What are you listening to now?

[Chris]

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

Any recommendations on sets?

I think Adam Fischer's set is the best out there.

[Roehre]

Today:

Liszt orch. Adams:
The Black Gondola (R3: CC)

From Munrow’s 3LP-set The Art of the Netherlands:
Secular songs and instrumental music, i.a. by
Desprez, Isaac, van Ghizeghem, Agricola, Brumel, and Obrecht.

Nasveld:
Hanging around (2003)

Verbey:
Piano trio (1999)

[Roehre]

Today:

Handel [?]:
Sonata for two oboes in B minor, HWV384 (around 1705) (R3:CC)

Jeths:
Chiasmos (2000)
Fas/Nefas (version for harp and orchestra 2000)

[Roehre]

Today:

Chavez:
Symphony no.1 “Sinfonia de Antigona” (1932)
Symphony no.2 “Sinfonia India” (1936)

Colgrass:
Chaconne for viola and orchestra (1984)

Casella:
Pagliacci (Pupazzetti) (1918)

Lord Berners:
L’Uomo dai baffi (1918)

Malipiero:
I Selvaggi (Grottesco) (1918)

Bartok:
L’orso azzurro (bear dance Sz.39/10, also Sz.97/2 ) (orch. Casella 1918)

BachJS:
Toccata, Adagio & fugue in C BWV 564
Concerto after Vivaldi BWV 593
Passacaglia & fugue in c BWV 582

[Roehre]

Today:

Jenner:
Trio in E flat for Clarinet, Horn and Piano (1900) (R3:TtN)

Godowsky:
Passacaglia on the opening bars of Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony (1927)

Von Weber/Godowsky:
Aufforderung zum Tanz op.65

Chavez:
Symphony no.3 (1954)

Hyperion CD Delectatio Angeli
(music of Love, Longing and Lament by Ventadorn, Ciconia, Dufay et al)

Verbey:
Pavane oublié (1995)

Tonight: R3 Hear & Now

[Peter]

Beethoven 7th symphony with Zinman/Tonhalle - I like this performance especially of the trio in the 3rd movement which is often taken way too slow I think as is the 2nd movement, but not here. Also interesting to compare this Del Mar version with the ones I'm more familiar with - amazing how not having heard them for some time the differences still stand out immediately.

[Michael]

Mozart's 40th and Jupiter symphonies and Mahler's Fourth.

[Roehre]

Today:

Desprez:
Missa So la fa re mi

Chavez:
Symfonie nr.4 “Sinfonia Romantica” (1954)

Van Roosendael:
David and Saul (1998)

Jenner:
Trio in E-flat (1900)

[Sorrano]

This morning:

Louis Spohr: Double Quartet No. 1 in d, Mvt. 1 (Allegro)
Wieniawski: Violin Concerto No. 2 in D

[Roehre]

Today:

Chavez:
Symphony no.5 (1953)
Symphony no.6 (1963)

Madetoja:
Kullervo op.15 (1913)

From Las Huelgas Ms (ca.1300):
4 Planctus
1. by Catherin Bott / Pavlo Beznosiuk
2. by Studio der Frühen Musik

[Roehre]

Today:

Chavez:
Symphony no.4 “Sinfonia romantica” (1951)
Symphony no.3 (1954)


Kox:
Violin concerto no.2 (1978/’81)
Concertino for alto-saxophone and 10 wind instruments (1982 rev 1991)

[Chris]

Bach - Flute sonatas BWV 1030-1035, played on recorder instead of flute, by Michala Petri and Keith Jarrett. Excellent playing (you'd expect nothing less from them), and I find that the recorder works very well for these pieces (the flute is almost always used instead). One odd thing is that there is no additional bass instrument used in the sonatas for recorder and basso continuo (BWV 1033-1035). Usually they stick a viola da gamba or something in those. But I suppose it's a valid option to have just the harpsichord, and when I think about it, it might actually make more sense to have just the harpsichord providing the continuo in solo sonatas like this.

[Michael]

Incidental music to Goethe's Egmont.

[Roehre]

Bach - Flute sonatas BWV 1030-1035, played on recorder instead of flute, by Michala Petri and Keith Jarrett. Excellent playing (you'd expect nothing less from them), and I find that the recorder works very well for these pieces (the flute is almost always used instead). One odd thing is that there is no additional bass instrument used in the sonatas for recorder and basso continuo (BWV 1033-1035). Usually they stick a viola da gamba or something in those. But I suppose it's a valid option to have just the harpsichord, and when I think about it, it might actually make more sense to have just the harpsichord providing the continuo in solo sonatas like this.

If the bass of the harpsichord is strong enough, then it isn't necessary to strengthen this line by adding another basso continuo instrument, as clearly happens here. Btw: BWV 1013 and 1030-1035 were recorded by Frans Brüggen et al for the Seon label during the 1970s already exclusively using recorders in stead of the then almost universally used (traverso-)flutes. Especially the solo-sonata BWV 1013 is a miracle when played on a recorder. (It was a nice experiment that Brüggen et al for this recording also arranged the different movements of this solo-sonata for other instruments or instrumental combinations, like oboe d'amore, violin, trio sonata as well as harpsichord sonata).

[Roehre]

Today:

Schmitt:
Salammbo opus 76 (suites 1928/82)

d'Indy:
Choral Varie op.75 (R3:Ao3)

Vaughan Williams:
Symphony no. 4 (R3:Ao3)

d’Indy:
Symphony no.0 “symphonie italienne” (1870/’72)