What are you listening to now :)

[Roehre]

Nor the early Sinfonietta written when he was only 14 - a remarkable achievement.

Indeed.
Apart from one military march the complete orchestral works of Korngold's have been recorded on the CPO-label.
Strongly recommended.

[Roehre]

Today:

JSBach:
Cantatas BWV 113, 179 and 199 for Trinity 11 (which is today)

Shchedrin:
Music for strings, oboes, horns and celesta (1986)

Mintchev:
Piano concerto (1976)

Kubik;
Violin concerto (1980)

[Preston]

Listening to Mozart's Requiem Mass and the finale of Beethoven's 9th.

For me, it is unimaginable that people can write works of such magnitude, depth, profoundness, etc. Most of the time I cannot even write a melody, and when I do it is not good. These people write masses, symphonies, etc. They understand music so well it is mind-boggling.

[Roehre]

Today:

Panufnik:
Procession for Peace (1981/’82) (R3: TtN)

Wesley:
Concert overture in E (1834) (R3: CotW)


Kruger:
Suite pictorale (1948)

“The field of Cloth and Gold”
A Celebration in Music of the Meeting in 1520 between Henry VIII of England and Francois I of France

[Roehre]

Today:

Mirecki
Symphony in C minor (1854) (R3: TtN)

Bella
Solemn Overture in E flat major (1872/’73) (R3: TtN)

Wesley:
Symphony in C (1834) (R3: CotW)

Dallapiccola:
Partita (1930/’32) (R3: Proms repeat)

Mahler:
Symphony no.5: Adagietto (twice)
-Walter/VPO 1938
-Mengelberg/CGO 1939

Barber:
Knoxville- Summer of 1915 op.24 (1947)

[Roehre]

Today:

Watkins:
Violin concerto (R3 Proms)
Gig
4 Inventions
Sad steps (R3 composer portrait)

Klemperer:
Symphony (no.1) in two movements (1961)

[Michael]

Beethoven's Piano Concerto in D (after the Violin Concerto).
I rarely listen to this as it is a weird experience. Beethoven really didn't do much with the piano part in this arrangement and even Daniel Barenboim can't make it swing. It was Clementi, the music publisher who was also a composer and pianist, who suggested this transcription to Beethoven and I'm afraid the prime consideration was money. The part I like best about this version is the utterly demented cadenza which B wrote for the first movement. It involves the timpani to an unprecedented extent and has even been transcribed back again and used in some recordings of the violin concerto.

[Michael]

Just after listening to another rare Beethoven work, the Eflat Piano Concerto, WoO 4, written when the composer was fourteen. I must have asked this question before but I can't remember what reply I got:
All that survives of this work, according to the booklet notes, is a copy of the piano part, corrected by the composer, in which the orchestral ritornellos are indicated. A full orchestral score was made from this by Willy Hess. Now, some references state that the actual notes of the ritornellos were written into the score but reduced for piano. My question is: Does anyone know for sure if the ritornellos were entirely "composed" by Willy Hess, or orchestrated by him from existing piano reductions?

[Roehre]

My question is: Does anyone know for sure if the ritornellos were entirely "composed" by Willy Hess, or orchestrated by him from existing piano reductions?

IIRC the ritornelli are orchestrations by Hess. There exist at least two other realisations of WoO4, which claim to have used exlusively the material as it has survived. The very recent (well: last summer's) recording by Brautigam on BIS uses Brautigam's orchestration. In the USA another one has been premiered some two years ago, but AFAIK no (commercial) recording has been released.

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Today:

Wars:
Symphony No.1 (2005) (R3: TtN)
I’m guessing this composer’s first name is Star
Nice film music disguised as (and following the structure of) a highly romantic early 20C symphony .

Klemperer:
4 symphonic movements (1961/’68)

[From “The Art of the Netherlands” (Munrow):
Brumel:
Missa Et ecce terrae motus: Gloria

Isaac:
Missa La Bassadanza: Agnus Dei

De la Rue:
Missa Ave sanctissima Maria: Sanctus

Tinctoris:
Missa 3 Vocum: Kyrie

[Sorrano]

Beethoven's Piano Concerto in D (after the Violin Concerto).
I rarely listen to this as it is a weird experience. Beethoven really didn't do much with the piano part in this arrangement and even Daniel Barenboim can't make it swing. It was Clementi, the music publisher who was also a composer and pianist, who suggested this transcription to Beethoven and I'm afraid the prime consideration was money. The part I like best about this version is the utterly demented cadenza which B wrote for the first movement. It involves the timpani to an unprecedented extent and has even been transcribed back again and used in some recordings of the violin concerto.

That cadenza is one of my favorites! I would love to hear it with the violin version.

[Sorrano]

This morning the Clarinet Concerto No. 3 in B-Flat by Crusell was featured. It's a nice work.

[Roehre]

That cadenza is one of my favorites! I would love to hear it with the violin version.

At least two violinists have recorded the violin/timpani transcription: Wolfgang Schneiderhan (BPO/Jocum on DGG) and Ruggiero Ricci. The latter produced a recording of the concerto with 10 or so different cadenzas which you can programme into the performance. Very interesting.

[Michael]

IIRC the ritornelli are orchestrations by Hess. There exist at least two other realisations of WoO4, which claim to have used exlusively the material as it has survived. The very recent (well: last summer's) recording by Brautigam on BIS uses Brautigam's orchestration. In the USA another one has been premiered some two years ago, but AFAIK no (commercial) recording has been released.

Thanks. I'm sure I asked that question about five years ago and forgot the answer!

[Roehre]

Today:

E.T.A. Hoffmann:
Symphony in C (1806) (R3: TtN)

Otto Ketting:
Symphony no.1 (1957/’59)


(R3: Proms):
Pärt:
Symphony no.4 “Symphonia contra Insomnia” :-)


(R3: late proms – thank goodness for that after the Pärt):
John Cage:
First Construction (in Metal)

Cardew:
Bun No. 1

Howard Skempton:
Lento

Feldman:
Piano and Orchestra

[Peter]

Today:

E.T.A. Hoffmann:
Symphony in C (1806) (R3: TtN)

Otto Ketting:
Symphony no.1 (1957/’59)


(R3: Proms):
Pärt:
Symphony no.4 “Symphonia contra Insomnia” :-)


(R3: late proms – thank goodness for that after the Pärt):
John Cage:
First Construction (in Metal)

Cardew:
Bun No. 1

Howard Skempton:
Lento

Feldman:
Piano and Orchestra

Yes I listened to the Part - take it you weren't struck and I'd have to concur. Enjoyed the Ravel piano concerto for left hand and Scriabin 'Poem of ecstasy'.