Classical Listening

[Sebas. Melmoth]

Now: some little-heard, little-known Viennese chamber music:
http://www.amazon.com/Twilight-Roman...1907102&sr=1-1

[Emil Miller]

Now: some little-heard, little-known Viennese chamber music:
http://www.amazon.com/Twilight-Roman...1907102&sr=1-1

Why do you always direct us to Amazon rather than Youtube where we can actually hear the music?
Incidentally, I read in the French press that the Hotel d' Alsace has recently been renovated and now costs considerably more than formerly.

[Sebas. Melmoth]

Honestly I don't really 'do' YouTube (nor Facebook, nor Twitter).

I started collecting records (LPs & 45s) in the 1960s; in the 1980s I went CD, and that is what I use now--hard copy CDs (not downloads) with loudspeakers (not iPod with earbuds).

The download/iPod thing is for a younger generation than I.
(Besides, the techne involved in compressing and downloading over the internet distorts the sound, so I'm told.)

The reason I give Amazon links? Well, it's just something I'm familiar with.
If you wanted to find the music elsewhere I'm sure you probably could.

[stlukesguild]

I'm still exploring the Baroque in some greater depth. Once again I'm listening to Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber and Jan Dismas Zelenka:





I went into a little background of both of these composers earlier this summer:
http://www.online-literature.com/for...=47822&page=27

At that time I was exploring mostly their choral works. Now I am listening to their instrumental pieces.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT7T2qa2ZuE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9wKF...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gw9Fz...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLc0m...eature=related



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A29rhG-Nqk0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsoqJga4-DY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7g9PK...eature=related

Composers such as Zelenka and Biber offer a context for the great J.S. Bach... who as great as he was... did not exist of compose within a vacuum. Rather there were any number of greatly talented... even brilliant... composers who were essentially his peers... writing music worthy of exploration... and not involved in some great conspiracy involving the Knights Templar, the Rosicrucians, the Jesuits, the Freemasons, or any other secret society.

[Musicology]

J.B. Vanhal (1739-1813)
Symphony in G Minor (c.1777)
Finale

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jwrsj...eature=related

Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Symphony No. 2 (c.1811)
Finale

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgY9c...eature=related

Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 4
Finale
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boqy-...eature=related

//

[Lokasenna]

While I should be working, I am in fact listening to music, as usual. Right now, I am listening to the wonder that is Haydn's 'Nelson' Mass in D Minor.

Have a listen to this wonderfully dark, tempestuous Kyrie:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JRDB09pZB0

[Musicology]

Carl Philip Emanuel Bach (1714-88)
Symphony for Strings & Continuo in E minor 'Hamburg'
H. 652, Wq. 177
Freiburger Barockorchester
Gottfried von der Goltz

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KJTs...eature=related

Carl Philip Emanuel Bach (1714-88)
Cello Concerto
Wq. 172
3rd Movement

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OdOa...eature=related

[Emil Miller]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-s9LYuMfR8

[stlukesguild]

Chandos records has done a marvelous job of rediscovering a wealth of composers of the "classical era" beyond Mozart and Haydn... composers including:

Francois-Joseph Gossec
Johann Baptist Vanhal
Johann Nepomuk Hummel
Adalbert Gyrowetz
Joseph Myslivecek
Paul Wranitzky
Vaclav Pichl
Leopold Antonin Kozeluch
Franz Krommer
Leopold Antonin Kozeluch
Christian Cannabich
Antonio Salieri
Franz Xaver Richter
Carl Stamitz

Honestly, this is not an era I have explored in much depth beyond Mozart, Haydn, Rossini, early Beethoven, Boccherini, and a few others. Like many who came to classical music, it was the Romantic era that I first began to explore in great depth and since then I have put a good deal of effort into a greater exploration of the Baroque, Renaissance, Medieval, and Modern/Contemporary eras.

Lokasenna... I love Haydn's mass as well... but for some reason your link isn't working... at least not for me. I thought I'd post a version with the Conservatory of the LSO:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsvUguOVLa0

and a second version with Simon Preston, Tom Krause, Sylvia Stahlman, Wilfred Brown
Conducted by David Willcocks

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSU_vQ7aT1s

Since Schubert recently popped up... let's give a listen to his lieder... where he remains unrivaled... and his Winterreise is perhaps his supreme achievement in the genre:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0uxvHQFQKU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pze4NxCOjg0

Thomas Quasthoff is phenomenal! I have had the chance to see him live twice now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLsaSm5iG9o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NF6eN...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TF5Du...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSHdV...eature=related

Ian Bostridge, a tenor, brings a unique approach to these lieder commonly sung by baritones. He also presents the entire cycle in a beautifully realized film available on YouTube

[Lokasenna]

Lokasenna... I love Haydn's mass as well... but for some reason your link isn't working... at least not for me. I thought I'd post a version with the Conservatory of the LSO:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsvUguOVLa0

and a second version with Simon Preston, Tom Krause, Sylvia Stahlman, Wilfred Brown
Conducted by David Willcocks

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSU_vQ7aT1s

How strange! It isn't working for me either anymore. But thank you very much for the alternative links!

[Musicology]

Frederic Chopin
Valse Brilliante
Dinu Lipatti

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0r08Z...eature=related

CPE Bach
Concerto in F
3rd Movement

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMkzy...eature=related

CPE Bach
Sinfonia in E Flat
Prestissimo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OS4_1...e=more_related

[LitNetIsGreat]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok24iv3Fcxc&NR=1
I find myself listening to various Bach cello suites - seems to have put me in a strange sort of sombre/thoughtful-like mood.

[LitNetIsGreat]

Ha, ha. I was in the library yesterday and a walked passed a small "junk" box of a few CDs for sale for 50p. I had a quick peek and I happened on, coincidentally, a double CD of Bach's cello suites 1-6!!! They are played by some guy called Trules Mork and seems a good quality CD, just playing it now. At 50p it was an insult not to buy it anyway!

#And then from the cello to the piano. Bach's English Suites, quite wonderful:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXSJf-1EzNU

[Musicology]

Dmitri Shostakovich
Symphony No. 8
3rd Movement

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYfli...eature=related

[Sebas. Melmoth]

some guy called Trules Mork[/url]

Truls Mørk is generally considered one of the finest cellists around; however, last year he was tragically infected with Lyme disease and can now no longer play the cello.

Now: Russian piano music by Balakirev (mazurkas) with Alexander Paley.