What classical music did you listen to today?

[White Knight]

On Spotify:

Henk Badings--Symphony No.2 and Symphony No.7 {"Louisville Symphony"}. Both works feature the Janacek Philharmonic Orchestra led by David Porcelijn. I especially like the 7th's haunting and melodic adagio movement, which makes very nice use of all the "symphonic colors" to create an overall mood: Janacek Philharmonic Orchestra – Symphony No. 7, "Louisville Symphony": III. Adagio.
Vagn Holmboe--Symphony No.1, Op.4, performed by the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Owain Arwel Hughes. For me, the fact that the second movement segues right into the final movement without a pause, going from andante to allegro energico, with the theme continuing to be taken up by different sections of the orchestra, created a very dramatic effect.
Ludwig Van Beethoven--Symphony No.1 in C Major, Op.21, featuring Josef Krips conducting the London Symphony Orchestra. As always, a masterpiece from start to finish!

[Corno Dolce]

Gorecki: 3rd symph.

[White Knight]

On Spotify:

Niels Marthinsen--Symphony No.2 {"Snapshot Symphony"}, performed by the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Christian Lindberg.

[White Knight]

On Spotify:

Vagn Holmboe--Symphony No.2, Op.15 and Sinfonia In Memoriam, Op.65; both performed by the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Owain Arwel Hughes.
Henk Badings--Symphony No.12 {"Symphonic Sound Figures"}, with David Porcelijn leading the Janacek Philharmonic Orchestra.
Niels Gade--Symphony No.1 in C Minor, Op.5, featuring Neeme Jarvi conducting the Stockholm Sinfonietta. How's this for a rousing finale: Neeme Järvi – Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 5, "Paa Sjolunds fagre sletter": IV. Finale: Molto allegro ma con fuoco.

[Corno Dolce]

Des Canyons les Etoiles by Messiaen.

[sandal]

no new ground broken. hopped from one favorite to other.
closed the mozart session with Laudate Dominum (Vesperae solennes de confessore), Soprano: Genia Kühmeier Choir: Wiener Sängerknaben & Chorus Viennensis and then went baroque to L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, Haendel, Solo : Ariaan De Koster whence i hopped to Aria: Weichet nur, betrübte Schatten from the Wedding Cantata of J.S. Bach, BWV 202, Emma Kirkby, Soprano, David Reichenberg, Oboe, which made it necessary to re-visit the alto (emma kirkby and then bogna bartosz) arie Können Tränen meiner Wangen, bwv244...sic fugit tempus vitaque

[Corno Dolce]

Well-tempered Clavier styled by Svyatoslav Richter.

[sandal]

a brilliant performance on youtube of agnus dei from missa l'homme armé sexti toni of des prez by a japanese ensemble

[John Watt]

I'm not sure what's classical any more. Most "classical" music that I hear is simply used for soundtracks because the royalties have run out. I know living composers wouldn't appreciate that as a category definitive, because royalties are their payment. And how can you compare modern composers who use computers to "write" music, when they're not writing. Most "classical" computer programs can allow you to hear your notes right away, something pre-electronic composers probably never even thought of. So you can be using tablatures and the same notes "classical musicians" used, but you're not writing and not playing. That's a big difference.

Sampling doesn't count, even if that's a big use out there, beyond royalties, beyond the actual recording and players.

Maybe sampling should count, as non-classical behavior, but part of the digital arsenal of modern composers.

Even I can take an old piece and change the lettering so it looks like mine for anyone else printing it out.
I could even scan Corno Dolce's receipt for his bass and alter it so I can prove it's mine.

Was that classical music I was listening to? I'm not sure.
I'll definitely be playing that classically inspired upright grand again,
even if I'm leaving my notes just hanging in the air.
Bon mots, just like the candies sur la bowle at receptione.
Now I'm not even sure if I'm speaking English or French.
Bilingualization! Wrap your, uh, tongue around that.

[Corno Dolce]

Hi John Watt,

Sounds like you're getting close to paralysis by analysis - Seriously, relax - JSBach's Brandenburg Concertos or any symphony by Haydn will help restore ones thinking what classical music is. Imo, it is music that is timeless, a gift from a timeline that knows no time, a tidbit of that which is Eternal.

[sandal]

still not fully recuperated after a heavy shot of gymnopedies and gnosiennes. favorite satie renditions by a dane naming himself cubusdk on youtube

[Corno Dolce]

Ravel's Gaspard de la Nuit styled by Walter Gieseking.

[White Knight]

Carl Nielsen --Symphony No.3, Op 27 {"Sinfonia Espansiva"} and Symphony No.4, Op.29 {"The Inextinguishable"}. Both works feature Herbert Blomstedt conducting the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra.
Jean Sibelius--Symphony No.5 in E-Flat major, Op.82, Symphony No.6 in D Minor, Op.104 and Symphony No.7 in C Major, Op.105.
All three symphonies are performed by the Vienna Philharmonic under the baton of Lorin Maazel.

[Corno Dolce]

Ravel Piano Trio styled by Richter, Kogan and Gutman

[John Watt]

Yes, Corno Dolce is right again, I'm typing more than I'm playing.
And seeing "Les Gymnopedies" reminds me of my favorite, mellowing out chords,
Cmaj7 to Fmaj7. I might sound, not like lilies floating on a calm garden pond, all the time.
Giving it the Jimi treatment, with a tremolo arm, can sound like twisting vines crawling out at you,
wrapping around your legs as you submerge with electric mermen and merwomen, pulling, drawing you deeper,
until they release,
and the soft, phased textures of dual pickups feeds back slowly, as the water resumes it's normal level.
If you're not careful, coming up from the watery deeps, you might get the bends, rendering it a hard core blues.