What are you listening to now?

[Sorrano]

This morning:

Bach: Chaconne from Violin Partita No. 2 in d, BMW 1004, arranged by Raff for orchestra

Waxman: Four scenes of Childhood

[Roehre]

Rimsky Korssakow:
At the Tomb op.61 (1904)
Sinfonietta in a opus 31 (1879/’84 rev ‘99)
Overture on Russian themes op.28 (1866)

Wolf:
The choruses, i.a.:
6 Geistliche Lieder nach Eichendorff
3 Goethe-lieder opus 13
Fröhliche Fahrt op.17/1

[Sorrano]

This morning:

Moeran:
Rhapsody No. 2 (1924)
Folksong arrangement: The Pressgang

Beethoven: Leonora Overture No. 2

Dvorak: 4th Movement of 2nd Symphony

[Michael]

Opus 2 Piano sonatas, courtesy of Alfred Brendel.

[Roehre]

d'India:
Interdette speranz'e van desio
Se tu, Silvio crudel, mi saettasti
Ma, ce con la pieta
Dornda, ah! diro mia
Ferir quel petto, Silvio?
Silvio, come son lassa!

Stockhausen:
Stimmung

Monteverdi:
Zefiro torna
Batto, qui pianse Ergasto
Ogni amante è guerrier
Hor che 'l ciel e la terra
O come sei gentile
Gira il nemisco insidioso

Ferneyhough:
String quartet no.2
String quartet no.6

[Quijote]

Hi Roehre,
With regard to your listening above, how do you find Ferneyhough's string quartet efforts compare with Ligeti's?

[Roehre]

Hi Roehre,
With regard to your listening above, how do you find Ferneyhough's string quartet efforts compare with Ligeti's?

quijote, not really comparable.
The two Ligetis are more "dated" -if you like- in their styles compared with Ferneyhough 6, but that certainly doesn't mean they are inferior.

I prefer the latter's 6th to his 2nd to be honest, but it would be difficult to make a choice between Ligeti 2nd and Ferneyhough's 6th.

They show however they were written quite a long time apart - but for someone not knowing the pieces it would be rather difficult to tell which one was written first, despite the nearly 4 decades separating them.

In that respect Ferneyhough's New Complexity eventually doesn't turn out to be too different from "older" styles....

[Roehre]

Pintscher :
Reflections on Narcissus – concerto for cello and orchestra (2004/’05)

Koechlin :
Etude for saxophone and piano, Op.188 no.1
Si Tu Le Veux, Op.5/5
Quatre Poemes d Edmond Haraucourt, op.7: nos.3+4
Flute Sonata, Op.53: Final
Amphise Et Melitta, Op.31 no.4
Paysages Et Marines - Calm Morning op.63/I-1Quintet for piano and strings op.80: final (1921)
Septet for Wind, Op.165 (1937)
Quintet for flute, violin, viola, cello and harp, Op.223 (1949)
L ‘Andalouse dans Barcelone, Op.134 (1933)
Vers Le Soleil: 7 Monodies for Ondes Martenot, Op.174: nos.1-3 (1939)

The Art of the Netherlands (original Munrow 3LP-set): LP 1 Secular Songs

[Roehre]

Glazunov (from last week’s CotW [iPlayer]):
Commemorative Cantata op 65 (1899)
Overture No 2 on Three Greek Themes Op 6 (1882)
Triumphal March Op 40 (1893)
Elegy for Strings Op 105 (1928)
Fanfare no 3 (1893)

Knussen:
Autumnal for Violin and Piano, Op 14 (1976)

Heiner Goebbels:
Suite for Sampler and Orchestra (part of Surrogate Cities; 1994)

[Sorrano]

This morning:

Ravel" Daphnis and Cloe, Suite No. 2

Rota: Balli for Small Orchestra

[Quijote]

Never heard of Rota, Sorrano. Was he a rotter?
(Apologies for this very weak attempt at humour; I've had a rota of a weekend marking student work.)

[Sorrano]

Never heard of Rota, Sorrano. Was he a rotter?
(Apologies for this very weak attempt at humour; I've had a rota of a weekend marking student work.)

Rota was a (mostly) film composer. Seriously, I would have expected something about broken music with a name like that!

[Sorrano]

Rota was a (mostly) film composer. Seriously, I would have expected something about broken music with a name like that!

Sorry to quote myself. Romper is used in Colombia for breaking and tearing ; quebrar is not used as much there. (That is where I learned Spanish.)

[Michael]

Rota was a (mostly) film composer.

You mean he never rota symphony?

[Sorrano]

Naw, he just rota lota film music.