What are you listening to RIGHT NOW?

[Philidor]

The funeral march from Wagner's Siegfried. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8wHteSOwW4

[sbeckmesser]

Mozart: The Magic Flute, Overture (recapitulation section). Headed into the full opera in a moment. MET opera, James Conlon conducting, Jan 1977. SIRIUS MET channel, streaming internet feed. The Magic Flute was the first complete opera I ever performed in (2nd violin) and it has had a special place in my affections since then, more than 30 years ago (see the thread on top 10 operas).

--Sixtus

[wurlitzer153]

10 minutes of informal bagpipe playing (and tuning...)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-K3JXAMowo

[wurlitzer153]

The Simon Fraser University Pipe Band, reigning world champions:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6K7Tmaz-5U

[Philidor]

10 minutes of informal bagpipe playing (and tuning...)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-K3JXAMowo

(Brilliant - fabulous piping)

[dwil9798]

Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District - Scene 6 Ending. 2006 production at the Royal Opera House with Eva-Maria Westbroek as Katerina and John Tomlinson as Boris, Pappano conducting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDjwFeKF ... re=related

You can't tell me that isn't awesome.

[Philidor]

Alistair Hulett, who died yesterday. A love song to his wife Fatima:

Militant Red

"There's nothing more breath-takingly beautiful in this world than a communist woman in a summer frock with a red flag in one hand and a brick in the other."

[allegroamabile]

Carl Maria von Weber- Clarinet Quintet in B-flat major: I. Allegro

Richard Stoltzman, clarinet with the Tokyo String Quartet

I think we can all agree that Richard Stoltzman overdoes vibrato on the clarinet.

[sbeckmesser]

Webern Night, a replay of a 3-hour BBC Radio3 documentary program from 2005. Covers Webern's transformation into a serial composer.

--Sixtus

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/classical/webernday.shtml

[wurlitzer153]

Bach - Sonata V, BWV 529
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEhvEz9nBfU

[allegroamabile]

Modest Mussorgsky- Festive March from Mlada

Berlin Philharmonic under Claudio Abbado

The french horn solo towards the beginning is jaw dropping.
edited later: could be a trombone
Can anybody clarify?

[wurlitzer153]

Bach - Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 661 - Todd Wilson on the main Flentrop organ at Trinity Cathedral, Cleveland
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4a9lTf65tw

I was at this concert on December 9, as the church is located directly across the street from my university.

[wurlitzer153]

Pinkham - The Salutation of Gabriel - Todd Wilson, organ and Sara Wolfe, cello
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5x2KiqbEz8

[wurlitzer153]

Krebs - Prelude on Wachet auf - Todd Wilson with Neil Mueller, trumpet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lvcxl-0dF30

More of the organ is visible in this one, and when the camera pans over the crowd I can see myself!

[wurlitzer153]

And for a little levity, how about "Sleigh Ride"?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4IkohspToY