What are you listening to now - I ?

[AjAjAjH]

With 2 threads going on the piece, I'm listening to Simon Rattle's Mahler 10.

[Roehre]

Today:

Rosy Wertheim:
3 Chansons (1939)
2 Lieder (1922)
4 Songs (1933)

Beethoven:
Christus am Oelberge op.85 (1803 rev ’10)
String quartet in C op.59/3 “Rasumovsky 3”

[Roehre]

With 2 threads going on the piece, I'm listening to Simon Rattle's Mahler 10.

Which one?

[Stanfordian]

Berliner Philharmoniker - Sir Simon Rattle - Sibelius Edition
Symphonies 1-7
Berliner Philharmoniker/Sir Simon Rattle
Recorded live 2013/14 Philharmonie, Berlin
Berliner Philharmoniker own label

Andreas Scholl - Handel - Ombra mai fu
Arias from Admeto, Serse, Giulio Cesare,
Radamisto, Alcina, Alexander’s Feast
Andreas Scholl (countertenor)
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
Recorded 1998 Christuskirche, Oberschöneweide, Berlin
Harmonia Mundi


Coleman Hawkins with Charlie Shavers, Ray Byrant,
Tiny Grimes, George Duvivier with Osie Johnson
‘Hawk Eyes’
Prestige (1959)

[DublinJimbo]

Brahms: Piano Quartet op. 25 orchestrated by Schoenberg
Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra / Marc Albrecht
Great stuff. Arnold's studying of Brahms scores certainly paid off. The central section of the third movement is a riot, and the finale sounds like an until-now undiscovered Hungarian Dance. Terrific performance and (Pentatone) recording too.

Ludwig Berger: Die schöne Müllerin op. 11
Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin D.795
Markus Schäfer (tenor), Tobias Koch (fortepiano)
I'm not sure. The booklet notes make much of the performance tradition at Schubertiades and the like, with performers more likely than not to indulge in embellishment and variation, especially in strophic songs. The problem here is that what would be spontaneous in a live performance loses out when committed to disc. I fear this recording would become wearing after a couple of hearings.

[DublinJimbo]

Berliner Philharmoniker - Sir Simon Rattle - Sibelius Edition
Symphonies 1-7

Did you really listen to all seven?

[BBMmk2]

Stan, I should think that was rather good?

[Stanfordian]

Stan, I should think that was rather good?

Hiya Maestro,

I'm just going throught it. Anything from this orchestra is worthy of interest and it sounds promising.

[Stanfordian]

Did you really listen to all seven?

HIya Jimbo,

Of course not. I'm working my way throught the set. Somtimes dipping in. I will be playing the set over the next few days.

[BBMmk2]

HIya Jimbo,

Of course not. I'm working my way throught the set. Somtimes dipping in. I will be playing the set over the next few days.

Best way to do things, Stan!

My tastes must be changing, or I am getting older, not sure. I am actually listening to Abbado conducting Mozart, with the Orchestra Mozart, a collection of WAM's wind concerti..

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

My tastes must be changing, or I am getting older, not sure.

I can reassure you that you are getting older, Bbm - that's the way time goes in this Universe.

I am actually listening to Abbado conducting Mozart, with the Orchestra Mozart, a collection of WAM's wind concerti..

Why is this a "change of taste"? You often make an exception for Abbado's performances from your "I hate Mozart" blanket statements.

[teamsaint]

[QUOTE=ferneyhoughgeliebte;511308]I can reassure you that you are getting older, Bbm - that's the way time goes in this Universe.


Why is this a "change of taste"? You often make an exception for Abbado's performances from your "I hate Mozart" blanket statements.[/QUOTE]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mozart-Complete-Works-CD_Rom-libretti/dp/B000A0HFZS/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1443627065&sr=8-2&keywords=mozart+complete

£30 kill or cure......

[BBMmk2]

I can reassure you that you are getting older, Bbm - that's the way time goes in this Universe.


Why is this a "change of taste"? You often make an exception for Abbado's performances from your "I hate Mozart" blanket statements.

Very true, ferney. Abbado, I do have a penchant for anything he does. I do like a lot of the usual suspects, plus some others but if someone brings out something in a composer's music, that other maestri cannot, then I think that's something special.

[peterthekeys]

This:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-MXpyXL-tE

It's John Harle's setting of "The Three Ravens" (with a new tune by Harle himself, rather than an arrangement of the original tune (composed or collected) by Thomas Ravenscroft.) I first heard it during Simon Schama's "A History of Britain" - it tended to crop up when something particularly dire was being described (for example, the bit about the execution of Mary Queen of Scots.) It really got to me: I later tracked it down on youtube - and to some extent wish I hadn't: I think it's a wonderful piece, but it's also one of the most persistent earworms I know (particularly that strange opening, with the horn's rising ninth, and the flute's little chromatic turn.)

[peterthekeys]

I can reassure you that you are getting older, Bbm - that's the way time goes in this Universe.

I'm about half-way (I think) through "A Brief History of Time" at (I think) the moment, and I'm beginning to wonder