What Classical Music are you listening to?

rostasi · 03-23-2022, 03:39 PM

ribbons · 03-24-2022, 09:00 AM

A challenging return to the office full-time this week (after working remotely 90% of the time for the past two years). Playing this quietly right now.

Bach - Musical Offering (Musikalisches Opfer BWV 1079) - Jodi Savall & Le Concert des Nations

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crRuvK3jOvs

ribbons · 03-24-2022, 10:42 AM

Schubert - String Quintet in C Major (Op. 163, D. 956)

Isaac Stern - violin
Alexander Schneider - violin
Milton Katims - alto violin
Pablo Casals - cello
Paul Tortelier - cello

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3tmFhrOgNk

Ayn Marx · 05-15-2022, 06:40 PM

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Originally Posted by rostasi

Help ! That literally makes my teeth stand on end. I’m also puzzled as to what the relationship is between the beat the conductor is appearing to give and the actual performance.

Ayn Marx · 05-17-2022, 02:07 AM

Recently spent a lot of time listening to The Complete String Quartets by Vagn Holmboe (Decapo 8.207001) .First impressions were of a jumbled mess but after a lot of patient listening I ‘cracked the code’ and now wonder why I found the experience like learning another language. Unfortunately a large number of recent classical compositions make no sense to me after more listens than I care to remember. Sometimes I wonder if they make sense to anybody. Maybe it’s just me? Maybe it’s just that some refuse to admit the emperor really has no clothes?

Ayn Marx · 05-17-2022, 09:55 PM

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Originally Posted by rostasi

Maybe I’m a reactionary old fart but I found those long rests such a comfort scattered amongst passages that felt like my eardrums were being sandpapered.
On the other hand I can see this form as almost valid if it’s attempting to describe the ‘intellectual’ absurdities of deconstructionism and/or the present state of the world.

Ayn Marx · 05-17-2022, 10:23 PM

French composer/organist Olivier Messiaen (1909-1992) improvises at the organ of the Paris Church of the Sainte-Trinité (Holy Trinity), where he was organist for more than six decades (since 1931).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SY7g0ULVl2I

Ayn Marx · 05-17-2022, 10:41 PM

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

Ayn Marx · 05-17-2022, 10:58 PM

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

Ayn Marx · 05-17-2022, 11:07 PM

Trinity College Cambridge performing the Durufle Requiem during the early days of the Covid pandemic, hence the masks and the unusually wide spacing of performers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-RiYOpaYVw

Don’t much like the organ accompaniment. The original orchestral backing works better to my ears.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGoD-Cr-Wek

03-24-2022, 09:00 AM	#232 (permalink)
ribbons Music Addict Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 1,265	A challenging return to the office full-time this week (after working remotely 90% of the time for the past two years). Playing this quietly right now. Bach - Musical Offering (Musikalisches Opfer BWV 1079) - Jodi Savall & Le Concert des Nations https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crRuvK3jOvs Last edited by ribbons; 03-24-2022 at 09:06 AM. Reason: fixed link

05-17-2022, 11:07 PM	#240 (permalink)
Ayn Marx Music Addict Join Date: May 2022 Location: Sometimes Posts: 556	Trinity College Cambridge performing the Durufle Requiem during the early days of the Covid pandemic, hence the masks and the unusually wide spacing of performers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-RiYOpaYVw Don’t much like the organ accompaniment. The original orchestral backing works better to my ears. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGoD-Cr-Wek Last edited by Ayn Marx; 05-18-2022 at 01:32 AM.

03-23-2022, 03:39 PM	#231 (permalink)
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03-24-2022, 10:42 AM	#233 (permalink)
ribbons Music Addict Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 1,265	Schubert - String Quintet in C Major (Op. 163, D. 956) Isaac Stern - violin Alexander Schneider - violin Milton Katims - alto violin Pablo Casals - cello Paul Tortelier - cello https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3tmFhrOgNk

05-17-2022, 02:07 AM	#235 (permalink)
Ayn Marx Music Addict Join Date: May 2022 Location: Sometimes Posts: 556	Recently spent a lot of time listening to The Complete String Quartets by Vagn Holmboe (Decapo 8.207001) .First impressions were of a jumbled mess but after a lot of patient listening I ‘cracked the code’ and now wonder why I found the experience like learning another language. Unfortunately a large number of recent classical compositions make no sense to me after more listens than I care to remember. Sometimes I wonder if they make sense to anybody. Maybe it’s just me? Maybe it’s just that some refuse to admit the emperor really has no clothes?

05-17-2022, 10:23 PM	#237 (permalink)
Ayn Marx Music Addict Join Date: May 2022 Location: Sometimes Posts: 556	French composer/organist Olivier Messiaen (1909-1992) improvises at the organ of the Paris Church of the Sainte-Trinité (Holy Trinity), where he was organist for more than six decades (since 1931). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SY7g0ULVl2I

05-17-2022, 10:41 PM	#238 (permalink)
Ayn Marx Music Addict Join Date: May 2022 Location: Sometimes Posts: 556	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQySJcNQguU

05-17-2022, 10:58 PM	#239 (permalink)
Ayn Marx Music Addict Join Date: May 2022 Location: Sometimes Posts: 556	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjknQPK_Kvo