What are you listening to right now?

[Pastorali]

You all there above
I also like the Sibelius Violin Concerto! Reminded to my memorie thru Chaszz's post, I listened yesterday to this nice VC.
Nigel on violin, though I also would prefer Heifetz

Right now: Schubert, 'Einsamkeit' D620 with Gundula Janowitz

[Gurn Blanston]

But moving on, this morning, a wonderful Friday, we start the day with the unheralded Concerto in C for Piano & Orchestra - #8 - K 246 - The lovely and talented W. A. Mozart!


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Gurn
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[Pastorali]

Originally posted by Gurn Blanston:
But moving on, this morning, a wonderful Friday, we start the day with the unheralded Concerto in C for Piano & Orchestra - #8 - K 246 - The lovely and talented W. A. Mozart!

Gurn
Yes, really a moving day. Because we have FATHER DAY here today! My kids prepared a breakfast to me, including a Concerto of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach on radio...ain't that a nice start to the day? (I believe it was played by the Hannover Band)

Later with Schubert's 'Einsamkeit' and 'Winterreise', I came into a too mood for such a day, so back to B. and his first symphony. Always a gooooood choice!

...and without voices, you could add...



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[Gurn Blanston]

Originally posted by Pastorali:
Gurn
Yes, really a moving day. Because we have FATHER DAY here today! My kids prepared a breakfast to me, including a Concerto of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach on radio...ain't that a nice start to the day? (I believe it was played by the Hannover Band)

Later with Schubert's 'Einsamkeit' and 'Winterreise', I came into a too mood for such a day, so back to B. and his first symphony. Always a gooooood choice!

...and without voices, you could add...

[This message has been edited by Pastorali (edited March 19, 2004).]

Pastorali,
Well, best wishes to you, Papa! That does sound like a good way to start the day, C.P.E. Bach can be quite jolly at times.
I am still listening to Mozart, so the day must be going well. Now is the Symphony in D, derived from the Haffner Serenade - Academy of Ancient Music - Interesting concept, to change a serenade into a symphony. Certainly something that could not be done too much after this time (1776).


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Gurn
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[Chaszz]

Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 1 on Naxos radio (see my other thread posting on this service). Very enjoyable. Based on the final movement, it might rather be called Mozart's Symphony No. 41a.

[Pastorali]

Originally posted by Gurn Blanston:

I am still listening to Mozart, so the day must be going well.

Surely one of the best values, to get well!

I did read, only about five of all his symphonies are established in the concert halls today. I really can't believe this is true, what do you mean?

I'm listening to the Kyrie of the Mass in H of Bach (the older) Nobly!

[Gurn Blanston]

Originally posted by Pastorali:

Originally posted by Gurn Blanston:

I am still listening to Mozart, so the day must be going well.

Surely one of the best values, to get well!

I did read, only about five of all his symphonies are established in the concert halls today. I really can't believe this is true, what do you mean?

I'm listening to the Kyrie of the Mass in H of Bach (the older) Nobly!

Pastorali,
Oh yes, well, Mozart actually has about 55 authentic symphonies. IN some of them he actually used overtures to his operas and wrote new finale, and in others he took selected movements from his big orchestral serenades and made them a symphony. This was not cheating in some way, this is what was done in those days when a symphony was nothing special. It was only after 1783 or 84 when symphonies became the centerpiece of a composer's oeuvre. Until then they were as nothing!
And for now, Mozart's very first Piano Trio, in Bb, K 254. Splendid!



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Gurn
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[spaceray]

Glenn Gould,Goldberg Variations ,1955
Isn't it Bach's Birthday on Sunday?

[v russo]

Originally posted by spaceray:
Glenn Gould,Goldberg Variations ,1955
Isn't it Bach's Birthday on Sunday?

...GO GOULD!
I have that boxed set "A State of Wonder" which compiles his 2 performances of the masterwork, the 1955 and 1981 performances. I like the 1955 for its vitality (though I think he took it much to Allegro)the 1981 performance is much more mature and profound.

There's that name Glenn Gould again Peter...




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[v russo]

the masters Op.126 Bagatells performed by Ashkenasy on a London release. I prefer the Gould version I have but this interpretation is nice...

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[Gurn Blanston]

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra - William Walton - Joshua Bell - Baltimore Symphony / Zinman. Wait a minute, Walton was born in 1902! Achhhh....


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Gurn
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[Pastorali]

Jospeh Haydn: Symphonies #13 & 36
(Cologne Chamber Orchestra) Again a very nice naxos piece.

Those, which scoffed him as 'Papa Haydn', those had not much notion! He is today still fresher, than his critics ever were...

[Gurn Blanston]

Sonata in Bb for Violin & Piano - K 454 - W.A. Mozart - The "Strinasacchi Sonata" named after the violinist it was written for. This is the famous work of which the story is told that M didnt have time to write out the piano part so performed it with a blank sheet of paper in front of him, virtually extemporizing with one of the great violinists of the time! This guy could be a star some day!



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Gurn
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[spaceray]

Regina Strinasacchi(1764-1839) was active in Italy and Austria during the 1780's,Strinasacchi later toured extensively as a soloist but was also acclaimed as a chamber musician specializing in the string quartets of Haydn.
Mozart writes in a letter to his father...
"We now have here the famous Strinacchi from Mantua,a very good violinist.She has a great deal of taste and feeling in her playing,I am this moment composing a sonata which we are going to play together at her concert in the theater."
Vienna ,28th April 1784.

[King Stephen]

A good day here for the Bruckner Symphony No. 3