What are you listening to now?

[Enrique]

Enrique, if you find that Bach piece on youtube again, I will show you how to find more info about the piece. It's just a matter of clicking on show more info. Unless you already did this.

Here's a link, so we speak about the same thing. In this page I can't see the bottom. Now I click on the first item. Nor do I see here any bottom! If you can solve the enigma I will be glad, Megan.

[Megan]

Enrique, I read:


JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (1685-1750)

Six Suites for Unaccompanied Cello, Suite No. 5 in C Minor BWV 1011

1. Prelude

Performed by Yo-Yo Ma

[Enrique]

Oh, that's very kind of you, Megan. Thanks.

[Michael]

String Quartet in C sharp minor.

Words fail me when it comes to this piece.
Wagner described the opening movement as (and I don't have the exact quotation to hand): "The beginning of a day in which not one wish will be fulfilled".

I thought that was a very apt description, but over the years I have changed my mind. It is sad but also serene. Sullivan mentions something about Beethoven's discovery of happiness and suffering being two sides of the same coin - and I get this feeling from that opening fugue. The same ambivalence permeates the whole quartet - especially the middle variation movement which is the heart of the piece. Beethoven thought it was his best string quartet. (He was not a bad musician so we should respect his opinion).

Mozart's music is usually considered the embodiment of happiness mixed with sadness. He would have appreciated Opus 131.

On a technical note: Beethoven wrote only two works in C sharp minor: The Moonlight Sonata and the above quartet. Is it a coincidence that both open with a slow movement and a full sonata form is reserved for the final movement?

[Quijote]

This evening (on Performance Today):

Bruckner?: Symphonic Prelude in C Minor

It may not be Bruckner (do you know anything about this, Quijote?) but it does have some very Brucknerian sounds. Regardless of who composed it, I quite liked it.

I don't know anything about this, Sorrano. Here's an interesting essay about it by Bruckner specialist Benjamin-Gunnar Cohrs:
http://www.abruckner.com/Data/docume...dium_essay.pdf

[Megan]

Johannes Brahms
String Quartet in C minor Op 51 No 1

[Enrique]

Beethoven
Symphony no.3

The tempi followed by the conductor are Beethoven's.

[Sorrano]

I don't know anything about this, Sorrano. Here's an interesting essay about it by Bruckner specialist Benjamin-Gunnar Cohrs:
http://www.abruckner.com/Data/docume...dium_essay.pdf

The document will not open for me; it might be that this is in the member's section? How do you register on that site?

[Enrique]

What's in your mind now?

I'm in love with Mozart's symphony no.29.

[Enrique]

This morning at 10 o'clock:

Stravinsky
Symphony in C major

Yesterday night my neighbours had noisy visitors. That was my revenge.
After that, one has to find confort in Brahms:

A Germain Requiem, I.

[Sorrano]

Last night:

Dvorak: Symphony No. 9

[Megan]

Marc-Antoine Charpentier

Prelude from Te Deum H146




Ludwig van Beethoven

Piano Concerto No.3 in C minor, Op.37 (third movement Rondo)


Henryk Wieniawski

Scherzo-Tarantelle Op.16

[Enrique]

Prompted by another thread: Bach's Partita No. 1 in B flat.

Would that be the violin partita no. 1?

[Megan]

George Frideric Handel

Aria 'Tornami a vagheggiar' (Alcina)

[Enrique]

Mozart
Piano concerto no.20 in D minor.

Piano concerto no.23 in A major.

The adagio from this one can make you know what a state of beatitude is, but I guess everyone knows this.