Current Non Vocal Classical Listening

[Albert7]

What classical albums are you guys currently listening to which is orchestral?

I am loving this one lately:

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[Albert7]

Right now I'm listening to this with pals:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgS37X4P2hM

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t2VUFN6dyQ

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OAAJvaKx5c

[Albert7]

My selection tonight:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQjXWcO7aRo

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkXK4M7ngBQ

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmYCvmEF3WU

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGED51Dz18I

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

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4BUiZ5jCl0

[Albert7]

My selection tonight now:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4cF1K3zTvg

[Albert7]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7QbViCuGfU

[Albert7]

My selection now:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ii-bBLyH7-0

[Albert7]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XbHLFkg_Mw

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-YmabJFuc8

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-T-ieGoVew

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_M9IIus1l4

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LY4hczcLp3g

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLZoOGi_ns4

[Albert7]

This afternoon my selection here:


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

[Hoffmann]

Very nice Sunday morning listening:


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[Salomé]

Yesterday I listened to Vivaldi's violin concerto "La Tempesta di Mare" played by Fabio Biondi and Europa Galante. Such a brilliant recordingü

[Hoffmann]

The cleaning people are here and prefer that I don't play opera.


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[Festat]

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[Florestan]

Bela Bartok piano concertos #2 and #3 from this set:
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What all is on this set is listed on the back cover image (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/513mqhwwC5L.jpg).
Easier to read and more comprehensive TRACK LIST HERE (http://www.hmv.co.jp/en/artist_Classical-Collection-Orchestral-Music_000000000065307/item_Ferenc-Fricsay-Perfectionsist-and-Live-Wire-10CD_4098032).

[Hoffmann]

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[Florestan]

Starting yesterday,

Beethoven Excellent:
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[Florestan]

Hee hee, doing it again 7 weeks later and with my latest new addition of another composers symphonies:



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Now this
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[Florestan]

Gave the above two disks of Zinman to my son because I went for the whole cycle and am listening to it now and loving it:
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[Florestan]

Just got this and am well into Symphony #2 and loving it (1949-1953 recordings).
This is probably even better than Zinman.

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[Florestan]

Listening to Symphony 3. There is a little vocals in #3 but mostly instrumental.
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Symphony 2:
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[Festat]

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[Florestan]

Good stuff here:
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[Soave_Fanciulla]

Revisiting this, which is partly vocal:
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[Amfortas]

Several of my recent Amazon orders (including the new CD shelf) have arrived these last couple of days. Today it was Karajan's classic 1963 set of the Beethoven symphonies, in the latest remastering.

Mmmm . . . Beethoven on Blu-ray!

[Florestan]

Several of my recent Amazon orders (including the new CD shelf) have arrived these last couple of days. Today it was Karajan's classic 1963 set of the Beethoven symphonies, in the latest remastering.

Mmmm . . . Beethoven on Blu-ray!


Any photos of the shelf? Maybe I need something like that.

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[Hoffmann]

For some reason, this doesn't get cued up very often:


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I remember well the only time I've seen the Brandenburg Concertos performed live. I was still living with my parents in Rochester, NY (around 1974, a year or so before moving to DC) and I spotted a notice in the newspaper that the Concertos were to be performed by Eastman School of Music students in a theater on the University of Rochester campus.

I decided to go - my folks weren't interested - (so started my practice of attending live performances by myself) but thought that classical music wouldn't be much of a draw, so wasn't in much of a hurry to get to the theater. That proved to be an incorrect assessment - the small theater was packed, but I was lucky to get a good center standing room spot where I was able to lean on a low wall. Thus, the lesson learned about making judgements about peoples' artistic tastes in a smaller community - when that community is very highly educated.

The Concertos were presented out of sequence - rather than starting with Concerto #1 and working their way through the set, they started with the Concerto requiring the fewest instruments and proceeded in order of next largest number of instruments, adding and subtracting as they went along. It was the first classical concert I saw in the U.S., and I was dazzled.

