What are you listening to now?

[Roehre]

Johannes Brahms - Ave Maria, Op. 12
Performer: NDR (North German Radio) Chorus (female section) Performer: Gerhard Dickel (organ)

Ah! A Radio 3 listener! A wunderful performance it certainly was (if you like this, I'd strongly recommend the other female choirs by Brahms, especially the 4 songs with harp and 2 horns opus 17 and the 12 songs and romances opus 44). It caught my ear as I was tuning in for tonight's premiere of Kurt Schwertsik's Nachtmusiken, an hommage to Janacek, Weill and Mahler.

[Roehre]

Today:

JSBach:
Cantate BWV 66 (for 2nd Easter Day, today)
Cantate BWV 67 (for Quasimodogeniti, the 1st Sunday following Easter)

Respighi:
Sinfonia drammatica (1913)

Schwertsik:
Nachtmusiken (2009) (R3)

[Roehre]

Today:

JSBach:
Cantates BWV 134 and 148 (both for 3rd Easter Day, today)
148 is one of those few Bach cantatas (altogether six of the surviving 200 odd ones) of which we literally haven’t a clue when it was composed (or even whether it has been performed during Bach’s lifetime).

Vermeulen:
Symphony no.1 “Symphonia carminum” (1912/’14)

Willan:
Overture to an unwritten comedy (1951)
Piano concerto in c-minor (1944)
Symphony no.2 in c-minor (1936/’48)

Ridout:
George III, his lament (1975)

[Roehre]

Today:

Villa Lobos:
Bachianas brasileiras nos. 2, 5, 6 and 9

Honegger:
Pacific 231 (1923)
Scenic Railway (1937)

Grainger:
Train Music (1901)

Martinu:
Le Train hanté (1937)

Schat:
Symposion: De Trein opus 35a (1985)

Raaijmakers:
Night Train Blues (1958)

F.Devreese:
Un Soir, un train... (1968)

Britten:
Night Mail (1936)

[Roehre]

Today:

Meyer:
Violin concerto (1999)

Ligeti:
Hamburg concerto (1999/2003)

Beethoven:
String quartet opus 18/1

Alvarez:
Metro Nativitas (a reflection on Beethoven’s op.18/1) (1999)

Beethoven:
String quartet opus 18/2

Jegede:
String quartet no.2 (a reflection on Beethoven’s op.18/2) (1999)

Hamburg:
Jerusalem – 3 Jewish songs (1999)

[Roehre]

Today:

Henze:
6 Gesänge aus dem Arabischen (1999)

Beethoven:
String quartet opus 18/3

Tanaka:
At the Grave of Beethoven (a reflection on Beethoven’s op.18/3) (1999)

Beethoven:
String quartet opus 18/4

Beamish:
Opus California (a reflection on Beethoven’s op.18/4) (1999)

[Roehre]

Today:

Rozycki:
Stanczyk- symphonic scherzo opus 1 (1903)

Chopin/Elgar:
Funeral March

Elgar:
Polonia opus 76 (1915)

Strauss:
Capriccio-suite for harpsichord (1944)

Beethoven:
String quartet opus 18/5

Smirnov:
String quartet no.6 opus 106 (1999) (a reflection on Beethoven’s op.18/5)

Beethoven:
String quartet opus 18/6 “La Malinconia”

Firsova:
String quartet no.1 “La Malinconia” (1999) (a reflection on Beethoven’s op.18/6)

[Roehre]

Today:

JSBach:
Cantate “Am Abend aber desselbigen Sabbaths” BWV 42 (for Quasimodogeniti, today that is)

Vaughan Williams:
The lark ascending (Pougnet/LPO Boult, October 1952)
Symphony no.6 (with the original 1947 Scherzo, LSO Boult February 1949)
(both recordings excellently remastered on Dutton CDBP 9703)

Channel Classics CD Bolivian Baroque music:
music from the [Jesuit] missions of the Chiquitos and Moxos Indians (late 17th/early 18th century anonymous [most likely indigenous] composers, plus work from Domenico Zipoli (1684-1726))

[Sorrano]

Last night it was the complete organ works of Bruckner, which included transcriptions of the adagio movements to the symphonies nos. 0 and 6. Organist was Erwin Horn.

[Roehre]

Last night it was the complete organ works of Bruckner, which included transcriptions of the adagio movements to the symphonies nos. 0 and 6. Organist was Erwin Horn.

Did this mean that the transcriptions outlasted the "genuine" organ works of Bruckner's, as the latter fit easily within a period of some 30 minutes?

[Roehre]

Today:

Vaughan Williams:
A Song of Thanksgiving (1945)

Ibert:
6 Pieces for harp-solo (1916/’17)

Adès:
Tevot (2007)

Colin Matthews:
Crossing the Alps (2009) (R3)

which for some reason I strongly do associate with (and consequently listenend to)

Birtwistle:
Neruda madrigals (2007)

[Sorrano]

An overture in D by von Vilms was featured this morning on the radio. It's too bad his works are not more prominent.

[Roehre]

Today:

Dessau:
Symphony no.1 (in one movement) (1926)
Symphony no.2 (i.e. a 1934 3 mvt Suite for orchestra with a 1962 added scherzo)
Symphonic Mozart Adoptation (i.e. an orchestration with added material of Mozart’s string quintet E-flat KV614) (1965)

Hamburg:
Klezmer symphony (1998)
5 [orchestral] Psalms (1999)

Schnebel:
5 Stücke für Streichinstrumente (1954/’55)

Christian Wolff:
Summer (for string quartet – 1961)

Donatoni:
Quartetto IV “Zrcadlo” (1963) (2 different performances)

[Zevy]

Mozart Sinfonia concertante for Violin, Viola and Orchestra in E flat, K.364. Gidon Kremer, Kim Kashkashian, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. Excellent performance. Great rich sound!

[Sorrano]

Today: Huss Berwald, Symphony No. 3, "Sinfonie singuliere"