What classical music did you listen to today?

[rojo]

Been listening off and on all day, as time permits, to cbc radio`s presentation of The Ring; Wagner`s four operas from the Ring cycle all in one day, with the Canadian Opera Company. Fantastic. Some day I`ll hear them all in their entirety.

• Das Rheingold (The Rhinegold)
• Die Walküre (The Valkyrie)
• Siegfried
• Götterdämmerung (Twilight of the Gods)

[rojo]

Update; was listening in the car, now listening online!

[ses]

This music and recording is absolute enjoyment. After about 4 years in my library it is a clear favorite.
Look at the titles, it seems to have been some joy in the mountains of Norway in older times.



GEIRR TVEITT

100 Folk-tunes from Hardanger

Suite No.1 (1954)
1. Velkommen med aera (O be ye most heartly welcomed)
2. Flyteljod (The goblin flute air)
3. Fagraste viso pao Jorae (The loveliest song on earth)
4. Moltor og myrabaer (Berries of mountain and moor)
5. Stavkyrkjestev (Stave church chant)
6. Å naoe meg no fö mi tusta (O please preserve me from my sweetheart)
7. Uppskoka (Consecration of the New Beer)
8. Syrgjeleg song um ein tom brennevinsdunk (Lament for an empty whiskey keg)
9. Langeleiklåt (Norwegian Peasant Harp)
10. Stölstone (Echo from the Mountain Pasture)
11. Hastverksbrudlaup (The hasty wedding)
12. Guds Godhet og Guds Storhet (The goodness of God)
13. Vise folks folkevisa um visse folk (Wise folk´s Gossip)
14. Storskrytarstev (The Braggart´s Song)
15. Siste Favel (The last farewell)

Suite No.2 (1955)
16. Langt, langt té fjells té Turid (Far into the mountains to Turid)
17. Med ulvar og rein i uvèr pao viddae (Wolves and reindeer in moorland storm)
18. Höno, hunden, kyrae og hesten (Badnasull) (The hen, the hound, the cow nad the horse (Nursery rhyme))
19. Fjell-lokk (Mountain melody)
20. Med sterkt öl te fjells (Strong ale to the mountain farm)
21. Seljeflyta yver stillt fjellvatn (The willow flute across the quiet tarn)
22. Gamle-Erik sin klagosong (Old Nick´s lament)
23. Rjupo pao folgafodnae (Snow grouse on the glacier)
24. Å! Höyre du songjen i fossaduren? (Do you hear the falls singing?)
25. Huldraslaotten hans Halte-Lars (The lame fiddler´s hulder-dance)
26. Songjen inne i Huldra-haugjen (A song ascends from the Huldra-Hill)
27. Eldebrand i skjeggjet (Beard on fire!)
28. Munnharpe-ljod (The harp played by the mouth (Jew´s harp))
29. Fjellmansjento up i lid (The mountaineer´s daughter on skis)
30. Eg sang meg ut so vida (I saw afar)

Stavanger Symphony Orchestra - / Ole Kristian Ruud - BIS BISCD987

[ses]

Shostakovich sym no 13 (Babi Yar) with LSO/Previn and a terrific gem with Boston SO and a young MTT in Charles Ives "Three places". I must soon have time to go on with Charles Ives, no music rules detected, but music rules anyway.

[janny108]

Been listening off and on all day, as time permits, to cbc radio`s presentation of The Ring; Wagner`s four operas from the Ring cycle all in one day, with the Canadian Opera Company. Fantastic. Some day I`ll hear them all in their entirety.

• Das Rheingold (The Rhinegold)
• Die Walküre (The Valkyrie)
• Siegfried
• Götterdämmerung (Twilight of the Gods)

Wow that's a real marathon! It's like watching all 3 Lord of the Rings movies. LOL
Jan

[rojo]

Yes it is, but longer!

[ses]

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


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]

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]

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]

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]

I haven't listened to any music today 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 .......don't know. Will decide later.
Cheers.

[rojo]

You`ll have to get back to us on that, pooch.

CELLO SONATA

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

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

[ses]

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.

[Tyler M]

Stephan Moccio's "Exposure".

Great solo piano record!

[rojo]

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...