Spinning Today (Classical version)

Thanks Brian!

Piano music.
Kind of a cross between Philip Glass and Arvo Part. *Kind of.
I love it.

http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG...er=allrovi.com

https://open.spotify.com/album/32Ak1xOfXgBl2PWjoUQKxZ

Amazing playing and recording.
Perhaps my favourite Bach sonatas & partitas

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https://open.spotify.com/album/056hS...pTxmftqzsnQpKF

This is delightful. *Quite light, with some lovely vocal solos. Not a heavy, dirge-like Requiem at all. :)

https://open.spotify.com/album/4Os2CgXOJacacYBe7kiXKT

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Live concert video of Strauss' Four Last Songs.

Lucia Popp, Georg Solti, Chicago SO.*

Solti is too fast at times, but the beauty and purity of Popp's vocal is mesmerising, *Im Abendrot had me in tears.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbj4EbGZ9fE

Brilliant Beethoven piano playing :thumbsup:

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https://open.spotify.com/album/2zvGkC5udFqWVOb0PPaieg

Brilliant performance by Arwadigan Pratt of Bach's supremely wonderful Passacaglia and Fugue (probably my favourite piece of music) at the White House.
Sadly there are a couple of unseemly cutesy interpolations toward the end. The vid was done at Obama's White House so they were probably included to amuse the Prez.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rj9G-XiLus

Quincy Porter - I think I've mentioned him before?

Great Romantic symphonic music - big & bold, relaxed and tuneful. What's not to like?

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https://open.spotify.com/album/0EEnAAktj3fadajFzvo0fo

This is magical playing - and the sq is great, too.

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https://open.spotify.com/album/55QwhKTxTnRVrc2jmhqSyO

Gosh.

Random Spotify discovery.
This is very good indeed at first listen

Andrew Schultz - who the hell is he?

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https://open.spotify.com/album/2y3BlDMqWnGLoFhsFAOyHc

Day off today so starting with this -

Julian Bream & John Williams - Live
Vinyl
Red Seal

glorious on this beautiful morning.......

Sunleif Rasmussen.
An interesting and varied selection of his music on this recording.
A bit off the beaten track, and a bit challenging in terms of tonality. :eyebrows:

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https://open.spotify.com/album/5zPyZ3sr6RjVwaJrtPlM5R

Eduard Tubin's 3rd symphony has rather surprised me. I had regarded him as a tepid kind of composer, but this is rousing stuff!

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https://open.spotify.com/album/5zxhSc4pNaSHRAc2ZiNYrx

Agreed Jerry, i actually saw a live performance of Symphony No.3 last week. Very nice stuff!

Golly, this is a fabulous Sibelius symphony cycle!!

Storgards on Chandos.
Superb sq, too.

http://www.classicalsource.com/image...ad/12236_1.jpg

https://open.spotify.com/album/6FwkbsOpWAR9uFsbMiWZwO

Perfect relaxing listening for when you've got a cold, a headache and, in fact, ache all over!

4 volumes of this - about 10 hours in total.

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https://open.spotify.com/album/6BFfux6zjJm6j2lFXxamD4

This is a marvellous recording by Claudio Colombo of the amazing keyboard partitas by Bach.

https://i.scdn.co/image/b9f2bb3b5118...8c818c18a55d43

https://open.spotify.com/album/43DBYHAO3JaZyEYSrRnt0O

The violin concerto "Gurdjieff" by contemporary Oz composer Larry Sitsky is quite special.
Great sq, too.

https://open.spotify.com/album/6iBvePJwuESWn3QTnQ5eDW

https://i.scdn.co/image/6cc2c80dc8cd...b49d2fde255afa

This is a mighty fine version of the Sibelius violin concerto.
Excellent sq, too.

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https://open.spotify.com/album/3ieKIY4o2YVUXzuS7G0Ggo

This is beautiful

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https://open.spotify.com/album/0DkGKImFAGEgcLiOix0xuU

Here's a part of it on Youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5okZHeA1kqM

Thierry Lancino's Requiem.

HUGE piece in terms of musical forces.
It gets off to an unfortunate start. 7 interminable minutes of the mezzo soloist declaiming about something or other. Sheesh, get on with it woman. She seems quite upset at times.
Ah, 2nd mvt and we are heavily influenced by Ligeti - this is more like it!

The Dies Irae certainly lets loose.

Those averse to 20thC avantgarde tonalities are hereby warned. :D

20thC French choral, though, folks - Faure - Durufle - I know how much you love it. ;)

For me, it's enjoyable enough taken 2 or 3 mvts at a time. The entire 70 minutes or so is a bit of a stretch at a single sitting.

https://open.spotify.com/album/7yN4PdHmuiFrnQxhw9lAJR

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A little bit weird, but a very interesting and enjoyable listen.

Requiem by Friedhelm Dohl, a contemporary German composer.

https://open.spotify.com/album/49LYQWFq5xG5AdN5xzZNxr

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An excellent 5h+ compilation of Baroque chamber music in super sound!

https://open.spotify.com/album/2EfnByCGTM1Wg5YgmP0KZn

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Stunning performance by the great Sviatoslav Richter of Schubert's D 664 piano sonata

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrh2WHGvSys

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G.F. Händel: Rodelinda - Alan Curtis, Simone Kermes (2004)
I really like this as it takes you to the venue, even though i'm not a full blooded opera fan.

