What are you listening to now?

[Roehre]

Today:

Coates:
The three Elisabeths suite (1944) (the latest BBC-M CD: 60 years of BBC Concert Orchestra)
(Why aren’t the excellent solo oboe and horn players in mvt 2 mentioned in the booklet?
The oboe solo is a nice emulation of the English horn solo in Dvorak 9 2nd mvt, btw )

Arnold:
Symphony no.1 op.22 (1949)

Enescu
Rumanian Rhapsody no.1 in A op.11

Johan Strauss II:
Tritsch-Tratsch Polka op.214 (1858)
(Who said the VPO is the only orchestra who plays this repertoire with bravura ?)

[Roehre]

Today:

Gershwin:
Rhapsody in Blue (1924; arr. for piano and string quintet Bengt-Åke Lundin 2010) (R3: TtN iPlayer)

Mathias:
Threnos (1990)

[Enrique]

Gershwin, The man I love.
Beethoven, violin concerto.
Liszt, piano concerto no.2
Ravel, Spanish Rapsody.
Dvorak, symphony no.9
Brahms, piano concerto no.1 (I used to like the second better but now it's the other way around).

[Enrique]

Bach, cantata BWV 193.

Bach, St John passion, the version which doesn't open with the same number
as at the end of Matthaus, end of part I.

Bach, Mass in B minor:
Et in unum Dominum.
Et incarnatus.
Crucifixus.
Et resurrexit.

[Roehre]

Today:


Mathias:
Songs of William Blake op.82 (1979)

Benoit:
De Pacificatie van Gent: orchestral suite (1876)
(With in its 1st mvt a pre-echo of Puccini)

Gilbert:
Mozart Sampler with Ground (1991) (Pre-hear iPlayer)

Gordon:
Rewriting Beethoven's Seventh Symphony (2003) (Pre-hear iPlayer)

Lachenmann:
Zwei Gefühle (1992)
Accanto (1975/’76) (H&N iPlayer)

[Sorrano]

Last night:

Stravinsky: The Firebird (complete ballet)

This morning:

Wagner:
American Centennial March
from Tristan und Isolde: "Kurwenal's Mocking Song", arranged by Lassen

Still: Miniatures for flute, oboe, and piano

Stravinsky: Eight Instrumental Miniatures

[Enrique]

Last night:

Stravinsky: The Firebird (complete ballet)

Do those parts not included in the suite have the same appeal for you than the rest of the work?

[Roehre]

Do those parts not included in the suite have the same appeal for you than the rest of the work?

There is a slight complication here: which of the suites Stravinsky prepared from the Firebird (c.45 minutes) are you referring to: 1911/'12 (21 minutes, drawn from the full score, including its orcehstration), 1919 (26 minutes, especially prepared, thinned orchestration) or 1945 (28 minutes, ditto)?

IMO the bits omitted in the suites are of no lesser appeal than the ones included in any of them.

[Enrique]

Well, to the 1945 version (wasn't if 1947?), which I think is (was) the most popularized.

[Sorrano]

Do those parts not included in the suite have the same appeal for you than the rest of the work?

To answer your question, I would say that the continuity of the complete work is what particularly appeals to me with respect to the suites. It's all good music and I prefer the entire work.

[Enrique]

I see. But, you know, I cannot get used the (complete) ballet! Its a matter of habit.

[Megan]

Wind and the Rain

The Wind and the Rain, from Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.

I love this arrangement.


[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhSfZplNbN0&feature=player_embedded[/YOUTUBE]

[Roehre]

Today:

Holst:
The Planets op.32

[Sorrano]

This morning:

Stravinsky: Three Movements from Petrouchka (I will be listening to the complete ballet in the next couple of days. This was for piano, played by Gina Bachauer.)

Korngold: from Violanta, Op. 81: Carnival

Corelli: Concerto Grosso in F, Op. 6/No.2

[Peter]

Listening to the Impromptu by Chopin's favourite pupil Carl Filtsch. Liszt said of him that he would have to give up once the boy started touring and Chopin was amazed - "My God! What a child! Nobody has ever understood me as this child has...It is not imitation, it is the same sentiment, an instinct that makes him play without thinking as if it could not have been any other way. He plays almost all my compositions without having heard me play them, without being shown the smallest thing - not exactly like me, but certainly not less well."

All the more poignant when you realise he died tragically just before his 15th birthday - there is an international piano competition held in his honour and there is a recently published unknown concerto by him, but I can't find recordings.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEeovheaHcE