What are you listening to now?

[Enrique]

R.Strauss: Four Last Songs.

[Sorrano]

This morning:

Reicha: Flute Quartet in g, Op 98/1

[Symphony7]

L'Arlesienne by Bizet is on the radio now! I've liked that ever since hearing it in an episode of The Prisoner!

[thesunlover]

This morning, Beethoven:
12 variations for piano and cello on a theme from the oratorio `Judas Makkabäus` by Handel G-dur WoO 45

[Sorrano]

L'Arlesienne by Bizet is on the radio now! I've liked that ever since hearing it in an episode of The Prisoner!

That also came on the radio yesterday morning while I was listening.

This morning:

Mozart: Piano Quartet #1 in g, K 478

[Sorrano]

This morning:

Délibes: "Sylvia" "Pizzicati"
J Strauss:
"Neue Pizzicato-Polka," Op 449
Waltzes, "Feuilleton (Literary Essay)", Op 293
Barber: Essay #1, Op 12

[Sorrano]

This morning:

Gould: "Latin-American Symphonette"

[Enrique]

This morning:

Gould: "Latin-American Symphonette"

Is this Gould Glenn Gould, the famous pianist and Bach specialist, by any chance? I would like to know what kind of music this very peculiar man could produce, if he is the same person, Sorrano.

[Sorrano]

Is this Gould Glenn Gould, the famous pianist and Bach specialist, by any chance? I would like to know what kind of music this very peculiar man could produce, if he is the same person, Sorrano.

I believe the first name is Morton, so this is not the Glen Gould. Morton was a U S composer that composed a lot of jazzy and patriotic type music. The music is fun to listen to.

[Enrique]

Oh yes! Now that name sounds familiar to my ear. Possibly from my excursions to the Lincoln Library, in the times when it existed here, a place where you could borrow musical scores and long playing records by North American composers. Thanks for the information.

[Sorrano]

Oh yes! Now that name sounds familiar to my ear. Possibly from my excursions to the Lincoln Library, in the times when it existed here, a place where you could borrow musical scores and long playing records by North American composers. Thanks for the information.

No problem! I should mention that he did win a Pulitzer, as well, for one of his compositions.

[Enrique]

I take it that a Pulitzer is the maximum distinction a composer can receive in American soil. I only associated it with literature. The Morton Gould thing made me remember I once borrowed, from the said library, a short composition for solo 'cello in memoriam John F. Kennedy, when it was only a little time from his decease (so, properly, perhaps, commemorating his death). It was relatively easy to play. The author was a well known American composer.

[Enrique]

Beethoven: Piano Sonata No.23 Appassionata, Op.57

I love the 2nd movement to death.
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That would make two of us. I could be listening to twenty performances one after the other by the same player with undiminished pleasure. Or use it as the tenderest of all lullabies when trying to fall asleep. Oh I know... music should never be put to any use.

[Enrique]

Mozart: Concerto for Two Pianos in E flat major, K. 365/316a (Piano Concerto No. 10)

• Alfred Brendel and Imogen Cooper, with the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, all of them under the baton of Neville Marriner.

Vivaldi: Il cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione, op.8.

• The first four concerti, usually known as The Four Seasons.

[Enrique]

Shostakovich: Symphony no. 10, in E minor, op.93.

• Concertgebouw Orchestra, Mariss Jansons.
  
  Because I have just learned it was a few years ago the no.1 orchestra in a poll conducted by Gramophone (that is, the poll reflected the opinion of only the magazine itself), and this discovery, for reasons not to be told here made me feel happy, I'll celebrate it by taking the liberty of inserting the video clip. By the way, I was a bit disappointed, as I was expecting to enjoy this symphony, a work I have been told was one of Shostakivich great achievements. But I really don't think it can be put by the side of his 5th, with his awesome first movement and so lyric a slow one. I was looking forward to come back to my work while those sounds filled my living-room leaving me perfectly cold.
  
  [YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRmzBQM8Gxc[/YOUTUBE]
  
  Compare with this:

Bach:
Italian Concerto, BWV 972 (Alexander Gavryliuk in the Arthur Rubinstein competition).
Sviatolav Richter playing Bach (3 and a half hours of Sviatolav Richter in Youtube in high definition audio!).

Gershwin:
Summertime (aria from Porgy and Bess, after getting out of the cinema. The singer did it quite well).

• L.Bernstein once said he is the greatest composer of the US. Was there sincerity in these words? I have always though there was not.