What composition are you currently listening to?

dod

Puccini- La Rondine
Gheorghiu/ Alagna
LSO/ Pappano

A glorious recording of a wonderful opera. Lovely way to spend a saturday evening.

dod

Mahler Symphony No.1
The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra/ Bernard Haitink

Going to try to get through the complete Mahler Symphonies in order this week. 'tis a while since I sat down and listened to them properly.

dod

Today is going to be a difficult day- mentally, emotionally and physically. I am steeling myself for an experience that I know I will mull over time and again in the coming months. So I am listening to a piece that I always listen to when things get difficult- the Liebestod from Wagners' Tristan Und Isolde. An absolutely sublime piece of music.

Anyway, I have listened to two recordings of it this morning in an effort to steel myself for today:

1952/ Bayreuth/ Von Karajan- Martha Modl as Isolde
and
1975/ Bayreuth/ Kleiber- Catarina Ligendza as Isolde

Truly sublime music. If this doesn't get me through today, nothing will.

simu

Beethoven's piano concertos 1-5, with Murray Perahia on piano, conducted by Bernard Haitink.

banquo

beethoven's 9th symphony; an old favorite.

2nd movemnt on repeat :rolleyes:

John

John Cage's Sonatas for Prepared Piano. An acquired taste but a firm favourite of mine.

dod

Tchaikovskys' 6th Symphony, performed as part of the BBC proms. being broadcast on BBC2 TV.

Gidon Kremer was the solo violin in a performance of the Shostakovich First violin concerto earlier.

Glorious stuff.

fractal

Furtwangler/I can't remember the orchestra, but it's the big famous 1950s recording of Tristan und Isolde. Dietrich Fischer Dieskau is in it, I think. 4 discs on Naxos and about €20 cheaper than most other recordings, tee hee! Can't seem to work past disc 2 though, sheer sensory overload.

dod

fractal wrote:

Furtwangler/I can't remember the orchestra, but it's the big famous 1950s recording of Tristan und Isolde. Dietrich Fischer Dieskau is in it, I think. 4 discs on Naxos and about €20 cheaper than most other recordings, tee hee! Can't seem to work past disc 2 though, sheer sensory overload.

I have a copy of the one I think you're talking about:
Rhoderick Davies, baritone / Edgar Evans, tenor / Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, baritone / Kirsten Flagstad, soprano / Josef Greindl, bass / Rudolf Schock, tenor / Ludwig Suthaus, tenor / Blanche Thebom, mezzo-soprano
Royal Opera House Chorus, Covent Garden
Philharmonia Orchestra
Wilhelm Furtwangler, conductor
Recorded: 10-21 and 23 June 1952
Mark Obert-Thorn, producer and audio restoration engineer

Truly glorious recording. The other good label that you get great value historical Opera recordings on is Opera D'Oro- they seem to be making their way over to Europe, but they're all over the US. Got a couple of nice Tristans on this label as well.

rom1

"Transcriptions pour choeur d'oeuvres de Bach, Berg, Chopin, Ravel..." by Accentus

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dod

Mozart/ La Clemenza di Tito
Bartoli/ Heilmann/ Jones/ Montague/ Cachemaille/ Bonney

The Academy of Ancient Music Orchestra & Chorus/ Hogwood

Glorious stuff.

dod

Shostakovich Jazz Suite No. 2 (Suite for Promenade Orchestra)

from "Shostakovich- The Jazz Album" Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra/ Riccardo Chailly (Decca)

Great undemanding Sunday night listening.

Zonko

Beethovens Seventh Symphony.

Fusion251

Rachmaninov

Piano Concerto - 1

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