What classical music did you listen to today?

White Knight

Spectral Warrior con passion
Serge Prokofiev--Symphony No.3 in C Minor, Op.44 and Symphony No.4 in C Major, Op.112, both featuring Seiji Ozawa and the Berliner Philharmoniker. I found the Fourth to be especially soothing after listening to the often more dissonant and harsh Third.
Antonin Dvorak--Symphony No.2 in B-Flat Major, Op.4; Symphony No.3 in E-Flat Major, Op.10; Symphony No.4 in D Minor, Op.13 and Symphony No.5 in F Major, Op.76. All four symphonies feature Oscar Suitner and the Staatakapelle Berlin.
 

White Knight

Spectral Warrior con passion
Camille Saint-Saens--Symphony No.3 in C Minor, Op.78 {"Organ"}, traversed by the Philadelphia Orchestra and Michael Murray on organ under Eugene Ormandy in a resounding performence.
Joseph Haydn--Symphony No.1 in D Major; Symphony No.37 in C Major; Symphony No.18 in C Major and Symphony No.2 in C Major. These works represent first listens for me, and I found them all to be quite delightful!
Antonin Dvorak--Symphony No.6 in D Major, Op.60 and Symphony No.7 in D Minor, Op.70, both featuring Otmar Suitner and the Staatskapelle Berlin. Of late, I have grown very fond of Dvorak Symphonies 4-7.
 

White Knight

Spectral Warrior con passion
Franz Schubert--Symphony No.1 in D Major, D82; Symphony No.4 in C Minor, D 417 {"Tragic"}; Symphony No.2 in B-Flat Major, D125 and Symphony No.6 in C Minor, D589. All four works feature the Nikolaus Harnoncourt led Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.
Felix Mendelssohn--Symphony No.1 in C Minor, Op.11 and Symphony No.5 in D Major, Op.107 {"Reformation"}, both performed by the Berliner Philharmoniker under Herbert von karajan.
 

Mat

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My choices from yesterday:

J. Sibelius - Finlandia
F. Liszt - Les Preludes
R. V. Williams - Symphony no. 2
 

Le Grand Lustucru

New member
What have I done all my life without this recording? (bought today). Right up there with the very best of Brahms' VC performances : David Oistrach (sic) and the Orchestra RTSI in 1961, Otmar Nussio at the helm (remastered on Ermitage, 1995).
 

Le Grand Lustucru

New member
Listened to a work in my Top Ten - Tchaikovsky's "Serenade for Strings" courtesy Staatskapelle Dresden and Otmar Suitner (Berlin Classics). Astonishingy tortoise-like, it seems at times as if the whole machine will come to a complete stop. Still, I know of no other performance in which T's outstanding powers of orchestration are so on display. Sometimes in music, as in other things, good things derive from bad.
 

Le Grand Lustucru

New member
Outta my much-beloved Munch conducts Berlioz box : Roméo et Juliette (music which, btw, gets a nice cameo in the film Seven Psychopaths, a dark comedy to beat all dark comedies).
 
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