What are you listening to now?

[Quijote]

I like that a lot. Of course it's tempting to just use cadenzas provided by the composers themselves (and thus draw no criticism for one's own efforts), but it's nice to have some variety among so many recordings and performances of the same piece, and it's nice to hear the creativity of the pianist expressed in way that goes beyond regular interpretational choices.

I'm glad you liked that, as I did, though I have to say it's no way near as virtuoso as Beethoven's own cadenza - no surprises there!
Still, that said, what I liked about Fazil Say's cadenza is that it actually seemed to be a genuine on-the-fly effort, which kind of makes it exciting

[Megan]

Beethoven: Fugue for String Quintet in D Major, Op. 137: Allegretto


I'd love this piece to have lasted longer. Its beautiful.


http://youtu.be/IX0TmUx75QA

[Sorrano]

This past week, on Exploring Music, I've been listening to some excerpts from Paul Hindemith. Some of the music that was sampled were chamber music, some piano music, and some of the larger works such as Mathis der Male, Pioner Musiktag, Das Marienleben, and others. "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd A Requiem for Those We Love" caught my attention, as well. It's been a good musical week.

[Enrique]

Hindemith, Mathis der Maler (symphony).

[Sorrano]

Hindemith, Mathis der Maler (symphony).

Hola, Enrique! Until last week I've had just a little exposure to Hindemith's music. There is a lot that I heard that I quite enjoyed.

[Enrique]

Hola Sorrano! Yes, Hindemith's music is quite enjoyable. I have an LP with works by him, among them the Symphony Mathis der Maler. It's not the opera, but is probably based on it.

Do you know that Hindemith played the viola? And he wrote a concerto for it.

[Sorrano]

Hola Sorrano! Yes, Hindemith's music is quite enjoyable. I have an LP with works by him, among them the Symphony Mathis der Maler. It's not the opera, but is probably based on it.

Do you know that Hindemith played the viola? And he wrote a concerto for it.

Yes, I even heard parts of the concerto last week on Enjoying Music. He was, essentially, familiar with most of the orchestral instruments, enough to play them. If I am not mistaken, some of the recordings featured Hindemith playing viola and piano.

[Quijote]

Beethoven: Fugue for String Quintet in D Major, Op. 137: Allegretto


I'd love this piece to have lasted longer. Its beautiful.


http://youtu.be/IX0TmUx75QA

Thanks for posting that, a new work for me. I would have thought it was a WoO.

[Peter]

Isn't it strange how one thing leads to another discovery? Watching a documentary on Glenn Gould led me to his favourite composer, Orlando Gibbons and to this glorious setting of the Nunc Dimittis and from there to the lovely city of Trier in Germany where this was filmed!

[Chris]

Isn't it strange how one thing leads to another discovery? Watching a documentary on Glenn Gould led me to his favourite composer, Orlando Gibbons and to this glorious setting of the Nunc Dimittis and from there to the lovely city of Trier in Germany where this was filmed!

A lovely piece, and beautifully sung! I might use this one for our schola!

[Sorrano]

Last night I listened to some excerpts from Cherubini's Reqiem in C Minor and excerpts from his 5th String Quartet in F.

[Enrique]

Schoenberg, Gurrelieder.

[Quijote]

Schoenberg, Gurrelieder.

I saw that live a few years ago, front seat - absolutely blew me away, I came out of the concert barely able to talk !!!!

[Enrique]

Hola Quijote. And they are totally tonal!

[Peter]

Mendelssohn piano quartets - when you consider that these 4 quartets were written between the ages of 12 and 15, you realise that he was the most precociously gifted prodigy the world has seen, more advanced even than Mozart at that age as Goethe (who knew both) acknowledged. Incidentally the image on the cd was also by Mendelssohn - he was also a gifted artist!