What are you listening to now?

[amw]

Rawsthorne Symphony #3 and an approaching thunderstorm. First listens to both. They go together reasonably well.

[Karl Henning]

Now this is a coincidence, Karlo, and good evening to you, Sir    ...

Listening to the Pulcinella form this CD:

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Sheer, utter, full delght!!! How I like this music....

Oh, but Le baiser de la fée on that disc RULES! 

[Karl Henning]

I will need to hear this. I saw the sheet music at the music store a while ago but I had no idea there was a recording.

Love it!  The orchestral scoring is sumptuous, of course, and no complaint;  even so, there is something I find immediately appealing in the clarity of a piano version.

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

My wife keeps asking for Telemann which must be a good sign? Right?

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Uh, oh! No, Moonfish, not good at all.  She wants a Telly Man, not one who listens to music!

[Karl Henning]

Thread Duty:

Liszt
Rapsodies hongroises N^os. 10-19 (S.244)
Artur Pizarro

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[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

Trick or Treat.

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[ritter]

Oh, but Le baiser de la fée on that disc RULES! 

It sure does, but I was in a Pulcinella mood last night, not in a Baiser de la fée mood...I'm sure you'll appreciate the difference, Karl 

[Moonfish]

Uh, oh! No, Moonfish, not good at all.  She wants a Telly Man, not one who listens to music!

[Karl Henning]

Wait! News flash!

Thread Duty:

Liszt The Countess d'Agoult
Rapsodies hongroises N^os. 10-19 (S.244)
Artur Pizarro

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[Karl Henning]

It sure does, but I was in a Pulcinella mood last night, not in a Baiser de la fée mood...I'm sure you'll appreciate the difference, Karl 

Forsooth!

[not edward]

Good mortning everyone!

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[Karl Henning]

Cheers, Edward!

At first I thought mortning was a typo . . . but then I perceived that it was a pun on Morton   

[Mirror Image]

Now:





Listening to Rothko Chapel before heading into work. Beautiful piece.

[North Star]

Fresh from the mailbox

Strauss
Also Sprach
Tod und Verklärung
Eine Alpensinfonie
Metamorphosen
Vier letzte lieder*
Die heiligen drei Könige aus Morgenland, Op. 56 No. 6*
Capriccio, Op. 85 - Intermezzo (Mondscheinmusik)
Capriccio, Op. 85 - "Kein Andres, das mir so im Herzen loht" (Monologue of the Countess)*
Anna Tomowa-Sintow (S)*
Karajan & BPO
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[Mirror Image]

Fresh from the mailbox

Strauss
Also Sprach
Tod und Verklärung
Eine Alpensinfonie
Vier letzte lieder*
Die heiligen drei Könige aus Morgenland, Op. 56 No. 6*
Capriccio, Op. 85 - Intermezzo (Mondscheinmusik)
Capriccio, Op. 85 - "Kein Andres, das mir so im Herzen loht" (Monologue of the Countess)*
Anna Tomowa-Sintow (S)*
Karajan & BPO
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Pounds the table! Yes! Outstanding!

[North Star]

Pounds the table! Yes! Outstanding!

[HIPster]

Love that Rothko Chapel recording, MI; I plan to play it later on today.   

Thread duty ~

Morning Bach!
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[Karl Henning]

Morning Bach!
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Someone needs to photoshop that cover so that the text reads:

Bach Cantatas
Ghandi

[AnthonyAthletic]

Fresh from the mailbox

Strauss
Also Sprach
Tod und Verklärung
Eine Alpensinfonie
Metamorphosen
Vier letzte lieder*
Die heiligen drei Könige aus Morgenland, Op. 56 No. 6*
Capriccio, Op. 85 - Intermezzo (Mondscheinmusik)
Capriccio, Op. 85 - "Kein Andres, das mir so im Herzen loht" (Monologue of the Countess)*
Anna Tomowa-Sintow (S)*
Karajan & BPO
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Ditch the high stretched wailings of Sintow, bring in Janowitz and Outstanding would be the word....great set, wrong choice on the 4LS.

[listener]

The Schloss vor Husum piano festival annual releases usually have a selection of shorter items, the 1966 one was a 2-disc set that included all of SCRIABIN: 24 Preludes op. 11, GOEDIKE: Prelude op. 20 after Maeterlinck's Les Aveugles and MOSZKOWSKI's Anton Notensquetcher am Klavier, a collection of musical parodies written for the 70th birthday of Carl Bechstein in the form of a dialogue between Mephisto and an aspiring student pianist parodying a scene in Goethe's Faust.
There's also RAVEL's La Valse in a piano transcription and three pieces by GNÁTTALI. 
Hamish Milne, Igo Shukov, Peter Froundjian and Marc-André Hamelin among the pianists.  The notes give the spoken text and translation for the Notensquetcher.