What classical music did you listen to today?

[JHC]

Polish are cool people

Martin

Yes Poles are great people and have great culture they are upright people

 

[Contratrombone64]

LOL @ upright - droll, Colin, very droll

 

[White Knight]

Gustav Holst--The Planets, performed by the Vienna Philharmonic conducted by Herbert von Karajan.

 

[Mat]

Piotr Czajkowski (still Polish spelling) - 6th symphony. Performed by Karajan/BPO.

 

[Contratrombone64]

Mat - I must try and find his music on PooTube.

 

[Contratrombone64]

Silly me, now I realise who you're speaking about ... I'm such a dill. Well, I much prefer the English spelling (for a moment, I thought you were discussing a little know Pole)!!

 

[Mat]

Yup, I meant Tchaikovsky from the very beginning... Szopen also might be a bit confusing, I reckon.

 

[mathetes1963]

5th Symphony in e minor by Czajkowski (yes, that is Polish spelling). Performed by Karajan/BPO.

Cheers

I like Chye-cough-skee too...I have the symphonies by Rozhdezvenski and Rostropovich.

 

[Contratrombone64]

Chaicoughsky is a favourite, his fourth symphony is my most treasured.

 

[Mat]

Jean Sibelius - 6th symphony in d minor. Lahti Symphony Orchestra/Osmo Vanska.

For those of you who use Sibelius (software), last bars of 2nd movement might sound quite familiar.

 

[White Knight]

Rachmaninoff--Piano Concerto No.1 in F-sharp Minor, Op. 1 and Piano Concerto No.4 in G minor, Op. 40. Both concerti are performed by the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leonard Slatkin. Pianist is Abbey Simon.

 

[JHC]

Jean Sibelius - 6th symphony in d minor. Lahti Symphony Orchestra/Osmo Vanska.

For those of you who use Sibelius (software), last bars of 2nd movement might sound quite familiar.

Mat, I have a few Sibelius performed by the same orch they are IMO among the best + some very rare stuff and the recording quality is fabulous, when I am allowed I have it very very loud as you do for classical and you would swear you were in the hall :grin:

 

[Dorsetmike]

Still revelling/wallowing (depends which piece) in John Stanley voluntaries and concerti on last.fm

 

[Mat]

Hey Colin, I have a 15 CD Sibelius Essential. It consists of symphonies, string quartets, piano music, violin concerto and much more. Lahti SO with Vanska and Gothenburg SO with Neeme Jarvi are some of the performers. THat's a lot of well-played music. I've still not gone through all of these recordings, TBH...

 

[White Knight]

Rachmaninoff--Piano Concerto No.2 in C minor, Op.18 and Piano Concerto No.3 in D Minor, Op.30. Both are performed by the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leonard Slatkin featuring Abbey Simon on piano.

 

[mathetes1963]

Not listening (yet), but ordered yesterday:

Chopin: 24 Preludes Ballade in F Minor
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00000DFP4

Ivan Moravec Plays Beethoven
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005YP1W

Ivan Moravec Plays French Music
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005YKCX

And with these, my gift credit @Amazon is used up (though my wife tells me more is coming :grin: )...

 

[White Knight]

Gustav Mahler--Symphony No.5, performed by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Claudio Abbado.

 

[Somnium]

Erik Satie - Trois Gymnopédies (in French )

 

[White Knight]

Just finished listening to Mahler's Symphony No.6 in A Minor, performed by the Wiener Philharmoniker conducted by Pierre Boulez.

 

[Mat]

Hey Steve, do I guess right that you prefer neoromantic repertoire?