What are you listening to now?

[Peter]

Thanks for the link, good stuff so far, great in fact. Though, tonight is the Prom 9, correct? Seems if so, there is no Beethoven, unfortunately, .

They are all available online for up to a week. Try this link http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00t...pisodes/player

The Beethoven concert (prom 6) was shown tonight on tv.

[Sorrano]

This afternoon I listened to Gunter Wand's recording of the Bruckner 5th. Somewhat off topic, but I have to ask Philip if you have a preference for conductor/orchestra with Bruckner? Personally, I've stuck with Jochum and Haitink (with a smattering of Wand).

[Roehre]

If anyone of you were wondering why I didn't continue posting on these boards:

As a bolt of lightning struck TWICE on July 14th (and a third one into a tree next to my home....), my landlines were cut off, as telephone cables were extensively destroyed, underground for nearly 900 yards, overhead for nearly a mile and a half, and it took BT until this afternoon to repair it all (and reconnect me and my plusminus 30 neighbours). As the reception for mobile phones is here far below par as well, we were pretty well isolated (with the nearest Internet-connected PC at 4 miles....)

[Peter]

If anyone of you were wondering why I didn't continue posting on these boards:

As a bolt of lightning struck TWICE on July 14th (and a third one into a tree next to my home....), my landlines were cut off, as telephone cables were extensively destroyed, underground for nearly 900 yards, overhead for nearly a mile and a half, and it took BT until this afternoon to repair it all (and reconnect me and my plusminus 30 neighbours). As the reception for mobile phones is here far below par as well, we were pretty well isolated (with the nearest Internet-connected PC at 4 miles....)

I'm delighted you survived the experience Roehre, especially as I've been listening to Rachmaninov's 'Isle of the dead'! Also recently Schoenberg Chamber symphonies, Mahler's 3rd symphony, Shostakovich no.7 and Sibelius symphony no.6.

[Sorrano]

I love "Isle of the Dead"! This morning it was Berlioz's Rob Roy.

I wondered where you were hiding, Roehre.

[Roehre]

This was on my programme as lightning struck (July 14th):

Rouget de l’Isle/berlioz
La Marseillaise

Rouget de l’Isle/Stravinsky:
La Marseillaise

Schumann:
Overture Hermann und Dorothea op.136
Die beiden Grenadiere op.49/1

Benoit:
Charlotte Corday: overture

Klemperer:
Symphony no.1 (1961)



Today:

Bruynel:
Serène (flute and soundtracks)(1978)
Soft song (oboe and soundtracks) (1974)
Save the Whale (bass- and contrabass clarinet and soundtracks) (1989)
Toccare (piano and soundtracks)(1979)
Denk mal das Denkmal (bas baritone and soundtracks)
Chatarra [scrap metal sonata) (harpsichord and soundtracks) (1990)
Dust (organ and soundtracks) (1961)


From tonight’s Proms
Stockhausen:
Jubilee (1977)

Birtwistle:
Sonance Severance 2000

Colin Matthews:
Violin Concerto (2008)

Bedford:
Outblaze the Sky

[Bonn1827]

Lightning struck as you were listening to "Charlotte Corday"? Surely a message from the gods about messing with a strong woman!!

This morning I'm listening (again) to

Monteverdi's glorious and extraordinary: "L`Incoronazione di Poppea".

This magnificent piece, created during the evolutionary crucible which was the period between modality and diatonic triadic sonority, has soaring melody lines, early, athletic and vigorous coloratura and the most splendid "orchestration" - just like translucent, spun gold!!

When I was in Venice last year I was acutely aware of the Monteverdian legacy and "walking the walk".

[djmomo17]

Thanks for the Proms link Peter - makes it much easier to hear these great concerts even tho I live in the States...

Just heard Stockhausen's 'Jubilee'. I used to be a Stockhausen FREAK! This sounds somewhat similar to Inori or Trans. Not too annoying . Stockhausen did a piece using Beethoven quotes called 'Beethoven Opus 1970' (for the 200th anniversary I imagine). He kind of disowned it. Frankly he was right - it's awful (IMHO).

Saving tomorrow to blast the Jaervi/Hahn Beethoven!

[Sorrano]

This morning the radio presented Sibelius' Symphony No. 3, indicating that it was the least popular of the seven. I quite like it, however.

[Roehre]

Today:

Messiaen:
Et Expecto Resurrectionem Mortuorum

Wagner-Régeny:
Introduction and Ode (1967)

[Peter]

This morning the radio presented Sibelius' Symphony No. 3, indicating that it was the least popular of the seven. I quite like it, however.

So do I, but my favourite Sibelius symphony is one that is even less played, the 6th.

[Sorrano]

So do I, but my favourite Sibelius symphony is one that is even less played, the 6th.

The fourth and sixth have been the least accessible to me, so I will have to pay particular attention to them.

This morning it was Saint-Saens' "Caprice andalous" and J C Bach's Sinfonia in E-Flat,Op. 9, No. 2.

[Peter]

The fourth and sixth have been the least accessible to me, so I will have to pay particular attention to them.

This morning it was Saint-Saens' "Caprice andalous" and J C Bach's Sinfonia in E-Flat,Op. 9, No. 2.

I agree with you about the 4th which is often regarded as his finest, but I have never warmed to it. The same goes for Vaughan Williams 4th and Walton's 1st - all acknowledged fine works but yet I have difficulties with them. I shall perservere until hopefully the penny drops!

The Sibelius 6th is I think far more accessible so I'd give that one a go first!

[Roehre]

Today:

Ilmari Hannikainen:
Piano Concerto in b opus 7 (1917/’19) (R3: TtN)
A nice Rachmaninov concerto with some nice sibelian turns and twists.
Certainly not a bad concerto for a second rate composer. Nevertheless enjoyable.

Maderna:
Oboe concerto no.3 (1973)

Bredemeyer:
Oboe concerto (1977)

[Roehre]

Today:

Tobias:
Prelude and Fuge in d-minor (1914) (R3 :TtN)

Erkin:
Piano quintet (1944)

Mathus:
Violin concerto (1968)

Kurz:
Trumpet concerto (1953)

Hear and Now (R3)