What are you listening to now?

[Preston]

Beethoven's Beethoven's Piano Trio 5 (The Ghost), 2nd mov. Usually when listening to this piece I feel death, hurt, darkness, etc., though, I am listening to it now and feel deep, moving, etc. beauty.

I am in a deeper state of being as of now and know that this is why I hear this beauty, usually I am too "nutty" to hear this, and therefore hear the mentioned above. I am in a more sane state of being, imo.

I was wondering if anyone else felt a deep and moving beauty in this piece?

[Roehre]

Where is this from? I looked long and hard for a recording of it, but could never find one!

An off air recording broadcast on R3 June 5th, together with the European premiere of the Mozart pieces KV442.

[Chris]

Interesting, thanks.

[Roehre]

Today:

Michael Haydn :
Divertimento in C for 2 violins, 2 violas and double bass P.108 / MH 187
(By Katie Durham [lunch concert May 17th ] announced as a quintet by Joseph Haydn for 2 violins, cello and ‘bass [sic!])

Joseph Haydn:
Symphony No 101 in D “Clock” (arr Salomon for flute and string quintet)

Salieri:
La grotta di Trofonio: Overture (1785)

Mortelmans:
2 elegies (1917)

Last night’s TtN iPlayer: the Turkish Craze (very enjoyable and well programmed series of nearly all bleeding trunks):

Süssmayr:
Sinfonia Turchesca

Hasse:
Solimano: Sinfonia; "Tu sai ch'io sono amante"; "A terminar la trama"; Sinfonia dell'Harem; "Che all'idol mio ricusi; "Ti sembro ingrata"; Sinfonia avanti la Scena 8

Gluck:
Le Cadi dupé:
"Ah, que le sort d'une femme est à plaindre"; "Qu'en dites-vous"; "Ah! Quel heureux jour pour moi”; "Entre ma femme"; "Perfide coeur volage

La Rencontre imprévue:
Overture; "Les hommes pieusement"

Haydn:
L'Incontro improvviso:
Overture; "Castagno, castagna";"Il Profeta Maometto";

Kraus
Soliman II
"I, som föragten krigets fara“

[Enrique]

Beethoven, Missa Solemnis, Sanctus, especially the first few bars up to where the voices enter.

[Peter]

Beethoven's Beethoven's Piano Trio 5 (The Ghost), 2nd mov. Usually when listening to this piece I feel death, hurt, darkness, etc., though, I am listening to it now and feel deep, moving, etc. beauty.

I am in a deeper state of being as of now and know that this is why I hear this beauty, usually I am too "nutty" to hear this, and therefore hear the mentioned above. I am in a more sane state of being, imo.

I was wondering if anyone else felt a deep and moving beauty in this piece?

Yes and I think you'd find a similar response to the slow movt of Op.10/3 and the slow movt of Op.18/1.

[Peter]

Schubert Swanengesang - Fischer-Dieskau/Moore.

[Preston]

Yes and I think you'd find a similar response to the slow movt of Op.10/3 and the slow movt of Op.18/1.

Peter, thank you for your reply - it makes me feel very good to know that someone else feels this. To my mind, it is very deep that you feel the depth, passion, beauty, etc. of that trio. Unfortunately, as I sit and listen to it now, I am not in the state of being I was in and can almost only speculate about the 2nd mov. Though, I still feel some of what I felt. Something I find interesting is that the darker it gets the more passionate and beautiful it gets, and filled with a very serious depth.

I do not know what to think of the 1st and 3rd movements of the trio – they are all over the place?

Thank you for the recommendations.

[Sorrano]

This morning:

Schumann: Fantasy in C, op. 131

[Roehre]

This morning:

Schumann: Fantasy in C, op. 131

Sorrano, the violin/orchestra or the violin/piano version?
What do you think of this work?

[Sorrano]

Sorrano, the violin/orchestra or the violin/piano version?
What do you think of this work?

This was the violin/orchestra version and I quite enjoyed it very much, but then I quite like pretty much everything I have heard from Schumann. Did Schumann do the orchestration? It would be interesting to hear the piano version, as well.

His overture to Genovive (sorry for the spelling) has been broadcast two or three times in the last week or so on the radio, as well, which I find very listenable.

[Roehre]

This was the violin/orchestra version and I quite enjoyed it very much, but then I quite like pretty much everything I have heard from Schumann. Did Schumann do the orchestration? It would be interesting to hear the piano version, as well.

His overture to Genovive (sorry for the spelling) has been broadcast two or three times in the last week or so on the radio, as well, which I find very listenable.

It is an original, orchestral score of Schumann's. The piano version (which is not a mere piano reduction for that matter) is Schumann's too.
In the wrong hands this fantasy easily becomes a monotonous, boring work.
And then it is said: you know, those later Schumann works, they lack the freshness and ingeniuity of his earlier ones, don't they? Which IMO is utter rubbish.

[Roehre]

Today:

Gruber:
Aerial (1999) (R3: iPlayer Pre-Hear June 23rd )

Goehr:
Clarinet Quintet (2007) (R3: iPlayer H&N June 23rd)

Pfitzner:
The 5 original orchestral songs:
Die Heinzelmännchen op.14
Der Trompeter op.25/1
Klage op.25/2
Herr Oluf op.12
Lehte op.37

[Enrique]

Beethoven
Piano sonata no.3 - Backhaus

[Sorrano]

It is an original, orchestral score of Schumann's. The piano version (which is not a mere piano reduction for that matter) is Schumann's too.
In the wrong hands this fantasy easily becomes a monotonous, boring work.
And then it is said: you know, those later Schumann works, they lack the freshness and ingeniuity of his earlier ones, don't they? Which IMO is utter rubbish.

I can't say that I've heard anything from Schumann that I felt was lackluster. His music isn't played that frequently over the radio here, so it's a treat when I can hear it.