What classical music did you listen to today?

[marval]

Nimrod, from Elgar's Enigma Variation, Holst's Planets ans Bach's Air on a G string.


Margaret

 

[Mat]

A. Pasculli - Gran Concerto su temi dell'opera I vespri sicilliani di Verdi for piano and oboe.

Robin, do you know this one? I remember you told me some time ago that you liked the other Pasculli's concerto. Maybe you're familiar with this one, too. It's just as demanding and spectacular.

 

[Aristide]

During a very early car drive this morning : Prelude to Lohengrin, Richard Wagner, dir. Otto Klemperer.

 

[Montefalco]

Karelia Suite by Sibelius

 

[Chi_townPhilly]

Today, Tamás Vásáry's 40 year-old DG recording of major Debussy piano works (most notably, Suite Bergamasque & Pour le Piano).

 

[Contratrombone64]

Hey there CHI - love Tamas Vasary, such a poet of the ivories.

I listened to Matis der Maler, Paul Hindemith (full opera, at least act one of said).

 

[Montefalco]

I listened to Stravinsky's Mass and Chorale Variations.

 

[Mat]

Samuel Barber - Adagio for String, op.11
Edvard Grieg - Death of Aase from Peer Gynt Suite no.1

 

[Montefalco]

Stravinsky - Movements for Piano and Orchestra; Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments.

 

[rojo]

Alan Rawsthorne - Oboe Concerto
Rudolf Haken - Oboe Concerto (nice to hear oboe's highest register being thoroughly explored)

Hmm, these sound interesting. Don't think I've heard them before. I'll have a look around to find them.

Today, it was selections featuring the A1 playing of Maurice Andre on trumpet. Haydn, Mozart, Bach etc. Top notch.

 

[Montefalco]

Messiaen - Chants du Terre et du Ciel

 

[Mat]

Hmm, these sound interesting. Don't think I've heard them before. I'll have a look around to find them.

I think it's fair to say that over these few days I've known it, Haken's Concerto became one of my favorite oboe pieces. Especially the second movement - Marcia Funebre. I don't think it's that common to hear high f# so many times in one piece. I know there's a recording available on Naxos Music Library (along with a few of his other compositions). I'm not sure if you can find it anywhere else on the Net, but there's a full score available on Haken's website.

 

[Montefalco]

'Uaxuctum' by Scelsi - a beautiful, haunting choral work.

 

[Corno Dolce]

Figure Humaine by Poulenc

 

[Fretless]

Century Rolls/Lollapalooza/Slonimsky's Earbox -- John Adams

Lots of inventive rhythm and color that nevertheless turns into a bit of a snoozefest.

 

[Montefalco]

Brahms' 1st Symphony.

 

[Corno Dolce]

Lucia di Lammermoor by Donizetti.

 

[Montefalco]

Selections from 'Annees de Pelerinage' by Liszt.

 

[Corno Dolce]

"I Puritani" by Bellini.

 

[Mat]

F. Mendelssohn - Scottish Symphony