Golden Age recording quality from Decca of the Brahms symphony cycle, and the performances by Solti are excellent. A great set.
Listened to 1-3 on the trot yesterday.
Probably the 4th today. :)

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https://open.spotify.com/album/7uYbTjzTlks6ck68gI9Z0C

A young and gorgeous Martha Argerich in Rachmaninov's piano concerto #3.
Yum.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weTtT4tb9bE

Nielsen - 'Symphony No 4, Op. 29' and Shostakovich - 'Symphony No.9, Op. 70'

The Hallé cond. Sir Mark Elder, recorded at the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester. 2005 and 2006 respectively.


Attached to this month's BBC Music Magazine.

Bought for the Nielsen, but prefer the Shostakovich.

Wow, gosh, gadzooks.
I'd call this a fairly major discovery for me.
Baldassare Gallupi.
Baroque geezer.

I first came across some excellent keyboard music, and then this choral album.
Really very fine indeed!

http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG...er=allrovi.com

https://open.spotify.com/album/6iVHOb8hTqgxPxNVFeqw9p

Anton Bruckner - 'Symphony no. 4 in E flat minor "Romantic"

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, cond. Eugen Jochum. DGG 427 200-2 (1967)

John Tavener - The Protecting Veil

Bella Union vinyl issue. Seems slightly quicker than I've heard before. A lovely record though and a thing of beauty.


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"Glorious John" Barbirolli in Dvorak's joyful and beautiful and exciting 8th symphony.
Glorious indeed!

https://open.spotify.com/album/4ejTu4Wr8aUf75YPBqmowq

Philip Glass 8th symphony.
#Great stuff. :)

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https://open.spotify.com/album/4JXQOm6Imw93JBOsDn48X2

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Florence Ciccolani plays piano music by Carter, Mantovani, Boulez, Matalon, Boucourechliev. Great playing and a decent rcording, released by Sisyphe, a French label. [SISYPHE017]. I have another recording of Mantovani's Suonare played by Claire Désert, but Ciccolani kicks better. One of the discs I'm using to play in a Lehmann Linear HPA with Sennheiser HD 700s - proving to be a great combo!

Contemporary American classical by David Stock.
It's really rather good!

https://open.spotify.com/album/4N3AXIJEq8e69ZlqaEnBfh

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I like this a lot.
Violin and fortepiano (old style piano).
The sounds of the two instruments blend so well.
Music by CPE Bach - one of Johan Sebastian's many children.

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https://open.spotify.com/album/5bXcyX7K5His9LXBpc2Uv6

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Fancy a bit of Wolfgang

I'm not usually enamoured of the viola as a solo instrument, but for some reason this viola sonata by Francis Pott (who he?) just hits the spot and I find it very listenable indeed.
The remainder of the disc may or may not be recommendable for its song cycle. Not for me.

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https://open.spotify.com/album/3dOv8PSyZsggpfOrDfFNNo

More viola!

This time a transcription of Elgar's cello concerto (Heresy! I hear Paul cry).
It really works well for me - astonishingly well played by both viola soloist and orchestra as well.

https://open.spotify.com/album/4FatIwn512LhaJa2kWfd6v

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNcQuY1isEI

Lovely stuff, Jerry.

Currently relaxing to this, with a nice glass of Lagavulin, as the rain falls gently down outside, the light begins to fade and day moves into night... Ah, bliss! :)

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Marco.

Really enjoying this as I type ...

https://i.scdn.co/image/1fdc839ad7f5...6d10e69391f9fe

https://open.spotify.com/album/2cYE5zqDKLscvK28nlgKCH

One of my favourite violin concertos, The Gurdjieff concerto by Australian composer Larry Sitsky.
The concerto is heavily influenced by Armenian music, as a quick look at Wiki would indicate ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Gurdjieff
I am very much into Armenian music at the moment, a very different tonality to what we are accustomed to in the West.
Beautiful.

https://open.spotify.com/album/6iBvePJwuESWn3QTnQ5eDW

http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG...er=allrovi.com

Lepo Sumera 1st symphony.

Wow - magnificent!
The long 1st mvt is quite like Arvo Part in magisterial mood.

https://open.spotify.com/album/2Glvmah8iVNMRFmkt8n29T

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Guys, have we all given up on listing what classical music we've been listening to? Come on let's be 'avin ya! ;)

Listening to this rather beautiful recording now (on Linn records), from Hyperion (my favourite supplier of digital classical music):

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Marco.

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Originally Posted by Marco

Guys, have we all given up on listing what classical music we've been listening to? Come on let's be 'avin ya! ;)

Marco.

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It's died, hasn't it.
Looking back at the first half dozen pages of the thread there were multiple posters and discussion of the music with folk trying other folks' reccies. That just doesn't happen any more.
I posted the last 4 consecutive items - no response, from anybody.
Like talking to an empty room. No real point, tbh.

No chance of any response if you don't try and stimulate it, though... So please keep on listing what you've been listening to :cool:

Marco.

OK. :)

Viola sonatas by Bloch, Glinka and Bowen
https://open.spotify.com/album/0s9xdmmhMC8cpHqNvVl8uF

Some superb symphonies (7 & 8) by Beethoven pupil, Ferdinand Ries.
https://open.spotify.com/album/3OtipOvS0GQjtEDmH2UwrQ

I always enjoy reading your selections, Jerry, and often check them out, so don't think that stating them is in vain... ;)

Marco.

Listening now to a superbly exciting Mahler 6th symphony from Leonard Bernstein

https://open.spotify.com/album/2CQoHT88M6swfdxdEtYqoL

Superb sq, too.

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