What are you listening to RIGHT NOW?

barn_elms · Post by **barn_elms** » Tue Sep 30, 2008 3:32 pm

Fugue from Dittersdorf's 'Giob'.

Can't better the quote from Carl Spazier in the sleeve notes - "...wrings ardent admiration from connoisseurs and astonishment from ordinary audiences..."

Paradisi · Post by **Paradisi** » Thu Oct 02, 2008 3:31 pm

Vaughan-Williams "Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis" - GORGEOUS!

ThaSchwab · Post by **ThaSchwab** » Mon Oct 06, 2008 11:27 pm

Igor Stravinsky
The Firebird (complete)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle

aldona · Post by **aldona** » Mon Oct 06, 2008 11:47 pm

Clara Schumann - Piano Trio in g minor (Op.17).

I'm studying it so I can hopefully learn to play it.
My violin and cello-playing colleagues want to perform it at our next soiree (tentatively scheduled for next March).

I lobbied for the Schubert B-flat trio (D.898), but they said it was too difficult.

The Clara Schumann is not as exciting but probably more playable, and certainly very satisfying to listen to. She was definitely a talented composer. Hopefully her works can get some more attention.

Aldona

Post by **Yagan Kiely** » Tue Oct 07, 2008 3:12 am

I've tried and tried again but I still can't enjoy any of the Schumanns...

aldona · Post by **aldona** » Tue Oct 07, 2008 5:54 am

Schumanns and Schubert = 19th century emo (especially works in minor keys, and songs dealing with death, betrayal, doom, madness, sorrow, unhappy love etc.)

My theory has always been = if you are drawn to a particular type of music, chances are that your personality is similar to that of the composer.

You obviously do not have depressive/ bipolar tendencies.

Aldona

Post by **Yagan Kiely** » Tue Oct 07, 2008 8:38 am

I love Schubert! And Mahler's Kindertotenlieder! It's just them... I find them unmelodic and... well... boring.

willard3 · Post by **willard3** » Tue Oct 07, 2008 1:59 pm

Still's Afro-American Symphony, cause it's on the radio.

I'm excited because at 1:00 they'll be playing the Artunian trumpet concerto, which I accompanied for a senior recital last year.

Post by **Leonard Vertighel** » Tue Oct 07, 2008 4:02 pm

Люди Инвалиды (ремикс) by «Тату».
... am I fired?

ThaSchwab · Post by **ThaSchwab** » Tue Oct 07, 2008 8:47 pm

Yagan Kiely wrote:I've tried and tried again but I still can't enjoy any of the Schumanns...

His second symphony is pretty good, have you listened to that?

Vivaldi · Post by **Vivaldi** » Wed Oct 08, 2008 1:52 am

I personally think that his 3rd symphony (Rhenish) is the most assessible.

Post by **Yagan Kiely** » Wed Oct 08, 2008 3:07 am

No I haven't, I'll give that a try. Thankyou.

Vivaletour · Post by **Vivaletour** » Thu Oct 09, 2008 9:31 pm

Schubert symphony 2... and excerpts from marriage of figaro (i have incredibly weird playlists)

aldona · Post by **aldona** » Thu Oct 09, 2008 11:08 pm

Satisfying musical experience of the week...

Driving home from work just in time for sunset, through the Sherbrooke Forest...

(yes, on that exact road! Do a Google Images search on "Sherbrooke Forest, Melbourne" - this is what I travel through on my way to/from work)

...while listening to Schubert's "Nachtgesang im Walde", D.913 (Night Song in the Forest).

Very appropriate.
That's one of the pieces I have not had a chance to scan & upload yet.

Aldona

Lyle Neff · Post by **Lyle Neff** » Fri Oct 10, 2008 10:46 am

aldona wrote:[...]

[...] ...while listening to Schubert's "Nachtgesang im Walde", D.913 (Night Song in the Forest). [...]

That's what night looks like in Australia?