What are you listening to now :)

[Roehre]

Today:

Leighton:
Cello concerto op. 31 (1955/’56)

Bloch:
Schelomo (1916)

Novak:
Eternal longing op. 33 (1904)

[Preston]

Listening to music, by Michael Nyman, from the movie "The Piano". I am really enjoying this music. It is very thought provoking for me.

Also, I am listening to it while I play Final Fantasy XIII, which is a game based around the importance of nature. So, I am tuning out the FFXIII music and enjoying the natural environments of the game with Nyman's music. It is quite enjoyable to me.

[Roehre]

for me today:

The latest BBC MM CD:
Mozart :
Violin concerto no.4 in D KV 218
(the very first Mozart concerto I ever heard and only the second work of his, following the Kleine Nachtmusik -back in 1971 that was)

Korngold:
Violin concerto in D op.35 (Hofrat/ Gerd Prengel: a coincidence with Tchaikovsky and Busoni??)

[Sorrano]

This morning the radio featured John O'Conor playing Beethoven's "Moonlight" Sonata. I felt it was a very good interpretation, particularly the first movement.

[Roehre]

Today:

Lutoslawski:
5 Bukoliki (1952) (arr.Piatigorski) (R3: TtN)

Krenek:
Symphonic elegy In memoriam Anton Webern op.105 (1945/’46)
Adagio and Fugue op.78 (string orchestra version of 3rd and 4th mvts of String quartet no.6) (1936)
Symphonic Piece opus 86 (1938)

Leighton:
Piano concerto no.3 op.57 "Concerto estivo” (1969)

[Sorrano]

The Hansel and Gretel Suite from the Humperdink opera was playing when the radio went off. That was a very pleasant way to wake up!

[Roehre]

Today:


Shostakovich:
String quartet no.1 op.49 (Chamber symphony version Barshai)

Leighton:
Piano concerto no.3 op.57 “Concerto estivo” (1969)

Mahler:
Symphony no.1

Mussorgski:
Pictures from an Exhibition (arr.Henry Wood) (R3 proms)

[Preston]

Listening to Karajan conduct the Rex Tremendae from Mozart's Requiem. The RT, seems to me, to be filled with somekind of unimaginable and terrifying, mystical, dark, etc.- power. That opening is quite dark. There is so much depth in Mozart's Requiem, it is unlike anything that I have ever heard by Mozart.

[Sorrano]

Roehre, I wondered if that was a typo on the "Concerto estivo", but as you have repeated that I must say not.

Last night I listened to Durufle's Requiem, a very moving work, indeed!

[Roehre]

Today:


Shostakovich:
String quartet no.10 op.118 (string orchestra version Barshai)

Mahler:
Symphony no.5
(Walter NYPh 1947)

[Roehre]

Roehre, I wondered if that was a typo on the "Concerto estivo", but as you have repeated that I must say not.

No, it isn't a typo, Sorrano.

It is a "Summer Concerto", though the (very enjoyable and) mainly sunny music shows a couple of dark clouds as well

[Megan]

Beethoven's violin sonata, 12 . no.2

Dedicated to Salieri I believe

[Roehre]

Beethoven's violin sonata, 12 . no.2

Dedicated to Salieri I believe

Indeed, as a kind of acknowledgement for the lessons in Italian vocal lines B received from Salieri.

[Roehre]

Today:

Madetoja:
Overture opus 7 (1911) (R3 :TtN)

Melartin:
Violin Concerto in D minor opus 60 (R3 :TtN)

Klami:
Kalevala Suite opus 23 (R3 :TtN)

Musgrave:
Ithaca (2010) (R3: Proms)

Ibert:
6 Pieces for solo harp (1916/’17)

Paderewski:
Violin sonata in a op.13 (1879)

[Roehre]

Today:

Hannikainen:
Rural Dances opus 39a (R3: TtN)

JSBach:
Cantatas BWV 17, 25 and 78, the cantatas for today : Trinity 14.

Musorgsky, orch. Henry Wood: (R3 Proms)
Rayok/The Peep-Show


David Matthews/Vaughan Williams: (R3 Proms)
Dark Pastoral op.112

Bliss:
Birthday Fanfare for Sir Henry Wood (1944) (R3: Proms)

Bax:
London Pageant (1937) (R3: Proms)

Dorothy Howell:
Lamia (1919) (R3: Proms)