What Are You Listening to Now?

[Amalie]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Gurn Blanston:
[B]Amalie,
I received that same set of Ovid as a gift from a dear friend, it is quite impressive and a reminder that Dittersdorf was considered one of the top masters of his craft. Very nice.

For me this lovely AM, it is the Symphony in d minor, #9 - Op 125 - Louis Beethoven. Vienna PO / Bernstein. A slower tempo than we have become accustomed to, and yet "just right" in many ways. Lovely playing by the boys in the band will always save the day!!

Amalie, I never tried to translate "Calm Seas..." before, does it go like this?

"Stick close to your desk, and never go to sea,
and you may be the ruler of the Queen's Navee"


^

Oh no, Not Gilbert & Sullivan!

I grew so rich that I was sent
By a pocket borough into Parliament
I always voted at the party's call,
And never thought of thinking for myself at all,
I thought so little, they rewarded me
By making me the ruler of the Queen's Navy

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So what's new, has anything changed in the councils of government!


Listening to -
Antonio Vivaldi:
Six sonatas for Violincello and Basso Continuo.
Anner Bylsma, Violincello
Francesco Galligioni, violincello
Ivano Zanenghi, Archlute
Alessandro Sbrogio Violone
Andrea Marcon, Organ

These are lovely miniature showcases for violincello.


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[Gurn Blanston]

Amalie,
I love Gilbert & Sullivan, Gilbert is the most biting, sarcastic librettist to come down the pike in a while! I thought your better half would particularly enjoy;

"When I was a lad I served a term,
as apprentice boy to an attorneys firm.."

Although, the politicos must surely love your quote too. Wonder what Judith will think?

For me, it is the Symphony #4 in G major - "Great National" - Muzio Clementi.



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Gurn
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[Ahmad]

The spider feast ballet, Op.17 by Albert Roussel(1869-1937),
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra,
conductor :Yan Pascal Tortelier cond.

This french composer is more often heard about than heard...!

[JA Gardiner]

Originally posted by Gurn Blanston:
Amalie,
I love Gilbert & Sullivan, Gilbert is the most biting, sarcastic librettist to come down the pike in a while! I thought your better half would particularly enjoy;

"When I was a lad I served a term,
as apprentice boy to an attorneys firm.."

Although, the politicos must surely love your quote too. Wonder what Judith will think?

For me, it is the Symphony #4 in G major - "Great National" - Muzio Clementi.

Hey - don't mind me! I've been a huge G&S fan since singing in "Pirates" at school - a better Major-General's daughter you never did see! My favourite political allusion however is of course from Iolanthe
" when in that House MPs divide
If they've a brain and a cerebellum too,
They have to leave that brain outside,
and vote just as their leaders tell 'em to!" (I'm sure my friend the Government Whip would approve!)
or alternatively:
"The prospect of a lot
of dull MPs in close proximity,
all thinking for themselves is what
No man can face with equanimity! "
I could go on to the Criminal Justice field, (my real job) on which Gilbert is equally trenchant. But of course for this forum I think a reference to the song in the Mikado on making the punishment fit the crime is most apt:
" The music-hall singer attends a series
of masses and fugues and 'ops'
By Bach, interwoven
with Spohr and Beethoven,
at classical Monday Pops!"
A just and enlightened disposal IMHO M'Lud! Ever seen it in a PSR Tony?
Meanwhile LVB rocks! - Symphonies 3 through 9 from the Zinman set - which you're right Gurn is absolutely thrilling.
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[Sorrano]

I just got through listening to Bruckner's Mass in E Minor and 4 of his motets, performed by the Kammerchor Stuttgart with Frieder Bernius conducting. This is a very powerful and passionate performance--very nice sound to it, as well. Does anyone know if Bruckner's complete choral/vocal music has been recorded? I think his choral writing is some of the finest ever written.

[Amalie]

Mozart: Eine Kleine Nachtsmusik
Takacs Quartet.
Arcangelo Corelli:Concerto Grosso no.8 in G minor 0p.6/4. Collegium Musicum 90/Simon Standage.
Jeremiah Clarke: Prince of Denmark's March
English Chamber Orchestra/Antony Newman.
Howard Shore: The fellowship of the Ring,
from the Lord of the Rings,
City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra/Nic Raine.



