What are you listening to now?

[Roehre]

Today:

Vaughan Williams:
Sinfonia Antarctica

Wagemans:
Viderunt omnes (1988)
Dreams – 4 Pieces for orchestra (1991)

[Roehre]

Today:

Stravinsky:
Concerto for two pianos (1931/35)

Kagel:
Heterophonie (1959/’61)
Variationen ohne Fuge (1972)

Wagemans:
Rosebud (1991)
Viderunt omnes (1988)

Bridge:
Phantasm for piano and orchestra (1931)

Vieru:
Taragot (1991)

[Preston]

I have found a piece of music that I have been thoroughly enjoying listening to: Henry Purcell's Queen's Dolour, A Farewell in A Minor, Z. 670. It is by Purcell, and it is most touching and kind of sad. Is anybody familiar with this piece?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rbw9aDudlTo

[Roehre]

JSBach:
Cantata Wachet aus ruft uns die Stimme BWV 140 (for Trinity 27, the last Sunday before Advent)
Cantatas BWV 61 and 62, both “Nun kommt der Heiden Heiland “, for Advent 1 (today)
Weirdly enough there aren’t any Bach cantatas for Advent 2 and 3.

Beethoven:
Grosse Fuge (Ardittis – thanks Bryn)

Stravinsky:
Pulcinella-suite
Piano concerto
Ebony concerto

Tippett:
Suite in D (1948)

Vieru:
Symphony no.3 “La un eutremur” (Earthquake) (1977)

Bruckner:
Windhaager Messe (Mass in C) (1842)

[Chris]

JSBach:
Cantata Wachet aus ruft uns die Stimme BWV 140 (for Trinity 27, the last Sunday before Advent)

I played it (the violin part) in a church (well, the famous tenor chorale) yesterday. I couldn't seem to get my A string to stay in tune, dang it.

[Roehre]

today:

Skalkottas:
Symphony The Return of Odysseus” (1942)

Liszt:
Christus (Oratorio S.3, 1860s)

Bantock:
Pagan Poem

Mathias:
Flute Sonatina

Goossens:
The Breath of Ney

Leighton:
Serenade for flute and piano in C

[Roehre]

Moeran:
Piano trio (1920/’25)

Dallapiccola:
6 Carmina Alcaei (1943)
Piccola Musica notturna (1954)
Preghiere (1962)
Il coro delle malmaritate
Il coro dei malammogliati

Wolpe:
Piece in Two parts for Six Players (1962)

Puccini:
Motetto per San Paolino (1879)

[Sorrano]

This morning it was Beethoven's first piano concerto, HIP performance with Newman and the London Philomusica Antiqua Orchestra with Braithwaite conducting. The last movement was performed at a breakneck speed and I'm not entirely sold on the sound of the piano. The upper registers are a bit thin and being used to the modern piano it was a little odd to me.

[Roehre]

Today:

Moeran:
Lonely waters (version with a part of the folk song actually sung) (CotW)

Berio:
Chamber music for female voice, clarinet, ‘cello and harp (1953)
Sequenza VII (oboe, 1969)

Ton de Leeuw:
String quartet no.2 (1964)

Verdi:
Missa per Rossini: Libera me (1869)

Lidholm:
Greetings from an Old World (1976)
Kontakion (1979)

[Roehre]

Today:

Raitio;
Serenade for orchestra (1933) (TtN)

Moeran:
Jubilate (1930)
The Roving Dingle Boy, (CotW)

Boulez:
Le Marteau sans Maitre (1957)

Harvey:
...towards a pure land (2005) (Ao3)

Ruders:
Symphony “Himmelhoch jauchzend...Zum Tode betrübt“ (1989)

[Roehre]

Berio:
Sincronie (1968)

Lutyens:
O Saison O Chateaux (1946)

Britten:
Prelude and Fugue op.29 (1943)

Crumb:
Black Angels (1970)

Stockhausen:
Klavierstück X (1954/61, Rzewski)

Varèse:
Density 21.5
Bussotti:
Couple for flute and piano

Matsudaira:
Rhymes for flute and percussion

Maderna:
Hyperion III for flute and orchestra

Ligeti:
Hamburg Concerto (1999/2003)
Double Concerto (1972)
Ramifications (1968/’69)

[Roehre]

Today:
JSBach/Stravinsky:
Preludes and Fugues from WTC (arr.1968)

Tchaikovsky:
Symphony no.1 op.13 “Winterdreams”
(apparently a reconstruction of the premiere- version)

Holliger:
Dona nobis Pacem (1971)
Psalm (1971)

Maderna:
Hyperion III (1965/’66)

Smalley:
Piano concerto (1985)

Lindberg:
Kraft (1983/’85)

Ligeti:
Mysteries of the Macabre (1991)

Cage:
Quartet for 4 Percussionists (1935)

[Peter]

Schumann and Brahms piano quintets.

[Megan]

New World Symphony - Dvorak

Reminds me of the Hovis Advert.

[Roehre]

Today:

JSBach:
Cantatas BWV 192, 193 and 194 (not related to today, but as Bach either hasn’t composed any for Advent 2, or these have gone lost, some not-church-calendar -related sacred cantatas)

Webern:
3 little pieces for ‘cello and piano opus 11 (1914)

Hindemith:
Solo-cello sonata op.25/3 (1923)

Zimmermann:
Solo-cello sonata (1960)

Smalley;
Piano concerto (1985)

Harman:
Iridescence (1990)

Britten:
Saint Nicholas op.42
(It’s St.Nicolas’ Eve today)