What Classical are you listening to?

[eljr]

 

[eljr]

 

[eljr]

 

[eljr]

 

[Joe B]

Helen of Troy?

 

[Joe B]

Today's commute:

Disc 2, Will Todd's "Ode to a Nightingale":

and parts of Disc 1, Michael Hurd's "Choral Music":

 

[Joe B]

Listening to Poulenc's "Sonata for Violin and Piano":

Great sonata, great performance, stellar recording!

 

[eljr]

Helen of Troy?

I think a case can be made.

I was thinking as I listened to the CD how smart it was to put her on the cover when in truth she demands no billing given the program. Beauty sells.

 

[Joe B]

 

[Joe B]

 

[Touchez au grisbi]

Stravinsky: COMPLETE COLUMBIA ALBUM COLLECTION (Sony, 56cd, 2015)

Just getting started with this set, listening to earlier/mono recordings I have never heard before. Whatever the merits of the remastering, these earlier recordings sound mostly very listenable. And of course the music means more to me than ever before. I think many of his pieces only gain in power and fun as I revisit them.
I remember Forrest Whitaker's Charlie Parker in Clint Eastwood's BIRD, in a stupor of fever-dream listening to (iirc) RITE, murmuring something like, "What if you could hear every sound in world at once?" And then visiting Stravinsky at his Hollywood home in the middle of the night, drunk, and having the (other) exiled master close the door in his face.

 

[Touchez au grisbi]

Korngold: RENDEZVOUS WITH... [Anne Sofie von Otter, Bengt Forsberg, et al] (DG, 2cd, 1999)

Luscious. Also listened to TOTE STADT for the first time (Leinsdorf's),and really dug it. Oddly enough---or not!---another movie memory, with Von Otter popping up as a ghost-memory, singing Korngold, in the film A LATE QUARTET, a movie I was not crazy about, even if I liked its taste (and its terrific actors).

DAS WUNDER comes later this week....cannot wait.

 

[eljr]

 

[MR.MAGOO]

 

[Joe B]

In today's mail:

 

[eljr]

 

[Joe B]

Also in today's mail:

 

[Joe B]

Another disc in today's mail:

 

[eljr]

 

[eljr]