What are you listening to now?

[Michael]

Listened to The Viscounts singing "Who Put the Bomp in the Bomp-de-Bomp-de-Bomp?". (I was on my exercise bike at the time, but I suppose that's no excuse.)

[Roehre]

Schumann Lieder: "Dichterliebe" and "Liederkreis" with Olaf Bar and Geoffrey Parsons. What has happened to Olaf Bar these days?

As far as i am aware he has retired from singing.
One of my Bär-favourites being his interpretation of Schumann's Die beiden Grenadiere opus 49/1 with that spine-chilling Marseillaise quote at the end of that song.

[Roehre]

Mozart:
Pianosonatas KV331 and 475+457

Berio:
Sinfonia (4mvt 1968 version, first recording)
Sincronie (1968)

Carter:
Celloconcert (2000)

Rihm:
Jagden und Formen (2001)

[PDG]

Carter:
Celloconcert (2000)

Rihm:
Jagden und Formen (2001)

You're making this up as you go along!! <He He...>

[Roehre]

You're making this up as you go along!! <He He...>

I'm afraid I don't , and these are by far not the youngest pieces in my collection either

[Michael]

Mozart's "Little" G minor symphony.

[Peter]

Mozart's "Little" G minor symphony.

One of Mozart's best early works - I also love Haydn's G minor symphony no.39.

Today listening to Sibelius 'The Tempest'.

[Zevy]

Mozart Arias for Male Soprano, Michael Maniaci.

Fascinating!!!

[Roehre]

today:

JSBach:
Cantates BWV 82 and 83 (the latter one of the most Handelian works of Bach's)

Stravinsky:
Petrushka (1947 version)

Puccini/Berio:
Turandot 3rd acte (1924/2002)

Huw Watkins:
Horntrio (2009)

Perotinus:
Viderunt omnes (ca.1200)

Peter-Jan Wagemans:
Viderunt omnes (1988)

[Michael]

Brahms' first symphony (prompted by another thread).

[Roehre]

Yesterday and today:

Stravinsky:
Threni,
Ode,
Double Canon,
Variations,
Epithaphium,
Elegy for viola solo,
Elegy for JFK.


Strauss:
Metamorphosen, 4 Last Songs

Mahler:
Todtenfeier

Rudolf Escher:
Musique pour l'Esprit en Deuil (1943)

Willem Jeths:
Elegia (viola solo) (2002)

Reger:
Dies Irae-fragment (1914) and Lateinisches Requiem opus 145a (1914/'16)

[Roehre]

today:

JSBach:
Cantata BWV 106 "Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit" (Actus tragicus)

Stravinsky:
Mass

Rachmaninov:
Isle of the Dead op.29

Liszt:
De Profundis (Psaume instumentale) and
Totentanz (2nd version, Busoni edition)

Henze:
Requiem (1993)

[Peter]

today:

JSBach:
Cantata BWV 106 "Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit" (Actus tragicus)

Stravinsky:
Mass

Rachmaninov:
Isle of the Dead op.29

Liszt:
De Profundis (Psaume instumentale) and
Totentanz (2nd version, Busoni edition)

Henze:
Requiem (1993)

Quite a lot of death for one day Roehre!
I think the Totentanz is one of Liszt's greatest achievements and Rachmaninov's Isle of the dead is also a favourite of mine.

Listening to Beethoven's 'Harp' quartet Op.74 - actually following it with the score which is an even more rewarding experience.

[Roehre]

Quite a lot of death for one day Roehre!
I think the Totentanz is one of Liszt's greatest achievements and Rachmaninov's Isle of the dead is also a favourite of mine.

Listening to Beethoven's 'Harp' quartet Op.74 - actually following it with the score which is an even more rewarding experience.

The Totentanz (in either version, the first has got a kind of military fanfares in the horns near the end, the 2nd has got a kind of beethovenian equale at that place) is a great piece of music, and with Dies Irae as main focus it is a kind of precursor to many a Rachmaninov work.

Re the "Harp"-quartet: I've always the feeling (and that's why I listen to both works many times in one go) that the second themes of the 1st mvt from both this work and the Kreutzer-sonata are somehow (emotionally?) related in some way. But I wonder whether it is just me. In the sketches these aren't.

[Roehre]

Listened to today:

JSBach:
Cantate BWV 198 "Trauerode"

Di Lasso:
Missa pro defunctis a 5 (1580)

Hartmann:
Concerto funèbre (1939)

Reger:
4 Tondichtungen nach Böcklin op.128 (1913)

Britten:
Sinfonia da Requiem op.20 (1940)