Thread: Current Listening...

A few other forums I have used in the past have had this kind of thread which serves as an ongoing one in which you basically post what youre listening to or have been listening to lately and any comments on it.

Works well elsehwere so should work here....

Ill get the ball rolling...

This hasnt been out of my Disc player in 2006 and as you will come to find out I bloody love Alwyn..

Brahms' 1st Symphony in C minor, which I just hired from the library.

A cd of Shoshtakovich symphonies 6 and 1.

Fantasia on Christmas Carols and Hodie by RVW, performed by the London Symphony Orchestra, the Choir of Guilford Cathedral, and conducted by Sir David Willcocks, on the EMI label. It's getting me into the mood of the season!

Been listening to Tchaikovsky last hour - Piano Concerto No 1, Nutcracker Suite and Swan Lake.

Yeah, well good. Nice to be listening to some music again after a week away

Every forum has one of these threads

I'm listening to the Sibelius violin concerto 1st movement as I'm typing right now. For some reason, after practicing violin, I always feel like listening to this concerto.

As strange as it may seem, I was thinking about starting the same thread, here.

Anyway, right now I'm listening to nothing, apart from the ambient noise(more like hearing). But before that I was listening to JSB's harpsichord-arrangement of Vivaldi's concerto for 4 violins.

Saint-Säens Bassoon Sonata - the most underrated stuff I have heard in my whole life.

Death and the Maiden - Guarneri quartet

String Quartet No. 1 in C minor - Brahms (Amadeus Quartet)

Mendelssohn's String Octet, my favourite, alongside with the obvious Violin Concerto. This recording is by the Medici and Alberni Quartet, it's an old rip I got from someone... I'm looking for a better recording of the Octet. Any suggestions?

The one on Naxos seems to get good reviews.

Debussy Orchestral Music CD - Concertgebouw/Haitink. The best CD I currently own. Also have Glorious Pipes with Gheorghe Zamfir on the panpipes, and Diane Bish on the organ ... SUPERB stuff.

This morning on the way to work I listened to Shostakovich's 2nd Piano Concerto, along with part of the finale to Mozart's operatic fragment L'oca del Cairo, KV 422. As it turns out, L'oca del Cairo may actually be a composition of J.M. Kraus of Sweden, but the piano concerto seems to be authentically Shostakovich

Shortly prior to this post... Liszt Hungarian Rhapsodies (Orchestra). Currently (applying the corrective to my "Brahms myopia"), Hungarian Dances 17-21 followed by Symphony #3. Mustn't hold the actions of Brahms supporters of the 19th century against Brahms himself. After all, if someone held the actions of certain Wagner supporters against Wagner, I would be very, very angry, and I might write a letter explaining how angry I was