What are you listening to now?

[Bonn1827]

Tonight:

Brahms, "Ein Deutsches Requiem", Philharmonia Chorus and Orch/Klemperer
(Fischer-Dieskau/Schwarzkopf)

[Tillyvalle]

Choral Fantasy - Helene Grimaud.

[Quijote]

Haydn : Nikolaimesse, with The Academy of Ancient Music & the Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, directed by Simon Preston. This is my preferred HIP performance, mainly for the sound made by this particular choir, and one of the sopranos (Emma Kirkby), whose voice I have always admired.

[Quijote]

Beethoven : Opus 18, N° 1, 1st movement - the Amenda version. Well worth the trouble to compare this with B's final version. The changes are really too numerous to list here, but I find the Amenda version most satisfactory, though the final version does "tighten things up" quite considerably. If anyone wants me to, I can go into more detail, but not before I finish my Orpheus thread !

[Bonn1827]

I heard this same work performed in the Hofburg Chapel in Vienna early last May, with the Vienna Boys' Choir. (The Haydn, that is)

[Bonn1827]

Off to bed tonight with:

JS Bach "The French Suites", Keith Jarrett (harpsichord)

[Roehre]

Beethoven : Opus 18, N° 1, 1st movement - the Amanda version. Well worth the trouble to compare this with B's final version. The changes are really too numerous to list here, but I find the Amenda version most satisfactory, though the final version does "tighten things up" quite considerably. If anyone wants me to, I can go into more detail, but not before I finish my Orpheus thread !

IMO the Amanda-version (aka Hess 32) shows that though Beethoven "tightened" things up, it cannot simpy be assumed that it is weaker than the opus18/1 published version. It is more or less a work in its own right, just as Leonore deserves to be looked at as an earlier, but not essentially a weaker work than Fidelio (and personally I think Leonore is the strongest of the two[or so ] versions)

[Tillyvalle]

You're all so knowledgeable! I only know what I like

[Zevy]

Beethoven Violin Concerto (with Romances Nos. 1&2), Stephanie Chase, violin, Hanover Band, Roy Goodman. An excellent job! 5 stars from me! This performance on period instruments certainly outdoes the one by Vera Beths with Tafelmusik.

[Zevy]

IMO the Amanda-version (aka Hess 32) shows that though Beethoven "tightened" things up, it cannot simpy be assumed that it is weaker than the opus18/1 published version. It is more or less a work in its own right, just as Leonore deserves to be looked at as an earlier, but not essentially a weaker work than Fidelio (and personally I think Leonore is the strongest of the two[or so ] versions)

BTW, isn't it "Amenda"?

[Quijote]

BTW, isn't it "Amenda"?

Quite right, Zevy. Slapped wrist, for me.

[Roehre]

BTW, isn't it "Amenda"?

Oops

[Tillyvalle]

HMS Pinafore (catholic tastes )

[Roehre]

Today

JSBach:
Cantata BWV 175 “Er rufet seinen Schafen mit Namen”, for Pentecost-Tuesday (today that is)

Godfried Devreese: Cello concertino (1930); Tombelène (1926)

Stravinsky: Elegy (1944)

Louis Andriessen: Tuin van zink (1998)

Britten: Lachrymae opus 48

Berio: Sequenza VII (oboe, 1969)

Holliger: Studie über Mehrklänge (1971)

Paul Reade: Aspects of a landscape. 7 Miniatures for unaccompanied oboe (1981)

[Bonn1827]

Tillyvalle, I think a lot of us have "Catholic tastes", so no need to qualify your interest in G&S!! They are inventive, clever and lots of fun - not to mention very musical. They influenced George Gershwin tremendously. I have all of his major musicals on DVD - reconstructed by John Mauceri et al. "Pardon My English" and "Oh Kay!" are hugely influenced by G&S: homo-rhythmic choruses, repetition of main phrases, syllabic treatment of the music, insistent 4/4 rhythms - only Gershwin goes much further, of course. I'm heading off now to "play the stereo" with these!! In this day and age we need their satire more than ever!!