What are you listening to now?

[Megan]

Overture and Minuetto, by Thomas Linley "the Younger"


http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=BppzmwdDxOE


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[Roehre]

Today:

Album Erasmus van Rotterdam – Praise of Folly (Hesperion XXI/Savall):
CD 3: Time of reflections II (music by i.a. Gesualdo, DesPrez, Cabézon, Lloyd, de Vega, Isaac, Hassler and Appenzeller)

[Sorrano]

This morning:

Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 9 in E Major, Op. 14, No. 1 (John Lill)

I thought it well played, good tempi, although the first movement seemed a bit slower than what I've heard with others. Overall, I quite liked the performance.

[Chris]

Time for another trip through the Mozart symphonies, I think. It's been quite a few years since the last one. This time on modern instruments with Neville Marriner and the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields. It will be interesting to compare this to my highly cherished set by the Academy of Ancient music, which is extremely complete, taking all the repeats and including even the "symphonies" that are basically just serenades with some movements excluded.

Already I am impressed with the early symphonies; they are treated with the appropriate lightness and youthful energy. Hardly surprising - this group rarely disappoints when it comes to Mozart. It's no wonder the Philips Complete Mozart Edition used so many of their recordings.

Anyway, today: K 16, 19, 19a, 22, 43, 45, "Neue Lambacher", 45a, 45b, 48, 61g/1, 73, 74, 75, 76, 81, 84, 95, 96, 97, 110, 112, 114, 124

[Quijote]

This is good, a bit of personal comment to enliven the the poster's listening and maybe encourage others down that road...

[Quijote]

Juan Crisostomo de Arriaga : String Quartet No. 1 in D minor (played by the Camerata Boccherini / Naxos CD). I understand he was considered the "Spanish Mozart". Hmm. This quartet seems quite close to the early Beethoven aesthetic.

[Roehre]

Time for another trip through the Mozart symphonies, I think. It's been quite a few years since the last one. This time on modern instruments with Neville Marriner and the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields. It will be interesting to compare this to my highly cherished set by the Academy of Ancient music, which is extremely complete, taking all the repeats and including even the "symphonies" that are basically just serenades with some movements excluded.

Already I am impressed with the early symphonies; they are treated with the appropriate lightness and youthful energy. Hardly surprising - this group rarely disappoints when it comes to Mozart. It's no wonder the Philips Complete Mozart Edition used so many of their recordings.

Anyway, today: K 16, 19, 19a, 22, 43, 45, "Neue Lambacher", 45a, 45b, 48, 61g/1, 73, 74, 75, 76, 81, 84, 95, 96, 97, 110, 112, 114, 124

ASMF recorded the other, "later" symphonies a couple of years later (these early ones stem from the first half of the 1970s, and together with the later recorded "later" ones included in the 1990/1991 CME). These recordings were made concurrently with the Krips/concertgebouw ones and promoted by Philips as two 8LP-sets which were each other's complement.
As such they were combined in the 16LP volume 1 of the Philips Mozart Edition of 1977.

AAM is really complete, i.e. according to their own research. If you are interested, Neal Zaslaw, Mozart Symphonies, is an indispensable book which effectively is a spin off of the AAM/Hogwood recordings and the research behind them.

[Roehre]

Juan Crisostomo de Arriaga : String Quartet No. 1 in D minor (played by the Camerata Boccherini / Naxos CD). I understand he was considered the "Spanish Mozart". Hmm. This quartet seems quite close to the early Beethoven aesthetic.

The other two are in the same vein. I like them.

[Quijote]

The other two are in the same vein. I like them.

Indeed. I might - at a pinch - add the 3 Arriaga quartets to the six LvB Op. 18 set.

[Roehre]

Today:

Monteverdi:
Exultent ceali
Venite siccientes
Currite Populi
Ego dormio
Cantate Domino
O Beaetae Viae
Laudate Dominum
Letaniae della Beata Verfine (all published posthumously 1650)

[Megan]

Johann Sebastian Bach
Concerto for Two Violins in D minor BWV.1043

[Sorrano]

This morning:

Mendelssohn: Piano Quartet No. 2 in f

Having tuned in during the first movement I was trying to guess who the composer was. The music is very captivating and interesting. (No, I did not guess correctly.)

[Chris]

On with the Mozart symphonies! Today: K 128, 129, 130, 132, 133, 161, 163, 111, 120, 196, 121, 208, 102, 134, 162, 181, 182, 183, 184, 199, 200, 201

One thing I have been especially noticing on these recordings is the little harpsichord touches. It never steals the spotlight, but it adds some delightful little moments at just the right times.

[Roehre]

Today:

Gilson:
La Captive : Suite from Act I (1900) (R3 TtN/iPlayer)

Ginastera:
Estancia opus 8: suite (1941) (R3 TtN/iPlayer)

Villa-Lobos:
Introducao aos choros A239 (1929) (R3 TtN/iPlayer)

Villa-Lobos:
Symphony No. 10 ('Ameríndia') ('Sumé Pater Patrium') A511 (1952) (R3 TtN/iPlayer)

Albuquerque:
Evocação de Augusto Meyer (Evocation of Augusto Meyer)(1970) (R3 TtN/iPlayer)

Stravinsky:
Canticum sacrum (1955)
A Sermon, a Narrative and a Prayer (1961)
Anthem (1962)

Rihm:
Fremde Szene III (1984)

Nono:
No hay caminos hay que caminar (1987)

Fujikura:
Tocar y luchar (2010)

[Sorrano]

Right now:

Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 (Toscanini)

Of particular interest for me during this hearing occurs beginning about measure 90 of the marcia funebre. The play of the timpani against the crescendo of the orchestra very much enhances that part and reminded me somewhat of the nailing down a coffin lid. There are moments during the march that I hear the timpani sounding ominously. This is my preferred performance of the Eroica.