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[Clayton]

Elena Urioste

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Photo from website, credit Alessandra Tinozzi

Samuel Barber, Amy Beach, Ethel Smyth, George Gershwin.
Cover CD on December issue of BBC Music magazine... (which misspelled composer name on CD!)

[Soave_Fanciulla]

A rare venture back into non vocal music, what a fantastic collection:

Domenico Scarlatti: Sonatas, Vol. 2
Angela Hewitt (piano)

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[Florestan]

Been a long time since I listened to Beethoven's Third.
Have spun this Third several times over the past couple of days.
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[Nemorino]

Here to share one of the most obscure pieces that is a favorite on my CD shelf. Many years ago I went on a violin concerto kick and I tried to track down every recorded violin concerto composed between ~1870-1970. My absolute favorite discovery of this project was the 1932 concerto by Gian Francesco Malipiero.

This is the only modern recording ('70s, I'd guess) that I know of, by violinist Andre Gertler:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zIZL1rwrCM

I took to it immediately for its combination of lyricism and spiky rhythms and harmonies; I would compare it to Samuel Barber's concerto (another of my all-time favorite pieces of music). I knew almost immediately that I loved it; it is very much like the music "in my head".

As for why Malipiero is not well-known, there are several probable factors. 1. Italian music for the symphony hall has never had the same international clout as German music, perhaps because they dominated opera for so long. 2. Malipiero's most important period was the 1920s-1930s so he's really been over-shadowed by a long list of incredible composers like Bartok and Stravinsky. 3. He doesn't really belong to a "school" (or "brand") of music like Berg (12-Tone) or Poulenc (Les Six). His most important formal trait was that he rejected having one. His music is always very rhapsodic, unstructured and song-like.

This could explain why violinists might not want to champion the piece. They might feel there are "flaws" to the piece that they would have to apologize for, when analyzing it according to formal structures. The best example lies in this work's totally unique - and surprisingly unshowy - finale. It starts at 11:55 (https://youtu.be/6zIZL1rwrCM?t=11m55s) in the above video. The orchestra introduces the finale... for a full two minutes (!!) until the violin interrupts impatiently. The violin then plays on it's own for FOUR MINUTES (from 14:08 to 18:06 (https://youtu.be/6zIZL1rwrCM?t=18m6s)). It's partly a cadenza, but it's also the bulk of the development of the whole movement. I think it's striking and beautiful to have the dialogue of a concerto totally break down like this. When the orchestra finally creeps back in calmly there's a feeling of relief like you were holding your breath the whole time. The two reconcile in a pseudo-2nd slow movement.

The expected display of virtuosic fireworks at the end of the concerto lasts a mere 45 seconds, but boy do I love them. Malipiero races towards the final cadence from an unexpected angle - like Prokofiev often did - so that you hardly realize you're at the end until it's already happened!

[Florestan]

Listening to this in the car. Never heard it before but am liking it a lot.
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Sound Clips (https://www.allmusic.com/album/release/prokofiev-violin-concerto-no1-violin-sonata-in-d-major-mr0002684017)

[Florestan]

New set. Going straight through. Am on #3 now. Really 9 and 1/4 Symphonies as only the Adagio of #10.

EDIT: I'll add that this whole set is quite good and all the voices are very nice, but for #8 I probably stick with Haitink.

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[Florestan]

Just finishing up my first listen to all six symphonies with my new Vanska set, and I can say they are all good.

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[Florestan]

Library loan. Quite lively, interesting music.
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[Florestan]

Yesterday:
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[halochef]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OitPLIowJ70

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But subbed in this one for #2
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[Amfortas]

^^^ Masur did some great work--his Liszt tone poems are the best around. Hope you enjoy his Mendelssohn!

[Florestan]

Complete Mahler symphony cycle off this 99 cent download (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B008J7G5LO/).

[Florestan]

Been going with this all day. Intending to listen through all 32. Am into #9 now.
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[Florestan]

A co-worker who is a pianist (has a full-sized grand piano in his living room and consequently not much else in that room) told me to check out this composer, whom I have never experienced before. I have tried piano concertos before (basically Beethoven) but did not care for them, but there is something wonderful about this work.

