What are you listening to right now

[Gurn Blanston]

P.
Super! Kind of a pleasant little poem, I can almost imagine a tune to go with it.
For me, a Concerto in C major for Piano - #21 - K 467 - Mozart wrote this exactly because he knew there would be a very bad movie made one day that would need good music to save it!


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Gurn
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[Tegan]

Originally posted by Gurn Blanston:
Tegan,
Probably as a teacher she can only like someone who plays every note perfectly, no mattter how musical he is otherwise. I think it is required by the Teacher's Code!

That is quite possible. I think her favorite pianists are Vladimir Horowitz and Emil Gilels. I like them too, but my favorite pianists are Dinu Lipatti, Glenn Gould, and Rudolf Serkin. What about you?

[Gurn Blanston]

Originally posted by Tegan:
That is quite possible. I think her favorite pianists are Vladimir Horowitz and Emil Gilels. I like them too, but my favorite pianists are Dinu Lipatti, Glenn Gould, and Rudolf Serkin. What about you?

Tegan,
I love Serkin, his B cello sonatas with Casals are the best. I also like Brendel, Kempff and Pletnev, all very good in Beethoven. Haven't heard any Lipatti, although I have heard good things about him. There are surely a lot of good pianists out there, more than a person can reasonably keep track of
And now, the Fantasia in c minor, K 475. Amade in thoughtful mood.



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[Pastorali]

Bona nox, bist a rechter Ox. KV 561, Well, well Amadée, this is for adults only!

[Gurn Blanston]

Originally posted by Pastorali:
Bona nox, bist a rechter Ox. KV 561, Well, well Amadée, this is for adults only!

As I told you, Amade could be a pretty earthy guy when he wished, much like Gurn!
Now is the one movement fragment of the Concerto in C for Violin, WoO 5 by the Master. Not as funny as a canon, perhaps, but so very nice. This was a complete work at one time, such a pity that the remainder of it is lost. Maybe one day...



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[JA Gardiner]

Originally posted by Gurn Blanston:
P.
Super! Kind of a pleasant little poem, I can almost imagine a tune to go with it.
For me, a Concerto in C major for Piano - #21 - K 467 - Mozart wrote this exactly because he knew there would be a very bad movie made one day that would need good music to save it!

Ha! Now that sounds like another discussion thread. Dear Gustav ( Mahler) must have been touched by the same prescience when writing the Adagietto for his 5th - and I'm now listening to the wonderfully OTT version performed by Bernstein. Mind you as I recall that was rather a good film
And what about Wagner? I guess he'd spin like a helicopter to see what Francis Ford Copolla did with the Ride of the Valkyries

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Beethoven the Man!



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[dbass]

Aloha Friends..I have only just today discovered these Beethoven/Classic pages. Presently I am listening to the Schnittke Viola
concerto. Yuri Bashmet viola and Rostropovich leading the London SO. I regard the work as an important 21 century composition and wish a study score were available.

What can be said of Beethoven? Well, as a stringplayer (doublebass) nobody wrote for strings as did he in my opinion. He sure loved his triplets didn't he.

Its been good reading all you folks here and hope to share with you folks in the future
when and what I can.



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[Gurn Blanston]

JAG,
I think "Apocalypse Now" was probably the best thing to ever happen to Wagner, but hey, that's just me, I'm known for it

dbass
Well, the scherzo of the 5th and the beautiful little recitativo of the 9th, if they don't make a bassist out of you, nothing will But what of Bottesini? A nice little concerto to really give you a workout! I love the bass (has anyone, not a bassist, ever written that down before?) and particularly music that makes the most of it. Wilkommen!

And for me this lovely evening, is the Trio in G for Piano & Strings - Op 1 #2 - The Master. Splendid. Gives the cellist a pretty good workout too!


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Gurn
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[Pastorali]

I suddenly noticed today, that I am on a 'Mozart-Wave' since a week. So it goes with such bad influences on a Beethoven board...
If I'm not wrong, this is Mozart's very last composition: K622 Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra in A Major. And it's a very nice one too, what else?

[Gurn Blanston]

Originally posted by Pastorali:
I suddenly noticed today, that I am on a 'Mozart-Wave' since a week. So it goes with such bad influences on a Beethoven board...
If I'm not wrong, this is Mozart's very last composition: K622 Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra in A Major. And it's a very nice one too, what else?

P.
Well, not his last, that would be the Requiem, but the last orchestral piece anyway. Nice work too!
For me though, it is the Master, the Overture to King Stephan - Op 117 - Very nice. I would like to hear any other incidental music that may go with this, but no such luck!




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[King Stephen]

The wonderful Missa Solemnis of Hummel.

[Pastorali]

Originally posted by King Stephen:
The wonderful Missa Solemnis of Hummel.

I listened before to Hummel's Trompetenkonzert in E. Now W. A. Mozart, K16 + K19. all superb.

[Gurn Blanston]

Originally posted by Pastorali:
I listened before to Hummel's Trompetenkonzert in E. Now W. A. Mozart, K16 + K19. all superb.

Ha, I have a Hummel trumpetkonzert also, only in E dur instead of E, the only Hummel I have. Good stuff. That is also Wynton Marsalis, that CD with Haydn & Leopold Mozart.
But for now, it is again the Concerto in g minor for Violin - #1 - Op 26 - Max Bruch. Had been so long since I hear this that I had to listen again! But next, it will be a Concerto in D major for Violin - Op 61 - You know who!



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Gurn
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[JA Gardiner]

The Marseillaise! - as featured in Tchaikovsky's 1812. Well, France are just about to kick off in Euro 2004 against Croatia. Not that Russia appear to have much of a chance in this competition. Later, it will be Butterworth - Banks of Green Willow and Vaughan Williams Folk Song suite in honour of a very satisfying, if not great, England 3-0 victory over Switzerland - ( at Soccer for anyone wondering what I'm burbling about)

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[dbass]

Aloha Gurn (Folks)..my remark about LvB being 'thee' string writer, I did mean to say ensemble string writer. You realize most of the great musical genius composers never composed for the bass. When I was young I did do the
Capuzzi concerto in F and have worked up the Dragonetti (in A) and played around with the Bottesini to become familiar with it.

Only in the last 50/60 years has much good composition for the bass appeared, and there are great good virtuosi of the db today. I
mean with monster technique. Frank Proto,
Francois Rabbath, Edgar Meyer et al idoms.

the db is easy to love, like the woman of your dreams ..well, mine anyway.

a hui ho
db