What classical music did you listen to today?

Alban Berg

Alban Berg

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White Knight said:
David, I just listened to Isle of the Dead on you tube. It is certainly a haunting and melancholy work. And here I thought that I was depressed before listening to it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKeTd9XXa_A
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I think this music is awfully depressing....Just the title.

Today, while training (lifting weights) I was listening to "the woman without a shawdow", Die Frau ohne schatten, opera by Richard Strauss for 1.30 hours...the remaining tomorrow.

Rachmaninov has a few very depressing works...his prelude:bawl:..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNL_YX2HYFE&feature=fvst

Subtitled: Kill yourself.

Challenge: listen to it and smile!

Martin
 
White Knight

White Knight

Spectral Warrior con passion
Today I listened to Gustav Mahler's Symphony No.5, performed by the Berliner Philharmoniker conducted by Claudio Abbado. I never realized until listening to this work that a symphony can have more than 4 movements! Apparently, he also wrote one which contained 6.
 
Marc

Marc

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White Knight said:
Today I listened to Gustav Mahler's Symphony No.5, performed by the Berliner Philharmoniker conducted by Claudio Abbado. I never realized until listening to this work that a symphony can have more than 4 movements! Apparently, he also wrote one which contained 6.
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Yep. The Third .... in which Mahler originally planned SEVEN movements.
Eventually he decided to use the last movement Was mir das Kind erzählt as the Finale of his Fourth.

Btw: Beethoven already composed a symphony in 5 movements (6th, nicknamed "Pastorale"), as did f.i. Tchaikovsky (3rd, nicknamed "Polish").
 
White Knight

White Knight

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Marc, thanks so much for that interesting information on Mahler and the other 2 composers. I guess even "staid" classical music is allowed to defy convention some time, and has.

p.s. How many movements does Mahler's Third have?
 
JHC

JHC

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Marc said:
Bach's birthday.
Listening to one of his greatest achievements: Die Kunst der Fuge BWV 1080.

I just arrived at Contrapunctus VI in Style Francese, played by pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard, and I'm enjoying it.

Still, I do prefer organ or harpsichord in this work.
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I have d/l this played by the Emerson St Qt don't know how it will sound??
 
White Knight

White Knight

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Marc, I just listened to your posted Rachmaninov link. Very enjoyable indeed. I also sampled his Prelude in G Minor and Bach's Prelude in C Minor played by Glenn Gould.
Thanx again for sharing!
 
White Knight

White Knight

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Gustav Mahler--Symphony No. 6 in A minor, performed by the Wiener Philharmoniker conducted by Pierre Boulez. This piece has the "standard" 4 movements--but the last movement is 29 minutes in duration!
 
Alban Berg

Alban Berg

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I did

White Knight said:
Gustav Mahler--Symphony No. 6 in A minor, performed by the Wiener Philharmoniker conducted by Pierre Boulez. This piece has the "standard" 4 movements--but the last movement is 29 minutes in duration!
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I composed a symphony with 66 movements...never published...Just in my head...LOL

Martin, stupid thinking
 
Alban Berg

Alban Berg

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I've just received the best version of Scriabin piano music ever...a very rare version, I bought it used, it took more than a month to come from Germany, it was worth waiting!

Maria Lettberg: 8 CD and one bonus DVD
 
White Knight

White Knight

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Just finished listening to Sergei Rachmaninoff--Piano Concerto No.2 in C Minor, Op.18, performed by the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra with Abbey Simon on piano and conducted by Leonard Slatkin.
If I had to choose one adjective to describe this work, it would be "magnifique!"
 
Corno Dolce

Corno Dolce

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Ooooh, "someone" is picking on "MY COMPOSER" Rachmaninoff --- Be you, knave, forewarned of things to come - You will pay........:scold::scold::scold::lol::lol::lol:

Etudes-Tableaux by Rachmaninoff
 
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