What are you listening to now?

[Sorrano]

This morning:
Gluck: Alceste Caprice
Lully: Alceste Suite

[Sorrano]

This morning:

Stravinsky: Four Norwegian Moods#3, Wedding Dance
J Strauss: Waltzes: An der schönen, blauen Donau, Op 314
Ivanovici: Waltzes, Donauwellen (Danube Waves or Anniversary Waltz)

[Sorrano]

This morning:
Rameau: Zoroastre
Bizet: L'Arlésienne Suite #2

[Peter]

Wagner: Piano sonata in Ab (1853)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dOnkcFjO6w

[Lindegard]

Schubert

Heard the flute, guitar, viola, cello quartet by Schubert today! Didn't know this existed. As a guitar player myself, I was looking for free sheet music online, but apparently the wonderful and indispensable imslp.org is down tonight (or I shouldn't have 35 tabs open!). :-( Lindegard

[Sorrano]

This morning:
Beethoven: The Ruins of Athens, Op 113 Overture
Liszt: Fantasia on Beethoven's "Ruins of Athens" (1848-52)

[Enrique]

Tchaikowsky: Symphony no. 2 in C minor, op. 17, "Little Russia".

It's great to have at hand a reference work like Wikipedia: there I learn that "Ukraine was at that time [when Tchaikowsky was writting it] frequently called "Little Russia".

[Sorrano]

Tchaikowsky: Symphony no. 2 in C minor, op. 17, "Little Russia".

It's great to have at hand a reference work like Wikipedia: there I learn that "Ukraine was at that time [when Tchaikowsky was writting it] frequently called "Little Russia".

That is a great symphony! Whenever I hear it the music of the last movement stays with me for a long time.

[Sorrano]

This morning:

Berwald: Symphony #4 in E-Flat, Sinfonie naïve

[Enrique]

That is a great symphony! Whenever I hear it the music of the last movement stays with me for a long time.

I frequently remember the 2nd movement, the andantino, with its soft timpani strokes.

Listening to Mozart's immortal symphony in G minor (Toscanini). This is a well known fact, but some of you may ignore it: Mozart revised the work, adding clarinets, which made him rewrite the flutes and oboes. Also, he made changes in the slow movement, a thing that suggests that he was present at an execution of it, and noticed some imperfections.

[Chris]

Listening to Mozart's immortal symphony in G minor (Toscanini). This is a well known fact, but some of you may ignore it: Mozart revised the work, adding clarinets, which made him rewrite the flutes and oboes. Also, he made changes in the slow movement, a thing that suggests that he was present at an execution of it, and noticed some imperfections.

Yes. The complete recorded cycle of the Mozart symphonies by the Academy of Ancient Music includes both versions, and I think it was worth doing. I'm not aware of other recordings of the earlier version, but I imagine there must be a few out there.

[Sorrano]

I frequently remember the 2nd movement, the andantino, with its soft timpani strokes.

Listening to Mozart's immortal symphony in G minor (Toscanini). This is a well known fact, but some of you may ignore it: Mozart revised the work, adding clarinets, which made him rewrite the flutes and oboes. Also, he made changes in the slow movement, a thing that suggests that he was present at an execution of it, and noticed some imperfections.

What is your opinion of the Toscanini version? I have not heard any Mozart or Haydn conducted by Toscanini.

[Enrique]

I think it's superb. He uses a faster tempo than Bruno Walter, yet much slower than most modern versions, which keep tempi so fast that they denaturalize the work, specially the first movement.

[Enrique]

Beetohven: 9th symphony, 4th mov, the instrumental section after Froh, froh, wie seine Sonnen (alla marcia). But I couldn't resist going on with the following two sections. These begin with three notes (D#-E-F#) over a pedal note in the horns and these three notes again but in minor (D-E-F#). In the last picture I saw about Beethoven, the repetition of the three notes being in minor is due to a suggestion from the woman copyist that was working with Beethoven. Do you imagine Beethoven taking advice from a copyist? But, who can tell?

[Michael]

Mozart's "Eroica". Lovely piece.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ad7WlYjxS3Y