What's the Last Piece of Classical Music You Listened To?

Sibelius' Symphony #5 at Tanglewood, BSO conducted by Thomas Ades, filling in for Esa-Pekka Salonen who canceled for "personal reasons."

I felt like going back to school last week and singing tenor in the choir, so I put on one on that I remember from Handel and sang along with the The Choir of King's College, Cambridge

Handel - Messiah Oratorio, HWV 56 "For Unto Us A Child Is Born" - Sir Stephen Cleobury, Conductor, RIP

Not exactly classical.

Recently discovered Bantock's Celtic Symphony.

This is just unspeakably beautiful.

I'm on a Saint-Saens spree -- The Organ Symphony of course, but also his piano concertos and chamber music.

I've been in the mood for Baroque marches lately, and the last two I've listened are Marc-Antoine Charpentier's "Marche de Triomphe" and Jean-Baptiste Lully's "Marche de Savoye."

Respighi's Leggenda for Violin and Orchestra, from a recent Chailly/Filarmonica della Scala Respighi album. Pines and Fountains get old after a while, so I love looking into his lesser known stuff. Di Sera from that album is also wonderful.

Ironically, when I found the Respighi album, I was actually searching for Chailly's 1983 orchestral Puccini album, which has apparently been removed from US Spotify in the last year or so (FML!) His Preludio Sinfonico & Manon Lescaut 3rd act Intermezzo are just sublime from that recording, even better than his full Manon Lescaut album. The Edgar bits are gorgeous too. I guess I'll have to listen to it on Youtube from now on. What humiliation in 2025.

The Devil’s Trill.

A Mozart string quartet, but I was playing it with fellow musicians. I swear I was listening to them!

Gaspar Sanz 'Marionas', performed by Daniel Zapico (tiorba) + Pablo Zapico (baroque guitar)

it was this. J.S. Bach Toccata & Fugue in D-minor on organ. I find it mesmerizing, especially the finale.

Gymnopédie No. 2 by Erik Satie.

I was feeling gassy.

Mahler 6 - Yannick Nezet Seguin

Barber’s “Knoxvillle: Summer of 1915,” sung by the performer who commissioned it, Eleanor Steiner. Lenten Price’s version is excellent. I’ve had a weakness for Steiner since I heard her on the old RCA vinyl recording of Barber’s “Vanessa” ( with a young Rosalind Elias as Eric’s/-magnificent fifty years later as Heidi in the second Broadway revival of “Follies”$.

Follies!

Hubby is retired. So. does sings in the local Opera chorus these days.

Back when he was still working at a regular job, he sang solo parts in Opera for a crowd size of about 2000 locals.

So I still listen to Opera in the background around the house while he practices. I woul rather listen to Dolly Parton.

Eric Satie

R15, it's Eleanor Steber, not Steiner. Autocorrect I imagine.

I also love Dawn Upshaw's rendition of KNOXVILLE. Steber had a great voice but with Upshaw it's a more intimate performance as her voice isn't grandly "operatic."

This one. It's playing on a loop in my head.

Is Goreski’s SYMPHONY OF SORROWFUL SONGS considered to be classical music? It’s gorgeous.

Whatever Kevin Lee Jacobs played on his piano in his last YouTube video.

[quote] Is Goreski’s SYMPHONY OF SORROWFUL SONGS considered to be classical music?

Yes. If I recall it was used in a film sometime in the 90s and became popular for a while.