What are you listening to now?

[Preston]

Mussorgsky - Night on Bald Mountain

[Roehre]

Today:

Berg:
Piano sonata opus 1 (1907/’08 orch. Verbey 1984)

Diepenbrock:
Im grossen Schweigen (1905 rev. 1918)

Mozart:
Piano concerto no.14 in E-flat KV449

Hindemith:
Kammermusik no.2 op.36/1 (piano concerto; 1925)

Holmboe:
Chamber concerto no.9 opus 39 (violin, viola and orchestra, 1945/’46)

Moyzes:
Symphony no.2 in a op.16 (1932 rev. 1941)

Zemlinsky:
Cymbeline – complete incidental music (1913/’15)

[Sorrano]

This morning: Hoslt's St. Paul's Suite

[Roehre]

Today:

Merikanto:
Scherzo for orchestra (1937) (R3: TtN)

McEwen:
The Demon Lover

Radio 3 Live in Concert:
Couperin:
Les barricades mystérieuses (Pièces de clavecin, Ordre No.6) (1717)

Couperin:
Les barricades mystérieuses (arr.Thomas Adès: 2005)

Thomas Adès:
3 Studies from Couperin (2005)

Ravel:
Le tombeau de Couperin

Stravinsky
Le chant du rossignol and Marche Chinoise (arr. Stravinsky & Dushkin, 1932 )

Stravinsky:
Suites for small orchestra No.1 and No.2

Adès:
Violin concerto (Concentric Paths)(2005)

[Megan]

Elgar: Cello Concerto
Paul Watkins (cello),
BBC Philharmonic,
Andrew Davis (conductor).


John Tavener: Svyati
Carl Vine: Inner World

J S Bach: Singet dem Herrn
Nicolas Altstaedt (cello),
BBC Singers,
Paul Brough (conductor

[Roehre]

Today:

McEwen:
Grey Galloway (1908)
Coronach (1906)

Saygun:
Suite for orchestra op.14 (1934)
Symphony no.1 op.29 (1953/’54)

[Sorrano]

This morning:

Mercadante, Flute Concerto in E
Holst, 1st Suite for Wind Ensemble

[Chris]

Mozart - Oboe quartet in F major, K 370

[Roehre]

Today:

Van Hoof:
Symphonic Introduction to a Festive Occasion (1942) (R3: TtN)

Copland:
Piano concerto (1926)
Inscape (1967)

Saygun:
Symphony no.2 op.30 (1957)

[Sorrano]

This morning:

Purchell: Elegy on the Death of Matthew Locke
Walton: Henry V Suite

[Roehre]

Today (It’s St.David’s Day ):

Mathias:
Festival Te Deum op.28 (1964)

Hughes:
Dewi Sant (1951)

Grace Williams:
Fantasia on Welsh Nursery Tunes (1940)

Puw:
..onyt agoraf y drws.. (2007)

German:
Welsh Rhapsody (1904)

[Enrique]

Heard the Moonlight Sonata on the radio and just had to keep listening. Somehow, even a Beethoven piece that is played so often is still so captivating that I cannot change the station. Also heard some of the Triple Concerto too.

Captivating in deed it is! I can't believe Beethoven was serious when mocking people who liked it ("I have written better things for the piano").

[Sorrano]

This morning the radio presented Beethoven's Grosse Fugue.

[Chris]

Friedrich Witt:

Symphony in C major "Jena"
Symphony in A major
Flute concerto in G major, Op. 8

Sinfonia Finlandia Jyvaskyla/Patrick Gallois

The "Jena" Symphony is, of course, the one that was mistaken for a work of Beethoven's, cataloged as Anh. 1. Not a bad work, but obviously not Beethoven in quality or style!

[Roehre]

Friedrich Witt:

Symphony in C major "Jena"
Symphony in A major
Flute concerto in G major, Op. 8

Sinfonia Finlandia Jyvaskyla/Patrick Gallois

The "Jena" Symphony is, of course, the one that was mistaken for a work of Beethoven's, cataloged as Anh. 1. Not a bad work, but obviously not Beethoven in quality or style!

I listened to this Naxos CD a couple of weeks ago.
The attribution of the "Jena" to Beethoven was (1n 1912) not only made following the find of his name (but with a question mark iirc !) but also and even predominantly on stylistic grounds.

In that respect certainly the scherzo could very easily be a beethovenian piece.

It is only that other copies of this work have emerged with the proper composer's name on top them, and that at the present state of research no sketches which might be related to this symphony in C have been identified, otherwise it would have been very difficult to disown the "Jena" as a Beethoven symphony.

Its qualities are very similar to the sketches of that other pre-first symphony in C, sketched around the time the "Jena" was supposed to have been composed.

Judging the "Jena" now is something we do with the benefit of hindsight, I am afraid.