What classical music did you listen to today?

[White Knight]

On Spotify:

Philip Glass--Symphony No.3 and Symphony No.2 in C Minor, Op.28, both performed by the Burnemouth Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Marin Alsop.
Sergei Prokofiev--Symphony No.3 in C Minor, Op.44 and Symphony No.7 in C-Sharp MInor, Op.131, both featuring the Ukraine National Symphony Orchestra led by Theodore Kuchar.

 

[Mat]

Mat, Thanks for that 411. I see that you're on something of a Dvorak kick, eh?

Yes, indeed Steve. I've been listening to selected pieces from a 40 CD box set and I'm loving it. Especially the symphonies, but as of late also some of his piano works - as you may have noticed.

I'm also plannig to go through complete symphonies of Nielsen and Mahler, but that'll be in a couple days.

 

[John Watt]

Wow! It's almost eleven in the morning and I haven't heard any music at all today,
not even some beat-box boomer going down the road.
Unless you consider the waterfowl and willows in the breeze.

 

[walcha]

Bach Chromatic Fantasie and Fugue, BWV 903 Sean Duggan, piano http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mz2vl28rNIQ&feature=relmfu

 

[walcha]

Josquin Desprez - Ave maris stella http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sexp06b-Zz8&list=PL37F708B3742C5C36&index=6&feature=plpp_video

Michael Praetorius - Dances from Terpsichore http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDOmcEEiEbw&list=PLB91B82E5576B8076&index=12&feature=plpp_video

 

[White Knight]

Robert Schumann--Symphony No.3 in E-Flat Major, Op.97 {"Rhenish"} and Symphony No.4 in D Minor, Op.120, both performed by the Berlin Philharmonic under the baton of Herbert von Karajan.
Ludwig Van Beethoven--Symphony No.7 in A Major, Op.92 and Symphony No.8 in F Minor, Op.93, both featuring the Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique led by John Eliot Gardiner.

 

[White Knight]

Yes, indeed Steve. I've been listening to selected pieces from a 40 CD box set and I'm loving it. Especially the symphonies, but as of late also some of his piano works - as you may have noticed.

I'm also plannig to go through complete symphonies of Nielsen and Mahler, but that'll be in a couple days.

@ Mat, Carl Nielsen has become one of my favorite composers. Which Symphonic Cycle will you be listening to? I have the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra led by Herbert Blomstedt. Mahler--on the other hand, along with Bruckner--are still very much "works in progress" with me, most especially the latter!

 

[Mat]

I'm not sure yet, Steve, as I will be doing my listening online, on Naxos Library. I'm browsing it right now and of all the recordings available, Osmo Vanska with BBC Scottish Symphony and Lahti Symphony seems like a good choice, so I'll probably stick with it.

I have already gone through all of Bruckner symphonies. Mahler's works are pretty much "in progress" with me, as you put it, but I have listened to the Titan and enjoyed it very much, especially the mysterious opening.

 

[John Watt]

Chacra studios "Beethoven" cassette, the "Moonlight Sonata" side, for the third time.
At first I was feeling that the over-zealous use of wave sounds would be ultimately distracting,
but the synth sounds substituting for some piano got too distracting right away.

Not listening to the "Ode to Joy" side is more important than listening, to me.

 

[White Knight]

@ Mat, The Osmo Vanska would be a great choice IMHO. I believe I've also heard some of his Sibelius recordings on Spotify, and I was very impressed. AS well, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra is very, very good.

 

[White Knight]

On Spotify:

Franz Schubert--Symphony No.3 in D Major, D.200 and Symphony No.4 in C Minor, D.417 {"Tragic"}, both featuring the Stockholm Sinfonietta and Neeme Jarvi.

 

[White Knight]

Felix Mendelssohn--Symphony No.3 in A Minor, Op.56 {"Scottish"} and Symphony NO.4 in A Major, Op.90 {"Italian"}, both featuring the Berlin Philharmonic led by Herbert von Karajan.
Carl Nielsen--Symphony No.3, Op.27 {"Sinfonia Espansiva"} and Symphony No.4, Op.29 {"The Inextinguishable"}, both performed by the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra under the stick of Herbert Blomstedt.

 

[White Knight]

On Spotify:

Franz Schubert--Symphony No.5 in B-Flat Major, D.485 and Symphony No.6 in C Major, D.589, both featuring the Stockholm Sinfonietta led by Neeme Jarvi.

 

[JHC]

@Mat and SteveYou have to listen to the Lahti/Vanska Sibelius (BIS Label) set on a good HiFi it is amazing just as if you were in front of the Orch btw also in the same series they put out a CD of tone poems/incidental which included The Wood Nymph Op15 as a orchestral work and as a narrated melodrama (a World premier recording) it also had other works on it which I can't remember at the moment oh Swan White was one of them.

 

[Mat]

I know what you're talking about, Colin. Most of the Sibelius I've heard was Lahti/Vanska or Gotheborg/Jaarvi from BIS Label, indeed.

As I've said before, I don't have a HiFi set, but I have finally managed to get myself a pair of proper headphones (this time wired ones). You wouldn't believe the difference in sound quality.

 

[walcha]

Luigi Baccherini: quintet en do major http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0f-rQV--jU&feature=player_embedded#!

"Ebben? Ne andrò lontana", from Act I of Catalani's opera "La Wally." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hsmoo97CVA&feature=share

 

[White Knight]

@ Colin, Yes, you are absolutely right. Although I don't have a hi-fi or stereo anymore, I've heard some of the Vanska Sibelius Cycle on Spotify via a good set of headphones. Awesome!

 

[White Knight]

Gustav Mahler--Symphony No.1 in D Major {"Titan"}, performed by the Utah Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Maurice Abravanel.
Dmitri Shostakovich--Symphony No.10 in E Minor, Op.93, featuring the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra led by Vasily Petrenko.

 

[White Knight]

On Spotify:

Felix Mendelssohn--Symphony No.1 in C Minor, Op.11 and Symphony No.5 in D Major, Op.107 {"Reformation"}, both featuring the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra led by Sebastian Lang-Lessing.
Dmtri Shostakovich--Symphony No.6 in B Minor, Op.54 and Symphony No.12 in D Minor, Op.112 {"The Year of 1917"}, both performed by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Vasily Petrenko.

 

[White Knight]

Dmitri Shostakovich--Symphony No.8 in C Minor, Op.65, performed by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Vasily Petrenko.
Camille Saint-Saens--Symphony No.3 in C Minor, Op.78 {"Organ"}, featuring the Philadelphia Orchestra and organist Michael Murray led by Eugene Ormandy.