What Are You Listening To Now?

[Joy]

Originally posted by Gurn Blanston:

Well, my lineup this evening is all the opera (opusses??) from #20, the Septet, to #31, the piano sonatas, including:
Symphony #1, Op 21
piano sonata Op 22,
2 Violin sonatas op 23 & 24,
the flute serenade Op 25
Piano sonata Op 26
2 Piano Sonatas Op 27 (This is where I am right now, Op 27 #1)
Piano Sonata Op 28
String Quintet Op 29
3 Violin Sonatas Op 30
3 Piano Sonatas Op 31

Wow! That's quite a line up, Gurn! What? No Olympics tonight? Last night, you know! For me this morning was Beethoven's Egmont and also Mendelssohn's Overture to "A Midsummer Night's Dream" with Conductor Charles Dutoit and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra. Never get tired of hearing that one!

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'Truth and beauty joined'

[King Stephen]

Gurn,
The Smetana Symphony has a little history to it. Berdrich incorporated the German National anthem in the final movement. Needless to say, the Bohemians did not take kindly to it. It is a work that is seldom performed today.

[spaceray]

Piano music for me this morning,those charming,gay and tiny but perfect Opus 68 of Robert Schumann's Album fur die Jugend.
Angela Brownridge plays the piano.I think she is English.

[Gurn Blanston]

Joy,
You are right about that, Beethoven is perfect for that sort of listening scheme, doesn't work so well with others unless they have a large oeuvre with a variety of genres. Mozart id good too, but Haydn is actually TOO BIG for that! I listen to him by years instead. 1788 was a great one, for example, but 1795 is super! Kinda like a vintage! I like your choices, Montreal/Dutoit do works of that weight just perfectly, IMHO. Their Rossini overtures are tops too.

King,
Ah, the political supression thing. Dvorak's string quartet #1 has a similar history, one of its themes was based on a rebel anthem and the Bohemian government suppressed it for years. So I guess there is a history to more than we think, I just can't imagine a composer being political!

Spacerl,
That sounds lovely. Schumann wrote such wonderful piano music, even though I greatly admire the remainder of his oeuvre, it is his piano that always rises to the top. Is Brownridge a qualifier for the list of first rank pianists that I stupidly overlooked?

Foe me, it is the end of my playlist, but not a bitter end, it is the lovely Sonata in d minor for Piano - #17 - Op 31 #2 - "The Tempest" - Once again the talented Alfred Brendel. Ahhh...



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Regards,
Gurn
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That's my opinion, I may be wrong.
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[Pastorali]

Amalie
Gauli Mauli is a nickname Mozart gave to a Herr Freistädtler and then he wrote about it the Canon 'Lieber Freistädtler' KV.232 It's a nice tune

Gurn, it was amüsant,
we went to a restaurant.
No cooking no vegis no ox,
regards your Bona nox.

WAYLT? Arriaga S.Q.

[Gurn Blanston]

Pastrl,

I'm listening to the Russian play
A little bagatell-o
His name is Mikhail just like me
He plays it very well-o
It's Op 33 right now
But more is on the way-o
Like 34 through 42
Such nice ones will I play-o

Come on, we'll do it like a canon...

[ruudp]

Originally posted by Gurn Blanston:
Pastrl,

I'm listening to the Russian play
A little bagatell-o
His name is Mikhail just like me
He plays it very well-o
It's Op 33 right now
But more is on the way-o
Like 34 through 42
Such nice ones will I play-o

Come on, we'll do it like a canon...

Today it's been a lot,
almost everything i've got
the symphonies nr1,2,3,4,and 5
by our master,regrettably not live
other stuff I did not hear but I did play,
clementi mozart andme ownIf that is also okay

I wish thee al a good night,
don't let the bedbugs bite

Regards,
Rhymemaster ruud


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Music is like Blood...vital too ones well-being

[Sorrano]

Back to roots--sorry it won't rhyme--
Beethoven's Missa Solemnis--not enough time.

(Yikes!)

[Amalie]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Gurn Blanston

Foe me, it is the end of my playlist, but not a bitter end, it is the lovely Sonata in d minor for Piano - #17 - Op 31 #2 - "The Tempest" - Once again the talented Alfred Brendel. Ahhh...


Wonderful indeed Gurn!
I feel a Beethoven day coming on also.

Included in my Sunday morning listening:

Beethoven, Sonata in E major, 0p.14, no.1
Richarde Goode,(piano)

Fantasie in G minor 0p.77
Ronald Brautigam (piano)

Moonlight Sonata, no.14, 0p.27
Alfred Brendel (piano)




If I may contribute to the poetry sessions, I would like to quote a verse from a poem that I love by - Siegfried Sassoon:

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From you Beethoven, Bach, Mozart,
The substance of my dreams took fire,
You built Cathedrals in my heart,
And lit my pinnacled desire.
You were the ardour and the bright
Procession of my thoughts towards prayer.
You were the wrath of storm, the light
On distant citadels aflare.




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~ Unsterbliche Geliebte ~

[Vipercat]

Today it is the great, the awesome...Symphony no. 9 in D minor Op.125 by our beloved maestro!!!!!!!

And guess what, yesterday I got to listen to the "Kreutzer" violin sonata for the first time! Simply adored it!

[Vipercat]

Originally posted by Amalie:
Wonderful indeed Gurn!
I feel a Beethoven day coming on also.

Included in my Sunday morning listening:

Beethoven, Sonata in E major, 0p.14, no.1
Richarde Goode,(piano)

Fantasie in G minor 0p.77
Ronald Brautigam (piano)

Moonlight Sonata, no.14, 0p.27
Alfred Brendel (piano)




If I may contribute to the poetry sessions, I would like to quote a verse from a poem that I love by - Siegfried Sassoon:

~*~

From you Beethoven, Bach, Mozart,
The substance of my dreams took fire,
You built Cathedrals in my heart,
And lit my pinnacled desire.
You were the ardour and the bright
Procession of my thoughts towards prayer.
You were the wrath of storm, the light
On distant citadels aflare.

