What are you listening to now?

[Chris]

Arthur Grumiaux with Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 5. One of my favorite Mozart players and violinists in general!

[AeolianHarp]

For Decrepit Poster

DP, I saw your last post on the ( now old) listening thread about classical radio stations. You would surely like these internet ones:

http://www.abacus.fm/beethoven.html

( see the list on the right on the site to see they have one for Mozart, Haydn, Handel, and more!)

http://www.radionomy.com/en/radio/beethoven-radio

Mozart stations:

http://www.radionomy.com/en/search/index?query=mozart

[Sorrano]

This morning:
Walton: Symphony #2 (1959-60)

[Decrepit Poster]

Thanks AH. I actually have a bookmark category devoted to internet radio stations. It's terribly old and outdated. I pretty much abandoned internet radio once classical music became widely available at YouTube, or rather once I discovered it was widely available there. In any case I briefly visited one of your links and will explore more later on.

BTW, a very fine US classical music radio station with an online presence is KUSC. Leastwise it was a fine station back when I listened over-the-air with some regularity while stationed in Southern California during the 1970s and 80s.

As for today's listening, there hasn't been much. During lunch I heard Brautigam play B's piano sonatas 26 "Les Adieux" and 27 on SACD. At YouTube I auditioned several "Funeral March" interpretations, none of which rocked my boat compared to Brautigam and Schiff. This is one of B's sonatas I was not at all familiar with until acquiring Brautigam's sonata set late last year. I've come to love its first three movements but am not yet completely comfortable with the closing movement.

[Harvey]

Doctor says I probably have a touch of pneumonia. Antibiotics and plenty of rest. Still little desire to listen to music or do much of anything else.

[AeolianHarp]

Doctor says I probably have a touch of pneumonia. Antibiotics and plenty of rest. Still little desire to listen to music or do much of anything else.

Hope you feel better very soon Harvey!

[Harvey]

Thanks, Now that i have the antibiotics it should improve, else I go back to the doctor Friday. At least my truck is repaired. Took it to shop last Tuesday evening for a one-day job and just got it back! All worked out well though and they fixed another problem that was lurking there.

[Decrepit Poster]

During supper yesterday I listened to SACD disk nine of Brautigam's Beethoven piano sonata set, containing early pre opus sonatas and sonata-like solo piano works.

This morning I followed AH's Beethoven radio link and heard the bulk of String Quartet Op.59 No.2 and the first movements of Op.59 No.3 performed by the Lindsay Quartet. On the plus side, I very much liked the Lindsay's interpretation of these works, and sound quality seemed to me on the whole better than what one normally encounters at YouTube. On the minus side, during Op.59. No.2 I noticed a disturbing trend to remove all space between movements. In Op.59 No.3 it was so bad that the initial cello plucked entry to movement two was slightly clipped, and movement three began before movement two ended! At that point I threw in the towel. Is this the normal there, or was what I heard an anomaly?

[Peter]

Debussy Preludes for piano and L'Isle Joyeuse'.

[Decrepit Poster]

During lunch I heard disk four of Brautigam's Mozart variations set, containing KV573, 180, 264, 25, 460, Anh.138a and Rondo 485.

During supper I heard disk two of the Kavakos/Pace Beethoven violin sonata set, containing sonatas 4, 8 and 9.

At the Beethoven radio station I heard much of the last movement of B's sixth symphony played by the London Classical Players under Roger Norrington, which I also own on CD. The commentator didn't allow the last note sufficient time to die off before piping in to announce what had been played. Other than that I enjoyed the presentation, which again seemed of higher sound quality than is usually found at YouTube.

[AeolianHarp]

At the Beethoven radio station I heard much of the last movement of B's sixth symphony played by the London Classical Players under Roger Norrington, which I also own on CD. The commentator didn't allow the last note sufficient time to die off before piping in to announce what had been played. Other than that I enjoyed the presentation, which again seemed of higher sound quality than is usually found at YouTube.

Yes, I heard that too!

[Zevy]

B Symphony #7/Bernstein/BPO "Last Concert".
Marvelous!

[Zevy]

Emperor Concerto
Bernstein VPO/Zimerman
Great performance!

[Decrepit Poster]

Yesterday's listening was Liszt-centric. During lunch I listened to a CD of Dora Deliyska performing various Liszt Schubert lieder transcriptions on a Bosendorfer Imperial. This hearing my picks of the litter were her renditions of "Der Doppelganger" (for which the CD is named) and "Die Forelle". During supper I listened to Valentina Lisitsa's CD of various Liszt pieces, again performed on a Bosendorfer Imperial. These disks remind me that I need to sink money into solving my living room audio system's low-end deficiency, but it's hard to justify the expense with my hearing as crappy as it is.

[Zevy]

Yesterday - Mozart PC #17 Bernstein VPO. Very nice; especially the cadenzas.