Many other forums have thread like this, so i will open one here:)

I'm listening Chopin Nocturne op.9 no.2

Such a beatiful piece

Stuff I'm accompanying this year:

Feld saxophone sonata
Tomasi saxophone concerto
Barber piano concerto
Pascal saxophone sonatine

And Shostakovich preludes and fugues (Scherbakov)

Bach Inventions and Sinfonias played by Tatiana Nikolayeva. I only discovered that CD yesterday and have been listening to some tracks about five times since then. Her f-minor sinfonia takes about 5 minutes and it is at the same time both very passionate but also very clear in the sense that the voices can be traced so well. I compared this to Schiff's recording (which is more "romantic" I'd say, in the sense that often one voice dominates the others) and, to me at least, the Nikolayeva recording is in an entirely different league. I need to get hold of her WTC soon...

Brahms concertos no1 and no2 by Gilels, Jochum and BPO

Is that Konstantin Scherbakov? He s amazing

I'm technically listening to NPR at the moment. Just before was listening to Ms. Uchida playing Mozart's A minor Rondo.

I have Rachmaninov's 2nd Symphony playing in my CD player at the moment. Whether I'm actually listening to it or using it just as background is something I'm sure most people can guess the answer to it. Maybe there's too much music available "on tap" for our own good nowadays.
The story about Chabrier breaking down in tears on hearing the opening of Tristan and confessing that he'd been waiting years to hear it is well-known. Not so well-known is the fact that Bortkiewicz disdained the mechanical reproduction of music and wrote disparagingly in his memoirs of the fact that it had become possible to listen to Tristan while sitting on the lavatory should one want to!
I understand that if Bing Crosby went into a room where a record was being played and people were talking he would go and turn the record off. It was his view that a lot of people had worked hard to produce that recording and that it should be given the listener's full attention.
I think Mr Crosby was right so, suitably chastised by my own post, will go and eject Rachmaninov from my CD player!

I'm listening to a bunch of things at the moment.

1. Old Horowitz Scarlatti sonata recordings;
2. Rachmaninov Symphony 2;
3. Kissin's performance of Chopin's 1st piano concerto;
4. Argerich's and Rabinovitch's Rachmaninov 2 piano works. In particular Barcarolle.

Mozart's Requiem
Argerich 1965 "legendary" Chopin
R Strauss Songs (Fruehling etc)
A CD of premieres by French composers that I had not heard of before (Hure, Meyer..)and Glazunov ..mostly saxophone + orchestra pieces /concerti
Ashkenazy playing Rach Moments Musicaux etc
anything else in the iPOD shuffle

The problem is I cannot focus on anything else when listening to music.. so driving "on music" is out of the question. Even crossing NYC streets can be dangerous if I have my iPOD on..

I think there's really no telling when or with what one's mind may be occupied. In the middle of a thought, if the radio is on, one may suddenly focus one's attention on the music. And going to the lavatory does not exhaust the cognitive/listening faculties of the mind. One can easily listen to one movement and enjoy a movement of one's own at the same time!

What is it with these threads and (sometimes un)intentional innuendo?

On subject, I am listening to Beethoven-Liszt 5th symphony, Reger variations on Bach, Reger Fantasia and Fugue on Bach (which I am surprisingly coming to like), Beethoven 3rd and 4th piano concerti, Schubert D845, and Barber's Violin concerto.

I'm surprised aby the volume of Beethoven, as I usually don't listen to him much.

Kreisler's response, makes me ask about this -

Do many of you spend time listening to what you like for music enjoyment (just because) or do you listen to something that you are studying? And how do you choose and listen to that, if so.

Darn amp here is on the fritz, so I have not been listening just for enjoyment of late...

But, I have been checking things out on the awful computer speakers (Boston) for things that I am working on, or for looking for my next piece to study. I do love youtube for watching the artist's hands. I learn from the artists. My eyes as well as my ears are working.

I have been immersed in a singer called Ivan Rebroff who passed away this February, and wish I had known of him before.

- In the classical department: Paganini concerto num 2
- In the "you'll be banned for posting this on the Pianist Corner" department: Haggard's last CD, Tales of Ithiria.

Haggard is truly interesting. I love the Death Metal Baroque-approach in "Awaken the Centuries".

Been doing a lot of travelling by train lately - on my iPod I have Lynne Dawson singing Poulenc, Chausson & Chabrier songs, Ian Bostridge singing Wolf - and, in the car, newly acquired CD of Schoenberg, Berg & Webern piano music (Peter Hill).

Prokofiev Sonata No.3 A-minor played by Emil Gilels

Little Willie John's "All Around the World" and "Let Them Talk"; admittedly nothing to do with piano but it's what I'm listening to. Although there is a version by James Booker who sings it and accompanies himself on the piano.

Do you also listen to the Telemann variations? I must say I prefer them over the Bach. And nobody believes at first hearing that they can be from Reger because they are so light-hearted...

Liszt Ballade No.2 in B minor

I've heard them but remained unimpressed, I admit that I was looking for turgid bombast, and it's not to be found there,

I've been listening to the complete Mozart Piano Concertos (Alfred Brendel, Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Sir Neville Marriner), wonderful playing by Brendel and the ASMF are in top form.

The present CD I'm listening to is the soundtrack to The Dark Knight, by Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard. Dark and brooding music, I know, but I appreciate it more since I've seen the movie. Both the music and movie are fantastic.

P/S I love threads like this!

Ravel's Daphnis et Cloe conducted by Karajan with BPO.

Guido Agosti's transcription of stravinsky's firebird suite played by maria mazo

Listening to Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald, lots of Jimi Hendrix, LED ZEPPELIN, the Gray Album... too much to name!

Brahms' Piano Quintet in F Minor. Fantastic piece!

Just finished with the last program of BBC Radio 3's Composer of the Week from last week, Lord Berners. I remember almost working on some of his piano music way back in the sixties. What a wild and crazy guy - the music seems pretty variable to me, but I like some of it. And now, still with Radio 3 from last Friday, it's Tetzlaff and Vogt in Brahms and Bartok sonatas - yum. Between wonderful webcasts like these and YouTube, I rarely listen to my CD collection anymore, or buy new ones.