What Are You Listening To Now?

[Joy]

Well, I think it's time to start a new thread on this subject. This morning I woke up to Mozart's Piano Sonata in A minor. A nice choice.

[Peter]

Brahms Clarinet sonata no.1.
Beethoven Op.90
Elgar Piano quintet

[Megan]

Now: The Siege of Vienna, 1683. BBC Radio 3
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00yy8sy





BBC radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, starting at 2:00.

Featuring Canadian violinist , James Ehnes




Acclaimed Canadian violinist James Ehnes brings to the Wigmore Hall 2 violin Sonatas written only 3 years apart, but from very different musical worlds. Debussy's Violin Sonata was his final composition, completed in 1918. Bartok's Sonata from 1921 combines his twin interests at the time of folk musical and atonality, and looks forward towards the rest of the twentieth century.

The concert is introduced by Sarah Walker

James Ehnes (violin)
Andrew Armstrong (piano)

Debussy: Violin Sonata in G minor

Bartok: Violin Sonata No. 1

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[Megan]

Gluck's Iphigenie en Tauride

Iphigénie ..... Susan Graham (soprano)
Oreste ..... Plácido Domingo (baritone)
Pylade ..... Paul Groves (tenor)
Thoas ..... Gordon Hawkins (bass)

Chorus and Orchestra of the New York Metropolitan Opera
Patrick Summers (conductor)..

[Roehre]

Today:

Martinu:
4 Madrigals H.380 (R3: TtN)

Holliger:
String quartet (1973)

Liszt (Hyperion/Howard series vol. 57):
Hungarian rhapsodies (final versions) S.244: 1-9

Saeverud:
Symphony no.4 op.11 (1937)

L.Andriessen:
Choral I and II (1992)

Saariaho:
Fall (1992)

Carter:
Bariolage (1991)

Ferneyhough (R3: Hear & Now):
Second String Quartet (1980)
Plötzlichkeit (2006)
Carceri d'Invenzione III (1986)
Missa Brevis (1969)
La Terre est un Homme (1976/’79)

[Megan]

BBC radio 3. Early music show.Listen Live on BBC Radio 3 (Started at 13:00)the musical legacy of King Joao IV of Portugal and the so-called Golden Age of Portuguese polyphony. In 1578, the young king of Portugal, Sebastian led an ill-considered crusade against the Moors of Morocco.

Synopsis
Catherine Bott talks to Owen Rees about the musical legacy of King Joao IV of Portugal and the so-called Golden Age of Portuguese polyphony. In 1578, the young king of Portugal, Sebastian led an ill-considered crusade against the Moors of Morocco. He was routed at the battle of Alcazar-Quivir and disappeared without trace, leaving his succession and the fate of his nation on a knife-edge. Of the six claimants to the Portuguese monarchy, the most powerful was Philip II of Spain, whose invading army conquered the country in 1581. Neither Philip nor his two successors acknowledged Portugal's cultural or ethnic independence and treated her as nothing more than a province of Spain. Portugal's considerable foreign revenue enriched the Spanish treasury, while her dominance in trade & sea power was successfully challenged by the English & the Dutch, thus loosening her grip on her colonies in Africa, Asia and South America. This period of external domination & subsequent economic decline lasted for nearly 60 years until the Portuguese nobility reached the end of its tether and led a revolt against their oppressors in 1640, as a result of which, the Duke of Braganza was declared the new & rightful king of Portugal & the Algarves. One of King Joao IV's first actions was to lead his countrymen in a protracted war of restoration against the Spanish, whose armies were finally driven out of Portuguese lands after four more years of fierce fighting. Joao o Restaurador - John the Restorer - was not just a successful troop-leader, though. He was also a generous supporter of the arts, and a considerably talented musician & composer himself. And, by the time of his death in 1656 he had amassed the biggest music library in the world.

