What are you listening to now?

[Peter]

Another neglected Symphony and composer Vasily Kalinnikov Symphony no.1

[Quijote]

Beethoven, WoO 150: "Evening Song Under the Starry Heavens" (Abendlied unterm gestirnten Himmel).

Two versions here (the first with Spanish, English & German subtitles) in two different keys (E & D):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvbd6aUifaE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HB2pPC5nAnY&t=105s

Thought I'd listen to this work whilst reading the blurb surrounding the Albrecht translations of the Beethoven conversation books:

Another off-the-beaten-path listening suggestion is an unpublished song written late in Beethoven’s life. Referenced in the conversation books, “Evening Song Under the Starry Heavens” had been thought by many scholars to have been directly inspired by Beethoven’s reading of the philosopher Immanuel Kant. In fact, Albrecht says, Beethoven had taken his cue from a practical article about astronomy, before recognizing the parallel philosophical significance and writing the song.

“It presents a very pantheistic view of nightfall, and it's one of the most profound things that we've got in the late Beethoven literature from the 1820s,” Albrecht says. “It's absolutely wonderful.”

(Source: https://www.rochestercitynewspaper.c...t?oid=11942409)

[Quijote]

Still on the subject of the Albrecht translations of the Conversation books:
https://www.theguardian.com/music/20...s-musicologist

[Peter]

Still on the subject of the Albrecht translations of the Conversation books:
https://www.theguardian.com/music/20...s-musicologist

Thanks for that and the song, beautifully serene. Interesting about the extent of deafness and that Beethoven seems to have resorted to conversation books as a means of preserving what little hearing he had. I note the date of that article (Feb 2020) still looking ahead to the 250th anniversary celebrations that were not to be!

[Henrik Stromberg]

Another neglected Symphony and composer Vasily Kalinnikov Symphony no.1

Beautiful! Thank you!

[Megan]

• Johannes Brahms
  
  
  Two Hungarian Dances - no 11 in D minor, no 5 in G minor
  
  Orchestra: Sinfonia Varsovia. Conductor: Robert Trevino.
  • PLPR.
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  
  
  Melody, from Souvenir d'un lieu cher, Op 42
  
  Performer: Hyun-Mi Kim. Performer: Seung-Hye Choi.
  • KRKBS.
• Margo K?lar
  
  
  Oo (The Night) (1998)
  
  Performer: Heiki M?tlik. Author: I. Hirv. Singer: Kaia Urb.
  • EEER.
• Lodewijk De Vocht
  
  
  Towards a Higher Light
  
  Performer: Luc Tooten. Orchestra: Brussels Philharmonic. Conductor: Jan Latham-Koenig.

[Megan]

youtu.be/in8_u2pswdo

[Megan]

https://youtu.be/QaxhabQ1_s0. .....Nadejda Vlaeva:
DREAM by Bortkiewicz

[Peter]

I was listening to Mozart's 'Jupiter' symphony conducted by Colin Davis on an old CD - can you imagine my horror when it seized up just at the start of the glorious coda to the finale?!!

[Sorrano]

I was listening to Mozart's 'Jupiter' symphony conducted by Colin Davis on an old CD - can you imagine my horror when it seized up just at the start of the glorious coda to the finale?!!

That's an awful thing to happen! The radio, this morning, presented Mozart's 15th Piano Concerto. That did not have interruptions.

[gprengel]

Another neglected Symphony and composer Vasily Kalinnikov Symphony no.1

Yes, this is one of the greatest symphonies of the Romantic , especially the unique slow movement!!

[gprengel]

I am just enjoying these rather unknown late paino variations by Mozart - awesome especially the slow variation at: 7:12: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7LiGbmFfJg

[Chris]

I am just enjoying these rather unknown late paino variations by Mozart - awesome especially the slow variation at: 7:12: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7LiGbmFfJg

Yes, I love these too. I discovered this and many less known works by buying volumes of The Complete Mozart edition and similar collections. So many hidden gems! Not all groundbreaking works, but you never know where you will find a great piece that you particularly love.

[Peter]

The glorious Andante slow movement from Schumann's Piano quartet in Eb

[Peter]

Brahms - Nanie, for chorus and orchestra.