What Are You Listening To Now? - II

[Bryn]

Best Freudian that I've seen in a while!

Oops, a demonstration of a rightist error on the part of my left forefinger.

[ahinton]

Oops, a demonstration of a rightist error on the part of my left forefinger.

Oh, please do let's not bring right and left into this!

[Quarky]

I did manage to rouse myself for the last quartet of an hour or so. .

Respecting other people's views on listening to music, but there's not a tradition of standing for Feldman's Quartet?

[ahinton]

Respecting other people's views on listening to music, but there's not a tradition of standing for Feldman's Quartet?

I am unaware of one and would most certainly hope not!

[Bryn]

I am unaware of one and would most certainly hope not!

I suppose if the Brodsky's or Bozzini's were to take it on then one might develop, at least for six out of eight of them.

[BBMmk2]

"Joy to the World"

Handel & Haydn Society, Harry Christophers.

[mozart79]

Morton Feldman's six-hour long String Quartet No2

i split this in to 2 parts as it's so long now i'm Listening from hour 4 now.

[pastoralguy]

Having just watched a programme on BBC 4 about Benjamin Britten, his last string quartet, No. 3. Op. 94. Played by the Takacs Quartet on Hyperion. (A set which I've had unwrap from its cellophane wrapping!)

I really wish I knew this composer's work more throughly.

[EdgeleyRob]

Having just watched a programme on BBC 4 about Benjamin Britten, his last string quartet, No. 3. Op. 94. Played by the Takacs Quartet on Hyperion. (A set which I've had unwrap from its cellophane wrapping!)

I really wish I knew this composer's work more throughly.

Needs to be handled with care that piece pg,so emotional.
There have been times when I've started to listen and been unable to see it through.

[Suffolkcoastal]

This evening:

Listening to my scores - recent purchases 15:

Ireland:
Piano Concerto - study score

Ives:
Robert Browning Overture - study score

Kodaly:
String Quartet No 2 - study score

[cloughie]

Roger Norrington's Romantic Box

The Elgar cd In the South, Int & Allegro and Enigma Vars. They are very different to any other I have heard, lacking the warmth that I think Elgar needs. Others my disagree with this view. In the South lacks the zip of Silvestri and Collins and Barbirolli are more to my taste in Int & All. I'll listen again to the Norrington and see if I can find anything more to attract!

[jayne lee wilson]

Haydn. Symphony No. 99 in E Flat.

SWR Stuttgart/Norrington. Hanssler Classic CD 2009.
Orchestra of the 18th Century/Bruggen. Philips Duo CD 2001.
La Petite Bande/Kuijken. DHM/JVC Japan CD 2006.

Record Review: Richard Wigmore's BaL Choices.
Les Musiciens du Louvre/Marc Minkowski. Naive Records 2010.
RCOA/Harnoncourt. Teldec 1992.
.....Both streamed in Qobuz HiFi/Audirvana+, 16/44.1 FLAC.

[Colonel Danby]

After the Mahler 5 with Lenny Bernstein with the Vienna Phil live at the Proms in 1987 (I'm getting obsessed with that work)

Mahler: Symphony No 2 'The Resurrection'

Auger/Baker

CBSO Chorus and Orchestra

Simon Rattle

CDS 747 962-8

[Stanfordian]

John Ireland - The Songs with Piano
Benjamin Luxon (baritone), John Mitchinson (tenor), Alfreda Hodgson (contralto) Alan Rowlands (piano)
Recorded 1972/78 St John’s Smith Square, London
Lyrita

John Ireland - The Chamber works
Phantasie Piano Trio in A minor (In one Movement)
Piano Trio No. 2 in E (in one Movement)
Piano Trio No. 3
Yfrah Neaman (violin); Julian Lloyd Webber (cello); Eric Parkin (piano)
Sextet for Clarinet, Horn and String Quartet
Sonata for Cello and Piano
Fantasy-Sonata for Clarinet and Piano (in one Movement)
Emanuel Hurwitz, Ivor MacMahon (violins); Cecil Aronowitz, (viola); Terence Weil (cello);
Gervase de Peyer (clarinet); Neill Sanders (horn)
André Navarra (cello); Eric Parkin (piano)
Violin Sonata No. 1
Violin Sonata No. 2
Yfrah Neaman (violin); Eric Parkin (piano)
Recorded 1971 & 76 St. John’s Smith Square, London
Lyrita

I’ll be dipping in to these Lyrita sets today.

[pastoralguy]

Having just watched a programme on BBC 4 about Benjamin Britten, his last string quartet, No. 3. Op. 94. Played by the Takacs Quartet on Hyperion. (A set which I've had unwrap from its cellophane wrapping!)

I really wish I knew this composer's work more throughly.

I'm listening again to this work again. I suspect it'll take time to percolate.