What are you listening to now?

[Roehre]

Today:

C.Matthews-Weir-Ruders-Sawer-Torke-Payne-Lindberg:
Bright Cecilia – variations on a Theme by Purcell (2002)

Harris:
Epilogue to profiles in courage (1964)

Stravinsky:
Elegy for JFK

Shostakovich;
Violin concerto nr.1 in a op.99(/77)

[Peter]

Rachmaninov's amazing Symphonic dances.

[Sorrano]

Hummel's piano concerto No. 3 came on this morning. It was refreshing to hear something of his aside from the trios.

[Wyresider]

A lot more piano than usual today, probably triggered by a Widor CD being on the doormat when I got home.

Breakfast (nothing heavy) ...

Sargent: . . . . Impression on a Windy Day
Villa-Lobos: . O Trenzinho etc (piano+cello version)
Ries: . . . . . . . Clarinet sonata Op.19, 3rd mvt
Haydn: . . . . . .Low Down in the Broom

This evening ...

Widor: . . . . Piano concs 1 and 2; Fantaisie
Czerny: . . . Piano conc in A min, Op.214
Ries: . . . . . Piano conc in C# min, Op.55 (Blumenthal)
. '' . . . . . .. . Abschieds-Concert von England, Op.132 (Hinterhuber)

[Roehre]

Today:

JSBach:
Cantatas BWV 89 and 90 (both 1723)

Diepenbrock:
Te Deum (1997)

Van Gilse:
Nonet (1916)

[Roehre]

Today:

David Matthews:
Symphony no.1 op.9 (1975 rev ’78)

Moeran:
Symphony no.2 (c.1939/’45 - realisation Martin Yates 2011)
Overture for a Festival (c.1930/’35 – orchestration Rodney Newton 1994 rev 2011)

JSBach:
Cantatas BWV 179 and 180 (1723/’24)

[Roehre]

Today:

Parry:
Hypatia - incidental music (1892) (R3: TtN)

Moeran:
Symphony no.2 (c.1939/’45 - realisation Martin Yates 2011)

Shostakovich:
Violin concerto no.2 in c sharp minor op.129 (1967)

David Matthews:
Symphony no.2 op.17 (1976/’79)

Ireland:
Sarnia – an Island Sequence (1940/’41 – orchestration Martin Yates 2011)

[Michael]

Mozart's sonata - the one with the "rondo alla turca".
The first movement demonstrates that Beethoven wasn't the only one who could write brilliant variations!

You will note that I cannot quote chapter and verse quite so easily with Mozart. If I hadn't discovered Beethoven first, I think Wolfgang would have been my favourite composer - because of his immediate appeal - which is not to be scorned! Beethoven's idea of a "tune" could be one note repeated ad nauseam - as in the funeral march from the A flat piano sonata - and the second movement of the 7th symphony - and .... many others.

It could be argued quite convincingly that Beethoven never wrote a tune as good as the one Mozart wrote for the last movement of the above-mentioned sonata - and yet ........

It's the "and yet .....", it's the mighty "AND YET" which has kept me going for the past 45 years. W A Mozart has never moved me like that cantankerous Rhinelander.

Sorry, I got carried away. This thread is meant to be just a list of what we listen to each day. Right?
Right?

[Peter]

Mozart's sonata - the one with the "rondo alla turca".
The first movement demonstrates that Beethoven wasn't the only one who could write brilliant variations!

You will note that I cannot quote chapter and verse quite so easily with Mozart. If I hadn't discovered Beethoven first, I think Wolfgang would have been my favourite composer - because of his immediate appeal - which is not to be scorned! Beethoven's idea of a "tune" could be one note repeated ad nauseam - as in the funeral march from the A flat piano sonata - and the second movement of the 7th symphony - and .... many others.

It could be argued quite convincingly that Beethoven never wrote a tune as good as the one Mozart wrote for the last movement of the above-mentioned sonata - and yet ........

It's the "and yet .....", it's the mighty "AND YET" which has kept me going for the past 45 years. W A Mozart has never moved me like that cantankerous Rhinelander.

Sorry, I got carried away. This thread is meant to be just a list of what we listen to each day. Right?
Right?

Beethoven must have known that sonata and it surely gave him the idea of a first movement theme and variations with Op.26? The last movement of that sonata was certainly inspired by Cramer.

Today I've only listened to myself practising Op.110, Op.109, Chopin F minor etude, Bach prelude and fugue in C# minor Book 2.

[Roehre]

Rheinberger:
Etudes in d (1864) and g-sharp (1957)
5 Vortragsstudien op.9 (1864)
Zum Abschied op.59 (1871)
3 Vortragsstudien op.66 (1957)
12 Charakterstücke in kanonischer Form op.180 (1894)

David Matthews:
After Sunrise op.82 (2000/’01)
Symphony no.3 op.37 (1983/’85)

Dvorak:
Symphony no.1 in c (op.3) B.9 “The Bells of Zlonice”

[Roehre]

Today:

JSBach:
Cantate „Nun kommt der Heiden Heiland“ BWV 61
Cantate „Nun kommt der Heiden Heiland“ BWV 62
(both cantatas for Advent, i.e today)

Rheinberger:
Variations op.61 (1861 rev ’72)
Toccata in g op.12 (1865)
3 Vortragsstudien op.101 (1973)
Aus den Ferientagen op.72 (1877)

David Matthews:
Symphony no.4 op.52 (1989/’90)

Dvorak:
Symphony no.2 in B-flat opus 4 B.12 (1865)

Tallis:
Spem in alium (original version)
Spem in alium (Kronos quartet)

[Sorrano]

This morning: Grieg's Symphony in C Minor.

[Roehre]

Today:

David Matthews:
Symphony no.5 op.78a (1998/’99)

Schubert:
Symphony no.7 in E D.729 (1822 orch. Weingartner 1928/’34)

Pettersson:
Symphonic Movement (1973)

Ruzicka:
…das Gesegnete, das Verfluchte (1991)

Dvorak:
Symphony no.3 in E-flat opus 10 B.34 (1873)

[Sorrano]

This morning: Arnold Bax's Symphony No. 1 in E Flat

[Roehre]

Today:

David Matthews:
Symphony no.6 op.100 (2007)

Dvorak:
Symphony no.4 in d-minor opus 13 B.41 (1874)

Reimann:
Kumi Ori (1999)

Rheinberger:
Tarantella for piano-4-hands opus 13 (1867)
Duo for two pianos in a-minor op.15 (1868)