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Re: What are you listening to RIGHT NOW?

Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2009 1:51 pm
by wurlitzer153
White's Mammoth Gavioli fairground organ, sounding pretty good this year at the Great Dorset Steam Fair
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuVZxdBkdog

Re: What are you listening to RIGHT NOW?

Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2009 2:47 pm
by Philidor
Zelenka's 'Il serpente di bronzo' ZWV 61 - better than many Bach cantatas.

Re: What are you listening to RIGHT NOW?

Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 3:44 am
by sbeckmesser
Mozart: Marriage of Figaro. Just ended. Live performance from the MET. Sirius Satellite Radio internet stream. Excellent singing. Many far-too-slow tempi and weird, Mengelberg-like agogic manipulations. Verdi's Otello with Domingo and Fleming (1988 live performance) coming up at midnight.

--Sixtus

Re: What are you listening to RIGHT NOW?

Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 5:21 pm
by sbeckmesser
A TIVO replay of Monday's Dancing with the Stars. Sorry, it's off-topic, but I do like this show. And the musical arrangements for big band are excellent.

--Sixtus

Re: What are you listening to RIGHT NOW?

Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 5:05 pm
by wurlitzer153
Koopman - Bach's Prelude in Bm, BWV 544 on the magnificent Garrels organ in Maassluis.

Powerful!

Re: What are you listening to RIGHT NOW?

Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 6:46 pm
by allegroamabile
Leroy Anderson's Piano Concerto in C major: I. Allegro moderato

Jeffrey Beigel, piano with the BBC Concert Orchestra under Leonard Slatkin

Re: What are you listening to RIGHT NOW?

Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 7:04 pm
by met
Schubert's sonata in C minor D 958 played by Sviatoslav Richter in Budapest in 1958. I think there're a few of things which can say more, and really anyone can say it better than Richter.

Quim Cornudella

Re: What are you listening to RIGHT NOW?

Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 1:06 am
by sbeckmesser
Intermission between Acts 1 and 2 of Aida. Live from the MET. Sirius Metropolitan Opera Radio, streamed over the net. Tomorrow night from the same source is Der Rosenkavalier, one of my top 10 pieces (oops, I can't say such things or the evil webmeister will throttle this thread too, which might be just as well in this case).

--Sixtus

Re: What are you listening to RIGHT NOW?

Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 3:32 am
by peruvianboy17
I agree, saint saens is very under rated. Currently preparing his 5th piano concerto.

I decided I'd try something new over the weekend...no one get angry...

Schoenberg: string quartets, piano concerto
I find Schoenberg (as well as other atonal/12 tone music) addictingly strange.

Re: What are you listening to RIGHT NOW?

Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 1:14 am
by allegroamabile
Mily Balakirev's Symphony No. 1 in C major: I. Largo - Allegro vivace
Russian State Symphony Orchestra under Igor Glovschin

I am a big fan of obscure music...

Re: What are you listening to RIGHT NOW?

Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 1:40 am
by KGill
I wouldn't agree that that work is obscure...compared to Chaikovsky's symphonies, yes, but not compared to even Khachaturyan's.

Re: What are you listening to RIGHT NOW?

Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2009 11:01 pm
by allegroamabile
I would say the Balakirev is pretty obscure. What do you base that on besides comparing it to Khachaturian?

Oh and I am currently listening to Beethoven's March No. 2 in F major for Military Band

Re: What are you listening to RIGHT NOW?

Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2009 5:50 am
by Melodia
allegroamabile wrote:I would say the Balakirev is pretty obscure.
Balakirev as a name isn't obscure at all. He was one of The Five for god sakes.
Now his Symphonies aren't all that known, but obscure is a bit pushing it.

Re: What are you listening to RIGHT NOW?

Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 1:33 am
by KGill
I agree. His symphonies may not get much attention, but they are major works in the output of a pretty major composer.

Re: What are you listening to RIGHT NOW?

Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 1:36 am
by vinteuil
C.P.E. Bach - Wq. 183 - incredible (not particularly good, but nice, and quite interesting)