What are you listening to now?

[Michael]

Opus 130 (Guarneri Quartet) - outdoors with headphones. Mmmmmmm.

[Sorrano]

This morning:
Borodin: In the Steppes of Central Asia (This recording that I heard on the radio seemed a bit rushed)
Glazunov: Sea, Op 28

Also caught a bit of the first movement of Bruch's Double piano concerto.

[Peter]

R.Strauss - Metamorphesen, Duet concertino.

[Michael]

This morning:
Borodin: In the Steppes of Central Asia (This recording that I heard on the radio seemed a bit rushed)

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More of a quickstep?

[Megan]

Johann Sebastian Bach
Bach Suite (arr. Mahler)

Performers: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly (conductor)



Franz Schubert
Piano Sonata No. 16 in A minor, D.845

Performers: Wilhelm Kempff (piano)

[Sorrano]

More of a quickstep?

Centrally speaking, yes.

[Sorrano]

This morning:

Graupner: Recorder Concerto in F

Vivaldi: Violin Concerto in C, R 171

[Sorrano]

This morning:

Pleyel: Sinfonia concertante in D

[Sorrano]

This morning:

Beethoven: Symphony No. 8

[Megan]

Beautiful!


James Rhodes - Etude for the Left Hand Op. 36

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fo_RFJ1V-Cg

[Sorrano]

This morning:

Stravinsky: Fireworks, Op 4
Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks

[Chris]

A few pieces for viola and piano, recorded by Paul Coletti and Leslie Howard:

Beethoven - Notturno, Op. 42 (arranged by Franz Xaver Kleinheinz)
Mendelssohn - Sonata for viola and piano in C minor
Schumann - Marchenbilder, Op. 113

Fine pieces all, and very well played here.

I kind of feel sorry for the poor viola. Everyone wants to play the violin or the cello (myself included). But it has a sound all its own, for sure. Still, my favorite uses of the viola always seem to see it paired with the violin, such as in Haydn's 6 sonatas for violin and viola or Mozart's wonderful Sinfonia Concertante for violin, viola, and orchestra.

[Enrique]

Wonderful indeed, specially the first movement. Violists are lucky because it's easier for them to find a job. Hindemith was an accomplished viola player.

[Peter]

Wonderful indeed, specially the first movement. Violists are lucky because it's easier for them to find a job. Hindemith was an accomplished viola player.

Yes and Beethoven played Viola as well. Take up Viola, horn or double-bass if you want to be in demand for jobs!

Listening to Mahler symphony no.7 and Das lied von der Erde.

[Sorrano]

This morning:

Mackenzie: Pibroch Suite, Op 42