What are you listening to now?

[Roehre]

Today:

Petrassi:
Partita for Orchestra (1932)

Nikodijevic:
Gesualdo dub / raum mit gelöschter figur (2012)

Abrahamsen:
Piano Concerto (1999/2000)

Rogier (c.1561-1596)
Videntes stellam
Cantantibus organis
Calgaverunt oculi mei
Locutus sum in lingu mea
Laboravi in gemitu meo
Verbum caro

[Enrique]

Brahms:
Variations on a theme by Haydn (St.Anthony choral)

[Roehre]

Today:

Hough:
Piano Sonata No. 2 'notturno luminoso'

Knussen:
Choral, Op.8 (1970/’72)
Flourish With Fireworks op.22 (1988)

Panufnik:
Homage to Chopin (1949)

[Sorrano]

This morning:

Handel: Concerto grosso in A, Op 6/11

Dukas: The Sorcerer's Apprentice

[Roehre]

Today:

Schubert:
Impromptus opus 90 D.899
Impromptus opus 142 D.935

[Enrique]

Bruckner:
Symphony no.9

[Peter]

Today:

Schubert:
Impromptus opus 90 D.899
Impromptus opus 142 D.935

I'm playing these at the moment - how did Schubert write so much wonderful music in his last year?!

[Peter]

Mahler symphony no 4 - I always have a problem with the finale, it seems tagged on to me, the rest of the work I adore.

[Sorrano]

This morning:

Stravinsky: Pulcinella Suite

Wesley: Symphony in D, Sinfonia obligato

On the Wesley, I had not heard the composer (radio) and was thinking it was C. P. E. Bach.

[Roehre]

I'm playing these at the moment - how did Schubert write so much wonderful music in his last year?!

Good question. A real workaholic genius of a composer. Like Mozart, his working habits IMO must have contributed to his early death.
Schubert's early death is -again IMO- one of the real great losses in music's history - creating such an independent voice almost literally in Beethoven's shadow.

[Peter]

Good question. A real workaholic genius of a composer. Like Mozart, his working habits IMO must have contributed to his early death.
Schubert's early death is -again IMO- one of the real great losses in music's history - creating such an independent voice almost literally in Beethoven's shadow.

Yes both Mozart's and Schubert's last years are some of the greatest miracles in all music.

[Roehre]

Today:

van Hoof:
Symphony no.2 in A flat major (1941)

[Sorrano]

This morning:

Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 2

[Enrique]

Bruckner:
Symphony no.9

One person in youtube, the uploader, says: Titanic. I think he put it very well. Colossal. And to think that Beethoven's symphonies seemed with too much metal on them and that (I know with those orchestras they must have sounded "bandlike"). Do not quite understand how on earth those people fond of medieval music can criticize the modern orchestra. That it is not homogeneous! And why has it to be homogeneous. It is the product of the work of some of the greatest men that lived on Earth. Plus, it has at its basis the most perfect music ensemble: the string quintet. Perhaps these, together with horns, bassoons and oboes made a more natural sound, but who can avoid an awe inspiring feeling listening to this symphony?

[Roehre]

Today:

Mortelmans:
The Myth of Spring (1895)