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

[Florestan]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a46FAc4d2ek

[Soave_Fanciulla]

I'm feeling more in the mood for non-vocal music -especially at work where it is easier to have as background music. Listening to old favourites Mahler's 4th, Holst the planets, Brahms Hungarian dances, Vaughan Williams , John Adams' and Philip Glass's violin concertos.

[Florestan]

All 32, started last night. Looks like will be still going tomorrow.
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[Florestan]

On loan from a pianist friend of mine:
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[Clayton]

I'm on music catch up after a month of music less life while preparing apartment for move later this year.

Listening to cello JdP and MR, various works, Schumann, Grieg, Bach, Mozart. So all over the place as usual.

[Florestan]

Selections from this set. Just finished #1. Up next #3, #5, #6, and maybe #9.
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[Florestan]

This, but in the 10-CD set, Fricsay Perfectionist. (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41Nb4XSHmWL._SY300_.jpg)

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[Florestan]

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[Florestan]

Going through this, all 15 symphonies, starting at #1. Am up to #7 now. I bought this earlier this year and until tonight had only listened to #7 and #14. Quite wonderful music!
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[Florestan]

The three symphonies:
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[Florestan]

This is an awesome set. Essential for the Rachmaninoff fan.
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[Florestan]

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[Florestan]

I won't be listening to this as I don't have the streaming services listed, but FYI Hélène Grimaud performance cancelled at the University of Michigan, but they are giving free access to listen to the playlist HERE (https://ums.org/2020/03/14/helene-grimaud-performance-playlist/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Enjoy+Our+Playlist+of+H%C3%A9l%C3%A8ne +Grimaud+s+Recital+Program&utm_campaign=MKT%3A+Helene+Grimaud+Playlist). The playlist is of her exact concert recital program, featuring music from her latest album, Memory, and 2009 recording of Schumann’s Kreisleriana.

[Florestan]

This is the last Beethoven cycle I have purchased (June 2019) and I have not really taken the time to get into it, so today I started with Symphony 3 and am liking it.
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[Florestan]

Symphony 4 from this set:
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[Florestan]

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[Florestan]

Today for work-at-home:
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I think I'll have a listen to some of this. :encouragement:

[Itullian]

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Fantastic set!

[Itullian]

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[Clayton]

On the picture box
The national broadcaster here is quite good showing concerts almost daily.

1979 Leonard Bernstein Beethoven 9th symphony
Wien
Kurt Moll, Rene Kollo, Gwyneth Jones and some else, sorry, forgot.

Super HD shows a very dramatic Bernstein with furious punches and beautiful facial expressions. Sweat dripping from his face with each movement it looked exciting and of course the orchestra and singers responded accordingly. Sadly, I could not have the volume as I would have liked; the wife's reading time and the newborn downstairs does not permit. I need my own music room. I also want a 8k tee vee.

[Clayton]

post script
Comment from concertmeister (also forgot the name here) "musicians read music but Bernstein sees the score and can also feel, taste and smell the music..."

[Florestan]

post script
Comment from concertmeister (also forgot the name here) "musicians read music but Bernstein sees the score and can also feel, taste and smell the music..."

He must have had Synesthesia (https://www.healthline.com/health/synesthesia): "Synesthesia is a neurological condition in which information meant to stimulate one of your senses stimulates several of your senses." According to my daughter (who has Synestheia--son does too), she and her brother can watch a movie and then later replay it in their heads in vivid imagery from the movie. My daughter writes books and has the whole story laid out in her head and can move things around. She sees some things, like days of the week, as colors. It is a really freaky thing. If I tell them some creepy thing, like how the doctor had to poke a hole in my eyeball to remove the cataract lens and insert a plastic replacement lens, they say they can feel it. I would think this condition could drive one crazy, but they seem happy with it. I will say, they would be good ones to give the police a description of a suspect. Me, no good (...he was tall, long hair, dark jacket, i think he had grey pants, a little bit heavy, but I am not sure...)

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[Florestan]

Mostly non-vocal (symphonies 1-12 and 15). All good and the vocal (13 & 14) are quite interesting.
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