What are you listening to now?

[Roehre]

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

Have the Berwald symphonies got a numbering then?
I only know the works by their nicknames or keys:

Sinfonie capricieuse

Sinfonie sérieuse

Sinfonie singulière

symphony in E-flat

Symphony in A (fragment)

[Sorrano]

Have the Berwald symphonies got a numbering then?
I only know the works by their nicknames or keys:

Sinfonie capricieuse

Sinfonie sérieuse

Sinfonie singulière

symphony in E-flat

Symphony in A (fragment)

That is the way it was listed (and announced) on the radio this morning. I had to look up the playlist because I did not know how to spell the name; he is completely new to me. I would have guessed 19th Century but maybe I have to give this another listen.

[Chris]

I am making my way through the complete works of Thomas Tallis this week. A lot of great music here, in great performances by Alistair Dixon and the Chapelle Du Roi, conveniently and inexpensively re-released by Brilliant.

[Roehre]

I am making my way through the complete works of Thomas Tallis this week. A lot of great music here, in great performances by Alistair Dixon and the Chapelle Du Roi, conveniently and inexpensively re-released by Brilliant.

that's the 10CD set you are talking about, chris?

[Hofrat]

Franz Berwald (1794-1868) wrote 4 complete symphonies in the following order:

1st in G-minor "Sinfonie Serieuse"
2nd in D-major "Sinfonie Capricieuse"
3rd in C-major "Sinfonie Singulieuse"
4th in E-flat major "Sinfonie Naive"

In addition, there was a start of a 5th symphony that has been completed, performed and recorded.

I hope that helps.

[Peter]

Tchaikovsky's 'Manfred' symphony and Hummel's concerto for violin and piano.

[Roehre]

Franz Berwald (1794-1868) wrote 4 complete symphonies in the following order:

1st in G-minor "Sinfonie Serieuse"
2nd in D-major "Sinfonie Capricieuse"
3rd in C-major "Sinfonie Singulieuse"
4th in E-flat major "Sinfonie Naive"

In addition, there was a start of a 5th symphony that has been completed, performed and recorded.

I hope that helps.

Thanks Hofrat

[Chris]

that's the 10CD set you are talking about, chris?

That's the one.

[Roehre]

Today:

The BBCMM CD – received this morning
Poulenc:
Concert champetre
(with that RVW Hodie quasi-reminiscence at 3’45” of the 1st mvt - the concerto being written some 30 years before Hodie )

JSBach
Suite no.4 (from Clavier-Uebung I) BWV 828
A nice lean performance with the music played as it stands, pure and unsullied: as far as I am aware without any ornamentation, a breath of fresh air as far as I am concerned.

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Hamburg:
Oboe concerto “Ruach” (2003)
String quartet no.2 "Hashkivenu" (2002)

[Roehre]

Today:

Torstensson:
Stick on Stick (1990)

Gene Carl:
Claremont concerto (1987)

Boulez:
Anthèmes 2 (1997)

Ferneyhough:
La Chute d’Icare (1988)

[Quijote]

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)

Speaking of Alvarez above, the only work I know well by him is "On Going On" for tape and sax (alto sax, if my aural memory serves me well). A masterly combination of transformed piano sounds/gestures with live sax, and very exciting to listen to. There was one aspect in this composition that particularly interested me : a seemingly deliberate "mis-tuning" between the live (notated) sax part and the tape. Would you have any comments to make about this work, Roehre?

[Quijote]

I also have been listening (very closely) to Beethoven's Piano Concerto N° 4, what Owen Jander calls the "Orpheus" concerto, which I have already briefly referred to on the "What Are You Reading Now" thread. I have now launched a new thread about this.

[Roehre]

Today:

Nono:
A Carlo Scarpa, architetto ai suoi infiniti possibilli (1984)

Maderna:
Ausstrahlung (1971)

Boulez:
Anathèmes 2

Ferneyhough:
La Chute d’Icare

[Michael]

Piano sonatas Nos. 4,5,6.
Beethoven, Brendel, Brilliant.

[Bonn1827]

Listening to Richter play Schubert's Piano Sonata in A, D664, from a live recording of 1979. Wonderful work - but I could do without the coughing!!

I've just bought the double CD of Brendel's farewell concerts. Only marred by his "vocalizations" during the Bach/arr.Busoni Chorale Prelude, "Nun komm de Heiden Heiland" BWV659. I can't listen to it, which is a real shame - but the rest is superb.