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[Gurn Blanston]

Ahmad,
Not only not heard, not heard of! Sounds interesting. Is he like very Late Romantic, or more 20th century modern?

JA,
I am the very model of a modern Major-General, myself! I like THAT quote too, seems as though British and America can reach agreement there, too! I was sure you would like Zinman, I think his 7th just rocks! One of the best versions I've heard.

Sorrano,
I have never heard any, but also because I shop a lot, I look at things like that and I have never seen any recordign of it either. There may be thousands though...

Amalie,
Nice list! That Corelli is the Christmas Concerto, yes? I like that one. I have half of Op 6, I like his style. I also found some Locatelli, his Op 1, which is really quite nice, but not the supercharged fiddling that one hears in "L'Arte del Arco".

For me now, it is the Symphony in G major, #25 - Michael Haydn. While he is not his brother, these are really fine examples of classical symphonies. To say that someone is not the equal of Joseph Haydn is no insult, that's for sure!


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

W.A. Mozart - Grabmusiken KV.42
I love it...

[Ahmad]

Gurn,
And he is new to me also!
This man is considreed the dominant french composer of the inter-war era. He's known as a symphonist and ballet composer. His style is influenced by Debussy in his early works, while he turns to neoclassicism afterwards ..

Here's a good site about Albert Roussel: www.opus1.com/~ehoornaert/roussel

Now, with the beautiful second movement of Bach keyboard concerto in F minor (2)

Academy of St.Martin_in_the_Fields, Sir Neville Marriner
Andrei Gavrilov, pino



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[Joy]

Sounds like a lot of good listening today!
Gurn: I like Corelli's Christmas concerto too and have it on CD.
Today has been a Beethoven day all via radio. To start things out with was the Piano Sonata No. 23 in f Op 57 "Appassionata" with Sviatoslav Richter, piano; Coriolan Overture; Piano Concerto #3 (am listening to this as we speak); Consecration of the House Overture; and the Triple Concerto in C Opus 56. A wonderful Beethoven day!

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[Amalie]

Beethoven: Piano Sonata, 0p. 90
Xaver Scharwenka, [piano]

Christian G. Neefe, Keyboard concerto
Christine Schornsheim [fortepiano]

Brahms: Hungarian Dances,
Norwegian Radio Orchestra



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[atserriotserri]

Today I'm listening to Sibelius' symphony 2, op. 43 and Finland, op. 26.

Very nice music to listen at, but perhaps a little... plain?

The well known but never enough listened LvB Cello Sonatas (Rostropovich / Richter) will be my company this evening.

[Gurn Blanston]

Amalie,
Well, Op 90 is always beautiful, one of my favorites. That Neefe sounds very interesting, I would really like to hear something by him.

atserri,
I see you struggled for the proper descriptive word there. I would too, my choice was cold, slightly barren feeling. As for the cello sonatas, I don't know how I could listen to them more! I love'em!

For me now, it is the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment playing a lovely concerto grosso in a minor for recorder, viola de gamba & strings by Georg Phillip Telemann. Telemann is usually thought of as an Baroque composer, bu the lived a very long life at a crucial time in music history, and much of his later work centered on Empfindsamkeit, which was the more "learned" version of galant. These concerti show that trend, they don't sound like multiphonic Baroque works a bit, although there were not a whole lot of viola de gambas and recorders still around in the classical age!


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

I have much listening to do today. I received my latest installment of obscure composers music among the new works I will be listening to are the following;
Gossec - Grande Messe des Morts
Dittersdorf - three sinfonias
Dussek - three sinfonias
Hofmann - five symphonies
Beck - five symphonies
Cimarosa - Concerto for 2 Flutes and Chamber Orch.
Devienne - 2 Flute Concertos

This, for me, is a banquet of music, most of which I have never heard before. I can't think of a better way to spend a day that is dreary and gloomy outside.
KS

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[Pastorali]

Happy listening Steve, that sounds really interesting!

I'm listening to 'Thamos, König in Ägypten' KV.345
'Les petits riens' KV.299b
WAM!