly heroic flawless execution and very good use of slow tempo.1st and 3rd movements of Chorale is unexpectedly orthodox and excellent.Celi as always takes great care for orchestral detail.4th movement is eccentric but spirit is there.It is very joyous although slow.But what about the second movement.It is painful.This is a scherzo,play it faster please.

[Ouled Nails]

A medley of British composers with a particular emphasis on R. Vaughan Williams:
G. Finzi: Love's Labour Lost; Fall of the Leaves.
H. Parry: English Suite for Strings.
W. Walton: The Wise Virgins, ballet suite.
RVW: Norfolk Rhapsody no.1; In the Fen Country; English Folk Song; On Wenlock Edge; Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis; Partita for Double String Orchestra; Concerto for Bass Tuba and Orchestra.

[rojo]

Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16 by Edvard Grieg.

Piano: Arthur Rubinstein

Conducted By: Erich Leinsdorf; Cellist: Alfred Wallenstein

Apparently written in 1868 in Sollerod, Denmark...

[falcon1]

Yesterday I listened too Saint-Saens "organ" symphony. I never get tired of listening to that piece!

[Andrew Roussak]

Well, the very last piece that I listened to today was the Klaviersonate Nr. 13 B-Dur KV 333 of W.A.Mozart, which was played by my student. This sonata is a quite famous piece ( it belongs f.e. to the concert program of Lang Lang ) and is absolutely brilliant - admittedly when good performed, which can be referred to any other work of Mozart as well.

[rojo]

Tahiti Trot, for orchestra (arr. of Youmans "Tea for Two"), Op. 16
Composed by Dmitry Shostakovich
Performed by Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam
with Peter Masseurs, Ronald Brautigam
Conducted by Riccardo Chailly

Suite for string orchestra in G major 5. Gigue
Composed by Arnold Schoenberg
Performed by Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by John Mauceri

A bit of light, celebratory fun for my 1000th post! Wheee!

[Norman]

Today it has been Donizetti's L'Elisir d'Amore with Anna Netrebko as Adina and Rolando Villazon as Nemorino.

[Manuel]

Bartok's second violin concerto (Mutter)

Shostakovich: 5th symphony (Rostropovich)
Rautavaara: 1st and 2nd symphonies (Pommer)

[rojo]

Love Shosty`s 5th...

Penderecki - Capriccio for oboe and orchestra. Don`t know who the oboist was, found it at youtube, and it didn`t say. Which is annoying. However. I was absolutely captivated and entranced by this piece. I don`t recall ever hearing this piece before. Great flutter-tonguing, which I could never do properly. I`m off to listen to it again.

[rojo]

And finally some Holliger appears at youtube! -

Heinz Holliger in 1993 with Lausanne Chamber Orchestra and Coboz playing the 1st mvt. of the Mozart oboe concerto.

The master...

[Manuel]

The final 15 minutes of La boheme (before leaving the bed)

Beethoven: Piano sonata Nº 23 (André Watts - WOW, I love this guy)

[rojo]

Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint-Saëns. The finale. I think it`s I Musici.

[giovannimusica]

Bortnyansky's Choral Concertos - They are all great pieces for a capella choir.

[Manuel]

Rachmaninov: 1st symphony (Pletnev), Prince Rostislav overture, and Scherzo for orchestra
Shostakovich: 1st violin concerto (Kremer at the Proms, VIDEO)

[Ouled Nails]

To a lot of music since my last post. I have sought religiously-inspired music for the Holy Week and Easter, from Gretchaninov in Russia to Messiaen in France. This was preceded and succeeded by music from the United Kingdom, from Charles Villiers Stanford, to Arnold Bax and Ralph Vaughan Williams. Much of the music I have listened to was intended to ask myself the fundamental question why some composers today are so much perceived as superior beings, as super-human composers.