what are we listening too now??

[atserriotserri]

Originally posted by Gurn Blanston:

atserri,
I have seen many glowing recomendations of Rubinstein/Chopin. Sometimes a performer just has that affinity for a composer. And yet another version of the 4th! Beecham is supposed to be a wonderful accompanist. I really need to find some disk of his, I have heard so much.

Regarding Rubinstein/Chopin: I subscribe that recomendations. I have Biret & Ashkenazy (I have great respect for him) and Mr. Rubinstein is amazing. And he is amazing in all his recordings, no matter they're from 1910s or 1960s, or the years between. (P.S: I don't work for BMG classics, that's not advertising. )

Regarding LvB 4th piano concert: It is reported to be some kind of landmark recording, that Beecham/Rubinstein, since Rubinstein felt that concert as "the one closest to his heart" (that's not me, it's the liner notes, very informative but sickly sweet), but he didn't recorded it until he was 60, experimented, mature, etc... Once again, far better sound I'd expect.

[Tegan]

Originally posted by spaceray:
Tegan,
Have you heard John Fields Piano Concertos,
I'm listening to one right now,it's lovely.

No, I haven't. Isn't Fields the innovator of the Nocturne, or is that someone else? I can't remember at the moment. I'll have to look for a recording of his works. Another wonderful thing about college is that we have a music lab with tons of recordings by every conceivable composer!

[spaceray]

Originally posted by Tegan:
No, I haven't. Isn't Fields the innovator of the Nocturne, or is that someone else? I can't remember at the moment. I'll have to look for a recording of his works. Another wonderful thing about college is that we have a music lab with tons of recordings by every conceivable composer!

Tegan
Irish born Composer and John Field(1782-1837) was a student of Muzio Clementi .

Chopin's nocturnes are modeled on those of Field and and the Austrian composer JN Hummel's pianistic technique or so says my Larousse.

spacerl

[Gurn Blanston]

Ruud,
You were right, those Field nocturnes are excellent! Thanks for the tip on those!

Spacerl,
Now, that sounds like an interesting find! Tell me, is the tutti like an orchestra? Or like a chamber group? Interesting. I would like to hear Haebler play a fortepiano, I bet she can tear it up! I'm not even going to touch that last bit!

atserri,
Yes, a long and distinguished career. I guess the time has come to check him out for myself. The last time I did that, with Vladimir Horowitz, it was a great success. Time for more. My experience with many of those old recordings is that the sound turns off far better than one could hope.

Tegan,
Yes, that's right, we had a bit of discussion about that just before the great blackout/lost posts affair last week. His nocturnes are really nice. See Ruud's recommend above. I second it!

For me, it is something a bit more unusual, the Sextet in G major for Piano & Strings - Op 58a - Beethoven - Robert Levin on the fortepiano. Beethoven made this transcription of his 4th concerto for one of his patrons to use at his home, the score was known about but lost for a long time. This is the world premiere recording of it by Levin and member of the Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique. Super! For a chamber music fan, concerto fan, and allround Beethoven fan, this is tops!



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Gurn
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[Joy]

On a wonderful and relaxing four day Holiday weekend some great music thanks to the classical radio Beethoven's Piano Sonata No.8, an historical performance, with the great Artur Rubinstein, piano. Also earlier Mozart's Symphony #40.

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'Truth and beauty joined'

[spaceray]

Now playing ... Matthaus-Passion BWV 244
JS Bach.

It must be coming on for Christmas, I always get in a choral mood at this time of year.
Next thing you know I'll be digging out the Tallis Scholars Christmas motets.
Tis the season.

[Sorrano]

For me it's a Schercen performance of Beethoven's 6th. With the speed of the tempo it makes me wonder if he (Schercen) had to use the restroom or something....

[ruudp]

good evening ya all,

Today it's been the 9th of beethoven COMPLETE.His hammerklaviersonate performed by John lill also his appassionata and his waldstein.too top it off it will be some clementi sonata's and some chopin works...

Keep up the good listening,

Ruud

[JA Gardiner]

Gurn
I guess the reasons Schulhoff is not as well known as Shostakovich are
A) Having died in 1942 he didn't have the chance to make his name with the new Soviet regime or, as a Communist to have the kudos of being either an exile or a survivor of either regime. Sad really because as one of that early generation of real idealists his commitment and sacrifice was also betrayed by the atrocities of Stalin et al.
B)He didn't have a friendly biographer like Volkov to make the case that he'd never really meant it and all his socialist fervour was ironic.
C) His music was just not that good!
Ah well timing is all......

Meantime its Ludovico Einaudi Una Mattina - very fashionable and very listenable - but I wonder how long it will last in the historical canon?

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Beethoven the Man!

[Amilee]

Beethoven: 15 Variations and a Fugue on a theme from Prometheus, 0p.35, Eroica. Theo Bruins [piano].

Weber: Overture - Peter Schmoll und sein Nachbarn / Netherlands Radio Orchestra.

Domenico Scarlatti - Sonata, Kk 134. / Melvyn Tan [harpsichord].




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[Amilee]

Lunch time with Stephen Kovacevich performing some great favourite's:

Beethoven's Piano sonata no.17 'Tempest' 0p 31.
Beethoven's Piano sonata no.30 0p. 109

Schubert's Piano sonata B flat, D960

[Gurn Blanston]

Ah, lovely, nippy Sunday morning, perfect for the Symphnoy in d minor - #9 - Op 125 - Louis Beethoven. This week, it is once again the classic version of Berlin PO / Karajan 1963. Not the best version available, but certainly the one by which all others may be judges. And such great vocalists, particularly Walter Berry. Then some golf. Life is good again!

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Gurn
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[Joy]

Muriel, I'm getting in the mood for some Christmas music too! Loads of Christmas concerts here during the Christmas season!
I think I'll get my 'Christmas Concertos' CD out featuring Corelli's Concerto Grosso in G minor and Vivaldi's Concerto in G Major. Some beautiful works on this CD.

Gurn, a good day for golf, eh? No rain today? My brother says half of Texas is under water especially his half!! Enjoy your 9th!

For my listening pleasure today is Beethoven's Concerto #5 in commemoration!

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'Truth and beauty joined'

[Amilee]

BEETHOVEN'S very beautiful and lyrical
Andante Favori, Wo057 / Rudolph Buchbinder [piano].

ELGAR , Wand of Youth's, Suite no.2
Academy of St.Martin-in-the-Fields,

BACH, Cantata, 140, Wachet Auf /
Monteverdi Choir / English Baroque Soloists/ Gardiner.

VIVALDI, Concerto no.4 'Winter'
English Concert / Trevor Pinnock


I am really getting into Bach's Cantatas,
they are so incredibly great.
I think I shall set myself to task and
systematically listen to them all !






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[Sorrano]

Some Tchaikowsky overtures rend the air at my place today. Voyewoda, The Tempest, Marche Slave (among my favorite Tchaikowsky smaller scale works--notwithstanding the criticism), and the Festival Overture on the Danish National Anthem to name a few.