What are you listening to now?

[Tillyvalle]

Just watched Fidelio (with subtitles!) Wonderful performance with a very evil Pizarro!

[Chris]

Listening to Chopin's Grand Duo Concertant in E major. A good piece, sadly omitted on many discs of Chopin's chamber music, possibly because the work was written jointly with Auguste Franchomme, though he only produced the cello part, while Chopin produced the piano part and came up with the overall structure of the work.

[Quijote]

Greetings from Germany (Altrip, a village near Mannheim, and only 4 hours or so from Bonn...).

Monteverdi : L'Orfeo, directed by Sergio Vartolo, with an un-named instrumental ensemble playing on period instruments. Recorded in the Auditorium of Pigna, Corsica, in 2006. Brilliant Classics CD 93103 (2-CD set).
I have no specific comments to make at this juncture; I am simply seeking corroborative material for my "Orpheus" thread.

[Roehre]

Today

Zapf:
Arpeccio for harp and tape (1989)

Katzer:
Dialog imaginär for flute and tape (1983)

Bredemeyer:
UA for flute, viola, ‘cello, percussion, harp and piano (1989)

Ferroud:
Symphony in A (1930)

[Roehre]

Today

Maxwell Davies:
Renaissance & Baroque realisations (Purcell/Dunstable/JSBach etc)

Hartmann:
Symphony no.4 (1947)

[Quijote]

Nothing specific (or at least, nothing you would find notated), because it's late, my family is sleeping and I don't dare put on the HiFi to listen to whatever. So : the sound of the central heating (yes, up and running even today, mid May), the local church bell (which tolls at all hours [every quarter], but not too loud), my irregular breathing and, I fancy, my heartbeat, which in reality I don't hear but perceive. I hear, so I am, to paraphrase Descartes. Back to Strasbourg tomorrow, so I hope I have something more "concrete" (or concrète? Hah!) to report. Not that you would all care, anyway.

[Bonn1827]

"Go to bed little father" (Garbo speaks, "Ninotchka", 1939, dir. Lubitsch/scr: Wilder et al)

[Roehre]

Today

Binchois:
Veni Creator Spiritus (= the hymn for Whitsun, today)

JSBach:
Cantata BWV 74 “Wer mich liebet, der wird mein Wort halten”, one of the in total four cantatas for Pentecost/Whitsun-Sunday (today that is)

[with Christmas/New Year (26 cantatas altogether!) and Easter (10) this is the third and last week in the liturgical calendar for which Bach composed a whole range of cantatas (12): 34-59-74-172 for today, 68-173-174 for tomorrow, 175-184 for Tuesday and 129-165-176 for coming Sunday (Trinitatis/Trinity)]

JSBach:
Komm, Schöpfer Geist BWV 631 (arr. Schönberg 1922)

Fortner:
Die Pfingstgeschichte nach Lukas (1962/’63)

Maxwell Davies:
Veni Creator Spiritus (2003)

Rubbra:
Veni Creator Spiritus op.130 (1966)

Szymanowski:
Veni Creator Spiritus opus 57 (1930)

Mahler:
Symphony no.8 1st mvt: Veni Creator Spiritus

[Bonn1827]

Today, 19 degrees and overcast:

Ravel: "L'oeuvre pour piano seul", Jean-Yves Thibaudet

Mozart: Great Mass in C/Les Arts Florissants/Christie

[Preston]

Bonn, why is it so cold? Are the seasons different where you live than in America? It has been around 70 degrees where I live- which is quite, quite- nice, !

[Sorrano]

Preston, our summer is Australia's winter.

This morning the radio presented some of Stravinsky's orchestral miniatures.

[Peter]

BBC radio 3 today with the Berlin Philharmonic - Bach's 3rd Orchestral suite and Haydn's symphony no.98.

[Preston]

Preston, our summer is Australia's winter.

Thanks Sorrano! I guess the southern hemisphere would be opposite.

[Roehre]

Today

JSBach:
Cantata BWV 174 “Ich liebe den Höchsten”, for Pentecost-Monday (today that is)

Delius:
Florida suite (1887)
North Country sketches (1914)

Mathias:
Symphony no.2 op.90 “Cerddoriaeth yr Haf” (Summer Music, 1983)
Summer Dances (1990, his last composition before his final illness appeared)

[Peter]

Bonn, why is it so cold? Are the seasons different where you live than in America? It has been around 70 degrees where I live- which is quite, quite- nice, !

It isn't that cold in parts of Australia even now - Bonn1827 means 19 centigrade which is nearly 70F and that's their autumn (fall)!

Listening to Mozart's Symphony no.31 'Paris'.