What are we listening to now ?

[Peaseblossom]

Beethoven - piano concerto no.3,
Maria Joao Pires,
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra / Beethoven Hall, Bonn.

[Peaseblossom]

Lovely morning here with dawn breaking and the birds singing their little hearts out, I am sure they think spring has sprung !

I get the same wonderful feeling of a new creation listening now to ~
Beethovens 'Spring' sonata, 0p.24
and charged with that sense of happiness,
Beethoven's Violin concerto 0p.61
Oscar Shumsky [violin]
Philharmonia Orchestra /Sir Andrew Davis

Debussy: Les Preludes Book 1, no.7-12,
Krystian Zimerman [piano]

Amalie / Peaseblossom

[King Stephen]

On this Sunday morning with a true Nor' Easter (Blizard) ragging and that has already dropped 23" of the white stuff with 10" more to come and with drifts 3' to 4' and winds gusting up to 50 mph I am listening to all the storm music I have in my cd collection. Then I will shead a few tears while I listen to LvB's "Pastoral Symphony".
To all my music loving friends, have a nice day.....Ah, My Kingdom for the return of Spring.
Steve

[Peaseblossom]

Originally posted by King Stephen:
On this Sunday morning with a true Nor' Easter (Blizard) ragging and that has already dropped 23" of the white stuff with 10" more to come and with drifts 3' to 4' and winds gusting up to 50 mph I am listening to all the storm music I have in my cd collection. Then I will shead a few tears while I listen to LvB's "Pastoral Symphony".
To all my music loving friends, have a nice day.....Ah, My Kingdom for the return of Spring.
Steve

Steve,
I hope your severe cold snap doesn't last too long.
We have been having really very bright, almost spring like days, today the sky has been cloudless, but still cold of course.

Pieces I have been listening to:

FRANCOEUR: Symphonies pour le Festin roya
Stradivaria Ensemble.

BRAHMS: Piano concerto no.2, 0p.83,
&
BRAHMS: Tragic Overture, 0p.81.

[Gurn Blanston]

Amalie,
Don't feel too sorry for him, he just likes to complain! Heck, it's only 55 (12) here and the sun hurts my eyes, so it isn't too much better. I even had to wear a light sweater at the golf course today. Jeez

For me, it is the Symphony in d minor - #9 - Op 125 - Louis Beethoven - Hanover Band/Goodman. Wonderful piece of work, I recommend it to anyone on a Sunday!

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

Chopin - polonaises played by Vladimir Ashkenazy. Don't know why, but I'd never really associated Ashkenazy with Chopin always thought of him more with the heavy end Romantics from Beethoven through to Rachmaninov. These however ( and his recordings of the Nocturnes and Waltzes that I've also just purchased)are a revelation. Not perhaps as shimmeringly beautiful as Rubinstein or Horovitz but more humour and Polish umph to go with the technical virtuosity! I bet he and Frederyk would be a blast at a good old East End knees-up! Anyone else got views on these recordings?

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Beethoven the Man!

[Tony Hearne]

Originally posted by Peaseblossom:


Beethoven - piano concerto no.3,
Maria Joao Pires,
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra / Beethoven Hall, Bonn.

[Amalie]

Originally posted by Tony Hearne:

Peaseblossom aka Amalie to Tony,
hope I am able to log in ok.

I heard Beethoven's piano concerto no.3, from Beethoven Hall, Bonn. On BBC radio 3, just the other day.



This evening I have been listening to -
Vivaldi's - Juditha Triumphans / Academia Montis Regalis.


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[Bona Nox]

My highlights today...
Anselm Hüttenbrenner - Requiem III
LvB - String Quartets 18/5 & 59/1
W.A.Mozart - Concert Arias III by Brilliant... hey Gurnrl, no Soprano here but the Tenor Marcel Reijans

very nice anyway
BN - formerly known as pastrl

[King Stephen]

Listening to Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936)
His three suites of Ancient Airs and Dances.
This man was a great orchestrator, maybe because he studied under Rimski-Korsakov. From Russia he moved on to Berlin to study violin and composition with Max Bruch. His Fountains and Pines of Rome along with Roman Festivals are other works that are a tribute to his composing with wonderful orchestral color.