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Manuel Cardoso — Tulerunt lapides
Performers: The Sixteen, Harry Christophers (director)

Manuel Cardoso — Kyrie from Missa regina caeli
Performers: The Sixteen, Harry Christophers (director)
Filipe de Magalhães — Asperges me
Performers: A Capella Portuguesa, Owen Rees (conductor)

João Lourenço Rebelo — Panis angelicus
Performers: A Capella Portuguesa, Owen Rees (conductor)

HYPERION, CDA 66867, Track 14 .--:--
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina — Fratres ego enim accepi
Performers: A Capella Portuguesa, Owen Rees (conductor)

HYPERION, CDA 66867, Track 13 .--:--
King João IV of Portugal — Crux fidelis
Performers: Pro Cantione Antiqua, Mark Brown (conductor)

TELDEC, 246 005-2, Disc 3 Track 9 .--:--
Luis de Narváez — Fantasia del Segundo tono / Fantasia del quarto tono [Los seys libros del Delphin de musica]
Performer: Hopkinson Smith (vihuela)

ASTREE, E 8706, Tracks 3-4 .--:--
Filipe da Madre de Deus — Antonya Flaciquia Gasipa
Performers: Hesperion XXI, Jordi Savall (director)




http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00yy926

[Michael]

Mike Oldfield: Tubular Bells 2

[Roehre]

Today:

Liszt (Hyperion/Howard series vol. 57):
Hungarian rhapsodies (final versions) S.244: 10-19

Ferneyhough:
Plötzlichkeit (2006)
Carceri d'Invenzione III (1986)
La Terre est un Homme (1976/’79)

JSBach:
Cantata-fragments BWV 34a, 69a, 120a and 197a

Saeverud:
Symphony no.7 op.27 “Psalm” (1945)

Ives:
Variations on America (arr. Rhoads for “The President’s Own” US marine Band)
Overture and march 1776 (arr. Sinclair ditto)
They are There! (ditto)
Old Home days: Suite for Band (arr.Elkus ditto)

[Sorrano]

This morning:

Satie: Preambulum from "Parade"

Satie/Diamond: "Passacaille"

Diamond: Piano Sonatina

[Peter]

This morning:

Satie: Preambulum from "Parade"

Satie/Diamond: "Passacaille"

Diamond: Piano Sonatina

Satie was such a character - he always amuses me! The music too is so original and I think he deserves a lot more attention.

[Peter]

Several Beethoven overtures today - Leonore no.3, Fidelio and The Consecration of the House with the Tonhalle orchestra.

[Roehre]

Today:

Balfe:
Falstaff: overture (1845) (R3: CC)

Dukas (R3: CotW):
Polyeucte (1892)
Le Roi Lear: overture (1883)
Nice to hear a piece which in the 1980 New Grove’s still was mentioned as one of the “destroyed works”

Liszt (Hyperion/Howard series vol.53b):
Piano concerto no.2 in A S.125
De Profundis – Psaume instrumental S.691
Concerto pathétique S.365a

Schubert:
Wanderer Fantasie (arr. Liszt)

Von Weber:
Konzertstück in f op.79/J.282 (with Liszt’s version of the piano part)

Ferneyhough:
Plötzlichkeit (2006)
Carceri d'Invenzione III (1986)
La Terre est un Homme (1976/’79)

[Sorrano]

Satie was such a character - he always amuses me! The music too is so original and I think he deserves a lot more attention.

It was nice, too, to hear something besides the Gymnopedies (sorry for spelling).

[Michael]

Schubert's "Death and the Maiden" string quartet (prompted by Peter and the Oscars' thread - I'm very suggestible).
Also his A minor (Rosamunde) quartet.
(Schubert's - not Peter's).

[Roehre]

Today:

Liszt:
3 Odes funèbres S.112 (R3: Ao3)

Liszt (Hyperion/Howard series vol.53b):
Totentanz (1st version) S.126i
Fantasie über Ungarische Volksmelodien S.123

Menter (/Liszt?)
Concerto in Hungarian style (orch.Tchaikovsky)

Hughes:
Dewi Sant (1951)