What are you listening to now?

[Sorrano]

This morning:

Khachaturian: Concerto Rhapsody for Cello and Orchestra

Tchaikovsky: Sweet Reverie from Album for the Young

Mozart: Symphony No. 25

[Michael]

I thought No. 4 was in E Flat? It's one I quite like and I do follow with the relationship.

You're quite right! And this isn't the first time I've made this mistake. Maybe, because of it's similarity to the C major finale, I'm subconsciously moving upwards (but not enough).

Next time, I'll think enharmonically and call it D sharp! (String players, stay out of this!)



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[Sorrano]

You're quite right! And this isn't the first time I've made this mistake. Maybe, because of it's similarity to the C major finale, I'm subconsciously moving upwards (but not enough).

Next time, I'll think enharmonically and call it D sharp! (String players, stay out of this!)



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D# works for me as long as I don't have to play it. That would be a nasty key signature!

[Quijote]

You're quite right! And this isn't the first time I've made this mistake. Maybe, because of it's similarity to the C major finale, I'm subconsciously moving upwards (but not enough).

Next time, I'll think enharmonically and call it D sharp! (String players, stay out of this!).

As a string player I should keep out of it, though you do realize that I have never heard of any work in D# (enharmonic E-flat). Pianists won't hear the difference, but then again their ears are 'temperamentally fixed', poor things.

[Quijote]

I mean, pianists wear a straight jacket (black and white), whereas string players wear Jacob's coat.

[Quijote]

And as we're on the topic ('What are you listening to now'), I've just heard my local cathedral bells toll their 10h: Not quite C, not quite B. Do we care? This is not enharmonic, this is beyond precise 'temperamental' spelling, dammit!

[Michael]

As a string player I should keep out of it, though you do realize that I have never heard of any work in D# (enharmonic E-flat). Pianists won't hear the difference, but then again their ears are 'temperamentally fixed', poor things.

I believe Tchaikovsky couldn't stand piano trios (or similar chamber music works) because of the piano always being "out of tune" next to the strings, which it is even though it didn't seem to bother Mozart or Beethoven.

Tchaikovsky even hated the sound of piano and orchestra!
Then again, he also believed his head would fall off if he conducted too vigorously ......

[Roehre]

Converse:
Festival of Pan, op.9 (1899) (R3 TtN iPlayer)

Parac:
Sarabande for Orchestra (1982) (R3 TtN iPlayer)

Schoeck:
Zwei Klavierstücke opus 29 (1919)

Hindemith:
Tuttifäntchen: suite (1922)

Rodrigo:
Villancicos y Canciones de Navidad (1952)

[haydnguy]

Sir Arnold Bax
First and Third Symphonies

BBC Philharmonic
Vernon Handley

[Sorrano]

I believe Tchaikovsky couldn't stand piano trios (or similar chamber music works) because of the piano always being "out of tune" next to the strings, which it is even though it didn't seem to bother Mozart or Beethoven.

Tchaikovsky even hated the sound of piano and orchestra!
Then again, he also believed his head would fall off if he conducted too vigorously ......

Organ and piano tuning do not go well together, either.

[Sorrano]

This morning:

Ganz: Piano Concerto in E Flat, Op. 32 (1941)

[Roehre]

This morning:

Ganz: Piano Concerto in E Flat, Op. 32 (1941)

Who he?

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Today:

Maxwell Geddes:
An Ayrshire Suite(2012)
Ombre (1984)

Adès:
Three Mazurkas opus 27(2010)

Hellawell:
Agricolas (2008)

Arnold:
Song of Simeon – a Nativity Masque op.69 (1960)
Viola concerto opus 108 (1971)

[Sorrano]

Who he?

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Rudolph Ganz was probably better known as a pianist. I was totally unfamiliar with him, as well. This might help: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolph_Ganz

[Quijote]

Organ and piano tuning do not go well together, either.

Dear Sorrano, you and Chris will probably want me on a gibbet for this (you won't be the only ones!), but organs do sound terribly out of tune as a general rule.
Oops.
Still, given the acoustic they are normally heard in, ça passe!

[Quijote]

Oh dear, I've just realized that if there is an afterlife, Bruckner (and one or two others...) will be after me with a vengeance for my outrageous comment above.
I shall plead the fifth amendment. Will that work?