What are you listening to now?

[Peter]

Beethoven String quartet in Bb Op.130
Mozart sonata in F K.533

[Enrique]

Beethoven: String quartet no.8 in E minor, op.59 no.2.

I've been doing a lot of listening lately. The list would be very long, so I've omitted it. But most of it has been Beethoven.

[Sorrano]

This morning:
Beethoven: Piano Sonata #30 in E, Op 109

Haydn: Symphony #30 in C, Alleluja

[Enrique]

Sorrano, that symphony looks rather like a concerto for trumpet!

Right now:
Schubert: Symphony no.5, in B flat major.

Says Aliza Mermelstein, a Youtube user: "i can't help it, but for me this is the most beautiful symphony on the earth!". Ain't she right?

[Sorrano]

Enrique, I don't recall much in terms of trumpets and timpani with that particular symphony. There is one that comes to mind, but I don't recall which one, that could sound almost like a trumpet and timpani concerto. This one, however, is one of the unusual one that is a three movement and ends with the minuet and trio.

As for the Schubert, now that my silly prejudices have dissipated, I can say it is a beautiful symphony!

[Sorrano]

This morning:
Grainger: Country Gardens

Neruda: Horn Concerto in E-flat

[Enrique]

Bach: Concerto for 2 Violins, Strings and Continuo in D Minor, BWV 1043.

I think the three violin concerti Bach left us are one of the most exquisitely crafted musical works of all time. In any case, no one managed to join two instruments, in a concerto, with such a degree of perfection, as in the double concerto. Somewhere, Stravinsky speaks highly of it.

[Sorrano]

This evening:
Schubert (Newbould): Symphonic Fragments in D Major D708a
The only word that comes to my mind is "possibilities". The other day I was listening to the 8th Symphony (Schubert's) with the Newbould addition. The third movement, I thought, went with the symphony and was well done. The insertion of the Rosamunde extraction didn't do as much for me.

Shortly I will be listening to the 7th Symphony (Newbould, again, with the orchestration and completion).

[Sorrano]

This morning:

Haydn: Trumpet Concerto in E Flat
Milhaud: Scaramouche, Op 165b

[Enrique]

Beethoven: symphony no.7 in A minor:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MqrBauptrE

The first two bars in the development have always impressed me (first movement). It seems like a locomotive that suddenly inverts its motion and goes backwards. But why repeat the exposition? We all know them so well! It's really annoying.

[Megan]

Ludwig van Beethoven
Trio in B flat, WoO 39

Performer: Isaac Stern. Performer: Leonard Rose. Performer: Eugene Istomin.




Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata No. 82 'Ich habe genug'

Singer: Dame Janet Baker. Orchestra: Bath Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Yehudi Menuhin.

[Sorrano]

This morning:

Spohr: String Quartet Concerto in a, Op 131 (I really need to hear more of his music!)
Poulenc: Flute Sonata (Mostly the last movement)

[Enrique]

Beethoven:
2nd piano concerto, in B flat major
Diabelli Variations, op.120

• In one of the variations a theme from Don Giovanni is quoted! The quote is clear. I did not know that.

Piano Quartet in E flat, Op.16

Debussy:
La mer.

Beethoven:
Symphony no. 9, op.125.

• This was the first pocket score and the first record I bought. During how long was it that the Ninth Symphony was everything for me? I remember getting up at night and listening to it (I only had the turntable, no amplifier) putting a paper between the stylus and the record surface and the ear close to the paper.

[Sorrano]

This morning:

Copland: Appalachian Spring (1943-5)
Ginastera: Doce Preludios Americanos, Op 12 #9, "Tribute to Aaron Copland"
Bach: Orchestra Suite #2 in b, BWV 1067

[Enrique]

Bach: Bach French Ouverture [ Partita ] in B minor, BWV 831 (piano).

Later:
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47