What are you listening to right now?

[Andrea]

Schubert's Sym.#8 and #9.

[Steppenwolf]

Mozart's famous motet - 'Exultate Jubilate'

Breathtakingly beautiful! Like a ray of warmth and sunshine. There is something of the renaissance spirit in it ... the warm sunny weather and elegance of renaissance Italy shines throught it.

[Pastorali]

Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179)

Gregorianic Singings

[Joy]

Beethoven's Symphony #1
Revolutionary & Romantic Orchestra
John Eliot Gardiner, conductor

Good to hear this one again, it's been a while.

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[Chaszz]

Beethoven's Missa Solemnis.

[Ahmad]

Beethoven's Choral Fantasy...

[Peter]

Cherubini's 1st Requiem - it really is a very fine work and deserves to be better known but I have always been puzzled at Beethoven's preference for it over the Mozart which to my ear is a far more powerful and original work.

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[Pastorali]

Originally posted by Peter:
Cherubini's 1st Requiem - it really is a very fine work and deserves to be better known but I have always been puzzled at Beethoven's preference for it over the Mozart which to my ear is a far more powerful and original work.

That's sounds splendid, as I'm momentary on this line. I don't know both these Requiems, but I guess to find Mozart's one in my dad's rack. That brings me to the question, why Beethoven did write no Requiem?

I'm listening to Schubert's 'Winterreise', though we got almost spring here...

[Chaszz]

Last night on TV I saw a 1999 Hamburg State Opera production of Weber's Der Freischutz. A "modrunistic" set and production travesty, complete with roughly exaggerated campy ham acting, against all of which the music struggled vainly to prevail.

A fitting purgatory for these "modrun" directors and the producers who promote them would be to have to endure each others' productions over and over again for eternity. With the music played on tinny transistor radios.

[Gurn Blanston]

The Quintet in A for Strings #1 Op 18 by Felix Mendelssohn - Hausmusik by Hausmusik



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[Peter]

Originally posted by Pastorali:
That's sounds splendid, as I'm momentary on this line. I don't know both these Requiems, but I guess to find Mozart's one in my dad's rack. That brings me to the question, why Beethoven did write no Requiem?

I'm listening to Schubert's 'Winterreise', though we got almost spring here...

You must get to know Mozart's requiem! Beethoven was contemplating writing a requiem - he thought it should be peaceful music. The only requiem I can think of that approaches that stance is the Faure.


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[Pastorali]

Originally posted by Peter:

You must get to know Mozart's requiem! Beethoven was contemplating writing a requiem - he thought it should be peaceful music. The only requiem I can think of that approaches that stance is the Faure.

I have no idea about this. Was this at the time arround creating the Missa? And why he didn't, finally? One just can guess how wonderful this work would be!!!!!!!

...listening to Hüttenbrenner's Missa, F minor, also a very peaceful work

[Joy]

Originally posted by Peter:

You must get to know Mozart's requiem! Beethoven was contemplating writing a requiem - he thought it should be peaceful music. The only requiem I can think of that approaches that stance is the Faure.

Mozart's Requiem is a piece worth getting to know. Wasn't its completion under the direction of Mozart's widow, Constanze? Was Beethoven's thoughts of writing a requiem interrupted by his time consuming events with his nephew Karl?



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[Amalie]

Originally posted by Peter:

You must get to know Mozart's requiem! Beethoven was contemplating writing a requiem - he thought it should be peaceful music. The only requiem I can think of that approaches that stance is the Faure.

Peter,
What would be your recommended recording of Mozart's Requiem. John Eliot Gardiner with the Monteverdi choir perhaps?

Thanks>>

[v russo]

Beethovens 3rd with Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonic from the early 60's. Truly amazing! What a ground breaking work. I can see why B said this symphony was his favorite.



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