What are you listening to now?

[Peter]

Schumann: Kreisleriana

[dice45]

Schumann: Kreisleriana

... and who is playing?

[Peter]

... and who is playing?

Jorg Demus - he recorded the complete Schumann piano music which I have.

[Sorrano]

This morning:

Villa-Lobos: Bachianas brasileiras #8

[dice45]

Peter,

Jorg Demus - he recorded the complete Schumann piano music which I have.

i like Demus for Schubert and Schumann, but hinthint: for the Kreisleriana, Wilhelm Kempff !! ... Vladimir Horowitz is worth listening to, too.

[Roehre]

Today:

Janacek:
Glagolithic Mass (R3 Proms repeat)

Dusapin:
Concerto for Orchestra no.1 “Morning in Long Island” (R3: Proms)

Sibelius:
Symphony no.2 in D op.43 (1901/’02)
+Alternative fragments from 1st and 2nd mvts (1901)

[Roehre]

Today:

Nozeman:
6 Sonate per violin solo e basso continuo opus 1 (p.1725)

Sibelius:
Symphony no.3 in C op.52 (1903/’07)
+2 Alternative openings from 1st mvt and cpte alternative 2nd mvt (1903/’04)
Symphony no.4 in a op.63 (1909/’11)
+ alternative 2nd mvt and alternative opening of finale.

[Quijote]

I am terribly sorry not to be listening to any Beethoven of late (nah, not really, I'm just saying that to please the Headmaster and his deputy), but I did have the opportunity several weeks ago to attend a live performance (here in Strasbourg) of Schoenberg's Gurrelieder.
What a knockout piece of music! I have to confess I did not know this work at all, and had no time before the concert to check out the score. It didn't matter; all I can tell you is that at the end I had tears pouring down my cheeks. I was particularly lucky as I was only two rows from the orchestra and could see everything I would have wanted to see in a score! A full house, too. Most gratifying.

[Quijote]

As far as the Gurrelieder is (are) concerned, there was Wagner, there was Bruckner, there was Mahler, there was Richard Strauss, there was a young(ish) Schoenberg, ...
It is said Schoenberg was no pianist; perhaps. This guy knew how to orchestrate. I will have to go back to my books ...

[Quijote]

And so, whilst innocents sleep, I (with headphones) listen to Bruckner 3 ("original" verison, Georg Tintner) and the Wagner references.

[Roehre]

As far as the Gurrelieder is (are) concerned, there was Wagner, there was Bruckner, there was Mahler, there was Richard Strauss, there was a young(ish) Schoenberg, ...
It is said Schoenberg was no pianist; perhaps. This guy knew how to orchestrate. I will have to go back to my books ...

Though the orchestration dates from 1912 or so and is therefore nearly a decade later than the completion of the short score, it shows that Schönberg was a good orchestrator.
Btw, IMO the sunrise at the beginning of the Gurrelieder is (with the one at the beginning of Ravel's Daphnis et Chloe) one of the most impressive of the whole of the orchestral literature.

[Roehre]

Today:

Sibelius:
Symphony no.5 in E-flat op.82 (1915 version)
Symphony no.5 in E-flat op.82 (final 1919 version)

Liszt:
6 Mélodies favourites de la Belle Meunière de Schubert S.565 (1846)

Schubert (arr.Liszt):
Meerestille S.557b (1837)
Die Forelle S.564 (1846)
Schwanengesang: Ständchen „Leise fliehen“ S.560/7a (1880)

[Chris]

More Bach organ works played by Christopher Herrick.

Yesterday: Organ Cornucopia
Today: The Orgelbuchlein

[Roehre]

More Bach organ works played by Christopher Herrick.
Organ Cornucopia

Is that the Hyperion CD with that title, chris?

[Quijote]

[...]Btw, IMO the sunrise at the beginning of the Gurrelieder is (with the one at the beginning of Ravel's Daphnis et Chloe) one of the most impressive of the whole of the orchestral literature.

The beginning of the Gurrelieder is indeed an ear-opener, Roehrer! I was never a fan of "early" Schoenberg (I have played 'cello in his "Transfigured Night", for example, and detested it dripping-wax romanticism), but have been humbled by this work. Still, it's hardly ever played these days given its large forces, and my God, are they huge!
It all ties in very well with my current obsession with Bruckner. I recently obtained the "latest" (2004) performing version of his (Bruckner's) "unfinished" finale of the 9th and am very happy with it. It is of course not 100% Bruckner, but it brings to life mss pages that would otherwise collect dust.