What are you listening to now?

[PDG]

Granville Bantock! Crazy name, crazy guy !!

Reminds me of the Monty Python sketch about the man with three buttocks...

[Sorrano]

Reminds me of the Monty Python sketch about the man with three buttocks...

I really have to stop reading these posts while at work.

[Michael]

Debussy's "La Mer".

(Feeling a bit seasick now and the above posts aren't helping.)

[Enrique]

I hope you enjoyed it, Michael, notwithstanding the seasickness.

Tchaikowsky
Symphony no. 4 ######## L.Bernstein, NYP.

[Sorrano]

Last night:

Bruckner: Symphony No. 7

This morning:

Elgar: Coronation March

Bax: London Pageant

Walton: Orb and Sceptre Coronation March

Tchaikovsky: Sleeping Beauty: Bluebird pas de deux

Bernstein: Overture to Candide

[Roehre]

After a holiday (planned to end October 12th) a friend of mine asked for assistance and help, and as a consequence I was and stayed abroad without much music and even less possibillities to access the www.
But here we are again, though now I have to sort out first my own business -letters/bank statements/ emails- which will take some time I'm afraid.

Today however I had the chance to listen to more than only a couple of minutes of music:

A CD "Autores latinoamericanos" vol.5: Musica en las Catedrales de Puebla, Oxaca y Mexico.
Mexican baroque music for liturgical use, music by composers with for me completely unknown names like Duron, de Padilla, Gonzalez, de Salazar, de Sumaya, Fernades and de Zéspedes.

Mahler:
symphony 1.

[Sorrano]

Welcome back, Roehre, we missed you! Hope that you can get things sorted out okay, as well.

[Roehre]

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.

As composers of this work two candidates stand out:
Mahler and Krzymanowski, both Bruckner admirers and studying together and for a while even sharing a home (together with Hugo Wolf and Hans Rott).

The work definitely belongs to this circle, but identifying the author beyond doubt is a near impossibillity. It is certainly not by Bruckner, and Wolf is an unlikely candidate too.

Rott is a possibillity, but at that time was composing another overture, and the fact that the Symphonic Prelude has come down to us in a complete particell (the instrumentation is by Hans Gürsching, made in 1978 or '79), a way of working which was adopted by Mahler and Krzymanowski but not by Rott, pleads also against him.

Leaves us with the formerly mentioned candidates.

If Mahler is the composer, then we may have a (first?) movement for one of the possibly 4 symphonies (among them one in a-minor and the so-called "Nordic", all destroyed following the bombardment of Dresden in March 1945) he is known to have composed in his study years.

[Roehre]

Today:
Mahler:
Symphony 2

[Sorrano]

Leaves us with the formerly mentioned candidates.

If Mahler is the composer, then we may have a (first?) movement for one of the possibly 4 symphonies (among them one in a-minor and the so-called "Nordic", all destroyed following the bombardment of Dresden in March 1945) he is known to have composed in his study years.

It really didn't sound much to me like Mahler, but if that is what it is it certainly would be a very early work. There are some very Brucknerian moments in the work.

[Roehre]

It really didn't sound much to me like Mahler, but if that is what it is it certainly would be a very early work. There are some very Brucknerian moments in the work.

No, it certainly doesn't. But it is composed around the time Mahler was busy studying Bruckner's scores, especially preparing the piano reduction of the 3rd symphony. Btw, it's on this piano reduction that Mahler's name appears for the first time in print as composer.

[Sorrano]

This morning:

Wesley: Symphony No. 4 in D

Marini: La Albana

Arbes: Tango, Op. 2

Anderson: Blue Tango

How come I suddenly feel tired?

[Roehre]

This morning:

......

Marini: La Albana

Arbes: Tango, Op. 2

Anderson: Blue Tango

How come I suddenly feel tired?

Dancing all night

[Roehre]

Today;

Mahler:
symphony no.3

Fray Vicente Ortiz de Zarate (1650-'99)
Ya Murio mi Redentor
Xicochi conetzintle

Gaspar Fernandez (1570-1629)
Enselada de Navidad
Tantarantan a la Guerra Van
Fransiquiyo "Donde Vamo?"
Eso Rigor e'Repente

Juan Garcia de Zéspedes (16C)
Convidando esta la Noche

Juan de Lienas (c.1565-c.1620)
Salve

[Sorrano]

Roehre, are you listening to a specific Mahler cycle?