What are you listening to now?

[Preston]

Listening to Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D-min. again and windows media player is on repeat, . For those interested, the recording is the best I have heard. It is on the cd "The Bach Collection" and the conductor and orchestra are "Esa-Pekka Salonen and Los Angeles Philharmonic".

[Roehre]

Today:

New World Records CD The Wind Demon and other 19th Century piano works
An all American programme: Warren, Bristow, Grobe, Hoffman, Hopkins, Heinrich, Gottschalk, Fry, Bartlett, Mason

CD Music for Early Birds An all Dutch programme of piano miniatures from the 19th and 20th Centuries
Van den Bergh, Wulfraat, Mann, Noske, Verhulst, Verheij, Schäfer, de Hartog, Lubeck and Jan Brandts-Buys

Thierry Escaich:
Vertiges de la Croix (2006) (R3: Prehear)

Jonathan Harvey:
Tombeau de Messiaen, for piano and Electronics (1994) (R3: Prehear)

[Michael]

Beethoven's Bonn piano quartets played by the Amadeus Quartet (no less) with Christophi Eschenbach, piano. I never cease to marvel at this work of a fifteen-year old. So what if the opening of Number 1 was swiped from Mozart's G major violin sonata - young Ludwig actually improves it. (Okay, I may be a bit biased here.)
Amazingly, these weren't published until 1828, causing Ferdinand Ries to express doubts about their authenticity - but the existence of the autograph score put a stop to that.

[Roehre]

Today:

JSBach:
Deutsche Messe(a concoction of choral preludes followed by the actual chorales in JSB’s harmonisations)

Shostakovich:
Symphony no.3 in E-flat op.20 “May 1st” (1929)

Frankel:
May Day Overture op.22 (1948)

Dufay:
En cest Mois de May

Bax:
Morning Song (– Maytime in Sussex) (1947)
On a May Evening (1918)

Munrow –set The Art of courtly Love (Franco-burgundian music 1300-1475)

[Peter]

Some Beethoven 2 movement piano sonatas, Op.54, Op.90 and my favourite Op.78.

[Roehre]

Beethoven's Bonn piano quartets played by the Amadeus Quartet (no less) with Christophi Eschenbach, piano. I never cease to marvel at this work of a fifteen-year old. So what if the opening of Number 1 was swiped from Mozart's G major violin sonata - young Ludwig actually improves it. (Okay, I may be a bit biased here.)
Amazingly, these weren't published until 1828, causing Ferdinand Ries to express doubts about their authenticity - but the existence of the autograph score put a stop to that.

These recordings were made especially for the 1970 DGG Beethoven Edition, part of the multirecord set with pianotrios and -quartets, and were in 1976 for the first time released as single LP on the then new budget DGG Resonance label. AFAIK the only time a Resonance LP hadn't been released at full-price previously.

Imagine yourself browsing through the papers of a composer you knew very well for a long time. A score emerges of which you didn't know it existed, and the composer hadn't told you ever he had written such a thing. On top of that themes from early works known to you turn up in the score, and the music is relatively below par compared with other pieces of that composer's. What would you think?
And that's exactly what Ries' reaction was .

There might be something else: the three Mozart sonatas (KV 296, 379 and 380 respectively) which Beethoven without any doubt used as structural models, were published as Mozart's opus 2. The piano quartets might have been published by Beethoven at that time as opus 1 or 2 as well (the Kurfürsten-sonaten might have been opus 1). Though there isn't a suggestion this was contemplated, it would have meant that these works immediately would have been compared to Mozart's, possibly something Beethoven wasn't up to at that moment....

[Roehre]

Today:

Ohana:
Llanto por Ignacio Sanchez Mejias (1949/’53)

[lorikeet]

Schnabel and Beethoven sonatas

Arthur Schnabel's 30s recording of all Beethoven sonatas. Schnabel is said to have "invented Beethoven". He was one of a group of Jewish virtuosi who came to Australia on tour during 1930s when they became unemployable in Europe and features in my book Beethoven and the Zipper

[Peter]

Arthur Schnabel's 30s recording of all Beethoven sonatas. Schnabel is said to have "invented Beethoven". He was one of a group of Jewish virtuosi who came to Australia on tour during 1930s when they became unemployable in Europe and features in my book Beethoven and the Zipper

Yes welcome to the forum Lorikeet - I have the Schnabel recordings and for me they are definitive Beethoven, incidentally he was also one of the first to champion Schubert's piano sonatas.

[Sorrano]

Welcome, lorikeet!

This morning: Liszt: Two episodes from Lenau's Faust
Mozart: Rondo for piano and orchestra, K. 382

[Roehre]

Welcome to these boards, Lorikeet!
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Today:

DesPrez:
Some chansons and instrumental pieces from a Seon-2LP-set (Capella antiqua München) i.a.:
El Grillo,
Fortuna d’un gran Tempo
Allégez Moy
La Bernardina
Adieu mes amours
Scamarella

Lutoslawski:
Symphonic Variations (1938)
Postludium no.1 (1958)
Jeux vénétiens (1961)

Ron Ford:
Brandelli (2004)

De Raaff:
Piano Trio (1996 rev 2001)

[Megan]

Hello Lorikeet.



AM. Listening.


Vivaldi
Cessate, omai cessate, RV 684
Sara Mingardo (alto)
Concerto Italiano
Rinaldo Alessandrini (director)
Opus111

Barber
Violin Concerto, Op.14
Isaac Stern (violin)
New York Philharmonic Orchestra
Leonard Bernstein (conductor)




Monteverdi
Magnificat a 7 (Vespers)
The Monteverdi Choir
The English Baroque Soloists
John Eliot Gardiner
Archiv 429 565-2.

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[Michael]

Welcome, Lorikeet. Tell us more about Beethoven and the Zipper!

Listening to some Bach Brandenburgs - Third and Fourth.

[Sorrano]

Haydn Symphony No. 80. At some point I need to get all of his symphonies.

Any recommendations on sets?

[Michael]

Haydn Symphony No. 80. At some point I need to get all of his symphonies.

Any recommendations on sets?

Keep an eye on Amazon USA. They've gone mad!