What are you listening to RIGHT NOW?

[sbeckmesser]

The third act of Verdi's La Forza del Destino in a live MET performance from 1977 featuring Price and Domingo being streamed by Sirius over their Metropolitan Opera channel. But even with these great singers I still seem to have a problem with this opera, which to me has always sounded longer than it actually is. This is in contrast to Verdi's Don Carlos, which is longer by the clock but is more consistently engaging and dramatically adept.

--Sixtus

[wurlitzer153]

Ruth fairground organ playing "Roses From the South" (tune 2)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYu-E_hDLso

[sbeckmesser]

The "Olympia" act of Offenbach's Tales of Hoffman. Again, a MET performance, this time in a superb performance from 1988 (Dutoit, Shicoff, Bradley, Troyanos, Alexander, Morris, Quittmeyer, Laciura etc.). Again, Sirius satellite radio's Internet stream of the MET.

--Sixtus

[wurlitzer153]

How about some marching band?

TBDBITL and alumni band playing the incomparable Quad Script Ohio!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ag1E-H9IzYc

[sbeckmesser]

Act 1 of Mozart's Idomeneo. Levine conducts the MET, 1988. Sirius Satellite Radio MET opera channel streamed over the web.

--Sixtus

[hobee]

Ravel's Pavane for a dead princess. Interestingly I first heard it on a Japanese CSI-style show O:

[sbeckmesser]

The 3rd part of Handel's Messiah (at this moment the bass aria "The Trumpet Shall Sound"), performed at the PROMS in London, Nicholas McGegan conducting. BBC iPlayer replay. On the whole, a mediocre performance, despite the variety of choirs being employed.

--Sixtus

[allegroamabile]

The beautiful Overture to Prince Igor attributed to Borodin, but actually written by Glazunov. An amazing piece of music...

[wurlitzer153]

For this week's performance of Script Ohio, the sousaphone player dotted more than the i.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EevMBTQpV4U

ESPN said they wanted the shot...

[sbeckmesser]

Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique, 2nd movement, Alan Gilbert, New York Philharmonic
Live HD broadcast on PBS from Lincoln Center.

Great to hear Renee Fleming doing Messiaen's Poems pour Mi, probably the best voice I've heard tackle these songs.

Also great to see Gilbert seating the NYPO strings in authentic 19th Century layout. Violins divided across the stage, cellos and basses on the left, next to the firsts. Performance is good so far, with the repeat in the first movement included. Wonder if he'll do the repeat in the March to the Scaffold and how the winds will manage their glissandi in the last movement.

--Sixtus

[wurlitzer153]

Beethoven - Symphony no. 7 - 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IMkbWq0MDg

I believe its a college orchestra, not bad.

[wurlitzer153]

Symphony in HO - Model railroading set to Beethoven!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k3nNPrjmew
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hu2EYvRF8s

[wurlitzer153]

A pair of bagpipe marches played on the practice chanter. This guy doesn't even need a bag!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFMOLGH_Scw

[sbeckmesser]

Wagner: Gotterdammerung, Act 2, Brunnhilde with the chorus. Live MET performance from 1975 conducted by Ehrling with Birgit Nilsson and Jess Thomas. Heard over Sirius Internet Radio. Superb so far.

--Sixtus

[chupacabra]

The Piano Music of Deodat de Severac-------specifically, "Cerdana" and "En Languedoc", performed by Jordi Maso!
BEAUTIFUL - BEAUTIFUL - BEAUTIFUL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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[and when this CD is over, on goes "Goyescas" and "Danzas Espanolas" of Enrique Granados!]
BEAUTIFUL - BEAUTIFUL - BEAUTIFUL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

- El Chupacabra -
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