Darth Yoshi
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Well, I generally like piano concertos- my favorites are Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 and Ravel's Concerto for the left hand. These are two amazingly beautiful pieces.
Meaning...OGE1 said:how funny...John Adams is doing well today!
Joseph Jongen, Symphonie concertante pour orgue et orchestre.
That is one of two of my most favorite Organ/Orchestra composition. I have the recording with Virgil Fox. Heard it last, live, in Salt Lake City in 2003
The other is Francis Poulenc, Concerto for Organ, Strings & Tympani in G minor.
The recording I have is with Maurice Durufle at St. Etienne du Mont. (sp?)
ON and Krummhorn (may I call you Kh from now on?); I just heard that work (the Poulenc) for the first time yesterday, and on the very first listen, I thought it was absolutely fabulous! I`ll go see if I can dig out who performed it...Ouled Nails said:I am right with you about these two choices, Krummhorn! My Poulenc concerto pour orgue, orchestre à cordes et timbales is with Marie-Claire Alain, orgue Gonzalez, studio ORTF, with Jean Martinon leading the ORTF National Orchestra. It's coupled on a beautiful Erato LP with Poulenc's harpsichord "pastoral" concerto, Robert-Veyron Lacroix at the harpsichord. The organ is such an instrument of choice among French and Belgian composers.
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Which piano pieces, Sybarite? And who was playing? :grin:Yesterday: Schumann's first two symphonies, Berlin Phil, Herbert von Karajan. Fascinating to listen to Schumann as the continuation of Beethoven; there's still a lingering sense of the Classical era, but with hints to the more overtly Romantic future.
Monteverdi's Vespers. Beautiful stuff.
Richard Strauss's Eine Alpensimfonie, Berlin Phil and von K again. Not as lush as Also Sprach Zarathustra, but still wonderful. Even if you didn't know what picture Strauss was painting, it's difficult to imagine a listener not regognising the storm and dawn and even the moment when the climber reaches the summit. And as Schumann was a link in his day, one hears the influence of Wagner in the third-from-last movement here.
Today so far: Chopin piano pieces on the way to the office.