What are you listening to now?

[Megan]

Haydn
Symphony No. 6 in D major (Le Matin)
The Hanover Band
Roy Goodman (director)
Hyperion CDH55112

10:28
Vieuxtemps
Violin Concerto No. 5 in A minor
Jascha Heifetz (violin)
New Symphony Orchestra of London
Malcolm Sargent (conductor)
RCA Red Seal RD86214

10:46
Jenkins
Fantasia Suite for two trebles, bass and organ No. 4 in C major: Fancy
Paul Nicholson (organ)
Fretwork
Virgin 3951642

10:53
Grieg
Peer Gynt Suite No. 1
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo (conductor)

11:09
Artist of the Week
Bach
Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D major BWV1050
The Brandenburg Consort Roy Goodman (director)
Hyperion CDD22001

11:31
Britten
Serenade for tenor, horn and strings



Pleasant listening from BBC radio 3. On a rainy Bank Holiday morning.

[Quijote]

Quick "newsflash" (sorry, didn't know where to post this) : my sources inform me that the Beethovenhaus is looking for a new director. Anyone fancy a change of job?

[Peter]

Quick "newsflash" (sorry, didn't know where to post this) : my sources inform me that the Beethovenhaus is looking for a new director. Anyone fancy a change of job?

Yes an odd thread to post a job advert! How about your good self? References from here I'm sure will be plentiful!

[Roehre]

Quick "newsflash" (sorry, didn't know where to post this) : my sources inform me that the Beethovenhaus is looking for a new director. Anyone fancy a change of job?

Again, that will be the fourth in a decade then

[Michael]

Klemperer's Missa Solemnis. (With a little help from Beethoven.)

[Quijote]

Yes an odd thread to post a job advert! How about your good self? References from here I'm sure will be plentiful!

Too late, I had already put in a good word for you, but it seems they've been receiving your CV (unsolicited) on a regular basis for the last 15 years or so. Add smiling icon.

[Quijote]

And where is the joy, slaughtering of calves, dancing in the streets and other celebrations at my return to this infernal forum? Add "posters leave in droves" icon.
Listening to Bruckner (not now, earlier in the day) : Symphony No. 2 (1872 version, ed. Carragan) / National S.O. of Ireland / Tintner.

[Sorrano]

And where is the joy, slaughtering of calves, dancing in the streets and other celebrations at my return to this infernal forum? Add "posters leave in droves" icon.
Listening to Bruckner (not now, earlier in the day) : Symphony No. 2 (1872 version, ed. Carragan) / National S.O. of Ireland / Tintner.

Your return is a welcome one! How's Tintner's performance of the 2nd?

[Quijote]

Your return is a welcome one! How's Tintner's performance of the 2nd?

I like what Tintner gets out of the National S.O. of Ireland, Sorrano. I am also increasingly of the opinion that Bruckner's "first thoughts" in the 1st, 2nd and 3rd symphonies are the more convincing.
I also recently heard a CD of the Ninth (Anton's, not Ludwig's) with Celibidache / Munich S.O., (with 2nd CD recording of a rehearsal). Lord, he's slow! Kind of works, though, but I'll need a bit more persuading.

[Roehre]

Today:

Maconchy:
String quartet no.13 “Quartetto corto” (1984)

Searle:
Night Music op.2 (1943)
Symphony no.1 op.23 (1952/’53)

Webern:
String quartet op.28 (1938)

Delius:
The Walk to the Paradise Garden(R3-Live concert)

Bowen:
Rhapsody for Cello and Orchestra op.74 (1924) (R3-Live concert)

Holst:
Egdon Heath (R3-Live concert)

Vaughan Williams:
The Garden of Proserpine (1899) (R3-Live concert)

[Sorrano]

I like what Tintner gets out of the National S.O. of Ireland, Sorrano. I am also increasingly of the opinion that Bruckner's "first thoughts" in the 1st, 2nd and 3rd symphonies are the more convincing.
I also recently heard a CD of the Ninth (Anton's, not Ludwig's) with Celibidache / Munich S.O., (with 2nd CD recording of a rehearsal). Lord, he's slow! Kind of works, though, but I'll need a bit more persuading.

Everything I've heard from Celibidache is quite slow. Some of the performances work pretty well in spite of that. There is a performance of Tchaikovsky's 5th Symphony I quite like because there is a good amount of intensity in the music, but I'm not pleased with the tempo.

It stands to reason that Bruckner's first inclinations would be the more correct; after all, he was more or less persuaded by his "friends" to make the alterations. Who knows what he would have done on his own initiative.

[Sorrano]

This morning it was Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 3 in C Major, played by Murray Perahia. I thought it was well done but wonder if the finale was a touch fast.

[Chris]

Exploring some spurious Haydn concertos today (and listening to some authentic ones along with them).

Cello concertos Hob VIIb:1, VIIb:2, VIIb:4* - Gautier Capucon/Mahler Chamber Orchestra/Harding

Trumpet Concerto (Gilbert Johnson), Sinfonia Concertante - Philadelphia Orchestra/Ormandy
Oboe Concerto* (Pierre Pierlot), Flute Concerto* (Jean-Pierre Rampal) - Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra/Rolla

Horn concertos Hob VIId:3, Hob VIId:4*, Divertimento Hob IV:5, Romance for Horn and String Quartet (M. Haydn), Adagio and Allegro Molto for Horn and Trombone (M. Haydn) - Jasper de Wall/Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra/Rubingh

[Michael]

Listened to Klemperer's recording of the Missa Solemnis. I know I listened to it yesterday, but - hey - it's a free country. Okay?

[Roehre]

Today:

Barber:
Knoxville – summer of 1915 op.24 (1947)

Mahler:
Symphony no.5: Adagietto (Walter /VPO 1938)

Searle:
Symphony no.2 op.33 (1956/’58)

Music from the Burgundian/Hapsburg Netherlands and the early years of the Dutch Republic,
1400-1600 by:
Farri, Binschois, Dufay, Busnois, Obrecht, DesPrez, Agricola, Brumel, Appenzeller,
Clemens non Papa, Sweelinck, di Lasso, de Brouck, de Rore, Utendal and Tollius