What are you listening to now?

[Roehre]

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.

Chris, is Orchestral Suite no.5 BWV 1070 part of that set?

[Michael]

......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.

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The only other one I knew of was that Stephen Beck version. But this Katsaris recording is a re-issue and it is also around ten years old. So maybe it did come out shortly before the other.
Either way, the Katsaris disc is hugely enjoyable. I listened to it all in one go.
It's a pity they didn't include B's piano arrangement of his only other ballet, "The Ritterballet" as it would have fitted nicely. However, I have a decent enough recording of this, but unlike Hess 90, it is only of academic interest.

Incidentally, I just noticed your exclamation mark on the "Opus 24" and it jogged my memory in some way. I know that the two violin sonatas, the Spring and the A minor were originally published under one opus number, that is 23.
Was the Piano Prometheus No. 24 at one stage?



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[Roehre]

Incidentally, I just noticed your exclamation mark on the "Opus 24" and it jogged my memory in some way. I know that the two violin sonatas, the Spring and the A minor were originally published under one opus number, that is 23.
Was the Piano Prometheus No. 24 at once stage?

Yes. The whole ballet, i.e. the orchestral score as well as its piano reduction were planned to be published as opus 24. That is chronologically an opus number which makes sense (opus 43 as such doesn't).
The 4th and 5th violin sonatas were planned to become opus 23 no.1 (the a-minor) and opus 23 no.2 (the "Spring").
However, due to a mistake at the printer's the print plates were prepared in two different sizes: one in oblong format (in what we now call "landscape"), the other in what we now call "portrait". One opus number therefore couldn't be applied to one single score, and the sonatas got different numbers: 23 and 24.
The first edition of the piano reduction of Prometheus still bears 24 as its opus number. Only at the publication of the parts of the Prometheus overture that overture -and some time later the whole of the ballet- got the now familiar opus number 43.

therefore my exclamation mark following 24

[Chris]

Chris, is Orchestral Suite no.5 BWV 1070 part of that set?

It is indeed, and I had never heard it before this. Most likely by W.F. Bach, but I still appreciate its inclusion.

[Roehre]

It is indeed, and I had never heard it before this. Most likely by W.F. Bach, but I still appreciate its inclusion.

Thanks Chris.

[Roehre]

Today:

Schönberg:
10 Waltzes for string orchestra (1897) (R3: TtN)

Widmann
Concerto for violin and orchestra (2007) (R3:TtN)

Holst
Diverus and Lazarus H.137 (1918) (R3: CotW)

Bowen:
Piano Concerto no. 3 in G major Op.23 (1904) (R3:Ao3)
Symphony no. 2 in E minor op.31 (1909) (R3:Ao3)

Mussorgsky arr.Knussen – (R3: Po3)
La Couturière
Gopak

Korngold:
The Sea Hawk: suite (arr.Gerhardt)
Of human Bondage: suite (arr.Gerhardt)

[Michael]

Yes. The whole ballet, i.e. the orchestral score as well as its piano reduction were planned to be published as opus 24. That is chronologically an opus number which makes sense (opus 43 as such doesn't).
The 4th and 5th violin sonatas were planned to become opus 23 no.1 (the a-minor) and opus 23 no.2 (the "Spring").
However, due to a mistake at the printer's the print plates were prepared in two different sizes: one in oblong format (in what we now call "landscape"), the other in what we now call "portrait". One opus number therefore couldn't be applied to one single score, and the sonatas got different numbers: 23 and 24.
The first edition of the piano reduction of Prometheus still bears 24 as its opus number. Only at the publication of the parts of the Prometheus overture that overture -and some time later the whole of the ballet- got the now familiar opus number 43.

therefore my exclamation mark following 24

Right. Thanks, Roehre. It pays to pick up on small things like exclamation marks.

[Megan]

09:18
Gregorio Allegri — Gustate et videte
Performer: The Cardinall’s Musick Performer: Andrew Carwood (director)

HYPERION CDA67860, Tr. 18 .09:24
Robert Schumann — Fantasiestucke Op.73
Performer: Michael Collins (clarinet) Performer: Kathryrn Stott (piano)

EMI CDC 7 54419 2, Tr. 1-3 .09:34
Jules Massenet — Meditation from Thais
Performer: Berlin Philharmonic Performer: Herbert von Karajan, conductor

EMI CLASSICS 9 07154 2, CD2 Tr. 17 .09:49


Aaron Copland — The Party Scene and Finale: The Promise of Living from The Tender Land Suite
Performer: Boston Symphony Orchestra Performer: Aaron Copland (conductor)





*The Jules Massenet - Meditation from Thais - a very beautiful and lyrical piece.*

[Sorrano]

This morning:
Ravel: Suite No. 2 from "Daphnis and Chloe"

[Chris]

Continuing with the Bach set today:

The rest of the Orchestral Suites
Violin Sonatas BWV 1014-1018

[Roehre]

Today:

Küffner
Clarinet quintet in one movement in B-flat opus 32 (1815) (R3: TtN)
(by some considered to be a missing middle (variation-)movement of CM von Weber’s Clarinet quintet in B-flat op.34 J.182 ) (also from 1815)

Bowen:
Piano Concerto no. 4 in A minor, Op. 88 (1929)

Rijnvos:
Zahgurim, whose number is twenty-three and who kills in an unnatural fashion… (1989)

Ayres:
[A] Penny o’[FA] (1992)
Untitled (for trumpet and piano) (1990)

[Chris]

Bach: Violin sonatas BWV 1019-1026, Viola da gamba sonatas BWV 1027-1029, Flute sonatas BWV 1030-1035, Partita for solo flute BWV 1013

[Joy]

Some of Bach's Brandenburg Concertos.

[Roehre]

Today:
Holst (R3: CotW):
The Shoemakker (with two ks !) opus 46/2b H.166/2 (1927)
Toccata H.153 (1924)

Bowen:
Fantasia for four violas opus 41/1 (1907)

Heppener:
Canti carnascialeschi (1966)

Berg:
Wozzeck

[Roehre]

Today:

Maxwell Davies:
An Orkney Wedding, with sunrise

Holst (R3: CotW):
Nunc Dimittis H.127 (1915)

Britten:
2 Portraits for String Orchestra (1930) (R3: Ao3)

Bowen:
Eventide op.69 (1922) (R3: Ao3)

Ford:
Cross (1992)