What are you listening to now?

[Sorrano]

This morning:

Mozart: Symphony No. 39

[Zevy]

This morning:

Mozart: Symphony No. 39

Excellent choice!

[Megan]

Saint Saens , Cello Concerto no. 2

[Zevy]

Mozart

Music for Glass Harmonica & Piano Quartets.

[AeolianHarp]

The Last Castrato singer- Alessandro Moreschi

Mixed in Riceboy Sleeps- this is simply stunning!

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkJaUbGp4SY[/YOUTUBE]

[Megan]

Yes, it's gorgeous AH. It almost sounds like the choir are singing - kyrie eleison.







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[AeolianHarp]

More Alessandro Moreschi

Yes, it's gorgeous AH. It almost sounds like the choir are singing - kyrie eleison.

The amazing thing it is no choir but solely Alessandro Moreschi the castrato!!!

He is often described today as not a very good singer (puzzling as in his day he was considered amazing...), but that is due to the poor quality of wax cylinder recordings- just listen to this when it has an echo added:

https://soundcloud.com/caffarelli/av...cathedral-edit

(According to the castrati scholar Nicholas Clapton, singing in churches and cathedrals sounds like this- poor Alessandro was required to sing into a huge horn to record his voice which distorts it). This guy on Sound cloud has added echo using Audacity.

You have to turn it up loud tho.

Now he sounds as good as Radu Marian!!!!

[Chris]

Beethoven - Symphony No. 4

I heard it on the radio on the way to work this morning, and I can never turn this one off once I've started listening!

[Peter]

Rachmaninov's masterly 'Symphonic dances' - love the use of the Saxophone in no.1

[Michael]

Beethoven - Symphony No. 4

I heard it on the radio on the way to work this morning, and I can never turn this one off once I've started listening!

Snap! On CD.

I can remember the order in which I first bought recordings of the Beethoven symphonies back in the year 1968. In each case, it was the first time I ever heard these works. For those of you who are dying to hear it was: 6, 3, 5, 8, 9 7, 1, 2, and lastly 4.
No. 4 was the one I liked least for many years. Not so now.

[Chris]

I caught another favorite of mine on the radio this morning - Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 23.

[hal9000]

WoO 72

I've been listening to a lot of Beethoven's early piano variations lately.

[Zevy]

I caught another favorite of mine on the radio this morning - Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 23.

The middle movement = HEAVENLY!

[Zevy]

Mozart:
Minuet K. 409 Szell/Cleveland Orch.
Adagio & Rondo for Glass Harmonica, flute, oboe, viola & cello. Rampal, et. al.

[AeolianHarp]

The Tempest on fortepiano again. Third time in a row..it is just so THRILLING.