What classical music did you listen to today?

[janny108]

[quote=Sybarite;16075]Dvorák's Slavonic Dances op46 and op72 – The Cleveland Orchestra under the baton of Christoph von Dohnányi; very light and enjoyable.

That's how I feel about Slavonic Dances too. I downloaded an album of it.
Jan

[Krummhorn]

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

[Conservationist]

Listening to KUHF's late night classical now:

http://129.7.48.199/KUHF-HD1-128K.m3u

I have no idea what it is.

[ses]

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...

[rojo]

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

[ses]

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 . Mighty handfulls!!!
I live 1 km from his birthplace and "can hear" his music everywhere in the nature - when I listen.

[Art Rock]

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]

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]

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 . 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!
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.

[ses]

Agreed.
I don`t think I`ve ever played anything on the piano by Nielsen!
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.

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.

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.

[ses]

And now something different. Andre Jolivet's celloconcerto with Rostropovich (of course made for him) and Jolivet conducting. An old fine sounding ERATO vinyl.

After that Isabelle Faust joins with a new CD of his violinconcerto.

[orchestras 'r...me]

a few moments ago i put on my playlist of Don Harper's Oceana Orchestra. Right now getting into "End of Days" on Dreams and Variations works. Although it's kinda sad (about Hurricane Katrina)- still lovely enough to relax me.

[rojo]

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.

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.

What a nice place. Thanks for that, ses..

[ses]

It is a very nice place with atmosphere!

Music

I have a fine box with 14 lps of Haydn Quartetts, I love to close my eyes and pick one - this evening it was op 64,3 and 64,4. Wonderful stuff.
It is the fine Amadeus Quartett that plays.

[ses]

I do like this record very much with a pianist I hope to hear in concert some day.
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SCRIABIN Sonatas Nos. 2, 3 & 9, Fantasie Op. 28, 5 Preludes Op. 74, 2 Poemes Op. 32 etc. Alexander Melnikov. Harmonia Mundi