What are you listening to now?

[Michael]

Listening to Beethoven's joanna sonata, Opus 28 (The Pastorale) played by Alfred Brendel.

[Sorrano]

This evening:

Crumb: Ancient Voices of Children
Makrokosmos III

[Delirious Lab]

All of my orchestral Beethoven, shuffled in my MP3 player, all day!

I had a nasty earworm to get rid of...

[Michael]

Woke up today in fowl mood, so there was nothing for it but Haydn's 83rd symphony ("The Hen") followed by No. 100, the "Military".
I am feeling much better now, thanks.

[Megan]

Woke up today in fowl mood, so there was nothing for it but Haydn's 83rd symphony ("The Hen") followed by No. 100, the "Military".
I am feeling much better now, thanks.

Woke up in a 'fowl' mood. Were you being hen pecked Michael?

[Michael]

Woke up in a 'fowl' mood. Were you being hen pecked Michael?

No, but the bad weather has me cooped up.

I overslept this morning so I decided to stick with Haydn - and the "Clock" symphony seemed appropriate. I'll let tomorrow be a "Surprise".
Farewell for now.

(By the way, I am not trying to corrupt this thread. I really am listening to Haydn these days - prompted by the Symphony series on BBC. In my choices of music, I let myself be swayed by whatever is currently under discussion.)

[Peter]

Razumovsky no.1 and the 'Harp quartet' Op.74

[Peter]

3 excellent Sturm und drang symphonies:

Antonio Rosetti - g-minor symphony

Joseph Michael Kraus - Symphony in c-sharp minor

Gaetano Brunetti - symphony in c-minor "Il Maniatico"

[Sorrano]

Peter, can you tell me (roughly) what the orchestration is for the Kraus symphony in c-sharp minor?

[Peter]

Peter, can you tell me (roughly) what the orchestration is for the Kraus symphony in c-sharp minor?

Roughly - strings, 2 flutes, oboes, 2 horns and continuo.

[Hofrat]

3 excellent Sturm und drang symphonies:

Antonio Rosetti - g-minor symphony

Joseph Michael Kraus - Symphony in c-sharp minor

Gaetano Brunetti - symphony in c-minor "Il Maniatico"

That should be Joseph Martin Kraus.

[Quijote]

I'm not listening to Percy Grainger right now, but after reading the following article perhaps I should!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011...percy-grainger

[Sorrano]

Last night: Haydn's first five symphonies then caught the last two movements of Bruckner's 9th (Leonard Bernstein). The second movement was a bit slow, but full of intensity. The last movement was simply magnificent.

[Peter]

That should be Joseph Martin Kraus.

Indeed - to quote a certain Captain Mainwaring 'I wondered who'd be the first to spot that!'

[Peter]

I'm not listening to Percy Grainger right now, but after reading the following article perhaps I should!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011...percy-grainger

Yes he sounds like your man! I remember a scene from the excellent film 'Delius - Song of Summer' when Grainger comes bursting through the front door and rushes out the back in time to catch a ball he threw over the roof of the house - I think that actually happened as I seem to recall it in Fenby's memoirs.

Listening this week to all of Beethoven's quartets in sequential order with the score. Incidentally Delius dismissed Beethoven to a shocked Fenby as nothing but scales!

Whist we're in this off quilter mode - the art critic Brian Sewell has recently claimed that he was the illegitimate son of another Delius Protégé, Philip Heseltine aka Peter Warlock.