My sentiments exactly, thanks for the nice poem, Amalie! A great lineup for you too.

[ruudp]

Originally posted by Vipercat:
Today it is the great, the awesome...Symphony no. 9 in D minor Op.125 by our beloved maestro!!!!!!!

And guess what, yesterday I got to listen to the "Kreutzer" violin sonata for the first time! Simply adored it!

one can't do anything else BUT adore it...it's nickname is a but dubious though at first this sonata was written for the african virtuoso George Bridgetower with whom He premiered the piece. At the first perfomance beethoven had just Barely completed the piece and the 2nd movement had too be played from beethovens writing of..this movement was also the movement they had too play double as an encore..I am particulary fond of the 1st movement..the way he balances the adagio and the presto Marvellous...as a matter of fact as soon as I have finished listening too the 9 symphonies *I'm at nr.6 right now the last movement* I'll have a go at the kreutzer aswell

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Music is like Blood...vital too ones well-being

[Gurn Blanston]

OK, I apologize for yesterday's poetry, it was Pastorali's fault, he started it, KNEW I coukdn't resist. He is a rascal! Ya'll did well though...

Amalie,
That Brautigam is on fortepiano, yes? I have heard his play a couple of times, he is really quite good. And then Brendel & Goode, a morning of Beethoven specialists! Wonderful! Nice poem also, although the guy doesn't have quite the way with words that the "Doggerel Master" does.

VC,
Ah, the tradition is taking hold already. Soon you won't be able to iagine it otherwise. Super. And the Kreutzer too. Every time I like to say that this or that is my favorite violin sonata, then I hear the Kreutzer again and that is all out the window. Just nothing else quite like it.

Ruud,
So you have made it 2/3 of the way on that trip through the symphonies! Is this all one set? Or are they by various performers? Not that it matters, I am just curious, always! Rhymemaster indeed, soon you shall be in Amerika doing rap!

For me, it is the Symphony in d minor - #9 - Op 125 - Beethoven - Chamber Orchestra of Europe / Harnoncourt - perfect way to begin a Sunday, then some golf. Life is good!!


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Regards,
Gurn
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That's my opinion, I may be wrong.
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[ruudp]

Originally posted by Gurn Blanston:
OK, I apologize for yesterday's poetry, it was Pastorali's fault, he started it, KNEW I coukdn't resist. He is a rascal! Ya'll did well though...

Amalie,
That Brautigam is on fortepiano, yes? I have heard his play a couple of times, he is really quite good. And then Brendel & Goode, a morning of Beethoven specialists! Wonderful! Nice poem also, although the guy doesn't have quite the way with words that the "Doggerel Master" does.

VC,
Ah, the tradition is taking hold already. Soon you won't be able to iagine it otherwise. Super. And the Kreutzer too. Every time I like to say that this or that is my favorite violin sonata, then I hear the Kreutzer again and that is all out the window. Just nothing else quite like it.

Ruud,
So you have made it 2/3 of the way on that trip through the symphonies! Is this all one set? Or are they by various performers? Not that it matters, I am just curious, always! Rhymemaster indeed, soon you shall be in Amerika doing rap!

For me, it is the Symphony in d minor - #9 - Op 125 - Beethoven - Chamber Orchestra of Europe / Harnoncourt - perfect way to begin a Sunday, then some golf. Life is good!!

the symphony nr.7, just finishing listening that.
the symphonies are indeed together as a set.

The staatskappele Dresden is the one in play,
I'm enjoying them allll the way.

now on too nr.8 and then too nr.9
too fisish things up the kreutzer is also in my line.

now this was my rap I hope it was okay,
And I wish you all a very NICE day.

YOWWW,
Ruud


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Music is like Blood...vital too ones well-being

[This message has been edited by ruudp (edited 08-29-2004).]

[ruudp]

Originally posted by Gurn Blanston:
Ruud,
Ah yes, Clementi, I have heard that he shows up frequently in teaching courses. And nice little works too. I have only a few of his sonatas, but not those sonatines. Oh, not to worry, I haven't lost my mind: pianoforte is just the Italian word for piano, as opposed to fortepiano.
A good days listening for you too. That Vivaldi, I saw you listened to it also yesterday, so, is it a recording of yours, or that streaming audio place? If yours, I would be interested in the RV # so I can look it up.

Spacerl,
Oh, no doubt, that is B's 16th and last string quartet, in F major, a lovely work that many people today consider to be a turning back away from some of the advances he made previously. Hard to imagine that the reviewer found it confusing, even I can make my way through it OK, and I'm... well, let's just say I'm not a musician!

For me though, it is the Sinfonia in A major "Symphony in the Taste of 5 Nations" - Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf. The 5 movements are;
German: Andantino
Italian: Allegro
English: Allegretto
French: Minuet Turkish: Trio
Finale (???)

Quite an interesting chap, Ditters, need to find more about him, I think.

Pastorali,
You do have a way with words, mein Freund! I knew if I committed myself to anything that some would be disappointed, but Joy made me do it, you should get after her! Good music going, I see though, opening with the Hüttenbrenner again I see. I looked that disk up, I see why yuou like it, so many nice things on there!

My excuses for being late But It cost me quite searching..BUT I've finally found the nr and name of concerto..

Concerto per violino, archi e basso continuo in D, Op.7 No.11 'Grosso Mogul', RV.208a
By antonio Vivaldi...

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Music is like Blood...vital too ones well-being