What are you listening to now?

[Preston]

Listening to Creatures of Prometheus from my new Brilliant Complete Collection. Michael, brilliant indeed! I am listening to track 3, the one with the harp. I had never heard Beethoven's use of the harp before until now. I would say it is the 3rd movement instead of track 3, but I do not know if ballet's have movements?

[Peter]

Listening to Creatures of Prometheus from my new Brilliant Complete Collection. Michael, brilliant indeed! I am listening to track 3, the one with the harp. I had never heard Beethoven's use of the harp before until now. I would say it is the 3rd movement instead of track 3, but I do not know if ballet's have movements?

Yes there is some wonderful music in the ballet, shame that only the overture is well known - the same can be said for much of the Egmont music. Ballets don't have movements, they are generally in acts and scenes like a play.

[Michael]

Listening to Creatures of Prometheus from my new Brilliant Complete Collection. Michael, brilliant indeed! I am listening to track 3, the one with the harp. I had never heard Beethoven's use of the harp before until now. I would say it is the 3rd movement instead of track 3, but I do not know if ballet's have movements?

Yes, Preston, that slow movement (or whatever) that opens with the harp is one of the most beautiful pieces that Beethoven ever wrote. Also, have a listen to the last track. If you haven't heard it before, the experience can be quiet weird because of the orchestral use of the famous tune from the finale of the Eroica, and the coda is extraordinary.

[Preston]

Thank you Peter and Michael. Yes I have heard the track that sounds like the Eroica.

[Salvador]

I'm listening to the Cantata on the Death of Emperor Joseph II WoO 87
from the Sony Collection (Thomas Schippers - New York Philharmonic).

an impressive masterwork: (somewhat mysterious: it seems too mature for a teenager Beethoven and too innovative for Kapellmeister Luchesi!)

I have a problem with the text: in this recording the cantata is sung in latin -
In a book I have found a german text
What is the original one? Are there two versions of this work?
Can you suggest me where I can find on the Web the latin text?
Excuse me for my horrible english

Thank you

[Sorrano]

Last night I watched a video of Cage's 4'33" performed by a symphony orchestra. (I can only imagine the difficulties in transposing some of the instrumental parts that are not in the key of C!) The work is in 3 movements, which I did not know. In the performance the audience was deathly still during the first movement (one of the announcers afterwards commented on the tension that filled the auditorium during the movements). The pause between the first and second movements were somewhat noisy with coughing and hacking (as between the second and third movements). There were occasional coughs during the second movement and during the third things were a bit quieter, but not like in the first movement.

Interesting.

[Peter]

Last night I watched a video of Cage's 4'33" performed by a symphony orchestra. (I can only imagine the difficulties in transposing some of the instrumental parts that are not in the key of C!) The work is in 3 movements, which I did not know. In the performance the audience was deathly still during the first movement (one of the announcers afterwards commented on the tension that filled the auditorium during the movements). The pause between the first and second movements were somewhat noisy with coughing and hacking (as between the second and third movements). There were occasional coughs during the second movement and during the third things were a bit quieter, but not like in the first movement.

Interesting.

Thank God it wasn't 1 hour 4'33, though that would be preferable to many works of such duration!

I listened this morning to Beethoven's op.9 trios of which no.3 (again in c minor) struck me as the finest.

[Michael]

I listened this morning to Beethoven's op.9 trios of which no.3 (again in c minor) struck me as the finest.

An absolute winner. No wonder B was able to launch into string quartets with such assuredness. I love all three of Opus 9 but the third one "washes itself".

[Sorrano]

Thank God it wasn't 1 hour 4'33, though that would be preferable to many works of such duration!

I listened this morning to Beethoven's op.9 trios of which no.3 (again in c minor) struck me as the finest.

Just think of the sleep you could get! I always get the apostrophe's and quotes wrong, darn it!

[Sorrano]

This morning the radio played the Serenade in D by Beethoven. I'd not heard this before and quite liked it.

[Joy]

Very nice is the Serenade in D Sorrano. For me today it's Beethoven's Fidelio Overture. My classical music station plays all the versions quite regularly.

[Hofrat]

Schubert's 10th symphony in D-major.

[Megan]

Beethoven: Romance in F, Op 50
Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich
David Zinman (conductor

Beautifully played !


Who says Beethoven isn't a romantic ?

[Sorrano]

Last night it was Bruckner's 9th Symphony.

[Joy]

Today it's Beethoven's 7th Symphony (love that 2nd movement)!