What are you listening to now?

[Megan]

Artist of the Week
Allegri
Miserere
Roy Goodman (treble)
King's College Choir, Cambridge
Sir David Willcocks (conductor)
Decca Legends 466 373-2DM

[Sorrano]

This morning: Elgar's 4 Dances for Winds

[Chris]

The Haydn recordings by Manfred Huss and the Haydn Sinfonietta Wien have been being steadily re-released on BIS for the last few years. Finally they have gotten to the Complete Early Divertimenti. I've been looking forward to this for a while, and that's what I'm listening to for the next few days.

Hob. II:1-3, 7-9, 11, 14-17, 20-24, 46 D22, G1
Hob. IV:5
Hob. XIV:1
Hob. VIIa:1 (Why they decided to throw the first violin concerto in there, I'm not sure)
Hob. VIII:3, 3bis

[Roehre]

The Haydn recordings by Manfred Huss and the Haydn Sinfonietta Wien have been being steadily re-released on BIS for the last few years. Finally they have gotten to the Complete Early Divertimenti. I've been looking forward to this for a while, and that's what I'm listening to for the next few days.

Hob. II:1-3, 7-9, 11, 14-17, 20-24, 46 D22, G1
Hob. IV:5
Hob. XIV:1
Hob. VIIa:1 (Why they decided to throw the first violin concerto in there, I'm not sure)
Hob. VIII:3, 3bis

Chris, Really lovely music that is.
You've got, or at least know, the Notturni H.II-24-30 and the scherzandi H.II:31-38? "Later" Haydn, but these are as fresh as the (much) earlier ones you've planned to listen to now (and also with some surprises in terms of recycled material)

It is a pity that the Hoboken catalogue is not easy to use regarding different versions of works, the 7 Last words being a good case, or of attributed works.
IIRC the violin concerto in C H.VIIa:1 is one of those attributed ones, Tomasini being the likely composer of the work, of which AFAIK a score for smaller forces in Haydn's hand exists as well, the latter explaining why it is attributed to Haydn, as well as why Schwann/Bis considers this to be a Divertimento concertante.

I guess the asterisked Hoboken-numbers (*) in your post 163 allude to works attributed to Haydn, or at least of doubtful authorship?

[Chris]

Chris, Really lovely music that is.
You've got, or at least know, the Notturni H.II-24-30 and the scherzandi H.II:31-38? "Later" Haydn, but these are as fresh as the (much) earlier ones you've planned to listen to now (and also with some surprises in terms of recycled material)

Yes indeed. I have the Notturni performed by the Slovak Chamber Orchestra/Warchal and the Scherzandi by the Berlin Haydn-Ensemble/Hartog with Hansjorg Schellenberger and Emmanuel Pahud. Huss's group also recorded these, but I passed on that in favor of these recordings. Maybe I'll pick those up at some point just to have all of his Haydn recordings.

It is a pity that the Hoboken catalogue is not easy to use regarding different versions of works, the 7 Last words being a good case, or of attributed works.

Yes, there is some difficulty there. Actually, the most annoying thing about it is that the only online version I have found is in French! I have tried to use it to see what Haydn composed that I don't have recordings of, and from what I can tell, there are some works which still have not been recorded, such as some of the dances.

IIRC the violin concerto in C H.VIIa:1 is one of those attributed ones, Tomasini being the likely composer of the work, of which AFAIK a score for smaller forces in Haydn's hand exists as well, the latter explaining why it is attributed to Haydn, as well as why Schwann/Bis considers this to be a Divertimento concertante.

Interesting. I have never heard that the work was of doubtful authenticity. The liner notes on this recording just say it was written by Haydn for Tomasini. Another recording I have of it makes no mention of this in the notes either.

I guess the asterisked Hoboken-numbers (*) in your post 163 allude to works attributed to Haydn, or at least of doubtful authorship?

Yes. I didn't think anyone would bother to read it that closely!

[Roehre]

Today:

Julian Philips:
Ricochets Between (2010) (R3: lunchtime concert)

Mahler:
Symphony no.1 (Mitropoulos / MinneapolisSO 1940)

Searle:
Symphony nr.3 op.36 (1959/’60)

Sweelinck:
Mein junges Leben hat ein End

Höller:
Sweelinck-variations op.56 (1951)