Gurn, I would be most happy to send you, at my expense, four tons of pure virgin New England snow. Just think you could go snow boarding instead of Goof. Oops! Golf



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[Gurn Blanston]

Amalie,
So, what the heck is a peaseblossom anyway? Did the Master grow them in his garden then? You seem to like that Vivaldi opera. I didn't know he had written any with that kind of staying power!

Judith,
I have two disks of Ashkenazy playing Chopin, and I think he is one of the best interpreters I have heard. My polonaise disk is not him though, it is Elisabeth Leonskaja, and she is first-rate. I know this is not the popular opinion (when has THAT stopped me!) but I think the Polonaises are nearly at the top of the food chain in Chopin's music.

Bona Nox (bist rechta ox!)
Oh, I like this name! Is that some sort of Alpine Blossom then? Certainly a nice lineup of music there. Hüttenbrenner composed a very nice quintet in c minor, you know. Worth a go sometime, as I did just yesterday! Bona Nox, then,

King,
Oh, all that bitterness coming out now, you must have cabin fever! I saw some pix from the north side of Boston today (you are up that way, aren't you?) and it really looked brutal! It boggles the mind that people would intentionally live in places where the weather does stuff like that!

For me, it is Six Suites for Piano on Fux's Gradus ad Parnassum by Clementi. Superb challenges to pianism from the teacher of Cramer and Field!

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

Glad to see you all back (no I am not from the American South and I'm very glad I'm not in the American Northeast).

Today's listening: Various organ works of Bach (from the complete organ collection); Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 0 in E-flat, the Violin Concerto, and the 2nd Piano Sonata in A Major; and Schubert's 3rd Symphony in D Major.

[Amalie]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Gurn Blanston:
[B]Amalie,
So, what the heck is a peaseblossom anyway?
Did the Master grow them in his garden then?

Oh yes, didn't you know, he used to garland his hair with them.

No, really, Peaseblossom is one of the fairies in waiting on Titiania the Fairy Queen, in Shakespeare's Midsummer Nights Dream.

The fairies names are - Cobweb, Mustardseed, Mote and Peaseblossom.
Here is some lovely art work of the fairies and Titiania. http://www.daviddelamare.com/blossom.html


You seem to like that Vivaldi opera. I didn't know he had written any with that kind of staying power!
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Yes, this is an excellent recording I have, I am sure you will find Magdalena Kozena's vioce ravishing!


For Now:
John Ward: Fantasia no.1 a 5, cor mio, deh, non, languire.
The Rose Consort of Viols






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[Joy]

Good to have you back Amalie, although I do like the name Pwaceblossom and all those fairies names in Midsummer Night's Dream! Good story!
KS: Big, bad storm over the weekend. I won't tell you what it is on my neck of the woods, I'm not that mean! Gurn, you shouldn't tease him so!
For me today it's Beethoven's Piano Sonata #10 on NPR. Last week they satisfied us with The Appassionata!


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'Truth and beauty joined'

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I'm listening to J N Hummels piano sonatas.
Hummel was a child prodigy carted all over
Europe performing for the aristocratic.There were few children who showed the sort of brilliance W A Mozart did One was the"Wonder Child of Lubeck" Christian Heinrich who talked at ten months and could discourse in three languages German , French and Latin , on religion and church history. He died at the age of four .Then there was Gertrude Elisabeth Schmeling who after her mothers death was taken with her father to his jobs as an instrument repair man.To prevent her wandering her father tied her to a chair where she developed a bad case of rickets.She had learned to play the fiddle at the age of four and by age 11 was touring Europe.
Her Patrons told her it was not ladylike to play the violin so she took up singing and became operas singer Gertrud Mara a great Handel specialist.