Spinning before bedtime

[Alison]

Come on, lets listen to something before we retire.

What's your approach: something soothing, something smooth ?

Oh, these are very CFM words !

Something more intimate perhaps.

I feel inspired by another thread to take down Beethoven's
opus 7 in the Craig Sheppard recording.

[Il Grande Inquisitor]

Often an instrumental piece or chamber music late at night - recently Rubinstein's Chopin (the Sony Masterworks box), Alain Planes' Debussy and Schubert's Octet.

At the moment though, there are writing deadlines approaching, so something rather loud and symphonic this evening instead...

[Alison]

Look forward to reading the results, Mark.

It has always fascinated me how late night listening to the big symphonic works
can bring fresh perspectives. I mean, Bruckner 9 (iii) just doesnt sound so
conclusive at 9.15 !

[Bryn]

I'll go for the Opus 7 sonata too - Malcolm Binns on a 1794 Broadwood (from vynil).

[Alison]

Not too much surface noise, I hope, Nethers.

[pastoralguy]

I often do night shift at work and I often listen to the Fournier recording of the Bach 'cello suites for late-through the night listening.

[Bryn]

Not too much surface noise, I hope, Nethers.

Bearable rather than absent, Alison. I note that PB-S also used a 1790s Broadwood for his fortepiano recording of Op. 7. Brautigam used his usual McNulty copy of an 1802 Walter. I have a feeling that the Brautigam is the only recording using a fortepiano which is currently in the catalogue.

[Roehre]

A couple of years ago I listened quite a lot to Zimmermann's Tratto and Tratto II, two electronic works from the 1960s which do relax me completely. Nowadays I am going to bed without any music whatsoever.

[MickyD]

I think you're right about the Brautigam being the only fortepiano recording on CD, Bryn - strange that, in a market full of period performances.

As for me, I retired last night having listened to some Louis Couperin from Davitt Moroney's intégrale for Harmonia Mundi - nice, reflective pieces.

[Chris Newman]

I put on a CD of waves gently lapping on a beach, shut my eyes and think exotic thoughts......:cool2:

[Parry1912]

Last night it was Act 1 of 'Pelleas et Melisande' in the Karajan recording. The night before: Haydn's 'Oxford' Symphony (Fischer). Before that Ysaye's 5th and 6th solo violin sonatas. I like to keep things varied

[Thomas Roth]

Penderecki: Dies Irae.

[maestro267]

I always listen to music when I'm in bed. I usually try to listen to something relatively short, although sometimes I can get through a 35-40-minute symphony before I fall asleep.

Last night: Sibelius 1 (first and last movements)
Night before: Sibelius 7

[rubbernecker]

I always listen to something before falling asleep, normally something quietly meditative from the French baroque like Couperin's Leçons De Ténèbres or Bouzignac's In Pace, In Idipsum, or from the English choral tradition, like Tallis's Videte Miraculum or Sheppard's Media Vita. Lassus is also effective in drawing me into a trance-like world of counterpoint, suspension and shadows where my brain disengages and I drift off....

[Barbirollians]

The Spring Sonata- Y & H Menuhin tonight .