What are you listening to now?

[Hofrat]

Dario Castello (1590-1658):
Sonata quarta

It is an interesting piece. The 4 instruments are violin, 'cello, trombone(!), and keyboard. The trombone played fast running passages, doubling the violin.

[Sorrano]

Dario Castello (1590-1658):
Sonata quarta

It is an interesting piece. The 4 instruments are violin, 'cello, trombone(!), and keyboard. The trombone played fast running passages, doubling the violin.

I wasn't so sure that the trombone existed at that time, certainly not in it's present form. Might I ask for more specifics on that instrument of that time?

[Sorrano]

Today:

Liszt: Hungarian Fantasie

(Philip) Popper: Hungarian Rhapsody

[Chris]

Beethoven's 5th Symphony on the way to work today. I'm definitely ready to start the day now!

[EternaLisa]

Beethoven's 5th Symphony on the way to work today. I'm definitely ready to start the day now!

I know that feeling (I think). Piano Concerto no 5 1st movement was my morning-anthem-in-route for a span of time....

[Roehre]

I wasn't so sure that the trombone existed at that time, certainly not in it's present form. Might I ask for more specifics on that instrument of that time?

Trombones in their present form exist from the mid-1400s onwards.
Oldest pictures are dating from around 1490 (Filippino Lippi's frescos in the Santa Maria sopra Minerva church in Rome) , but by that time the instrument we now call trombone was mentioned and explained already in 1468 by Olivier de La Marche in his Burgundische Chronik , and in Johannes Tinctoris' De Inventione et Usu Musicae (Naples, published not later than 1487).

[Sorrano]

Trombones in their present form exist from the mid-1400s onwards.
Oldest pictures are dating from around 1490 (Filippino Lippi's frescos in the Santa Maria sopra Minerva church in Rome) , but by that time the instrument we now call trombone was mentioned and explained already in 1468 by Olivier de La Marche in his Burgundische Chronik , and in Johannes Tinctoris' De Inventione et Usu Musicae (Naples, published not later than 1487).

Thanks!

[Roehre]

Today:

Beethoven:
Oboe trio in B-flat opus 11 (R3:TtN)

Barber:
Commando march (1942) (R3:CotW)

Harris:
Symphony no.3 (1938)

[EternaLisa]

Now I have to go listen to Ligeti's Lux Aeterna!!

So...how was it?

I know what people state that they listen to, but I get more out of what they say they get out it

xoxox

E

[Sorrano]

So...how was it?

I know what people state that they listen to, but I get more out of what they say they get out it

xoxox

E

Haven't had the time, yet to put it on. Are you familiar with it?

[Hofrat]

I wasn't so sure that the trombone existed at that time, certainly not in it's present form. Might I ask for more specifics on that instrument of that time?

Sorrano;

The trombone is older than you think. At the time of Castello, the trombone (or sackbut) had a narrower bore and smaller bell than the classical or modern trombone. The sonata quarta that I listened to is on YouTube where you can see for yourself.

[Sorrano]

So...how was it?

I know what people state that they listen to, but I get more out of what they say they get out it

xoxox

E

I did take some time this morning to listen to the work (youtube). An interesting audio illusion occurred, much like some of the visual illusions where you stare at an image and when you move your eyes you can still see it. When the music ended I could still "hear" it for a minute or two.

[Sorrano]

Sorrano;

The trombone is older than you think. At the time of Castello, the trombone (or sackbut) had a narrower bore and smaller bell than the classical or modern trombone. The sonata quarta that I listened to is on YouTube where you can see for yourself.

There were a couple of works (Castello) with the title "Sonata quarta" on youtube that I checked out, but am not sure they were the correct ones.

[Roehre]

Today:

Turnage:
Twisted Blues with Twisted Ballad (R3: lunchtime concert)

Beethoven:
Quartet in B-flat Op. 130 (R3: lunchtime concert)

Fitkin:
Cello Concerto (R3: Proms repeat)

Zemlinsky:
2 movements for string quintet (1896)
3 pieces for cello and piano (1891)

[Hofrat]

Sorrano;

Try the following:

http://youtu.be/BgMMeK1wTWI