What are you listening to now?

[Sorrano]

This morning:

More Stravinsky!

Symphony in C

I have a Sony collection of the Works of Stravinsky and from time to time I get the opportunity to listen to some of them. This morning the symphony happened to be on the radio, so it has been a good dosage of Stravinsky.

[Enrique]

Beethoven:
Octet for woodwinds in E flat major. [What a bore!]

Schumann:
Symphony no. 1

[Quijote]

Beethoven:
Octet for woodwinds in E flat major. [What a bore!]

Hah!
I'm listening to some early Haydn piano sonatas ... not a bore !!!!!

[Enrique]

Hah!
I'm listening to some early Haydn piano sonatas ... not a bore !!!!!

Would you expand? Oh yes! Haydn did it better than Beethoven.

[Michael]

Beethoven:
Octet for woodwinds in E flat major. [What a bore!]

Enrique, you should listen to Beethoven's string quintet version of the same work - Opus 4. It's not a mere transcription - it's practically a re-composition. It's fascinating to compare the two - but the quintet wins hands down!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpm9jApRnf8




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[Enrique]

Yes, Michael, I look in wikipedia and it's just what they say (the reelaboration). I'll have to listen to it.

[Quijote]

Would you expand? Oh yes! Haydn did it better than Beethoven.

Now Enrique, I never said that! Beethoven certainly learnt something from his bewigged master Joseph, that is undeniable.

[Roehre]

Today:

Stravinsky:
Mass
Babel
Cantate

[Sorrano]

Today:

Stravinsky:
Mass
Babel
Cantate

No subliminal messages from earlier posts?

[Enrique]

Stravinsky
Le Baiser de la fee

How reminiscent of Petrushka!

[Sorrano]

This morning:

Paganini: Violin Concerto No. 1

[Roehre]

No subliminal messages from earlier posts?

No, it's all on one CD - just too lazy to change CDs

[Sorrano]

No, it's all on one CD - just too lazy to change CDs

Sounds like a good CD!

[Roehre]

Sounds like a good CD!

One of the CDs in the 22CD Sony-Stravinsky set: CD20.
The works you recently spun (the tchaikovskyan ones) fill CD5 of this set.

[Sorrano]

One of the CDs in the 22CD Sony-Stravinsky set: CD20.
The works you recently spun (the tchaikovskyan ones) fill CD5 of this set.

Ahhh, understood. It will probably take awhile for me to get to that CD, then, but in the meantime I will catch more Stravinsky as I get the opportunity.