What are you listening to now?

[Roehre]

Today:

Baird:
Ouverture giocoso (1952) (R3: TtN)

Liszt:
Via Crucis

Ostrcil:
Calvary-variations (1928)

Szymanowski:
Stabat Mater op.53

Wagner:
Parsifal - Karfreitagszauber

[Quijote]

Today (Saturday 23 April), 00.47h, as I return from my night excursions : a lone busker near to my flat, playing a recorder (rather well, I must say) : something "modal" in flavour, I have no idea what, I suspect he was improvising. I flipped a couple of coins (what James Ellroy calls "chump change") into his hat. It got me thinking about Euan's "Fingerprints" thread elsewhere on this forum. It clearly was not Beethoven.

[Roehre]

Today (Saturday 23 April), 00.47h, as I return from my night excursions : a lone busker near to my flat, playing a recorder (rather well, I must say) : something "modal" in flavour, I have no idea what, I suspect he was improvising. I flipped a couple of coins (what James Ellroy calls "chump change") into his hat. It got me thinking about Euan's "Fingerprints" thread elsewhere on this forum. It clearly was not Beethoven.

Ah, you've recovered from cleaning the kitchen floor then :-)

[Roehre]

Today:

Martin:
Maria-triptychon (1968)

Ibert:
Golgotha (1935)

[Megan]

Early music show. BBC radio 3

BBC Radio 3. The Early Music show.

Listening now to Handel's Easter Oratorio.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b010gl9v

[Roehre]

Today:

Foerster:
Symphony no.4 op.54 “Easter Night” (1905)

Anonymus (12th C):
Mass for Easter

Saxton:
Music to celebrate the Resurrection of Christ (1988)

JSBach:
Oster-Oratorium BWV 249

Ruppe:
Muziek voor Paasch-Feest 1797 (Music for Easter 1797)

And further BBC Four’s Holst documentary

[Peter]

Today:

Foerster:
Symphony no.4 op.54 “Easter Night” (1905)

Anonymus (12th C):
Mass for Easter

Saxton:
Music to celebrate the Resurrection of Christ (1988)

JSBach:
Oster-Oratorium BWV 249

Ruppe:
Muziek voor Paasch-Feest 1797 (Music for Easter 1797)

And further BBC Four’s Holst documentary

I also stayed up late for the Holst - quite incredible how so much of his music is obscured by The Planets.

[Michael]

Half-listening to the Classic FM Top 300. Every Easter I can't seem to avoid it. Now playing Tchaikovsky's First PC.

[Sorrano]

Today:

Poulenc: "Suite francaise" (not sure on the spelling)

Marais: Five Old French Dances

[Roehre]

Today:

Honegger:
Paques à New York H.30 (1920)

Bowen:
Symphony no.1 in G op.4 (1901) (R3: A03)

Ohana:
Cris (1968/’69)
Messe (concert version, 1977)

Englund:
Violin concerto (1981)

Howells:
Sir Patrick Spens op.23 (1917)

Escher:
Le Tombeau de Ravel (1952)

[Megan]

Elgar
Pomp and Circumstance Military Marches, Op.39
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Adrian Boult (conductor)
EMI 764015-2

10.57
Bruckner
Symphony no.7 in E major (original version): Adagio. Sehr feierlich und sehr langsam
Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra
Gunter Wand (conductor)
RCA 09026 63937 2

11.19
Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto from Mitsuko Uchida. An interpreter of great depth and versatility, Uchida "embraces the humanism and universalism of Beethoven, his emotional gravity and Olympian intellect, and plays at the peak of her considerable powers." (Financial Times). Indeed it was Uchida's 2008 performance of this work at the Barbican Hall that prompted the review: "Uchida's intelligent and minutely attentive style made for a predictably exemplary solo performance" (The Guardian).

Beethoven
Piano Concerto no.4 in G, Op.58
Mitsuko Uchida (piano)
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Kurt Sanderling (conductor

[Sorrano]

I love that Bruckner Adagio, Megan!

Today: Prokofiev:
Transcriptions of Schubert Waltzes
Flute Sonata in D, Op. 94

Sibelius:
Finlandia

[Chris]

I am starting to listen to a box set of Bach's Brandenburg Concertos, Orchestral Suites, and other chamber music by the Musica Antiqua Koln/Reinhard Goebel. I have almost everything in here by other other artists, but there are a few things in here of questionable attribution to Bach that I could not find elsewhere, so I thought I'd give it a try. So today it is the Brandenburg Concertos, the "Triple Concerto", and the Orchestral Suites.

[Michael]

Just now listening to a new CD which arrived in my post this morning: Beethoven's own arrangement for piano of "The Creatures of Prometheus".
Excellent recording by Cyprien Katsaris (described as a world premiere - which may well be the case as I know of only one other recording.)
I'm much impressed by the playing and the arrangement.
Katsaris has also recorded some of the Liszt arrangements of the symphonies and at the end of this disc there is included a three-minute excerpt from the opening of the Seventh symphony, arranged for piano. I thought it was a "trailer" for the pianist's other recordings until I read the liner notes. I was gobmacked when I realised that the segment was by Beethoven himself - 46 bars of the beginning of the 7th - the only one of the nine to be (partially) transcribed by the composer himself (unless you count the piano trio version of the 2nd).
All in all, I am quite pleased with my latest purchase.

[Roehre]

Katsaris has also recorded some of the Liszt arrangements of the symphonies and at the end of this disc there is included a three-minute excerpt from the opening of the Seventh symphony, arranged for piano. I thought it was a "trailer" for the pianist's other recordings until I read the liner notes. I was gobmacked when I realised that the segment was by Beethoven himself - 46 bars of the beginning of the 7th - the only one of the nine to be (partially) transcribed by the composer himself (unless you count the piano trio version of the 2nd).

The Beethoven-fragment was first recorded by Hyperion in their complete Liszt-piano-music series as part of one of the CD-sets with Liszt-transcriptions of Beethoven works
The score is to be found in the appendix of the new (English) edition of the Hess-catalogue.

Btw, this Prometheus (op.24 [!] /Hess 90) is not a CD-premiere. Some 10 years ago it was already played by Stephen Beck on Monument 00.01.99.

But both works are surprises indeed.